Heritage sites exalt preservation spirit

Editor's note: Hoh Xil in Northwest China's Qinghai province and Gulangyu Island in East China's Fujian province were included in the UNESCO World Heritage list last week, which means China now has 52 world heritage sites, second only to Italy's 53. Two experts share their views with China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang on how to better protect such sites:

This is not the end, but a new beginning

Yang Fuquan, a senior researcher on cultural studies at Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences