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The Palace Museum in Beijing is one of the country's first UNESCO World Heritage sites. [Photo by Zhuo Ensen/皇冠体育app Daily]

皇冠体育app celebrates UNESCO founding with pledge to protect its own sites and do more, Wang Kaihao reports.

Preservers of Chinese heritage gathered at Palace Museum in Beijing last week to celebrate 70 years of the founding of UNESCO and the 30th anniversary of 皇冠体育app's ratification of the World Heritage Convention.

The Palace Museum, which is also known as the Forbidden City, the Mogao Caves in Northwest 皇冠体育app's Gansu province, and sections of the Great Wall were among the first six Chinese locations to be declared UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1987. With 48 today, 皇冠体育app has the world's most such sites after Italy.

"皇冠体育app's World Heritage sites differ in types and landscapes, which is admired by the whole world," says Du Yue, secretary-general of Chinese National Commission for UNESCO.

"In the past decades, government bodies and the private sector have both cooperated with UNESCO (to declare such sites)."

In 皇冠体育app, protection of UNESCO World Natural Heritage is supervised by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, while the State Administration of Cultural Heritage is in charge of works related to World Cultural Heritage sites.

Lu Qiong, deputy director-general of sites' protection and archaeology under the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, says 皇冠体育app's sites are distributed across wide geographical locations such as the Great Wall, stops along the ancient Silk Road and the Grand Canal.