Yunnan attaches great importance to world heritage protection——
Sharing the world with gifts
In 2003, the Three Parallel Rivers was listed as a World Natural Heritage; in 2007, Yunnan Stone Forest was listed as a World Natural Heritage; in 2012, the Chengjiang Fossil Land was listed as a World Natural Heritage…
Yunnan has 5 World Heritage Sites, accounting for about 1/10 of China’s World Heritage Sites, and is a veritable world heritage province. The world heritage owned by Yunnan not only presents biodiversity, but also embodies the diversity of culture. The provincial party committee and the provincial government attach great importance to the protection of world heritage. Each region in the province has formed its own unique protection and management experience. The protection and development system has been continuously improved, and the strict protection and sustainable use of natural and cultural heritage have been better realized, which has become a boost Yunnan Province is an effective force in building China’s most beautiful province and creating a world-class destination for healthy living.
Build the most beautiful province as a world heritage province
On July 15th, Chengjiang Fossil Land World Natural Heritage Museum (Yunnan Natural Museum) was officially opened, marking a new level of protection and display of Chengjiang Fossil Land. In the summer, the museum has once again ushered in an upsurge to visit.
The Chengjiang Fossil Site is the fourth world heritage site in Yunnan and one of the most important sites in the evolution of the earth’s biology. A few years ago, apart from the occasional visits of scientists and biofossil lovers, the museum was very deserted. In recent years, thanks to Yunnan’s deep understanding and excavation of the value of world heritage, the Natural Museum of Chengjiang Fossil Land has become a “net celebrity”.
New ideas have brought new changes to the ancient Chengjiang fossil site. Yunnan Province has built the Chengjiang Fossil Land World Natural Heritage as a world-class base for scientific popularization of paleontological fossils. The management mechanism has been continuously improved, the protection force has been continuously strengthened, laws and regulations have been continuously improved, planning and guidance have been continuously strengthened, foreign exchanges have been continuously promoted, and scientific research has been continuously promoted. development of. Especially since the opening of the Chengjiang Fossil Land Natural Museum on August 11, 2020, relying on the resources of paleontological fossils, international scientific exchange activities have been held, and the value of Chengjiang Fossil Land’s World Natural Heritage has been fully realized.
Fang Bing, director-general of the World Heritage Conservation Union (Yunnan) and chairman of the Yunnan Natural and Cultural Heritage Protection Promotion Association, said that world heritage is a rare and irreplaceable treasure of mankind, and is recognized by all mankind as a civilization of outstanding significance and universal value. Historic sites and natural landscapes.
The provincial party committee and the provincial government attach great importance to world heritage protection, and each heritage site has formed its own unique protection and management experience.
In order to improve the management mechanism, Yunnan Province took the lead in establishing a provincial-level World Heritage Management Committee and formed a three-level management mechanism at the provincial, state (city), and county (district) levels. To strengthen the construction of laws and regulations to promote protection and management, a heritage protection system composed of national, provincial, and heritage site related laws, regulations and rules has been formed. Lead and promote protection with scientific planning. In accordance with their own protection requirements and internal development demands, each heritage site prepares detailed plans, district plans, delimits the core area and buffer zone of the heritage site, and continuously completes the protection and development system.
With the continuous upgrading of Yunnan’s understanding and protection of various world heritage sites, the ecological, human, social, scientific, and economic values of world heritage sites have also been continuously embodied, helping Yunnan Province to build China’s most beautiful province and create world-class health The effective power of life destination.
Stick to the green background and explore Yunnan experience
“Yunnan Province currently has 5 World Heritage Sites, ranking second in the country with Sichuan Province and Henan Province. Not only that, Yunnan’s rich types of World Heritage Sites are also the only ones in the world.” Lian Fang, Secretary-General of Yunnan Natural and Cultural Heritage Protection Promotion Association Say. Chengjiang Fossil Land is the first fossil world heritage in China and the only fossil world heritage in Asia. It is an important site for the Cambrian explosion of life and the evolution of life on the early earth. The Honghe Hani Terraces have a history of more than 1,300 years and are grand in scale. They are known as “China’s most beautiful Mountain carvings”; Three Parallel Rivers is the representative region of the world’s rare alpine landforms and their evolution, and is also one of the regions with the richest biological species in the world. Stone forests have unique shapes, complex genes, diverse types, and a long history of development. With high scientific research value, it is the only karst geomorphic area in the world that can show the evolutionary history of the earth with stone forest development relics and stone forest landscape series.
