Some Thoughts About Protection And Management Of Hangzhou West Lake's "Post Application Time For World Heritage"

World heritage is the most valuable remains of natural history and human history. How to handle the relationship between heritage protection and development is a subject demanding long-term research. West Lake is the third world heritage cultural landscape of China. As for the cultural landscape, human's influence on the landscape is far larger than the landscape itself. What it emphasizes is the way that human maintains a harmonious relationship with landscape and integrates into the cultural background. West Lake is successfully included in the list of world heritage, highlighting that the factors undertaking ordinary values are shown in natural landscape of West Lake, the landscape pattern"two banks and three islands"integrating into and relying on it,"ten sceneries in West Lake", cultural& historical sites and distinctive plants in West Lake, and the characteristic of city-lake space demonstrated in"Yunshan side of the city on three sides". Cultural landscape heritage has three characteristics, that is, cultural landscape reflects the common creation by culture and nature, the integral value of system and entirety as well as long-term combination of continuity and interaction. Therefore, the protection of cultural landscape heritage shall not only prevent from damage to the cultural relics & historic sites and landscape scenery left through the history but also avoid emigrating people from the landscape site that may destroy the continuity of its"cultural ecological system".Different from ordinary resource of landscape tourism, the world heritage is featured with non-renewability, non-reproduction and irreversibility. Its rarity and fragility decides that only through strict and scientific protection, management and rational utilization can it exist permanently and be utilized continuously. Fundamentally, the core problem of heritage protection management lies in how to establish and form a mechanism and system beneficial to the protection and management of natural and cultural resources in heritage site, thus realizing"strict protection, rational development and continuous utilization". This paper analyzes six problems in the protection of cultural landscape heritage in West Lake, that is, limited margin of adjustment of land resource utilization; large pressure of construction; management and control; difficulty in relieving traffic pressure; great impact of tourism development to the production and life style of local residents; unbalanced distribution of service facilities and tourist capacity; and challenge faced by city-lake space. Based on the experience of protecting heritage in America, Canada and Japan, etc, this paper concludes that foreign advanced experiences are shown mainly in five aspects: efficient management system, complete legal system, scientific decision-making process, diversified fund resources and wide social participation. Besides, this paper provides five suggestions to strengthen the protection of cultural landscape of West Lake, that is, straighten out the management system, perfect heritage regulations, establish the alarm system, strengthen heritage monitoring, and work hard on heritage education.