Source: CCTV.com

05-29-2007 09:06

Special Report:   Cultural Heritage Day

The Three Parallel Rivers site in the mountainous southwest of Yunnan joined the World Heritage List in July 2003. This enrollment gave a significant boost to the provincial government's efforts to promote conservation in the area.

In the high mountains of southwest China's Yunnan Province, three rivers - the Jinsha, Nujiang and Lancang - all originating on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, run roughly parallel, north to south, for some 170 kilometers.