Photo taken on October 30 shows a herd of milu deer wandering around the wetland in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. (CFP Photo)

Yancheng was recognized as one of international wetland cities at the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP14) to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands on November 5, with its main venue in Wuhan City and a parallel session in Geneva, Switzerland.

Yancheng is home to 582 kilometers of coastline and 769,700 hectares of wetlands, the largest and best-preserved coastal wetlands on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. The city is one of the important migratory bird habitats in the world.

China's Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the coast of the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf (Phase I), located in Yancheng, were inscribed on the World Heritage List as a natural site on July 5, 2019 at a session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.