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Nearly 800 Chinese cultural relics1 that had been taken overseas will soon set off on their journey home.
近800件流失海外的中国文物不久将踏上回家的旅程。
In President Xi Jinping and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's presence, an intergovernmental agreement in Rome on Saturday gave the green light to the return of 796 artifacts to China.
It will be the largest-scale international repatriation2 of lost Chinese cultural relics from overseas since 1998, when about 3,000 smuggled3 artifacts were returned from the United Kingdom.
According to the National Cultural Heritage Administration, the ancient Chinese works of art, thought to have been illicitly4 exported, were found in a local market in 2007 by the Carabinieri Art Squad5, an Italian police unit responsible for combating cultural relics-related crimes.
Soon after, the administration contacted its Italian counterpart to start a long process of exploring the possibility of securing their return through judicial6 channels. An Italian court made the final ruling on their repatriation this year.
Wu Min, of the administration's museum management department, said work would start immediately on arranging the details of how to transport the relics back to China.
The complete list of the 796 relics has yet to be released, but Wu said they "are of abundant variety and generally high value".
In President Xi Jinping and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's presence, an intergovernmental agreement in Rome on Saturday gave the green light to the return of 796 artifacts to China.
It will be the largest-scale international repatriation of lost Chinese cultural relics from overseas since 1998, when about 3,000 smuggled artifacts were returned from the United Kingdom.
According to the National Cultural Heritage Administration, the ancient Chinese works of art, thought to have been illicitly exported, were found in a local market in 2007 by the Carabinieri Art Squad, an Italian police unit responsible for combating cultural relics-related crimes.
Soon after, the administration contacted its Italian counterpart to start a long process of exploring the possibility of securing their return through judicial channels. An Italian court made the final ruling on their repatriation this year.
Wu Min, of the administration's museum management department, said work would start immediately on arranging the details of how to transport the relics back to China.
The complete list of the 796 relics has yet to be released, but Wu said they "are of abundant variety and generally high value".
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