Since the 1950 s,the concepts of ''''heritage'''' and ''''cultural heritage'''' have undergone significant modification and extension both in terms of connotation and denotation.Such a process highlights the international community’s efforts to further safeguard cultural heritage by respecting and promoting cultural diversity and human creativity.It is also directly related to UNESCO’s continual development of multilateral norms in the cultural sphere.In this context,the safeguarding of cultural heritage in countries and regions along the routes of the traditional Silk Road has been endowed with significance beyond culture.A review of UNESCO’s introduction of relevant conventions and the cultural heritage categories it safeguards,along with an analysis of the ICH(intangible cultural heritage) items,indicates that cultural diversity-enabled promotion of shared human legacy does not only concern the cultural sphere,but also has an increasingly profound correlation with the sustainable development of human society.Moreover,this cause is also a research field worth in-depth observation and summarization in discourse system construction and cultural heritage safeguarding in the Belt and Road context.
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