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The Kaiping Diaolou and Villages — 1,833 multi-storey defensive towers in Guangdong Province built by returned Cantonese emigrants with hybrid Baroque, Moorish, Byzantine, and…
October 2026Yin Xu — the late Shang dynasty capital (c. 1300–1046 BCE) near Anyang, Henan Province, containing the oracle bone inscription archive (earliest Chinese writing)…
October 2026The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries — 924,500 hectares protecting 30% of the world's wild giant panda population in the Qionglai and Jiajin Mountains of…
October 2026The Historic Centre of Macao — 22 listed buildings and spaces documenting 442 years of Portuguese-Chinese cultural exchange on a 12.6 km² peninsula at…
October 2026The Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas — 1,700,000 hectares of northwest Yunnan where the upper Yangtze, Mekong, and Salween run parallel within…
October 2026The Yungang Grottoes — 252 caves and 51,000 Buddhist figures carved 460–525 CE into a 1-kilometre sandstone cliff 16 km west of Datong, Shanxi,…
October 2026The Longmen Grottoes — 2,345 carved caves and 110,000 Buddhist figures along 1 km of Yi River cliff face at Luoyang, Henan Province, including…
October 2026The nearest World Heritage properties to Bamiyan are the Minaret of Jam (218 km), Tigrovaya Balka (266 km) and Ancient Khuttal (314 km), with…
October 2026The Ancient Villages of Xidi and Hongcun — two Ming-Qing Huizhou merchant villages in Yi County, Anhui Province, with 124 and 158 surviving historic…
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