Overview of World Cultural Heritage (1) Organization and Purpose of World Cultural Heritage World cultural heritage belongs to the category of world heritage. The full name of world cultural heritage is "world cultural and natural heritage". In 1972, UNESCO passed the "Protection of World Cultural Heritage" in Paris.

and Natural Heritage Convention, established the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, whose purpose is to promote cooperation among countries and peoples of all countries and make positive contributions to the reasonable protection and restoration of the common heritage of all mankind.

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee is an intergovernmental organization composed of 21 member states. It meets once a year to decide which properties can be included in the World Heritage List and to supervise the protection of world heritage properties that have been included in the list.

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The seven members of the Committee constitute the World Heritage Committee Bureau, which meets twice a year to prepare the work of the Committee.

The World Heritage Committee is responsible for four main tasks: 1. Responsible for explaining the definition of World Heritage when selecting cultural and natural heritage sites for inclusion in the World Heritage List; 2. Reviewing reports on the status of World Heritage protection.

When the heritage cannot be properly treated and protected, the Committee asks the State Party to take special protection measures; 3. After consultation with the State Party concerned, the Committee makes a decision to include the endangered heritage in the "List of World Heritage in Danger"; 4. Managing the world

Heritage Fund (Fund for the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage).

Provide technical and financial assistance to countries requesting assistance for the protection of heritage.

Established under the provisions of the Convention.

As of 2002, globally, 175 countries or regions have joined the World Heritage Convention and become state parties, making it one of the conventions with the largest number of state parties.

Since China became a party to the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage in 1985, China and UNESCO have had a good cooperative relationship in the field of world heritage protection.

(2) The concept and categories of World Heritage The logo of the World Heritage Convention symbolizes the interdependent relationship between cultural heritage and natural heritage.

The square in the center is a shape created by humans, and the circle represents nature, and the two are closely connected.

The symbol is circular in shape, symbolizing both the world and its protection.

World Heritage is divided into five categories: natural heritage, cultural heritage, a mixture of natural heritage and cultural heritage (i.e. dual heritage)), cultural landscape, and intangible heritage established in recent years.

As of 2003, there were 754 World Heritage sites in 128 countries, including 582 cultural heritage sites, 149 natural heritage sites, and 23 dual cultural and natural heritage sites.

The Cultural Heritage Convention stipulates that items belonging to one of the following categories can be listed as cultural heritage: Cultural relics: buildings, sculptures and paintings of outstanding and universal value from a historical, artistic or scientific perspective, and of archaeological significance

Composition or structure, a complex of inscriptions, caves, settlements and various types of cultural relics; architectural complex: from a historical, artistic or scientific point of view, outstanding and universal due to its architectural form, identity and place in the landscape

Individual or interconnected building complexes of value; Sites: Man-made projects or unique masterpieces of man and nature that have outstanding and universal value from a historical, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological perspective, as well as archaeological site areas.

All cultural heritage projects nominated for inclusion in the World Heritage List must meet one or more of the following criteria before they can be approved: 1. Represent a unique artistic achievement, a masterpiece of creative genius; 2. Be able to perform within a certain period of time.

Within a period or within a certain cultural region of the world, it has had an excessive impact on the development of architectural art, monumental art, town planning or landscape design; 3. It can provide a unique at least one for a vanished civilization or cultural tradition.

It is a special witness; 4. It can be used as an outstanding example of a building or building group or landscape, showing one (or several) important stages in the history of the species; 5. It can be used as an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement or use place.

, represents one (or several) cultures, especially those that become vulnerable to damage under the influence of irreversible changes; 6. Directly or substantially related to events of special universal significance or current traditions or ideas or beliefs or literary and artistic works

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The Convention on Natural Heritage defines natural heritage as those that meet one of the following requirements: natural features consisting of geological and biological structures or groups of such structures that have outstanding and universal value from an aesthetic or scientific perspective;

From a conservation perspective, only geological and physical geographical structures of outstanding and universal value and clearly demarcated ecological zones of endangered animal and plant species; from a scientific, conservation or natural beauty perspective, only natural scenic spots of outstanding and universal value or clearly demarcated natural areas

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