With the assistance of China world cultural heritage monitoring center, through the Intergovernmental Coordination Committee for the Nomination of World Heritage Sites of the Silk Roads and the transnational coordination secretariat, the ICOMOS  International Conservation Center-Xi’an (IICC-X), fruitful information management and capacity building activities have been carried out among the Chinese provinces and cities where the heritage sites are located, as well as among China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, especially in 2019,the SOC report was jointly compiled by China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan for the first time. In 2020, these three countries also jointly prepared the third cycle of periodic reporting. The Committee encourages the continued deepening of this coordination mechanism and also encourages the three countries to strengthen their cooperation with UNESCO Category II Centres such as the International Institute for Central Asia Studies (IICAS) and the International Center on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST), enhance heritage monitoring with new techniques.

    In accordance with the World Heritage Committee decision 41 COM 10 (Krakow, 2017), the Third Cycle of Periodic Report in the region of Asia and the Pacific is scheduled to be launched in October 2020. It was required that the States parties to submit the Periodic Report to the General Conference of UNESCO, through the World Heritage Committee, reports on the legal and administrative provisions adopted, as well as other actions taken to implement the World Heritage Convention, including the state of conservation (SOC) of World Heritage sites in their territories. Entrusted by China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as the contact body for the third cycle of periodic report of the Silk Roads: the Network from Chang'an -Tianshan Corridor, IICC-X carried out heritage investigation and data collection, coordination and integration the three countriesand to complete the relevant works.