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The Jianglangshan Moutain Apply for World Natural Heritage

The Jianglangshan Moutain Apply for World Natural Heritage

Write: Conner [2011-05-20]

Two experts from IUCN arrived in Jianglangshan Mountain in Jiangshan, National Park of China, on September, 30th to have a spot inspection and evaluation. It is a key procedure for Jianglangshan Mountain to apply for World Natural Heritage by tying in Danxia Landform in China . With the passage of the examination, it will be brought forward to the World Heritage Conference to vote. The Jianglangshan Mountain will be the first name on the list of world heritage in the case that the vote for its application succeeded.

The Jianglangshan Mountain, National Park of China, is a rare Danxia Landform natural senery in China, even in the world. The 130,000,000-year-evolution 0f the globe brought up its miracle. After its successful entering into the ranks of National Park of China, it is tied up with Langshan Mountain in Hunan, Danxiashan Mountain in Guangdong, Chishui River in Guizhou, Longhushan Mountain in Jiangxi, and Taining in Fujian to apply for the World Natural Heritage, which is the only application for world heritage this year.

It is known that the application would experience 5 proceedings after it is reported to the state: to be nominated by the state; to submit the material to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre; to be inquired by UNESCO World Heritage Centre; to receive a spot investigation by the IUCN experts; to wait for the IUCN experts to put their investigation result into text; to be voted at the World Heritage Conference.

So far, the first two proceedings have been finished, the evaluation report of the spot investigation will be submit to the 34 session of the World Heritage Conference in 2010 to vote, which is the most important proceeding in the application.

The two experts came to the spot investigation are Doctor Grimm Worboys from Austrilia, deputy president of ecological zone in the mountainous area of World Natural Protected Areas Committee; and Kyung Sik Woo from South Korea, professor in Dept. of Geology in Kangwon National University. The professors investigated the landform, ecological environment, and protection and management measures of the Jianglangshan Mountain, and expressed their surprise and eulogies by Good.

Wonderful. Beautiful! When visiting the villagers by the foot of the mountain, Doctor Kyung Sik Woo could not help expressing his envy. He said The Jianglangshan scenery is rare in the world. You should be proud of living here!

In recent years, Jiangshan Municipal Government has taken great efforts for applying the Jianglangshan Mountain for world heritage. The investment has been accumulated into 1.72 billion RMB since 2006, which is used in renovating the environment, preventing the wildlife trading, removing the advertising boarding and high-tension cable, inviting the experts from Zhejiang Forestry College to instruct preventing and controlling plant diseases and eliminating pests, as well as installing the video monitoring system.

At the same time, Jianglangshan applying for world heritage has been widely publicezed on the delivery truck, in the campuses, and on the LED advertising board in the taxies.

The offical in charge of it said, We hope to have Jianglangshan Mountain to be more beautiful and attract the attention of people in the whole country, and in the world as well . The application helps Jianglangshan Mountain to achieve better reputation, and it does good to the protection and sustainable development by setting a scientific and complete protection, management and development concept and system according to the standard of world heritage.