BEIJING, June 20 -- Tibet has commenced on drafting measures to strengthen cultural relic preservation to face the roll-in tourists during the "rail-tourism age".

    Protection measures will be implemented July 1, the determinate date of Qinghai-Tibet Railway's operation.

¡¡¡¡Number of the tourists will be limited to lighten the burden of those ancient buildings in wooden structure.

    According to Nyima Tsering, head of Tibet Cultural Relic Bureau, entrance ticket price of sight spots will be raised to hold back the tourists uprush.

    According to the data, an accumulative fund, over 300 million yuan (about 37.5 million US dollars) has been put into the cultural relic renovation by central government and Tibetan government in the past 20 years, and fruit can been seen through more than 1,400 monasteries, cultural heritages and religious places in better preservation.

    Seeing the coming operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Tibet will face a big tourism pressure. Exporters forecast that, 5,000 to 6,000 people will enter Tibet every day. Tibetan cultural relic department expresses that, matched establishment such as tourist service center also will be a big item.