BEIJING - China has ordered its public museums and cultural heritage institutions to haltcommercial operations that run contrary to public interests, after an exclusive club wasdiscovered in the Forbidden City earlier this year.
In a regulation issued on Wednesday, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) saidcommercial operations at historic sites should be aimed at providing better services for thepublic and pose no risk to the safety of cultural relics.
The commercial operations should be approved by cultural heritage protection administrations,according to the regulation.
The regulation comes after a nationwide investigation into luxury clubs run by public museumsand other cultural heritage institutions.
The public voiced fierce criticism after the discovery of an exclusive club in the Forbidden City'sJianfu Palace, where membership is reported to cost 1 million yuan ($156,600).
Also earlier in the year, the management of a high-end hotel under construction in the world'slargest imperial garden, the Imperial Summer Resort (Summer Mountain Villa) in the city ofChengde in North China's Hebei province, had attempted to turn the garden into an exclusiveclub, before their attempts were shot down by the local government.
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