The four relics are the Guanyu's Temple in Lhasa, a shrine for the Han Chinese war hero Guanyu, the inscriptions on a cliff in southwestern Tibet's Xiagze Prefecture for a Tang Dynasty envoy to India, the Namseling Manor, one of the oldest manors in Tibet, and the Kegya Monastery, a historical monastery for the Sakya Sect of Tibetan Buddhism.

File photo shows the Kegya Monastery, a historical monastery for the Sakya Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. (Photo: tibet.cn)

The project to renovate Tibet's 22 cultural relics during China's 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-2010) started in April of 2008 at the cost of 570 million yuan (about 83.4 million U.S. dollars). By now, renovation of the 14 relics has been underway with the financing hitting 290 million yuan.

Of the 22 cultural relics, 15 are key cultural relics sites and monasteries and the rest are historical sites which show that the Central Government of the feudal dynasties governed Tibet effectively, for example, the Sera Monastery, the Samye Monastery and the ruins of the Guge Kingdoms.

The Chinese Central Government spent about 400 million yuan from 2002 to 2009 renovating three key cultural relics in Tibet, i.e., the Potala Palace, Norbu Lingka and the Sagya Monastery.

According to the "White Paper on Tibetan Culture," from the 1980s to the 1990s, the Central Government spent more than 300 million yuan (about 43.9 million dollars) renovating about 1,400 monasteries in Tibet.