China's national heritage sites

The Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level 全国重点文物保护单位 are the 5,058 ancient sites, tombs, buildings, grottoes and rock carvings, and modern historic places that the State Council has protected since 1961, in eight batches. The atlas carries a card for each one that a visitor can actually see, listed by city on every region's page.

Protected sites: 5,058as of 2019-10-10
Batches: 81961 to 2019
Ancient architecture: 2,162
Ancient sites: 1,189
Modern historic sites: 944
Ancient tombs: 420
Grottoes and rock carvings: 314
Other: 27

By province

Region	Protected sites	On the atlas
Beijing	134	104
Tianjin	33	33
Hebei	286	219
Shanxi	530	491
Inner Mongolia	147	82
Liaoning	143	102
Jilin	93	45
Heilongjiang	56	33
Shanghai	40	39
Jiangsu	249	183
Zhejiang	279	242
Anhui	173	134
Fujian	169	143
Jiangxi	159	133
Shandong	224	142
Henan	419	285
Hubei	168	114
Hunan	227	173
Guangdong	130	118
Guangxi	81	68
Hainan	35	26
Chongqing	64	51
Sichuan	261	218
Guizhou	80	64
Yunnan	169	123
Tibet	70	54
Shaanxi	268	159
Gansu	150	100
Qinghai	50	40
Ningxia	36	29
Xinjiang	133	96

The eight batches

Batch	Year	Sites
1	1961	180
2	1982	62
3	1988	258
4	1996	250
5	2001	518
6	2006	1,080
7	2013	1,943
8	2019	762

Sources: the State Council's notices for each batch and the National Cultural Heritage Administration's database; a site's own page names the batch it was listed in where known.