CHONGQING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) Over 100 cultural heritage conservation experts and scholars from home and abroad recently gathered in southwest China's Chongqing for a forum which focused on cave temple conservation. The first International Forum on Cave Temple Conservation was held from Aug. 19 to 21 in Chongqing's Dazu District, home to the renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site Dazu Rock Carvings. The Dazu Declaration on Cave Temple Conservation in the Context of Climate Change was issued on
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Southwest China s Chongqing Municipality boasts around 100,000 rock carvings that date back to more than a thousand years ago. They are scattered in various corners of the bustling mountainous city, with nearly half of the preserved sites in Dazu, a suburb about 50 kilometers from the city center. The Dazu Rock Carvings were listed as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site in 1999.