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    China's Chengjiang Fossil included into WorldHeritage ListThe Chengjiang Fossil, a site in China's southwestern YunnanProvince, was included into the World Heritage List on Sunday.The Chengjiang Fossil site of China was approved to join the World Heritage List at the 36th World Heritage Conference held in St. Petersburg, Russia.It is China's first fossil site included into the World Heritage List. So far, 43 properties in China havebeen recorded on the list.
    The Chengjiang fossil site covers an area of 512 hectares with a buffer zone of 220 hectares. Discovered in 1984, the site contains the decedents of 200 species of marine creatures datedback to 530 million years ago, making it one of the most amazing discoveries of prehistoric lives inthe 20th century.The fossil site was considered as the best window on marine life and the ecological system in theCambrian period.On Friday, another Chinese cultural site, Xanadu in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region innorth China, was listed as a world heritage on Friday.
    新聞資訊:據(jù)新華社電正在俄羅斯圣彼得堡召開的第36屆世界遺產(chǎn)委員會會議1日宣布,將中國澄江化石地列入《世界遺產(chǎn)名錄》。 據(jù)介紹,澄江化石地申遺成功使中國擁有首個(gè)化石類世界遺產(chǎn),填補(bǔ)了中國化石類自然遺產(chǎn)的空白。澄江化石地位于云南省玉溪市澄江縣境內(nèi),面積512公頃,緩沖區(qū)面積220公頃,距今5.3億年,于1984年被發(fā)現(xiàn),被譽(yù)為“20世紀(jì)最驚人的古生物發(fā)現(xiàn)之一”。澄江化石地共涵蓋16個(gè)門類、200余個(gè)物種,這在世界同類化石地中極為罕見,完整展示了寒武紀(jì)早期海洋生物群落和生態(tài)系統(tǒng)。本屆世界遺產(chǎn)委員會會議6月24日至7月6日在圣彼得堡舉行。今年共有36項(xiàng)文化自然遺產(chǎn)申報(bào)加入《世界遺產(chǎn)名錄》,中國澄江化石地和元上都遺址分別申請自然遺產(chǎn)和文化遺產(chǎn)。至此,中國被列入《世界遺產(chǎn)名錄》的自然文化遺址及自然景觀總數(shù)已達(dá)到43個(gè)。