Five thousand years of history have endowed China with abundant cultural relics. In the past two centuries, a consider-able number have been either looted by or sold to other countries because of wars and various other reasons. According to figures from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 200-plus museums in 47 countries house more than 1.6 million Chinese artifacts, while the number in private collections in those countries is more than 10 times than those museums' holdings. That means China's cultural artifacts and pieces of art in foreign countries surpass 10 million.