Yuanyang Terrace

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(Provided to People's Daily Online/Guo Jianlin)

China's Honghe Hani Rice Terraces is now a World Heritage site, with its induction into UNESCO's World Heritage List on June 22,2013. The announcement was made at the World Heritage Committee's 37th session, which is held in Cambodia. The number of World Heritage sites in China is increased to 45, it's more than Spain and China has the second largest number of World Heritage sites.

The terraced fields in Yuanyang County is the core area of Hani Terraced Field. It is a marvelous spectacle of agricultural civilization created by the people of all ethnic groups, mainly the Hani people, who take advantage of the local geography and climate conditions known as "A mountain witnesses four distinct seasons, and a ten-li distance sees a different weather".

It is recorded that the terrace has a history of more than 1,300 years. The core area covers the three biggest and most centralized rice terraces of the Honghe Hani Terrace, and is home to 26,419 Hani households, with a population of more than 113,400 people. The 82 Hani stockaded villages in the cultural landscape area have always been one of the most popular tourist attractions in Yunnan. The Yuanyang Rice Terraces are a landscaping masterpiece, not only in terms of aesthetic appeal but also in terms of a millennia of functionality.

In the thirty-seventh session of the World Heritage Committee of the Chinese delegation, the State Cultural Relics Bureau deputy director Tong Mingkang said Hani Terrace reflects the local people of their own culture and respect for the natural environment, heritage conservation sector will protect the local traditional way of life, agricultural development characteristics (quotes, funds, shares, interrogation), economy and improve the living conditions of the village, so that farmers benefit.

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