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
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