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Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1987 Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang CN C APA 85 439
1987 Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian CN C APA 480 449
1994 Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde CN C APA 611 703
1998 Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing CN C APA 297 880
1998 Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing CN C APA 215 881
2000 Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties CN C APA 3,435 1004
2006 Yin Xu CN C APA 414 1114
2007 Kaiping Diaolou and Villages CN C APA 372 1112
2011 West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou CN C APA 3,323 1334
2014 The Grand Canal CN C APA 20,819 1443
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Cultural Natural Mixed

Property inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger

Cultural Natural Mixed

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