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Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces
The Honghe Hani Rice Terraces Cultural Landscape is located in southern Yunnan and covers 16,603 hectares. The terraces are spectacular, stretching from the slopes of the towering Ailao Mountains to the banks of the Red River. Over the past 1,300 years, the Hani people have developed a complex system of canals to bring water from the forested mountaintops to the terraces. They have also created an integrated agricultural system that includes buffalo, cattle, ducks, fish and eels, and supports the production of red rice, the region's main crop. Local residents worship the sun, moon, mountains, rivers, forests and other natural phenomena, including fire. They live in 82 villages between the mountaintop forests and the terraces. The villages feature traditional thatched "mushroom" houses. The terraces' resilient land management system is based on remarkable and long-standing social and religious structures, demonstrating extraordinary visual and ecological harmony between people and the environment.
Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites
The property is a historic sericulture and silk mill complex built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. It consists of four sites corresponding to different stages of raw silk production: a large raw silk reeling mill with machinery and industrial expertise imported from France; an experimental farm where silkworm cocoons were produced; a school where knowledge of sericulture was disseminated; and a silkworm seed cold storage facility. The site embodies Japan’s desire to rapidly acquire the best mass production technology and was a decisive factor in the renaissance of Japan’s sericulture and silk industry in the last quarter of the 19th century. The Tomioka Silk Mill and its associated sites became a center of innovation in raw silk production, marking Japan’s entry into the modern industrialized era, making it the world’s largest exporter of raw silk, especially to Europe and the United States.
Völklingen Ironworks
The ironworks, covering approximately six hectares, is a landmark of the city of Völklingen. Although production has recently ceased, it is the only integrated ironworks built and equipped in the 19th and 20th centuries that has been preserved intact in Western Europe and North America.
Beijing Shunyi International Flower Port
Beijing International Flower Port is the only professional flower industry park in Beijing planned by the Beijing Municipal Government. It is one of the important functional groups of the 7th China Flower Expo 2009 hosted by Beijing and a window for the development of Beijing's flower industry. During the Flower Expo, Beijing International Flower Port undertakes the tasks of displaying Beijing's industrial parks and outdoor flower displays for enterprises, and is also responsible for promoting and carrying forward the flower culture of the capital. At present, Flower Port has gradually become the production, research and development, display and trading center of flowers in Beijing, as well as the leisure, sightseeing and cultural exchange center of flowers. Beijing International Flower Port is located in Yangzhen, Shunyi District, with a total planning area of 4 square kilometers. It is the only professional flower industry park in Beijing. It is adjacent to Muyan Road in the east and Baima Road in the south. It is 39 kilometers away from the city center, 20 kilometers away from the Capital Airport, and only 5 minutes away from the Beijing Olympic Games water sports venue. It has a superior location and convenient transportation. It is an important node in the eastern development belt of Shunyi District and an important model for the development of modern sightseeing agriculture in the capital. Beijing International Flower Port is an important functional group of the 7th China Flower Expo 2009 hosted by Beijing. It is a window for the development of Beijing's flower industry and is responsible for promoting and carrying forward the flower culture of the capital. At present, Flower Harbor is gradually developing into a production, R&D, display and trading center of flowers in Beijing, as well as a leisure sightseeing and cultural exchange center of flowers. It will fully integrate park construction and landscape resources, cultivate flower exhibition brands, create a new flower industry system, build a flower production R&D center, seed center, leisure experience center, and build an international conference city, so that the Flower Expo will never end in Shunyi.