Mount Huangshan
Factors affecting the property in 1996*
- Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation
- Solid waste
International Assistance: requests for the property until 1996
Total amount approved : 45,000 USD
| 1993 | Organizing a training workshop at Mt Huangshan and ... (Approved) | 20,000 USD |
| 1991 | Urgent works for the safeguarding of Mount Huangshan, ... (Approved) | 20,000 USD |
| 1991 | Contribution to cover the participation costs of 2 ... (Approved) | 5,000 USD |
Missions to the property until 1996**
Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 1996
The Bureau may recall the fact that UNESCO, in co-operation with UNEP's Bureau for Industry and Environment, located in Paris, and the Chinese Ministry of Environment, convened an international seminar in this World Heritage Site, in 1991. The outcome of the seminar alerted the Chinese authorities to the growing negative impacts of unregulated tourism development in the site. Following this international seminar, a training workshop for Chinese protected area managers, was held in Huangshan, in October-November 1993, with financial assistance from the World Heritage Fund. The workshop made several recommendations, including the construction of a visitor centre, improving the disposal of the large amount of waste generated by tourists, and introducing ecological safeguards and criteria in identification of sites for constructing visitor facilities.
During a visit to the site in August-September 1996, the Director of the World Heritage Centre was pleased to note that the Chinese authorities have given serious consideration to the recommendations of the training workshop held in 1993, with the support of the World Heritage Committee. The management of waste disposal has improved and the site's natural and aesthetic values are maintained in an exemplary way. Site management authorities are also considering plans for establishing a visitor centre and limiting further construction of visitor facilities within the site.
Analysis and Conclusion by World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies in 1996
The Bureau may wish to adopt the following text and transmit it to the Committee for noting:
"The Bureau commends the Chinese authorities for the positive steps they have taken in improving tourism management in the site and encourages them to proceed with additional measures, such as the construction of a visitor centre, to manage the large numbers of visitors annually entering the site."
Summary of the interventions
Decisions adopted by the Committee in 1996
20 COM VII.D.46
SOC noted by Committee: Mount Huangshan (People's Republic of China)
VII.46 Mount Huangshan (People's Republic of China)
The Bureau at its twentieth extraordinary session recalled that an international seminar was held at the site in 1991 by the National Environmental Protection Agency of China and UNEP, which indicated growing negative impacts of unregulated tourism development. It also noted that a training workshop for Chinese protected area managers was organized at Huangshan in October-November 1993. Recommendations of the workshop included the construction of a visitor centre, improving the disposal of the large amount of waste generated by tourists, and introducing ecological safeguards and criteria in identification of sites for constructing visitor facilities. The Bureau was pleased to note that the Chinese authorities had given serious consideration to these recommendations and that the management of waste disposal had improved and the site's natural and aesthetic values were maintained in an exemplary way. Site management authorities were also considering plans for establishing a visitor centre and limiting further construction of visitor facilities within the site.
The Bureau commended the Chinese authorities for the positive steps they had taken in improving tourism management in the site and encouraged them to proceed with additional measures, such as the construction of a visitor centre to manage the large numbers of visitors annually entering the site.
China
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The threats indicated are listed in alphabetical order; their order does not constitute a classification according to the importance of their impact on the property.
Furthermore, they are presented irrespective of the type of threat faced by the property, i.e. with specific and proven imminent danger (“ascertained danger”) or with threats which could have deleterious effects on the property’s Outstanding Universal Value (“potential danger”).
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