15 World Heritage Sites Added in the Past 10 Years
2022-10-24
In May 2022, against the backdrop of the prairie spring, the Xanadu City Site of the Yuan Dynasty presents a spectacular scene. Peng Yuan, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency, photographed the World Natural Heritage Museum of Chengjiang Fossil Land. Chen Xinbo, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency, photographed that from September to mid October 2022, the rice in Hani Terrace, a world heritage site, has matured one after another. From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, villagers have been harvesting. Jiang Wenyao, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency, took pictures of Huashan rock paintings, attracting a large number of tourists. He Huawen's Mount Fanjing is distributed with wild animals and plants represented by Guizhou golden monkey and Mount Fanjing fir, which is one of the most important habitats of biodiversity in the middle subtropical zone. The picture shows the female red breasted horned pheasant, the orange winged noisy babbler, the male red breasted horned pheasant and the squirrel photographed in the Fanjing Mountain National Nature Reserve of Guizhou in April 2022. Li He and Yang Wenbin, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency, took the picture of Chaotian Gate, one of the seven ancient city gates in Quanzhou. Song Weiwei, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency, photographed the site of Xanadu City in 2012. At the 36th World Heritage Committee Meeting held in St. Petersburg, Russia, the site of Xanadu City declared by China was included in the World Heritage List. The site of Xanadu City is located in Zhenglan Banner, Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, adjacent to Longgang in the north and Luanhe River in the south. The site of Xanadu City of the Yuan Dynasty is composed of the city site (including the palace city, the imperial city and the outer city), the gateway and the urban flood control canal outside the city wall, including the city wall, the city gate, the road, the moat, the ruins of the flood control canal, as well as various building sites and tombs such as palaces, temples, folk houses and warehouses. It completely presents the overall pattern and construction characteristics of the "Xia Capital" of the Yuan Dynasty. It is the earliest, oldest, unique and best preserved site in the series of capital cities of the Yuan Dynasty in China. 2012 Chengjiang Fossil Sites In 2012, at the 36th World Heritage Committee Meeting held in St. Petersburg, Russia, China's Chengjiang Fossil Sites were included in the World Heritage List, filling the gap in China's fossil natural heritage. Located in Chengjiang County, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, with an area of 512 hectares and a history of 530 million years, Chengjiang Fossil Land was discovered in 1984 and is known as "one of the most amazing paleontological discoveries in the 20th century". Chengjiang fossil site accurately records the historical facts of the early Cambrian life explosion, which is the best example of the early Cambrian life explosion. At the same time, Chengjiang fossils have significant characteristics of species diversity, showing a complete early Cambrian marine biological community and ecosystem, which is a window to understand the early Cambrian biological community structure. 2013 Xinjiang Tianshan Mountain In 2013, the 37th World Heritage Committee Meeting included Xinjiang Tianshan Mountain declared by China in the World Heritage List. The Xinjiang Tianshan World Natural Heritage Site declared this time is composed of Bogda, Bayinbuluke, Tomur, Karajun Kurdish and other regions. Located in the hinterland of Central Asia, far from the sea and surrounded by vast deserts, Tianshan Mountain shows the most representative mountain comprehensive natural landscape in temperate arid regions in the world, with remarkable landscape diversity and unique natural beauty. At the same time, "Xinjiang Tianshan Mountain" has significant biodiversity, which is the residual species of Central Asian mountains, as well as many rare and endangered species, unique
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