Sanxingdui relics

THE Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) on Monday announced it will showcase 120 precious cultural relics from the world-renowned Sanxingdui Ruins in a four-month exhibition slated to begin in late September this year.

The exhibition will focus on new archaeological discoveries in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province represented by Sanxingdui. Cultural relics such as bronzeware, jade, goldware, pottery artifacts dating back 2,600 to 3,300 years will be displayed. Most of the exhibits will be showcased outside Sichuan for the first time.

Science popularization

CHINA’S two nationwide mobile science popularization projects have served more than 500 million people in total, according to the China Science and Technology Museum on Monday.

A mobile sci-tech museum exhibition has been touring nationally for 12 years, and a science popularization caravan project has been in operation for 23 years across the country. The museum has provided free science education services to the public in county-level areas where real sci-tech museums have not been built and where science education resources are insufficient.

Collaboration center

A CENTER affiliated with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has been designated as the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) first global collaboration center for nuclear and radiation safety, according to the ministry.

The ministry signed an agreement with the IAEA on Monday to establish the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center in Beijing, the ministry said in a news release.