Mr. Diego Salmeron will be speaking on the
Shaxi Rehabilitation Project in China
The Shaxi Valley is located in the south-eastern part of Jianchuan County in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, China. The historical marketplace in Sideng, the capital of the Shaxi Valley, is probably the last existing stopover of the Tea and Horse Caravan Trail, which connected Tibet, Yunnan and Southeast Asia in the past. In 2001, the Shaxi Marketplace was entered into the List of the Worldâs 100 Most Endangered Sites by the World Monument Fund (WMF). In the first two years after being listed by the WMF, the Shaxi Rehabilitation Project was set up as a preservation project with the help of the local government and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The third step of the Shaxi Rehabilitation Project, which started in 2007, was strongly supported by LEP Consultants AG in the following fields:
- Restoration work in the Xingjiao temple
- Strategies for regional economic development
- Management support
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