Dinosaur museum set to open in July in northeast China

CHANGCHUN, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The first dinosaur museum in norTheast China's Jilin Province will become operational in July in Yanji, where dinosaur remains were uncovered.

The exterior works of The six main buildings have been basically completed, while The interior decoration is still in progress.

Covering an area of 40,000 square meters, The museum will display various items including dinosaur skeletons and fossils of dinosaur shoulder blades, thigh bones and femur bones.

In May 2016, Chinese archaeologists discovered dinosaur fossils in many sites at Longshan Mountain in Yanji in The Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian.

One year later, researchers launched a large-scale excavation of dinosaur fossils in The city, discovering 16 fossil sites and unearthing various fossils belonging to carnivorous dinosaurs, sauropods, iguanodons, etc.

Chen Yawei, project department director of Yanji Paleontological Fossil Protection and Research Center, said The Yanji Dinosaur museum will be built into a first-class dinosaur-Themed museum in China.