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Experts, decision-makers and practitioners at the Mount Huangshan dialogue meeting in Huangshan City, China, 26-30 May 2014.

Sincerely thank HIST (international natural and cultural heritage space technology center), AIR (Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences), UNESCO, Mount Huangshan Scenic Area Management Committee and Wudalianchi Scenic Area Management Committee jointly held the Mount Huangshan dialogue conference. This is the use of the potential contribution of space technology, the first meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage, World Biosphere Reserve and World Geopark protection and sustainable development held; and the government of Huangshan City to continue to support the hope in Chinese most precious world heritage, shared human spiritual home dialogue will desire;

Thanks to the delegates to share their introduction and theoretical innovation and practical exploration, including the Mount Huangshan Scenic Area Management Committee in the practice of sustainable development internationalization efforts, namely, to promote the protection of biological and geological diversity, respect for cultural diversity, enhance visitor experience and popularize scientific knowledge to the public and tourists, to the community residents and improve the level of community life;

To teach the biosphere area and the world geological park UNESCO World Heritage and protection as the place to learn the potential for development of natural and cultural heritage protection of the sustainable development strategy and action plan to improve the community's social and economic life level, strengthen international cooperation in technology transfer, share experiences and lessons learned;

That day air ground remote sensing and geographic information system and other application technologies, these technologies can be used to reconstruct and understand the history and the change of environment, modeling and forecasting future may influence factors of UNESCO list of heritage protection education; spatial data can also be used in near real time acquisition of UNESCO list of heritage for a list of heritage and the surrounding area, planning, identification, monitoring and archiving, sustainable management, for 3D imaging, restoration, landscape planning and conservation project etc.;

Emphasis is placed on the importance of establishing strong relations between heritage managers and space technology managers, researchers and practitioners in the UNESCO directory, to deal with specific problems encountered in the protection and sustainable development and improve the ability to solve problems.

The importance of helping members convenient and timely access to geospatial data and information, in the identification, management and protection of UNESCO list of heritage, promote sustainable development and enhance the ability of construction, focus on the identified management, conservation and sustainable development work challenges.

The governing body for UNESCO, especially its executive board, the World Heritage Committee, the mAb International Coordinating Committee and the world geoparks network executive board, in the United Nations and other international organizations in the promotion of space technology, in the promotion of UNESCO list of heritage protection and management, promote the sustainable development of advantage and, after the 2015 World Heritage list as the first place development agenda;

The World Heritage Centre and World Heritage conference advisory body, man and the Biosphere Programme secretariat and the world geological park network, --AIR and HIST and relying on agencies to carry out pilot projects in UNESCO countries, play an important role in exhibition space to solve specific problems encountered by UNESCO list of heritage and the surrounding areas of protection, management and sustainable development. In response and the;

UNESCO should systematically assess the UNESCO, the European Space Agency jointly launched the "World Heritage Convention on the use of space technology to support the open plan" results, to explore how to further strengthen the open plan, the UNESCO list of heritage as an important place to use, to provide support for the realization of the goal of sustainable development after 2015;

UNESCO should make further efforts to the world heritage, World Biosphere Reserve and world geological park location for sustainable research and education places, and invited HIST, AIR and other work with the UNESCO list of heritage institutions of cooperation, create a cooperation mechanism, so that in the list of heritage discovery, protection, management and sustainable the development work, better sharing of technology products and tools and its application;

HIST and AIR strengthen cooperation with the advisory bodies of the World Heritage Convention, and promote the application of space technology in the discovery, evaluation, monitoring and management of world natural and cultural heritage sites.

HIST and AIR and other appropriate partners, the development of strategic planning, to help the less developed member countries, especially developing countries, to carry out scientific research, capacity building and technology transfer and development, management and sustainable development in support of UNESCO list of heritage protection, the use of space technology, tube.


May 29, 2014

In Huangshan City, Anhui, China