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Representative of the UNESCO Beijing Office, Yasuyuki Aoshima, and Vice-director of China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH), Zhang Bai, signed an agreement on the second phase of the protection project here on Friday.
The project will not only offer funds for the protection of thetwo sites, but also help introduce advanced technologies and methods of cultural heritage protection in the world to China, andhelp train a batch of personnel of heritage protection, said an official with SACH.
He said the leaders of China and Japan signed an agreement in 1998 on the protection of the cultural heritage sites along the "Silk Road".
According to the agreement, Japanese government invested five million US dollars to the Japanese Trust-in Funds under UNESCO for the protection of the heritage sites on "Silk Road".
All of the funds will be used to protect the Kumutura Thousand Buddha Caves in northwest China's Xinjiang and Longmen Grottoes incentral China's Henan, said Aoshima.
The first phase of the project was launched in 2001.