Thirty Buddhist cultural relics have been returned to the Chinese mainland 【小题1】 Taiwan.

Most of the relics were believed to 【小题2】 (steal) from Shanxi province before being taken overseas. They were transferred to the National Cultural Heritage Administration on Monday, 【小题3】 (mark) the largest return of lost relics to the mainland from Taiwan in recent years.

Thirteen of the returned pieces, including the heads of broken Buddhist images and painted sculptures of Buddha, 【小题4】 (show) at the National Museum of China on Monday.

In March 2016, Hsing Yun, the 【小题5】 (found) of the United Association of Humanistic Buddhism association, and his followers escorted (护送) the lost head of a 6th-century Buddhist stat ue to Beijing and donated it back to the mainland. At the donation ceremony in 2016, 【小题6】 was also held at the National Museum of China, Hsing Yun promised 【小题7】 (bring)more lost items back.

He died about a year ago.

“Hsing Yun established 【小题8】 outstanding example for people to safeguard Chinese cultural relics,” Sun Yeli, minister of culture and tourism, said at the museum on Monday. “Again, we see his unfulfilled wish get realized.”

Sun said comprehensive studies of the relics will be soon launched. Related exhibitions will also be organized to allow people on 【小题9】 sides of the Strait to benefit from the fruits of the joint protection of cultural relics.

“Cultural communication has always played an 【小题10】 (extreme) crucial role in enhancing people-to-people connectivity across the Strait and strengthening our links,” Sun said.