In April 2021, the first World Heritage (Yunnan) Photography Contest was launched, and more than 8,000 submissions were received in just over two months. These works were all taken from Yunnan’s World Heritage Sites, and the contestants, whether professional or amateur, used images to express their love for Yunnan’s World Heritage Sites. There is a prominent hue in these works-“green”.
Among the many different images, green is not only the main color of many photos, but also the background color throughout the protection and development of Yunnan World Heritage.
Yunnan Province insists on promoting the protection of world heritage with the concept of green development. Adhering to the concept of “comprehensive protection and no major development” and clarifying the protection objectives, it has realized the transformation from the protection of the competent authorities to the protection of the public of the whole province, and the transformation from focusing on the protection of the world heritage resources to the overall protection of the heritage environment.
Each heritage site has formed its own unique protection and management experience. Lijiang Ancient City Cultural Heritage Site “Promotes tourism with the protection of world heritage, and promotes heritage protection with tourism development”; Chengjiang Fossil Heritage Site insists on “implementing the strictest protection, creating the most beautiful business card, and maximizing benefits”; Stone Forest Natural Heritage Under the premise of maintaining the authenticity and integrity of natural resources and cultural resources, the land rationally plans and develops tourism and other industrial activities, and strives for the harmonious development of man and nature; Hani Terrace Cultural Heritage Site is based on the ecological and cultural diversity of Hani Terraces, and resolutely guards the “green water”. “Green Mountains”, exploring a new path for the protection and development of Hani terraces; the Three Parallel Rivers Natural Heritage Site insists on prioritizing protection and appropriate development, actively exploring the organic combination of the two, and forming beneficial protection and management experience.
Standing on a new height, giving birth to new hope
In May, the tea picking season has long ended, but Mangjing Dazhai, which should have been quiet for a rest, is bustling with excitement.
This is the core village of Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Garden, which is being declared for World Cultural Heritage. In order to accelerate the application of the ancient tea garden of Jingmai Mountain to the world cultural heritage, and to better protect and reflect the harmonious coexistence of human and tea, Jingmai Mountain has initiated the “100-day tackling” of comprehensive environmental improvement. Many facilities that were incompatible with the natural environment have been demolished in the stockade, and facilities that embody tea culture and are conducive to the protection of the natural environment and human culture have been built. The villagers of the entire Jingmai Mountain, especially the two administrative villages of Jingmai and Mangjing in the core area, have dedicated their efforts to the application. Some people cut down the small tea trees that affected the growth of ancient tea trees, and some people gave up the opportunity to build a new house…
In addition to these “sounding” actions, more people are silently contributing to the declaration of the world cultural heritage for the Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Garden. According to the requirements of UNESCO’s heritage application, only after a global analogy can projects with irreplaceable uniqueness become a World Heritage Site. Once you start applying for World Heritage, it is equivalent to launching a system project. It is not only a simple protection of the heritage that has been formed in the past, but also a plan for its tomorrow. For the ancient tea forest cultural heritage area of Pu’er Jingmai Mountain, where people have lived with tea for thousands of years, this complex system project involves the past, present and future of each person and each tea tree in 15 villages of 177 square kilometers. . 11 years have passed since the inscription of the ancient tea forest in Pu’er Jingmai Mountain in 2010 to this year. The government, experts, local residents and the whole society have jointly participated in the effective mechanism of protecting ancient tea forests, and vigorously and orderly promoted the planning, protection, and protection of ancient tea forests. The display, monitoring, publicity, environmental improvement and other tasks have welcomed rounds of inspections and evaluations.
In today’s rapid changes, it is difficult for the people in the mountains, rivers and cities to retain the posture of thousands of years ago, and to continue the customs of thousands of years. Protection is not static, protection should be the preservation of the essence, and protection should also be growth together.
At present, Jingmai Mountain has entered the countdown stage, and is about to prepare for on-site inspection and evaluation. Standing at the starting point of a new century, the consciousness and concepts of the new era will give us a deeper understanding of the significance of the world heritage in Yunnan and China. (Reporter Zhu Dan)