China in 2022 will roll out and implement plans for archaeological work during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), said an official at a national conference held Monday.

Li Qun, head of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, made the announcement at the conference, which was attended by heads of cultural heritage administrations across the country.

The conference summarized some of the results of archaeological work in 2021. According to the conference, 1,388 archaeological projects were conducted in the country in 2021 to protect historical remains involved in construction and development projects.

In addition, the conference named several of the most prominent achievements of the year, including new findings at the Sanxingdui Ruins site in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. 

The discovery of the site in October was listed as one of the country's top 100 archaeological findings of the past century.