Published by: World Tibet Network News, Wednesday, May 22 1996 Part II of II

BEIJING, May 21 (Reuter) - Chinese officials have ordered a cement plant to move out of the ruins of a Tibetan village where archeologists have found signs of human habitation dating back 4,600 years, the Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.

The plant was built among the ruins in Karub village in eastern Tibet's Qamdo county in the mid-1960s, when Chairman Mao Zedong launched his radical ultra-leftist 1966-76 Cultural Revolution that aimed partly at wiping out China's feudal past.

The Qamdo Prefectural Commissioner's office decided to move the plant, saying no industrial facility should occupy valuable cultural sites, Xinhua said.

Archeologists agreed the ruins were of tremendous significance for the study of the origin of man on China's western Tibet Plateau, it said. The site has been listed by the Tibet government as under special protection.