The Asia-Pacific World Heritage Youth Forum in Beijing, China,
15-21 September 1997, will gather some 100 students and teachers
from 21 countries in the region. The objective is to involve
young people in World Heritage preservation and promotion
through discussions and creative workshops at the World Heritage
sites of The Great Wall, Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian and the
Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (Forbidden City).
Assuming the role of the archaeologist, conservator, manager,
etc. and divided into groups, the students will explore what it
takes to manage and conserve a heritage site. The teachers will
focus on how to teach about heritage, discussing the draft World
Heritage Education Kit, which is being prepared by UNESCO for
international distribution in 1998. The Kit will be an inter-
active tool for secondary-school teachers to use across the
curriculum to introduce the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage
Convention and to discover heritage in relation to environment,
peace, identity and touris