ABSTRACT
Towns and cities have been one of the key areas where Chinese civilization is embodied. China has a history of urban development reaching back over 5,000 years. The heritage conservation system is new, both culturally and institutionally in China. The cultural heritage system was first adopted in the 1960s, while natural conservation was adopted earlier, in the 1950s. In 1961, the Chinese State Council issued the Temporal Regulation on Conservation of Cultural Relics. In the conservation of Chinese heritage, the first important factor may be to recognise the features of that particular heritage in cities, and then conservation can be agreed on and actions taken. Conservation is not a historical part of Chinese culture, as in the long civilisation process of China, especially in the recent modernisation process, cities have been largely destroyed and then reconstructed again and again.
