Grand Canal of China Historic Waterway: Guide
The Grand Canal — 2,700 km from Hangzhou to Beijing, the world's longest artificial waterway and largest pre-industrial hydraulic engineering project, inscribed as a…
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The Grand Canal — 2,700 km from Hangzhou to Beijing, the world's longest artificial waterway and largest pre-industrial hydraulic engineering project, inscribed as a…
October 2026The Silk Roads Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor — a transnational UNESCO serial inscription (China-Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan) covering 33 component sites including the Mogao Caves, Jiaohe Ancient City Turpan,…
October 2026The Xinjiang Tianshan — four protected areas totalling 606,833 hectares in the Tianshan range of northwestern China, from Tomur Peak (7,443 m) and Bayinbuluke…
October 2026The Chengjiang Fossil Site — a 512-hectare area of Cambrian-period mudstone on Maotian Hill in Yunnan Province preserving 250+ species of the Cambrian Explosion…
October 2026The West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou — a 5.6 km² lake reshaped over 1,000 years by Tang-Song poet-prefects and imperial patronage into the…
October 2026The Historic Monuments of Dengfeng in "The Centre of Heaven and Earth" — eight monument groups on Mount Songshan including Shaolin Temple (495 CE),…
October 2026Mount Wutai — the most sacred Buddhist mountain in China and East Asia, with 53 temples spanning 1,600 years of construction including the Foguang…
October 2026The Fujian Tulou — 46 inscribed circular and square rammed-earth communal fortress residences built by Hakka and Minnan communities in western Fujian Province between…
October 2026The South China Karst — six UNESCO-inscribed components in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Chongqing protecting the world's most complete tropical and subtropical karst landscape,…
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