China's World Heritage List
Cultural Heritage
1. The Great Wall (The Great Wall (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Tianjin, Beijing, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, 1987.12 World Heritage Site)
2. Mogao Caves (Gansu, 1987.12 World Heritage Site)
3. Ming and Qing Dynasty Forbidden City (Beijing Forbidden City, Beijing, 1987.12; Shenyang Forbidden City, Liaoning, 2004.7.1 World Heritage Site)
4. Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit (Shaanxi, 1987.12 World Heritage Site)
5. Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site (Beijing, 1987.12 World Heritage Site)
6. The Historic Complex of the Potala Palace in Lhasa (Da Zhao Monastery and Luobulingka) (Tibet, 1994.12 World Heritage Site)
7. The Summer Resort and its Surrounding Temples in Chengde (Hebei, 1994.12 World Heritage Site)
8. The Confucius Temple, the Confucius Grove, and the Confucius Mansion in Qufu (Shandong, 1994.12 World Heritage Site)
9. The Wudang Mountain Wudang Mountain Ancient Architectural Complex (Hubei, 1994.12 World Heritage Site)
10. Mount Lu National Geopark (Jiangxi, 1996.12.6 World Heritage Site)
11. Lijiang Ancient City (Yunnan, 1997.12 World Heritage Site)
12. Pingyao Ancient City (Shanxi, 1997.12 World Heritage Site)
14. Temple of Heaven, the Royal Altar in Beijing (Beijing, 1998.11 World Heritage Site)
15. Summer Palace, the Royal Garden in Beijing (Beijing, 1998.11 World Heritage Site)
16. Dazu Rock Carving (Chongqing, 1999.12 World Heritage Site)
17. Longmen Grottoes (Henan Province, 2000.11 World Heritage Site)
18. Ming and Qing Royal Tombs (Obvious Mausoleum (Hubei Province), Qing East Mausoleum (Hebei Province), Qing West Mausoleum (Hebei Province), 2000.11; Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum (Jiangsu Province), Ming Thirteen Mausoleums (Beijing Province), 2003.7; Shengjing Three Tombs (Liaoning Province), 2004.7 World Heritage Site)
19. Qingcheng Mountain - Dujiangyan (Sichuan, 2000.11 World Heritage Site)
20. Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui - Xidi and Hongcun (Anhui, 2000.11 World Heritage Site)
21. Yungang Grottoes (Shanxi, 2001.12 World Heritage Site)
22. The Historic Centre of Macao (Macao, 2005.7.15 World Heritage Site)
24. The Yin Ruins of Anyang (Henan, 2006.7.13 World Heritage Site)
25. The Watchtowers and Villages of Kaiping (Guangdong, 2007.6.28 World Fujian Tulou (Fujian, 2008.7.7 World Heritage Site)
27. Wutai Mountain (Shanxi, 2009.6.26 World Heritage Site)
28. Dengfeng Historical Monuments "In the Middle of Heaven and Earth" (Henan, 2010.8.1 World Heritage Site)
29. Cultural Landscape of West Lake in Hangzhou (Zhejiang, 2011.6.24 World Heritage)
30. Ruins of Yuan Shangdu (Inner Mongolia, 2012.6.29 World Heritage)
31. Cultural Landscape of Hani Terraces in Honghe (Yunnan, 2013.6.22 World Heritage)
32. ...The Grand Canal (Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, 2014.6.22 World Heritage Site)
33...The Silk Road: the Road Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor (Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang, 2014.6.22 World Heritage Site)
34...The Ruins of Tusi (Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, 2015.7. 4 World Cultural Heritage)
35.Zuojiang Huashan Rock Painting Cultural Landscape (Guangxi, 2016.7.15 World Cultural Heritage)
36.Gulangyu Island: Historic International Community (Fujian, 2017.7.8 World Cultural Heritage)
Dual Heritage
1.Taishan Mountain (Shandong, 1987.12 World Cultural and Natural Dual Heritage)
2. Mount Huangshan (Anhui, 1990.12 Dual World Cultural and Natural Heritage)
3. Mount Emei - Leshan Giant Buddha (Sichuan, 1996.12 Dual World Cultural and Natural Heritage)
4. Mount Wuyi (Fujian, 1999.12 Jiangxi, 2017.7?[4]?????????????????????????????)
Dual Heritage
1. Dual World Heritage of Culture and Nature
Expanded Information:
China formally acceded to the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on December 12, 1985; in 1986, China began to nominate World Heritage projects to UNESCO.
As of July 2, 2018, China's world heritage has reached 53 items, including 36 world cultural heritages, 4 dual world cultural and natural heritages, and 13 world natural heritages.
China is one of the countries with the most complete categories of World Heritage sites in the world, and also has the highest number of dual World Cultural and Natural Heritage sites (tied with Australia, both with 4) The 13 World Natural Heritage sites rank first surpassing the United States and Canada.?
China's capital, Beijing, has the highest number of heritage items in the world (7), and Suzhou is the only city in China to have hosted a World Heritage Committee meeting so far (28th session, 2004).
Cultural Heritage
Cultural heritage, conceptually, is divided into tangible and intangible cultural heritage. It includes tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Tangible cultural heritage is cultural relics of historical, artistic and scientific value; intangible cultural heritage refers to various traditional cultural expressions that exist in intangible form, are closely related to the lives of the masses and are inherited from generation to generation. Since 2006, the second Saturday of June has been celebrated as China's Cultural Heritage Day.
Cultural relics: buildings, carvings and paintings of outstanding and universal value from a historical, artistic or scientific point of view, components or structures of archaeological significance, inscriptions, caves, settlements and complexes of various kinds of cultural relics; architectural complexes: separate or interconnected buildings of outstanding and universal value from a historical, artistic or scientific point of view because of their architectural form, homogeneity and their position in the landscape; ruins: individual or interconnected Architectural complex; site: from the historical, aesthetic, ethnographic or anthropological point of view, with outstanding, universal value of man-made engineering or man and nature **** with the masterpiece, as well as archaeological sites of the zone.
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