There are 1,517 museums now in China. Local non-governmental
museums included, the number of museums nationwide has reached some
2,000. With a collection of over 20 million items, these museums
hold more than 8,000 exhibitions every year. Some museums of
cultural relics, such as the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and
Horses in Xi'an, have become internationally known tourist
attractions. The government encourages exchanges of cultural relics
exhibitions between museums and promotes the display and exchanges
of legal non-governmental collections. Beijing, as the capital of
China, has 123 museums, with an annual number of over 30 million
visitors.?
By 2015, China will build 1,000 more museums on top of what it has
already, meaning that almost every city above medium size will
possess a comprehensive museum.
