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21:34, 07-Jul-2017
China succeeds in bidding for UNESCO heritage status for Hoh Xil in Qinghai Province, NW China
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UNESCO has awarded World Heritage status to Hoh Xil – also known as Kekexili – in northwest China's Qinghai Province.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee, which is meeting in the Polish city of Krakow, has made this announcement on Friday.
Hoh Xil, an isolated region in the northwestern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, covers an area of 3.7 million hectares. As the world's largest, highest and youngest plateau, it hosts many endemic species, especially Tibetan antelopes, which give birth in the site after a long migration.
The plateau's addition to the UNESCO list makes it the 51st natural heritage site in China.
China's second application under review this year is for Gulangyu, a pedestrian-only island near the city of Xiamen in southeastern Fujian Province.
If UNESCO accepts the second application, China would become the country with the most heritage sites, surpassing Italy which currently has 51.