According to Ma Rulong, deputy head of the National People's Congress of Tibet Autonomous Region, China has invested nearly 700 million yuan to repair more than 1,400 monasteries and temples in Tibet, since the 1980s.

Ma Rulong said after China's execution of reform and opening-up policy over last 30 years, traditional Tibetan culture has achieved remarkable improvement both in protection and development. Dozens of laws and regulations were put into force one after the other to assure the success of cultural relics protection and enable a lawful and normative supervision.

Among those protection projects which are listed into key items during the period of "11th-Five-Year" plan, another 570 million yuan were allocated from the central government to maintain another 22 key protected cultural relics, including the Tashilhunpo Monastery, Jokhang Temple, Ramoche Monastery, Drepung Monastery, Sera Monastery, Langsailing Garden, Ruins of Guge Kingdom and etc., according to Ma Rulong.