Recently, the reporter visited the Zhoukoudian site, recording and showing the places where ancient humans lived in different historical periods, such as the Peking Man ("Peking Man") from 500,000 years ago to the cave man from 10,000 to 30,000 years ago.

  It is understood that the Zhoukoudian site is located in Fangshan District, about 50 kilometers southwest of Beijing. Since the large-scale systematic excavation in 1927, a total of 27 sites of various fossils and cultural relics from different periods have been discovered. The excavations represent more than 40 "Beijing people". "The fossil remains, more than 100,000 stone tools, nearly 200 animal fossils and a large number of fire-use relics, etc., have become a world-famous treasure house of human fossils and paleontology, archaeology, paleontology, stratigraphy, chronology, and environmental science. And karstology and other multi-disciplinary comprehensive research bases.

  The Zhoukoudian site became China's first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 1961 and was included in China's first batch of "World Cultural Heritage List" by UNESCO in 1987.

(Reporter Sun Zifa produced Lu Huiqian)

Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]