During the first quarter of 2017, the technical team of WHITRAP Beijing prepared four tentative list documents: Guancen-Luya Mountain, Taihang Mountain, Qinghai Lake, and The Coast of the Bohai Gulf and the Yellow Sea of China. The team also contributed to the preparation of the tentative list of Hulun Buir Landscape & Birthplace of Ancient Minority. All the tentative lists have been submitted to the World Heritage Center of UN- ESCO by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of People’s Republic of China on Feb. 28th, 2017.

All these nominated sites except for Qinghai Lake are located in the east and north China. Hulun Buir Land- scape & Birthplace of Ancient Minority is located at Northeast China. Guancen-Luya Mountain and Taihang Mountain are located at North China. Qinghai Lake is located at the north-eastern corner of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The Coast of the Bohai Gulf and the Yellow Sea of China are a series of inter-tidal flats, estuaries, is- lands, and rocky shores in the coast- line from Northeast China to East China. All these sites are located in the gap for world heritage, and fall into the priority areas for world heritage nomination recognized by the IUCN.