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Updated: 2022-08-26 08:27 ( China Daily )

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A copy of Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (A Map of the Myriad Countries of the World), believed to have been first created by Matteo Ricci and Li Zhizao during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), is kept at the China National Archives of Publications and Culture in Beijing. [Photo provided by Yang Yang/China Daily]

Ancient books, inscribed bronzeware, newspapers or food vouchers that carry distinct marks of different times, tapes, and even the first line of the code created to check people's COVID-19 test results, are all the "edition resources" that record the historical process of a culture. They are the gold seeds that witness the development of a civilization, and to keep these seeds is to nurture the gene of a civilization.

At the end of last month, after three years under construction, the China National Archives of Publications and Culture was inaugurated.