Article: More rigid standards adopted to approve world heritage sites:Chinese official

More rigid standards adopted to approve world heritage sites: Chinese official

SUZHOU, July 5 (Xinhua) -- More and more rigid standards have been adopted on approving world heritage sites and brought higher requirements for the conservation of these common treasures of all the people, said Kong Fanzhi, director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture Relics in Suzhou, eastern Jiangsu province, on Sunday.

As an attendee of the ongoing 28th Session of the World Heritage Committee, Kong also took part in two sessions of the committee, which were held in Kyoto in 1998 and Paris in 2003 respectively.

For example, Kong said, when China applied for including the Imperial Palace in Beijing on ...

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