The State Administration of Cultural Heritage plans to step up preservation of immovable cultural relics, amid rapid urbanization.

“Immovable cultural relics should be avoided as much as possible in the choosing of construction sites,” according to a circular issued by the administration.

The circular clarified procedures for the removal of immovable cultural relic status, and said that if such cultural relics were destroyed by natural disasters or construction activity, authorities should review and establish whether they still had heritage value.

Authorities should also publish such information and solicit public opinion.

More efforts will be made to protect poorly-preserved immovable cultural relics through government support.

China is home to more than 760,000 registered immovable cultural relics, according a 2011 national archaeological survey.

Beijing on Saturday reported a human H7N9 avian flu case, the first human infection in the capital city in 2017, authorities said.

The patient, surnamed Zhang, is a 68-year-old man from Langfang City of neighboring Hebei Province. He is in a critical condition and is receiving treatment.

Zhang developed syndromes on Jan. 29 and received treatment in a local hospital in Langfang. He was transferred to Beijing on Feb. 6 as his condition deteriorated. Zhang was confirmed to have been infected by the H7N9 strain of avian flu on Saturday. He is suspected to have had contact with live poultry.

H7N9 was first reported to have infected humans in China in March 2013. It is most likely to strike in winter and spring.

Domestic migrants who have lost or need to renew their identification cards can now apply for a replacement in localities other than where their “hukou” (household registration) is registered.

The Ministry of Public Security on Saturday said public security departments nationwide have issued nearly five million new identification cards under this new rule.

The reform has made the process much more convenient, according to the ministry.

With rapid economic and social development, China’s rural migrant worker population continues to grow. Official statistics released last April put the number at more than 277 million in 2015, up 1.3 percent from the previous year.

The 15th meeting of the Central Leading Group for Deepening Overall Reform in August 2015 adopted a document that committed the country to cutting red tape, which included the ID card renewal measure.

At around 6 p.m. Saturday, Wang Qi set his feet on his homeland again in Xi’an, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, after spending 54 years in a life drift in India.

“I’m finally home!” a sobbing Wang hugged his tearful brothers and sisters at Xi’an Xianyang International Airport.

Wang, a Chinese solider, got lost in a forest on the China-India border in 1963. He was rescued by India’s Red Cross Society and later handed over to Indian military. The military sentenced him in jail for seven years after regarding him as an “espionage.”

Wang settled and married in a rural area in India after serving his sentence, but he always wanted to go home. During the past years, Wang sent many letters to his family members in Xuezhainan Village in Shaanxi’s Qianxian County, expressing his homesickness and the desire to go back.

To help Wang return home, the Chinese embassy in India made every effort to get him an exit permit. In 2013, he received a Chinese passport and financial support from the government, which made it possible for him to return.

In Wang’s home village, groups of people lined outside the house of Wang’s younger brother Wang Shun on Saturday, which happens to be China’s Lantern Festival, a day that traditionally represents reunion.

“After all these years, he is finally coming back,” Wang Shun said as he prepared a quilt for Wang Qi. “We bought the furniture in this room many years ago.”

“He has not changed much, I can still recognize him,” said local villager Wang Ming. “All of us in the village have been waiting for his return, and we are just happy that he made it.”

Copycat terracotta warriors in east China have fueled hot discussions after pictures of the army replica recently surfaced on the Internet.

The replica, located in a theme park in Taihu County, Anhui Province, boasts up to 1,000 warriors. Pictures on the park’s official website show the warriors standing in line, and on one side of the army stands a statue of China’s first emperor Qinshihuang, waving his hand.

According to the website, the park was completed in 2008, and the warriors have been open to visitors ever since.

The original terracotta warriors are located in Xi’an City, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. The relics were first discovered by farmers underneath a pomegranate orchard in Xi’an in 1974.

The images of the copycat army fueled a heated discussion on the Internet, with many questioning whether the display of the Anhui warriors is an act of infringement.

Authorities with the Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum, which manages the Xi’an terracotta warriors, apparently caught wind of the replica and have issued a statement on its website.

The museum said that any act of using the museum’s name and its registered trademarks without authorization is an act of infringement.

“The museum did not permit or give authorization to the displaying of the copycat terracotta warriors in Taihu County of Anhui Province,” said the statement. “We reserve the right to take legal action against any violators in accordance with law.”

“The replicated warriors pose unfair competition,” said Yan Yuxin, a lawyer for the museum. “We have sent a lawyer’s letter to them.”

Yang Ming, a law professor with Peking University, said that the key is to find out whether the Anhui organizers have advertised their replica as the genuine one. “If they did promote it as a replica, then it is a debatable issue.”

On the Anhui park’s official website, an introduction to the warriors said that “the replica of the terracotta warriors is intended to let the public feel the culture of the Qin Dynasty.”

Liu Simin, deputy head of the tourism branch of China Society for Futures Studies, said that such copycat behavior is not worth promoting.

“Making such replicas is disrespectful to the original ones,” Liu said. “Related departments should come up with ways to handle infringing behavior, which are still rampant in China.”