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A two-day tour to Kaiping watchtowers, Birds’ Paradise and Gudou hot springs departs every Saturday between 17 January and 31 March 2011 (except Chinese Lunar New Year 2-8 February 2011). Read more about the tour and see pictures of the stunning destinations it visits in the Shenzhen Daily article World Cultural Heritage tour in Guangdong.

Huangshan mountain in east China’s Anhui Province is listed among the country’s top 10 most popular tour sites. This year marks the 20th anniversary of its UNESCO listing as a world heritage site, prompting a series of celebrations. Find out more in the CNTV news item Preserving natural beauty of Huangshan Mountain. We visited spectacular Huangshan mountain in 2009 as part of a trip to Henan, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces – see the pictures or read the story.

After eight months of voting and evaluation, 10 aspects of Guangdong culture, ranging from opera styles to outstanding historical figures, have been chosen by the Guangdong Provincial Government to represent the cultural gems of Guangdong. The 10 gems are Guangdong opera, Cantonese cuisine, the Cantonese arcade building style, Cantonese music, lion dance, the Lingnan school of painting, Duan inkstone, Kaiping diaolou, and two historic figures: Sun Yat-sen, the leader of China’s republican revolution, and Huineng, the sixth Patriarch of the Zen. The Kaiping diaolous in Kaiping County, named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2007, are fortified multi story towers built from reinforced concrete. They served mainly as protection against bandits. To read more about the Kaiping diaolous see the Shenzhen Daily article Kaiping diaolou.

The CNTV website profiles the Top 10 most beautiful geological parks in China, famous for their excellent scenery as well as their unique geologic formations.

China’s Danxia Landform has become the nation’s 8th World Natural Heritage after it was listed on the World Heritage List by the World Heritage Committee at its 34th meeting in Brazil on 1 August 2010.

The Shenzhen Daily newspaper profiles locations where you can see the different geological stages of the Danxia Landform:

• Enjoy views of different stages of Danxia Landform – Part 1
• Enjoy views of different stages of Danxia Landform – Part 2

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