China's Chengjiang Fossil included into WorldHeritage ListThe Chengjiang Fossil, a site in China's southwestern YunnanProvince, was included into the World Heritage List on Sunday.The Chengjiang Fossil site of China was approved to join the World Heritage List at the 36th World Heritage Conference held in St. Petersburg, Russia.It is China's first fossil site included into the World Heritage List. So far, 43 properties in China havebeen recorded on the list.

The Chengjiang fossil site covers an area of 512 hectares with a buffer zone of 220 hectares. Discovered in 1984, the site contains the decedents of 200 species of marine creatures datedback to 530 million years ago, making it one of the most amazing discoveries of prehistoric lives inthe 20th century.The fossil site was considered as the best window on marine life and the ecological system in theCambrian period.On Friday, another Chinese cultural site, Xanadu in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region innorth China, was listed as a world heritage on Friday.

新闻资讯：据新华社电正在俄罗斯圣彼得堡召开的第36届世界遗产委员会会议1日宣布，将中国澄江化石地列入《世界遗产名录》。 据介绍，澄江化石地申遗成功使中国拥有首个化石类世界遗产，填补了中国化石类自然遗产的空白。澄江化石地位于云南省玉溪市澄江县境内，面积512公顷，缓冲区面积220公顷，距今5.3亿年，于1984年被发现，被誉为“20世纪最惊人的古生物发现之一”。澄江化石地共涵盖16个门类、200余个物种，这在世界同类化石地中极为罕见，完整展示了寒武纪早期海洋生物群落和生态系统。本届世界遗产委员会会议6月24日至7月6日在圣彼得堡举行。今年共有36项文化自然遗产申报加入《世界遗产名录》，中国澄江化石地和元上都遗址分别申请自然遗产和文化遗产。至此，中国被列入《世界遗产名录》的自然文化遗址及自然景观总数已达到43个。