Before 1997, Pingyao in North China’s Shanxi Province was a quiet place with few visitors. Then, it was made a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and everything changed. UNSECON said, “The Ancient City of Pingyao is an outstanding examples of a Han Chinese city of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.” This encouraged so many more tourists to come to Pingyao that its ticket sales for the historic places from 180,000 yuan in 1997 to 5 million yuan in 1998.处于中国北部的山西省的的平阳，在1997年以前还是一个非常安静的地方，只有寥寥无几的几个游客。后来，UNESCO把这个地方申报为世界遗址之后，一切都变了。 UNSECON说到，平阳的古城是明清时代，中国汉代城市的典型。这个说法鼓励了更多的游客来到平阳，这样一来，这个历史名迹的门票就从1997年的18万上涨到1998年的五百万。 Lijiang, an ancient town in Yunnan Province, is the richest World Heritage place in China. In the year 2000, tourists spent 1.34 billion yuan there.位于云南的丽江古镇是中国最富有的世界遗产地。在2000年，游客们在那里的花费就高达13.4亿。 The great achievement of places like Pingyao and Lijiang caught everyone’s attention, and many other places made an effort to become World Heritage Sites. They want to encourage a lot more tourists to visit them. For example, in 1998, Luoyang City in North China’s Henan Province spent 150 million yuan on cleaning up the countryside in order to get on the World Heritage list. Old buildings were cleared away and trees and grass were planted around the well-known Longmen Grottos. These beautiful grottoes on the hillsides along the Yi River are considered to be one of the three greatest stone treasures in China. (The other two are the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu Province and the Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi Province.) In the year 2000, Longmen Grottoes was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.像平阳，丽江这种名迹吸引着每个人的眼球。很多其他地方努力成为世界遗产。 他们想要鼓励更加多的人去参观这些地方。比如，1998年位于中国北部的河南省的Luoyang市就花费了15亿来清理乡下以便能够上世界遗产的名单。那些陈旧的建筑物都被清理掉了。在闻名的龙门石窟周围栽满了树木和青草。这些沿着YI河山坡而存在的石窟被认为是中国三大石雕珍品之一。（另外两个是江苏敦煌的莫高窟和山西省的云冈石窟）。在2000年，龙门石窟被NUESCO列为世界遗产。 UNESCO has a rule that each country can apply for only one place to become a World Heritage Site each year. This means that it will take a long time for all the places in China trying to become Heritage Sites to succeed, but local governments should protect the ancient sites and encourage visitors to come and see them.UNESCO有一个规定，就是每个国家在一年之内只能申请一个地方为世界遗产。这就意味着中国所有的这些地方，要成功申遗的话，要很长一段时间。但是当地政府应该保护好那些遗迹同时鼓励游客来参观。、
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