Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 94 4th International Conference on Economy, Judicature, Administration and Humanitarian Projects (JAHP 2019) Study on the Cultural Value of the World Heritage of Salt Industry* Linxi Yang Kongmeng Li Guangdong Mechanical & Electrical Polytechnic Sichuan Jiangxin Shuyun Culture and Creative Co., Ltd Guangzhou, China Chengdu, China 610065 Abstract—The world's three major salt world heritage [2] [3] [4] [5] conducted archaeological studies on Hainan projects are Poland's Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mine, Danzhou Eman Yanding Village, Laizhou Bay Area, Lubei- France's Ark-Sennan Royal Saltwork and Austria's Jiaodong salt industry area and other areas, and found many Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape. This paper combines the relevant facts about the salt industry. The rich salt resources three salt world heritage projects with the United Nations and long history of salt production from the eastern World Heritage Assessment Standards to analyze the Chongqing to the Three Gorges Area have an important authenticity and irreplaceability of the cultural values of the impact on the development of local economic culture. He three projects. On the registration criteria, the three major salt believed that salt industry archaeology is the basis of other industry heritages were mainly selected through the cultural research in the salt industry and provides important clues to heritage Article iv; from the geographical perspective, the other research related to the salt industry. In terms of the three projects are located in Europe. The salt industry heritage has a large number of cultural relics in other states, especially relationship between the salt industry and the economy, Li in China. It needs to be systematically and intensively Xiaobo [6] analyzed the relationship between the salt integrated with the international standards, making the salt industry and its economy in the Three Gorges Area. In terms industry heritage an important part of the world heritage and of salt industry resources and cultural influence, Cheng displaying unique salt culture values. Longgang [7] [8] found that salt and Ba Culture have a close relationship in the investigation of salt resources in the Three Keywords—Salt Industry World Heritage; Wieliczka and Gorges Area. He also pointed out that salt is an important Bochnia Royal Salt Mine; Alk-Sennan Royal Saltwork; Hallstatt- cohesive factor in the formation of ancient Chinese culture; Dartstein Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape; organic evolution salt is an extremely important driving factor for the landscape; associated landscape development of ancient Chinese culture; the salt resources of the Three Gorges Areas is an important cause of the demise I. INTRODUCTION of the Ba Culture. Lin Wenxun [9] believed that although a village has changed from a village dominated by salt The salt industry heritage belongs to the mining heritage, industry to a village dominated by mountain agriculture, it and the mining heritage belongs to the industrial heritage should also take a new tourist road of salt well village culture. category. The study of the salt industry heritage can be Regarding the relationship between salt industry heritage and started from the industrial heritage. According to the Nizhny tourism, Li Xiaobo [10] believes that the tourism Tajir Industrial Heritage Charter, industrial heritage is "an development of ancient salt industry sites should be cultural industrial cultural heritage with historical, technical, social, interpretation of the heritage site; museums should show the architectural or scientific value", including "building protection of heritage sites and tourism education functions; complexes and machines, workshops and factories, mines, it is necessary to develop scientific thematic tourism, and processing and refining sites, stores and warehouses, reflecting the essence of industrial heritage; and it is also sites for energy generation, transportation and use, necessary to work with companies to combine the brand transportation and all its foundations, and sites for related image of existing products with sales. Chen Qian and Wang industrial social activities (such as residence, religion or Quankang [11] after studying the ancient salt industry culture education)" [1]. It can be seen that mining heritage is an of Bayu, believed that the development of the tourism value integral part of industrial heritage. In the World Heritage List, of the ancient salt cultural heritage can promote the the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland was nominated for the sustainable development of the Bayu economy, improve the first batch of world cultural heritage in 1978, which shows image of the regional city and promote the flourishing the status of the salt industry heritage in the industrial development of cultural tourism of the Bayu region, heritage. achieving a win-win situation for the protection and So far, the domestic research results on salt have focused development of the Bayu salt industry. After studying the on the archaeological aspects of salt industry. Li Shuicheng development of sea salt cultural tourism in Weifang, Zhang Junyang and Yin Yingmei [12] thought that in the process of *Fund: This article is the research achievement of the 2019 studying sea salt culture, people should pay attention to the Guangdong Mechanical & Electrical Polytechnic College-level Teaching interaction between sea salt cultural tourism and fishery folk and Research Project — "Cultural Value Research of Salt Industry World Heritage". Fund No.: YJYB2019-32 tourism. Liu Yanqun [13] believed that in the development Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). 120 Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 94 of salt tourism resources, special attention should be paid to areas landscape and historical perspectives to explore the correctly handling the relationship between the construction challenges of mining heritage protection; through the local and development of cities and towns and the protection of movements launched by the lower levels to promote, realize salt culture tourism resources. Regarding the development and even lead the protection and reuse of heritage operations. and protection of salt industry sites in China, Cheng [17] [18] In terms of the declaration and protection of world Longgang [14] believed that for the protection and utilization heritage and China's mining heritage, some scholars believe of salt cultural heritage in Zigong City, it is clear that not that the world's mining heritage has been extremely severely only it's necessary to maintain the salt cultural resources but imbalanced in terms of its scope, time distribution and also the salt cultural heritage of Zigong City should be characteristics. Under the background of the "global utilized. People can develop salt culture heritage by focusing strategy", China should strengthen the study of theory and on building salt cultural heritage tourism projects and using realize the framework of its own heritage discourse. When modern information technology. Wu Huayu, Zhang Xue, and applying for world heritage, people should base themselves Que Weimin [15] believed that the maintenance of the salt on the current state of Chinese heritage, consciously lean industry in Zigong City should go beyond the existing point towards the mining heritage, and contribute to the distribution and develop into a "point driving line, line construction of a balanced, representative and credible world making up surface" situation to build a city salt heritage heritage list while complementing the gaps in the world's resource system, build a combination of static protection and mining heritage. [19] [20]. dynamic protection, closed protection and development protection, and use text annotation, picture exhibition, The above research covers the review of the salt industry, physical display, physical experience and other ways to build the development, research and protection of specific salt museums, conservation areas, theme parks or blocks, industry sites in China, the review of mining heritage, the building the whole city into a living museum of salt industry discussion of mining heritage, world heritage and tourism heritage. Some scholars also have some analysis of the development research, and even the protection of Japanese temporal and spatial distribution of China's mining heritage mining heritage. However, there has been no in-depth study from the perspective of cultural relics protection units, and on the declared world heritage sites of salt industry: why believe that mineral resources should be effectively protected they can be included in the world heritage list, what value [16]. Some scholars have studied the protection of Japanese they have, and which conditions they meet. Therefore, the mining heritage in neighboring countries and noted that the author believes that in-depth study of the world heritage of method of the protection of the mining heritage in Japan is: the salt industry from the perspective of world heritage, from the perspective of recycling, to highlight the new understanding the international trend of the world heritage of functions of the abandoned mining heritage by the design of salt industry, can better guide the world heritage declaration reuse, and thus to obtain the funds and meanings of of China's many salt industry heritages,