Shennongjia declared as heritage
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THE 40th session of the World Heritage Committee in Istanbul yesterday put Shennongjia in Hubei Province on the prestigious World Heritage List as a natural site, bringing to 50 the number of listed Chinese sites.
Shennongjia is considered as a wildlife treasure with high plant diversity, according to a report.
“Shennongjia has been a place of significant scientific interest, particularly for botanists, and the mountains have featured prominently in the history of botanical inquiry,” the report said.
The committee has, however, drawn its attention to the potential tourism pressure on the site, as a new airport has been built there.
Li Faping, mayor of the Shennongjia Forestry District, while voicing his pleasure at the site’s acceptance into the heritage list by a unanimous consensus, pledged a better conservation just like “caring for our own eyes.”
China’s Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape in Guangxi Autonomous Region was placed on the list on Friday as a cultural site.
The World Heritage Committee, a panel under the UN cultural agency UNESCO, resumed its session yesterday after it was suspended for a day due to a coup attempt in Turkey on Friday night.
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