"City of Springs" plans to declare the World Cultural Landscape Heritage

　　On the afternoon of 6th sep, the reporters learns from the Jinan spring International Symposium on Protection of Cultural Landscapes that the spring in Jinan, which was applying for World Heritage is changed from the natural and cultural heritage project into culture heritage. But the scope of the declaration is the “City of Springs” instead of just the spring in Jinan. At present, the inscription text has basically completed.

　　From a global perspective, the nomination process is long and complex, Hangzhou West Lake nomination took 12 years; the Grand Canal inscription spent seven years; inscription of Mount Fuji in Japan took 19 years.