BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Carrie Lam, chief executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), met with 48 student interns from south China's Guangdong Province, Hong Kong, and Macao Friday at the Palace Museum in Beijing.

Beginning July 17, the month and a half long internship allows students to get involved in relics restoration, exhibition planning, curation, architectural surveying, and mapping, with positions provided by 11 departments at the Palace Museum.

Accompanied by Shan Jixiang, curator of the Palace Museum, Lam thanked the Palace Museum for its unreserved support in the Hong Kong Palace Museum Project and its efforts in holding joint exhibitions in Hong Kong in recent years, adding that these have given Hong Kong residents access to the museum's collections and history.

In the past ten years, the Palace Museum has received hundreds of student interns from Hong Kong and Macao, said Shan, who also expressed his hope for more young students to participate in the program and thus enhance their understanding of cultural relics preservation and work related to museums.

The internship program was initiated in 2017 and had 30 students from Guangdong and Hong Kong participate last year.

Lam also visited an institute of cultural asset digital application, an exhibition hall for royal furniture as well as an exhibition featuring works of Qi Baishi, a prestigious Chinese painter.