World Cultural Heritage

By 2008, worldwide total of World Heritage 878, of which 679 cultural, 174 natural heritage, both cultural and natural heritage of the world 25, distributed in 145 countries. From November 2007 onwards, has been signed by 185 countries and regions of the World Heritage Convention. October 17, 1972 至 11 21, UNESCO held in Paris at its seventeenth session, adopted the "Convention on the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage", a clear definition of cultural heritage: 1, Heritage: from the historical, artistic or scientific point of view of outstanding universal value of the buildings, monumental sculpture and painting, elements or structures of an archaeological nature, inscriptions, cave, and the Commonwealth; 2 buildings: from the historical, artistic or scientific point of view in the architectural style homogeneity or integration of the landscape of outstanding universal value of stand-alone or connected buildings; 3 sites: from the historical, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological point of view of outstanding universal value of human engineering or natural and human co-engineering and archaeological sites and other places. In 1992, World Heritage, based in Paris, was formed to be responsible for World Heritage in the coordination of related activities to ensure the "Heritage Convention," the implementation of World Heritage in Ju Xing Hui, the proposed declaration of the signatories to submit a list of World Heritage Foundation, an international organization participation Heritage status for the relevant report, when the estate is threatened to take urgent action ... ...