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By HE DAN hedan@chinadaily.迷你倉com.cn China is determined to make extra ef orts to protect its traditional and historic vil- lages, as a huge number of them have been demolished amid rapid urbanization.Historic buildings should not be removed but instead put under careful protec- tion, said Zhao Hui, direc- tor of the rural construction department of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.“Today we launched work to protect traditional villages as a whole, including tan- gible and intangible cultural heritage,” he said. “h erefore, historic buildings should not be removed but gradually repaired and improved.”Zhao was speaking at a news conference held by the State Council Information Oi ce in Beijing on improv- ing the rural environment and strengthening the protec- tion of ancient villages.His comments come just months at er kung fu movie star Jackie Chan said he intended to donate more ancient Chinese houses to Singapore.Chan bought 10 antique sandalwood houses in Anhui province about 20 years ago and said he had planned to refurbish them for his parents to live in. As his parents died before the work was complete, the i lm star decided to donate them. He donated four of the houses to the Singaporean gov- ernment in 2010, which gave them to the Singapore Univer- sity of Technology and Design.Chinese media and neti- zens expressed concern about the future of Chinese historic buildings at er Chan said he was impressed by the Singaporean recipients’ excel- lent preservation work and planned to donate the rest to the Singaporean university this year.Chan changed his mind and announced that he would donate at least four homes from the collection to Yizhuang, a town in Beijing’sDaxing district, in September, media reported.A national survey in 2012 showed the vast majority of traditional villagesmini storagedisap- peared amid China’s urban- ization and only about 12,000 were let , accounting for less than 2 percent of the country’stotal administrative villages, Zhao said.He said experts also esti- mate that less than 5,000 tradi- tional villages with important conservation value still exist.He said three types of vil- lages can be classii ed as tra- ditional ones: those that have abundant historic buildings; those with rich tangible or intangible cultural relics; or those that boast architecture and characteristics that rel ect China’s agriculture civilization.The central government will speed up designing a long- term plan on the protection and development of tradi- tional villages with measures including i nancial and tech- nical support from the central government.During a visit in July to Dongshan, a village in Hubei province, President Xi Jinping said it is vital to prevent mas- sive demolition and recon- struction in rural areas.Zhao said the government is considering legislation on preventing demolition in tra- ditional villages.Yu Jianrong, a professor specializing in rural develop- ment at the Chinese Acad- emy of Social Sciences, urged local governments and village committees to provide more guidance for people to better protect their villages.“Many farmers lack aware- ness to protect their villages, and some enjoyed bringing in new elements from cities such as tall and concrete resi- dential buildings that failed to match the village’s overall style,” he said.Zhang Bing, who is in charge of intangible cultural relics protection for the Min- istry of Culture, said most intangible cultural heritage in China is in rural villages, especially in areas where eth- nic groups live.“It is our responsibility to protect these traditional villag- es, which helps to protect the diversity of peoples,” he said.儲存