Three sites in China added to UNESCO heritage list

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UNESCO’s list of the world’s most important heritage sites has just got a little bigger.   There’s 24 newcomers, including three sites in China.   CGTN’s Ravinder Bawa reports.   #UNESCO #China

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00:00Scenes of celebration like these have been a common sight over the last ten days at the

00:06World Heritage Committee meeting in India's capital, Delhi.

00:11This year, 24 new sites have been inscribed by the committee.

00:16This convention is not only about the inscriptions, it's about safeguarding and it's the starting

00:24point of the obligation that you as member states have.

00:30In the cultural category, 19 new sites have been included.

00:36China's Beijing Central Access has been added, recognizing its integrity, authenticity, protection

00:43and management status.

00:47The cultural site is really the treasure of humanity.

00:54People from all around the world, they have so much in common when we talk about culture

01:00and we value about culture.

01:03On the advice of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, as the official

01:09advisor on nature, four natural sites have been added to the list.

01:14China's Baideng Juran Desert, a world-renowned hyper-arid landscape with the abundance of

01:21striking inter-dunal lakes, was inscribed.

01:26The others are very diverse.

01:27We have sites that have been listed for their geological values, we have sites that have

01:31been listed for their cave biodiversity, the incredible animals that live isolated from

01:37the outside world.

01:38And we have a very important site that's been listed in China which recognizes a series

01:43of migratory sites for the birds that pass across many countries.

01:47The committee also considered properties in the endangered category and added the ancient

01:54pyramids at Gaza due to threats from the ongoing war.

01:59For us, it's a hope for people because, you know, our people are suffering too much and

02:05the inscription of this site became under the emergency basis and inscribed in the World

02:11Heritage List and in the World Heritage List Endangered.

02:16With the conclusion of this meeting, the UNESCO has inscribed a total of 1,223 properties

02:23across the world.

02:24The list of the esteemed sites is getting longer.

02:28India not only hosted the meeting for the first time but in a first, a site from the

02:32northeastern part of the country has been added to the list.

02:36Events like these highlight the importance of international cooperation in preserving

02:40cultural and natural resources.

02:43Ravinder Bawa, CGTN, Delhi.

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