Beijing eyes Unesco status for Mao tomb and Tiananmen Square


Beijing: Beijing wants to have Mao Zedong’s Mausoleum and Tiananmen Square, powerful and controversial symbols of Chinese communist might, inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage List, official media reported.

The Chinese capital wants to apply for 14 sites in total to receive Unesco World Heritage status by 2035, the state-run Global Times quoted city official Shu Xiaofeng as saying yesterday.

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