China will join France and Britain in publishing the ancient documents in the Tibetan language originally discovered in the Dunhuang Grottoes in western China's Gansu Province.

The Tibetan documents, currently being collected by the British and French national libraries, are the most valuable part of the ancient archives found in Dunhuang that were lost overseas.

China has edited and published a major part of the archives in Chinese since the 1990s.

(CRI.com May 11, 2005)