World Natural and Cultural Heritage

Author: Yang Xuejun
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Features: According to statistics, as of now, there are over 700 items listed on the World Heritage List worldwide, with more than 30 of them belonging to China. These include natural heritage, cultural heritage, and mixed natural and cultural heritage. Cultural heritage refers to sites, monuments, buildings, and remains of historical, aesthetic, archaeological, scientific, ethnological, or anthropological value.
1. Monuments: Buildings, sculptures, and paintings that, from the historical, artistic, or scientific point of view, are of outstanding universal value, as well as inscriptions with archaeological components or structures, caves, and cemeteries;
2. Architectural Ensembles: Groups of separate or connected buildings that, from the historical, artistic, or scientific point of view, are of outstanding universal value in terms of their architecture, distribution, uniformity, or harmonious relationship with their environment;
3. Sites: Works or structures of outstanding universal value from the historical, aesthetic, ethnological, or anthropological point of view, including human engineering or the joint works of nature and humanity, as well as archaeological locations.
The significance of compiling this World Natural and Cultural Heritage lies in enabling readers to understand their own traditional culture while broadening their perspective on the world; fostering the pride and self-esteem of the Chinese nation.