BEIJING, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The following are highlights of China's key cultural news from the past week:

-- Palace Museum brings virtual tour of Forbidden City hall nationwide

The Palace Museum launched a travel exhibition to enable virtual visits to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, where several Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) emperors handled routine state affairs and received officials.

The museum has carefully recorded and collected digital data on the Hall of Mental Cultivation architecture and its collections, since 2006.

With virtual reality and digital resources, audience can spend a day in the hall virtually, learning about ancient architecture and life in the Qing court.

-- China improves Great Wall protection

China's National Cultural Heritage Administration has vowed to strengthen protection of the Great Wall, which has a total length of more than 21,000 km.

The protection and restoration work should ensure that the Great Wall relics remain where they originally existed and maintain their original look, said Song Xinchao, deputy head of the administration.

Noting the importance of both routine maintenance in general and urgent repair of some endangered sites on the Great Wall, Song said his administration would urge local authorities to check and find sites in need of repair and improve their protection work.

-- Exhibition launched on ancient culture in Shandong

A special exhibition on Shandong's ancient culture opened at the National Museum of China Friday.

Nearly 200 sets of fine cultural relics, including a bronze sword named after King Fuchai (about 528 BC to 473 BC) of the Wu Kingdom, are on display.

The majority of the exhibits, ranging from the Neolithic Age to Han Dynasty (202 B.C.-220 A.D.), were unearthed in east China's Shandong Province, presenting the cultural origin, evolution, exchange and interaction in that region. Enditem

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