UNESCO World Heritage: What porcelain shards reveal about Jingdezhen
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UNESCO World Heritage: What porcelain shards reveal about Jingdezhen
For more than a thousand years, Jingdezhen has shaped how the world understands porcelain. Now, with its porcelain industry sites newly inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, CGTN presents: What the Shards Remember.
Jingdezhen World Heritage listing highlights China's commitment to preserving cultural legacy
For generations, porcelain makers in Jingdezhen have worked through a sequence of highly specialized tasks: preparing clay, shaping vessels, painting designs, applying glaze, and firing kilns.
The inclusion of China's Jingdezhen Handcrafted Porcelain Industrial Areas on the UNESCO World Heritage List has generated significant interest among Turkish ceramic artists and academics. Experts note that the origins of İznik ceramics lie in China's blue-and-white porcelain, and that cultural and academic cooperation between İznik and Jingdezhen, which became sister cities in 2021, is steadily strengthening.
What makes China's Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites a landmark UNESCO World Heritage entry
Tourists select ceramic products in Jingdezhen, east China’s Jiangxi Province, July 16, 2026. (Xinhua/Zhou Mi) BUSAN, South Korea | Xinhua | China’s serial heritage nomination Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites secured inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List at the 48th World Heritage Committee session in Busan on Saturday, marking the country’s first complete handicraft porcelain production system to earn global cultural he…
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