China has two more World Heritage sites

China has two more World Heritage sites
Jul 3, 2012 04:00
LAUGH Points: Join Date: Sep 29, 2009 Status: offline	Site of Xanadu of Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) in Inner Mongolia and Chengjiang Fossil in Yunnan have been included into the World Cultural & Natural Heritage List at the 36th session of the UNESCO's World Heritage Committee held in Saint Petersburg, Russia. By now, China altogether has 43 world cultural & natural heritage sites, ranking third in the world. As the first capital and later the summer capital of the Yuan Dynasty, the Site of Xanadu of Yuan Dynasty tells half of the history of the Yuan Dynasty. It is a good combination of farming culture of the Central Plains and nomadic culture of the Mongolian Plateau, which shows us the city ruins, water drainage system, tombs, Aobao(a pile of stones, earth or grass used by Mongolians as a road sign or boundary sign) and other cultural relics as well as the steppe landscapes of the Mongolian Plateau. Chengjiang Fossil Site is the most concentrated, best-preserved and the most bio-diverse evidence of the Cambrian explosion worldwide, which refers to the relatively rapid appearance of most major animal categories around 530 million years ago.

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Site of Xanadu of Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) in Inner Mongolia and Chengjiang Fossil in Yunnan have been included into the World Cultural & Natural Heritage List at the 36th session of the UNESCO's World Heritage Committee held in Saint Petersburg, Russia. By now, China altogether has 43 world cultural & natural heritage sites, ranking third in the world.

As the first capital and later the summer capital of the Yuan Dynasty, the Site of Xanadu of Yuan Dynasty tells half of the history of the Yuan Dynasty. It is a good combination of farming culture of the Central Plains and nomadic culture of the Mongolian Plateau, which shows us the city ruins, water drainage system, tombs, Aobao(a pile of stones, earth or grass used by Mongolians as a road sign or boundary sign) and other cultural relics as well as the steppe landscapes of the Mongolian Plateau.

Chengjiang Fossil Site is the most concentrated, best-preserved and the most bio-diverse evidence of the Cambrian explosion worldwide, which refers to the relatively rapid appearance of most major animal categories around 530 million years ago.

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