China World Heritage Sites
China ratified The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on December 12, 1985. Up to June 22, 2013, China ranks second in the world and first in Asia by number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites with 45, and the below is a list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in China. Of these 31 are cultural heritage sites, 10 are natural heritage sites, and 4 are cultural and natural (mixed) sites. Also, we provide the Candidates List of World Heritage Sites which is in the works. These China world heritage sites comprise some of the most essential part of China's valuable and worth to be incorporated in your China trip.
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Grand Canal
Grand Canal, also called Jing-Hang Yunhe ("Beijing-Hangzhou Canal"), is series of waterways in eastern and northern China that link Hangzhou in Zhejiang province with Beijing. Some 1,800 km in length, it is the world's longest man-made waterway....
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Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces
Honghe Hani Rice Terraces is located in southern Yunnan Province, and spread in Yuanyang, Honghe, Jinping, Lvchun these four counties, with a total area of about 667 square kilometers . It is the landscape and idyll scenery painting carved by Hani people throu...
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Xinjiang Tianshan
Tianshan Mountains is one of the seven mountains in the global, is the world's largest chain of mountains in temperate arid regions, and also is the world's largest independent mountains of east-west trend. It was published as world natural heritage by UNESCO in...
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Chengjiang Fossil Site
Chengjiang Fossil Sites is located in Chengjiang County of Yuxi City in Yunnan Province, covers an area of 512 hectares, the buffer area of 220 hectares and has a history that can be traced back to over 530 million years ago. It was discovered in 1984 and has been...
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Site of Xanadu
Site of Xanadu is located in the Plain Blue Banner of Xilin Gol League and Duolun County, in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, covers an area of 251 square kilometers. Kublai Khan established Kaiping Government here in 1256 AD and promoted to Shang Du in...
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West Lake of Hangzhou
West Lake is a famous fresh water lake located in the historic area of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province in eastern China. The lake is divided by the causeways of Su Di, Bai Di and Yang Gong Di. There are numerous temples, pagodas, gardens, and artificial...
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China Danxia
China Danxia is the generic terms of various geomorphologic landscapes which formed by continental red glutenite under the force of combined endogenic (tectonic uplift) and exogenic (climatic, erosion, weathering) forces. It was designated as a world natural herita...
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Mount Songshan Shaolin Temple and Historic Monuments of Dengfeng
Mount Songshang is considered to be the central sacred mountain of China. At the foot of this 1,500 meter high mountain, close to the city of Dengfeng in Henan province and spread over a 40 square-kilometer circle, stand eight clusters of buildings and sites. Const...