[转帖]120m yuan to renovate cultural sites for Beijing Olympics
<p><span class="airal10"><strong>120m yuan to renovate cultural sites for Beijing Olympics</strong></span><br/><font class="arial_9">(Xinhua)<br/>Updated: 2008-02-27 09:42</font></p><p>BEIJING -- Beijing plans to invest 120 million yuan (US$16 million) in <em><font color="#0000ff">restoration</font></em>(损坏的建筑物、艺术品等的修复, 整修) of cultural sites this year, in order to present an original look of the sites to visitors during the Olympic Games.</p><div class="arial_9"><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px;">The renovation projects include<em>
<font color="#0000ff">the </font><font color="#0000ff">Confucius Temple</font></em> (孔庙), <em><font color="#0000ff">the Imperial College</font></em> (国子监), <em><font color="#0000ff">the Imperial Ancestral Temple</font>
</em>(太庙) and 28 other historical or cultural sites this year, vice director of <em><font color="#0000ff">Beijing Cultural Relics Bureau</font>
</em>(北京文物局) Yu Ping said.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px;">Tourist explanation boards written both in English and Chinese languages would be placed in more than 300 major historical and cultural sites under municipality protection before the Olympics, Yu said.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px;">The bureau also printed six million copies of Chinese-English tourist maps of Beijing's cultural sites. During the Olympic Games, the maps would be handed out at the Beijing International Airport, in international airlines, Olympic Village, hotels and restaurants.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px;">Renovation projects also include the Siheyuan, a compound with houses around a courtyard, and Hutong, alleys formed by lines of Siheyuan, which were the main <em><font color="#0000ff">living quarters</font>
</em>(住所，生活区) for old Beijingers. As unique constructions, Hutong and Siheyuan have attracted an increasing number of foreign tourists in recent years.</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px;">The projects, involving 44 Hutongs, 1,474 courtyards and about 10,000 residents, are expected to be completed at the end of June in the hope of protecting the old buildings as well as improving people's living conditions. （这一工程将涉及到44条胡同，1474个院落以及其中大约10000名居民，计划于6月底前完工。旨在保护老建筑以及改善居民的生活条件。）</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 3px 15px;">According to the plan of restoring cultural sites, Beijing would spend 1.2 billion yuan to have all the sites renovated in eight years.</p></div><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment-->
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