Chinese museum workers prepare to pack a set of Tibetan Buddhist relics for shipment to Taiwan for an exhibition at the Taipei's National Palace Museum, in Beijing. The National Palace Museum boasts more than 655,000 artefacts spanning 7,000 years from the Neolithic period to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911 that were removed from a Beijing museum in the 1930s to prevent them from falling into the hands of invading Japanese troops and were taken to Taiwan by the Nationalists as they fled communist forces on the mainland.