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UNESCO hails China’s efforts in protecting world’s heritage

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

On Monday at UNESCO’s 34th meeting in Brazil, UNESCO spoke highly of China’s efforts in protecting the world’s natural and cultural heritage. “China has a great amount of precious heritage and a powerful government system to protect these heritages”, Kristal Buckley, an official of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the organization that evaluates cultural relics for the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee (WHC), told a news conference. Read more on the CCTV9 website.