Major cultural heritage sites under national-level protection

A major cultural heritage site under national-level protection is the highest protection level approved by China for immovable cultural relics.

According to the 2002 Cultural Relics Protection Law of the People's Republic of China, the National Cultural Heritage Administration of the State Council selects those with significant historical, artistic, and scientific value as national key cultural relics protection units. National key cultural relics protection units shall not be demolished; if they need to be relocated, they must be reported to the State Council for approval by applications from the people's government of the provincial administrative region.

Statistics
In 1999 it was reported that there were some 350,000 immovable cultural properties in China, of which 70,000 were protected at one of the three main levels, in addition to some 10,000,000 movable cultural properties held by state institutions alone. Of these, as of October 2019, 5,058 Sites Protected at the National Level have been designated by the State Administration. They were announced in 8 batches and several supplemental batches:

Sites protected at various levels
Sites (to Be) Protected for Their Historical and Cultural Value or Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at various levels include:


 * Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level
 * Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the Provincial Level
 * Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the Level of a City Divided into Districts or at the Level of an Autonomous Prefecture
 * Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the County Level