Jingdezhen's 'handcrafted porcelain industry remains' were successfully inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list, Huanqiu reported—an achievement described as filling the list's long-vacant 'ceramics' field.

Called the 'millennium porcelain capital,' Jingdezhen has long been a center of porcelain making. The survival of the whole production chain—kiln sites, workshops and raw-material sources—was highly valued.

Inscription is a process of international recognition of a site's universal value, and it also confers responsibility for preservation and management. Local government now faces balancing tourism and conservation.

Porcelain was a signature medium of East Asian cultural exchange, long influencing and influenced by ceramic traditions in Korea, Japan and elsewhere. Chinese communities in Korea take considerable interest in it.

The inscription is expected to draw more visitors and researchers to Jingdezhen, with the transmission of traditional techniques alongside modern use a key question ahead.

We present the value of cultural heritage from the perspective of shared human heritage, not the superiority of any one country.