Luo Wenli, deputy head of the NCHA, in April said that China had a total of 6,833 museums by the end of 2023, and information on 108 million state-owned movable cultural relics had been digitized with the development of smart museums and cultural relics databases.

　　Increasing numbers of Chinese museums have been attracting visitors with their digitization of cultural relics and application of new technologies.

　　In Wuhan, the capital of central China's Hubei Province, the Hubei Provincial Museum launched a special VR show ahead of the May Day holiday, enabling visitors to interact closely with the Bianzhong -- meaning “bells“ -- of Marquis Yi of Zeng, which are known as the world's first “sound-producing music textbook.“

　　The VR show, “Journey Through the Bronze Age,“ uses original sound samples from the Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng. With VR headsets, visitors can reach out to strike both the centers and sides of the bells to hear sounds that echo over 2,000 years of Chinese history.

　　According to Wang Shiyong, chief director of the show, the project includes more than 30,000 digital assets, with dozens of cultural relics from the museum virtually reconstructed with near-reality precision.

　　In addition to museums, national archaeological parks have also emerged as a major attraction during the past May Day holiday, registering over 3.31 million visits across 55 parks in the five days, data from the NCHA showed.

　　Visits to these parks rose 2.3 percent compared with the same period last year, with 11 parks each receiving more than 100,000 visits, the administration said.

　　During the May Day holiday, the Taosi National Archaeological Site Park in north China's Shanxi Province officially opened to the public.