Recently, Xinhua News Agency reported on the newly inscribed World Heritage Site - Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City. Liangzhu has gained world attention from mainstream overseas media, said Xinhua report.

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Mainstream overseas media such as American Broadcasting Company (ABC), America FOX Cable Network, Kyodo News Agency of Japan, Australian Associated Press, Deutsche Presse-Agentur and Europa Press of Spain issued a news release with the title of Hangzhou’s Liangzhu Archaeological Site joins UNESCO World Heritage Site club. As Liangzhu Ancient City was inscribed onto the World Heritage List, the five-thousand-year civilization of China has been proven with solid evidence.

The news release has been issued and reprinted in 9 languages by nearly 360 mainstream overseas media of 20 countries from Asia-Pacific, European and American regions.

Agenzia Giornalistica Italia (AGI): Liangzhu ancient city, located in Hangzhou Zhejiang, was a center of power and faith of an early regional state in Taihu Lake Basin, which was discovered by Mr Shi Xingeng of Zhejiang Provincial West Lake Museum in 1936, who had discovered multiple pre-historic sites.

Europa Press of Spain and America Agriculture TV Channel: Liangzhu Ancient City archaeological site shows an early regional state dating to the late Neolithic Age of China, whose economy was supported by rice agriculture and where social differentiation and a unified faith system had come into being. It has proven the outstanding contribution of the Yangtze River Basin to the origin of Chinese civilization.

Official website of Japan’s Asahi News and Japan SankeiBiz: The large hydraulic system discovered and confirmed at the periphery of Liangzhu Ancient City in 2015 is thus far the earliest large one of its kind discovered in China as well as one of the earliest dam system discovered in the world.

Official websites of ABC, Austria Presse Agentur and Yonhap News Agency: The Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City that centered on Liangzhu Ancient City is the core of Liangzhu civilization, which reveals the basic characteristics of the origin of Chinese civilization and provides the most complete and important archaeological material evidence for the more-than-five-thousand-year history of Chinese civilization. Liangzhu Ancient City, completed in the same period as the ancient Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations, be it in scale or significance, is rarely seen among similar historical sites in the world and can be considered as the “No. 1 City of China”.

(Executive Editor: Yongliu He)