Address: No.2, Gaoyuan Street, East Beisihuan Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Post Code: 100029

Tel: (86-10) 64917169

The China Relics Research Institute (CRRI), founded in 1949, is a research institution under the State Bureau of Cultural Relics.

Duties and tasks: Focusing on application research, to protect and conduct research on ancient buildings, grottoes, temples, and unearthed relics and museum-stored relics of various kinds and texture by means of modern science and technology as well as traditional techniques; and to survey, design and oversee projects concerning key national relics, historical sites, ancient buildings, grottos or temples.

Establishment: CRRI includes the Ancient Buildings Protection and Design Department, the Grotto and Temple Protection and Design Department, the Scientific and Technological Department of Relics Protection, the General Office, and the Relics and Ancient Documents Research Department.

Major achievements: Since 1978, CRRI has been awarded scientific and technological prizes at the provincial or ministry level for the mounting and tearing off technique for the silk paintings at Jinya Mountain, Linyi, Shandong Province; taking off and restoring techniques for the frescoes in Li Xian's tomb in the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557-581 ); protection and treatment method for unearthed pottery figurines decorated with colored drawings; research on a new grotto consolidation testing method; anti-seismic designs for ancient pagoda restoration-the White Pagoda of Jixian County Restoration Project; restoration techniques for the Qijia Fresco at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, GanXu Province; the development and manufacture of ultraviolet-proof film; a project report on repairing the ancient city wall of  jingzhou by means of fixing anchors; wooden part consolidation technology for ancient buildings: and the application of short-distance photography in grotto Surveys.