The Dunhuang Academy and Tencent have jointly build the world's first blockchain-based cultural heritage sharing platform, which was released on Dec 8, under the guidance of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.

Dunhuang Academy and Tencent launches a blockchain-based cultural heritage sharing platform on Dec 8. [Photo provided to gogansu.com]

More than 6,500 high-definition digital archives, featuring the Mogao Grottoes and other sites in Dunhuang, are available to the world on the "one-stop" cultural sharing platform for scholars and culture lovers at home and abroad.

Su Bomin, director of the Dunhuang Academy, said that with the help of Tencent's advanced technology, the platform has pioneered the construction of an authorization and utilization system to provide the public with convenient, intelligent and personalized digital resource services.