The World Heritage Committee will consider two Chinese sites for
inscription on the World Heritage List during its annual meeting
slated for July 8 in Vilnius, Lithuania, a Chinese official said in
Beijing Wednesday.
The two Chinese sites are the Great Panda habitat in southwest
China's Sichuan Province and the ruins of the Shang Dynasty
(16th-11th centuries BC) capital in Anyang city of central China's
Henan Province, according to Tian Xiaogang,
secretary general of the National Commission of China for the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization.
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Construction announced that China
has approved its first 30 national heritage sites, including 17
natural heritage sites and 13 natural and cultural heritage
sites.
(Xinhua News Agency July 5, 2006)
