China and South Asia World Heritage Sites

Sharing mountains and kindred cultures, Yunnan links closely with South and Southeast Asia. Through friendship-city ties and the shared charm of heritage, Yunnan contributes to deepening China’s engagement with the rest of the world. We invite the world to experience “Yunnan: A Many-Splendored Life”—let Oriental charm shine on the international stage, and help Yunnan’s stories go viral!

• Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er, Yunnan Home to 666.7 hectares (10,000 mu) of millennium-old tea forests, it’s a model of under-forest tea cultivation created by the Blang, Dai, and other ethnic groups. It reflects the ecological wisdom of harmony between humans and nature, and became the first cultural tea landscape World Heritage Site in 2023.

• Shalimar Gardens in Pakistan Once a Mughal summer retreat, these gardens are famous for their grand terraces, flowing fountains, and classical Islamic patterns—a graceful blend of Persian and South Asian aesthetics. They joined the World Heritage List in 1981.

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