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China’s World Heritage Tentative List

中国世界文化遗产预备名单
  • The tentative list for World Cultural Heritage in China, 35 items:
  • The Grand Canal (Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Henan)
  • Yunju Temple pagodas, scripture caves and stone sutras, Beijing (Fangshan District)

Ancient Chinese liquor distilleries: Liulingzui (Xushui, Hebei), Lidu (Jinxian, Jiangxi), Shuijingjie (Chengdu, Sichuan), the old Luzhou Daqu cellars (Luzhou, Sichuan), Jiannanchun Tianyi (Mianzhu, Sichuan)

Shanxi merchant mansions: Qiao family compound, Qu family compound (Qixian, Shanxi), Wang family compound (Lingshi), Cao family compound (Taigu)

  • Old dwellings of Shanxi and Shaanxi: Dingcun (Xiangfen, Shanxi), Dangjiacun (Hancheng, Shaanxi)
  • Buddhist buildings of Mount Wutai (Wutai, Shanxi)
  • Ming and Qing city walls: Xingcheng (Liaoning), Nanjing (Jiangsu), Xi’an (Shaanxi)
  • Niuheliang site (Lingyuan and Jianping, Liaoning)
  • Sites of Xanadu (Shangdu) and Zhongdu (Zhenglan Banner, Inner Mongolia; Zhangbei, Hebei)
  • Slender West Lake and the historic city of Yangzhou (Jiangsu)
  • Water towns south of the Yangtze: Zhouzhuang (Kunshan, Jiangsu), Luzhi (Suzhou), Wuzhen (Tongxiang, Zhejiang), Xitang (Jiashan, Zhejiang)
  • West Lake and the Longjing tea gardens, Hangzhou (Zhejiang)
  • Liangzhu site (Hangzhou and Deqing, Zhejiang)
  • Ancient porcelain kilns: Shanglinhu Yue kiln site (Cixi, Zhejiang)
  • Fujian tulou (Yongding, Nanjing and Hua’an, Fujian)
  • Ancient copper mine: Tongling (Ruichang, Jiangxi)
  • Ancient capital of Qi and the Qi royal tombs at Linzi (Zibo, Shandong)
  • Chinese section of the Silk Road (overland: Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Xinjiang; maritime: Ningbo, Zhejiang and Quanzhou, Fujian)
  • Ancient buildings of Mount Song (Dengfeng, Henan)
  • Old town of Fenghuang (Hunan)
  • Kaiping diaolou and villages (Kaiping, Guangdong)
  • Nanyue kingdom sites (Guangzhou, Guangdong)
  • Lingqu canal (Xing’an, Guangxi)
  • Huashan rock art (Ningming, Guangxi)
  • Baiheliang hydrological inscriptions (Fuling, Chongqing)
  • Ancient Shu sites: Jinsha and the boat-coffin tombs (Chengdu), Sanxingdui (Guanghan, Sichuan)
  • Tibetan and Qiang watchtowers and villages (Danba, Lixian and Maoxian, Sichuan)
  • Miao villages of south-east Guizhou below Leigong Mountain (Leishan, Taijiang, Jianhe and Congjiang)
  • Dong villages of south-east Guizhou: Liudong and Jiudong (Liping, Congjiang and Rongjiang)
  • Hani rice terraces (Yuanyang, Yunnan)
  • Karez wells (Turpan, Xinjiang)
  • Extension of the “Classical Gardens of Suzhou”: gardens and historic streets of Suzhou
  • Extension of the “Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui”: Tangyue (Shexian, Anhui), Likeng and Wangkou (Wuyuan, Jiangxi)

Extension of “Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu”: Nishan Confucius Temple (Qufu), the Mencius temple, mansion and cemetery (Zoucheng), the Yan temple (Qufu), the Zeng temple (Jiaxiang)

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