[Explanation] The 16-day 44th World Heritage Conference concluded in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province on the evening of July 31.
[Explanation] Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, this World Heritage Conference used the online format to review World Heritage issues for the first time, and reviewed two annual World Heritage projects in 2020 and 2021.
The reporter noticed that 34 projects including "Quanzhou: Song and Yuan China's Ocean Trade Center" were newly included in the "World Heritage List" at this conference, and 3 projects have been included in the major expansion.
The newly added world heritage sites in developed and developing countries are roughly balanced, and the number of cross-border joint declarations and series of heritage types have increased.
[Concurrent] Gao Chenxiang, guest of China Cultural Heritage Research Institute
The application for heritage is actually equivalent to the process of identifying the heritage, but this is the first step of a journey of a thousand miles. Then, the following protection, utilization, monitoring, and inheritance are equivalent to more important for future generations. We must Such a work for a long time.
With the promotion of the entire conference, I believe that our country's cultural protection work will be able to take it to the next level.
[Explanation] This conference proposed a series of new consensus and new initiatives, unanimously adopted the "Fuzhou Declaration", reiterated the importance of world heritage protection and international cooperation, and the need to work together and act together to address climate change .
During the meeting, the General Assembly also considered the "World Heritage Convention", sustainable development, and the impact of climate change on the world heritage and other policy documents and related issues, which will have an important impact on the future of the world heritage.
[Concurrent] Fu Zijie, Project Specialist, China Association for the Protection of Historic Sites
The birth of the "Fuzhou Declaration" further demonstrated that China, as a major world heritage country, has a commitment and effort to the World Heritage Convention. It also expresses China’s cooperation with other signatories to the World Heritage Convention. Expectations and expectations.
[Explanation] During the conference, China announced that it would cooperate with UNESCO to establish an online platform for world heritage education, and promised to help developing countries, especially Africa and small island countries, train professionals in world heritage protection.
At the same time, the World Heritage Youth Forum and the future-oriented world heritage education theme side event played an active role in expanding youth participation.
[Concurrent] Gao Chenxiang, guest of China Cultural Heritage Research Institute
Including the current United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, in fact, culture is also regarded as a very important core. It uses culture to drive other goals, including the improvement of human settlements, including education, a better living environment, etc. Improvement can be promoted through cultural heritage.
Then we are also very happy to see that many folk enthusiasts are also involved in the work of protecting this cultural heritage.
[Explanation] It is worth mentioning that this conference actively responded to the challenges posed by the new crown pneumonia epidemic to the world heritage cause. The series of online deliberations established and used by the conference provided an important reference for world heritage work in the post-epidemic phase.
[Concurrent] Fu Zijie, Project Specialist, China Association for the Protection of Historic Sites
I have made a model, which is equivalent to under the epidemic situation. How do we use this combination of online and offline to organize a World Heritage Convention like ours? I think Fuzhou may indeed be for the whole this time. Different countries in the world have made a better model and experiment.
[Commentary] The reporter learned that the 45th World Heritage Conference will be held in Kazan, Russia.
Reporter Wu Shengwei reports from Fuzhou, Fujian
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]