Summarization of the World Culture and Nature Heritage

from: China Culture information net

The nummber of the signatory states has reached 145 since the Convention of the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage was passed by UNESCO in Paris in Oct. 16, 1972. China became the signatory state of the Convertion in 1985.   The first World Cultural and Natural Heritage list was declared in 1987. There are 582 items was announced in 22 lists from 1987 to 1998. And there are 21 items in China.
    Another two items were declared to be world cultural and natural heritage in December of 1999.  They are Wuyi mountains of Fujian Province and the Dazu Grottoes of Chongqing.  All the items site in many  provinces in China as follows: