BEIJING, March 2  -- The State Administration of Cultural Heritage announced on Monday that a nationwide census has registered 45 million pieces of moveable cultural relics after surveying more than 1.02 million state organizations.

Launched in 2012, the ongoing project is China's first survey of moveable cultural relics. The information collected will be uploaded to an online database.

Li Xiaojie, head of the administration, said the database will be made available to the public.

The survey currently only includes relics owned by state organizations. Those in the hands of private collectors will be surveyed after the end of 2016 when the project will end.