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Article: World Heritage Committee discusses new sites for world heritagelist
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 29, 2004
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World Heritage Committee discusses new sites for world heritage
list
SUZHOU, June 29 (Xinhua) -- The 28th session of the World Heritage
Committee (WHC) on Tuesday started to discuss 48 proposed additions
to the current World Heritage List.
The 48 new candidate sites include 33 cultural sites and eight
natural sites, which are proposed by 36 countries, said Zhang
Xinsheng, chairman of the convention. Another seven are extension
applications of the current world heritage sites.
China has put forward three historical sites for the UNESCO
heritage list at this conference, which include the capital cities,
mausoleum and tombs of the ancient Koguryo kingdom (about first
through fifth centuries ...