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- China joined the International Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage in 1985 to elevate its endeavors in preserving its heritage to global standards. The country has also undertaken national research projects on tracing the origins of Chinese civilization.
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World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict.
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China ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1985 and is carrying out its fourth mandate on the World Heritage Committee since 1991. In addition to its numerous cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, China has 12 Creative Cities, 34 Biosphere Reserves and 41 Global Geoparks.
Oct 13, 2022 · China joined the International Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage in 1985 to elevate its endeavors in preserving its heritage to global standards. The country has also undertaken national research projects on tracing the origins of Chinese civilization.
The World Heritage Convention. The most significant feature of the 1972 World Heritage Convention is that it links together in a single document the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural properties.
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Between 1995 and 2015, the urban population in China increased from 352 million to 771 million, mostly in the densely populated eastern seaboard (National Bureau of Statistics 2017). As China’s population and economy expand, development pressures are arising in and around cultural sites. Large-scale developments have displaced or removed cultural l...
Over a 20-year period, domestic tourist person-times (each time of traveling is counted as one person-time) surged on an annual basis more than fivefold from 640 million people in 1996 to 4 billion in 2015 (National Bureau of Statistics 2017). There are three busy domestic travel periods during the year: Chinese New Year Period in January/February;...
National disasters, particularly earthquakes and floods, have demolished or diminished World Heritage Sites’ cultural heritage integrity in China. Sichuan Province has experienced two major earthquakes in 2008 and 2017 causing destruction and loss of lives. This has also impacted large and significant World Heritage Sites. The Jiuzhaigou Valley Sce...
Cultural heritage resources in China, particularly remote areas, are often at risk. This is due to the over hundreds of thousands of monuments, temples, tombs, relics, and artifacts across China, their significant intrinsic value within and outside of the country, and varying degree of control and management. In 2003, more than 220,000 Chinese tomb...
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May 3, 2024 · During the session, China, as the host country, firmly adhered to the purpose and principles of the convention, actively promoted the implementation of the Global Strategy for World Heritage conservation, and played a positive leading role in implementing UNESCO's global strategy of Africa Priority.
The World Heritage Convention, formally the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, is an international treaty signed on 23 November 1972, which created the World Heritage Sites, with the primary goals of nature conservation and the preservation and security of cultural properties.
