World Natural Heritage: China Danxia (8)

Taining is a typical representation of a Danxia landform into early geological evolution stage among China’s Danxia landform nominations that applied for World Natural Heritage. The Taining Basin witnessed the evolutionary history of the mobile belt located at the edge of southern China eastern continental plate since the Cretaceous period. Its Danxia landscape includes clear ancient denudation plains which were divided into fractured original surfaces of hills by dense canyons and lane valleys.

The unique cliff caves, the intensive deep meandering gorges and rivers, and the original valley ecosystem formed rare natural features. Therefore, this region has become the representative of a low-elevation canyon Danxia landform in its early evolutionary stage. It closely combines the jet streams in the canyon and the intense peaks to form beautiful landscapes and it has also preserved the original ecological environment and its biological and ecological diversity. Taining meets the standards (VII), (VIII) and (IX) for selecting world natural heritage.