The World Heritage Committee will consider two Chinese sites for
inscription on the World Heritage List during its annual meeting
slated for July 8 in Vilnius, Lithuania, a Chinese official said in
Beijing Wednesday.
The two Chinese sites are the Great Panda habitat in southwest
China's Sichuan Province and the ruins of the Shang Dynasty
(16th-11th centuries B.C.) capital in Anyang city of central
China's Henan Province, according to Tian Xiaogang, secretary
general of the National Commission of China for the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
(Xinhua News Agency July 5, 2006)
