Council of Cultural Affairs Chairwoman Tchen Yu-chiou, who has been strongly promoting the World Heritage project in Taiwan, states: "The prerequisite to inclusion on the list is self-affirmation and conservation.
不因大小，不在遠近截至二○○二年六月底，全世界已經有一百七十個國家簽署世界遺產保護條約，而通過審核的世界遺產共有七百卅處。