Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed better protection, management and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics to inspire people in building a modern socialist China and achieving national rejuvenation.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in his recent instruction on the work related to the country's revolutionary cultural relics.

(Cover: The exterior of a Shikumen-style building in Shanghai, where the first national congress of the Communist Party of China was held in 1921. /CFP)