China's other world heritage sites:

Listed in the 1980s:

1. The Peking Man Site at the Zhoukoudian cave system, Beijing

2. The Great Wall, Beijing

3. The Mogao Caves in Gansu

4. The Forbidden City in Beijing (1987), Shenyang Imperial Palace in Liaoning (2004)

5. The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors in Shaanxi

6. Mount Taishan in Shandong

Listed in the 1990s:

7. Jiuzhai Valley in Sichuan

8. The Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area in Sichuan

9. Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area in Hunan

10. The Mountain Resort and its outlying temples at Chengde in Hebei

11. The Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu, Shandong

12. The Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains in Hubei

13. Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa, in the Tibet autonomous region

14. The Ancient City of Pingyao in Shanxi

15. The Classical Gardens of Suzhou in Jiangsu

16. The Summer Palace, Beijing

17. The Temple of Heaven, Beijing

18. Dazu Rock Carvings, Chongqing

19. Mount Huangshan in Anhui

20. The E'mei Mountain in Sichuan

21. Wuyi Mountain in Fujian

22. Lushan National Park in Jiangxi

Since 2000:

23. Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

24. The Ancient Villages of Xidi and Hongcun in Anhui

25. The Longmeng Grottoes in Henan

26. Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System in Sichuan

27. The Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi

28. Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom in Jilin

29. Historic Center of Macao

30. Yin Xu in Anyang in Henan

31. Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries at Wolong, Mount Siguniang and the Jiajin Mountains

32. Kaiping Diaolou and Villages in Guangdong

33. South China Karst region in Yunnan, Guizhou and Chongqing

34. Fujian Tulou

35. Mount Sanqingshan National Park in Jiangxi

36. Mount Wutai in Shanxi

37. The Historic Monuments of Dengfeng in "The Center of Heaven and Earth" in Henan

38. China Danxia landscapes in Guizhou, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Zhejiang

39. The West Lake Cultural Landscape in Hangzhou, Zhejiang

40. The ruins of Xanadu in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region

41. Xinjiang Tianshan in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region

(China Daily USA 07/26/2013 page6)