A June, 2004 GHF Mission to Foguang Temple in the sacred Wutai Mountains in Shanxi province raised $320,000 in private funding to complete restoration, site conservation and planning of ‘The Fountainhead of Chinese Classical Architecture’. GHF Trustees for Global Heritage David and Cecilia Lee, Debbie Pao and the Feng Family, led private GHF funding for completion of China’s only remaining Tang Dynasty (9th Century) temple, the oldest wooden building in China. GHF secured equal matching funding from Shanxi Province and the Beijing Central government.

In 2004, Global Heritage Fund completed six major conservation projects and undertook four master conservation plans over the past six months. GHF also hosted the World Bank-sponsored Iraq Heritage Congress in Petra, Jordan and the 2004 Mirador Basin Summit in Washington DC. To date, GHF has raised $1.8 million in U.S. grants and funding, as well as $1.8 million in in-country matching funding. It is the support of our Trustees for Global Heritage and major foundations that make GHF’s international conservation success possible.