Beijing Applies for World Heritage Status for Monuments
I don't understand why the Chinese authorities feel that a site that commemorates Chairman Mao deserves a UNESCO heritage site. It's like applying Stalin's statue as a UNESCO heritage site.
Beijing Applies for World Heritage Status for Monuments
2012-08-03 14:14:45
An unnamed official at the Culture and Heritage Commission of Dongcheng District said Thursday that the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and Monument to the People's Heroes had been recommended as candidate heritage sites in a renewed plan to apply for World Heritage Site status for the historic complexes along the city's north-south axis.
Beijing began the official application process last year, but the previous plan only covered buildings from the Ming and Qing dynasties along the 7.8 km-long axis that links Yongdingmen Pass in the south to the Bell Tower in the north.
I don't understand why the Chinese authorities feel that a site that commemorates Chairman Mao deserves a UNESCO heritage site. It's like applying Stalin's statue as a UNESCO heritage site.