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State of Conservation Mount Taishan 1998

Mount Taishan

China
Factors affecting the property in 1998*
  • Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation
  • Interpretative and visitation facilities
International Assistance: requests for the property until 1998
Requests approved: 0
Total amount approved : 0 USD
Missions to the property until 1998**

September 1998: World Heritage Centre / IUCN joint mission

Information presented to the Bureau of the World Heritage Committee in 1998
Taishan is a pre-eminent cultural heritage of China and its management and promotion as a natural heritage property need to be considered in the light of its cultural priority.  The management of 2.5 million visitors a year has had some notable achievements; e.g. some families that were resident along the Central route have been relocated. Nevertheless, the Centre-IUCN mission which visited the site in September 1998 was concerned by the site management’s stated desire to open up three new scenic spots in Heavenly Candle, Rear Rock Basin and Jade Spring scenic spots. The number of vendor stalls along the walking route may also have to be considerably reduced. Furthermore, the management needs to place an emphasis on learning more about the natural heritage values of the area and on educating visitors on the cultural and natural values of the area of World Heritage significance.

Action Required
Decision required: The Bureau may wish to adopt the following text and transmit it to the Committee for noting:
“The Bureau invites the State Party to take steps to determine the tourism carrying capacity of the World Heritage site and on the basis of that determination elaborate a visitor management and a tourism development plan for the site.”
Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 1998

The Bureau was informed that a Centre-IUCN mission which visited the site in September 1998 was concerned by the management’s stated desire to open up three new scenic spots in Heavenly Candle, Rear Rock Basin and Jade Spring scenic spots. The number of vendor stalls along the walking route may also have to be considerably reduced. Furthermore, the management needs to place an emphasis on learning more about the natural heritage values of the area and on educating visitors on the cultural and natural values of the area of World Heritage significance.

 The Bureau invites the State Party to take steps to determine the tourism carrying capacity of the World Heritage site and on the basis of that determination elaborate a visitor management and a tourism development plan for the site. Furthermore, the Bureau urged the management of the site to place more emphasis on learning more about the natural heritage values of the area and on educating visitors on the cultural and natural values of the area of World Heritage significance. The Bureau recommended that the report of the Centre/IUCN’s mission to China be transmitted to the relevant Chinese authorities, and for review by ICOMOS.

Summary of the interventions
Decisions adopted by the Committee in 1998
22 COM VII.30
Reports on the State of Conservation of Mixed Properties Noted by the Committee

VII.30 The Committee noted the decisions of the twenty-second extraordinary session of the Bureau as reflected in the Report of the Bureau session (Working Document WHC-98/CONF.203/5) and included in Annex IV on the following properties:

Tasmanian Wilderness (Australia)

Mount Taishan (China, Peoples Republic of)

Mount Huangshan (China, People's Republic of)

Ohrid Region with its Cultural and Historical Aspect and its Natural Environment (Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of)

Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) (Mali)

Tongariro National Park (New Zealand).

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No draft Decision

Report year: 1998
China
Date of Inscription: 1987
Category: Mixed
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(v)(vi)(vii)
Documents examined by the Committee
WHC-98/CONF.203/8Rev.
arrow_circle_right 22COM (1998)
Exports

* : 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”).

** : All mission reports are not always available electronically.


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