The Ancestral Shrines Cultural Landscape around Huishan Mountain of Wuxi (Taihu Lake) has been nominated to the World Heritage Tentative List of China earlier this year.The proposed protection boundary encloses the cultural landscape areas in 57.4 ha.and the buffer zone is 2138.4 ha..The cultural landscape was built from the middle age of China in a complex context constructed by natural landscapes,farmlands,urban areas and regional cultural route (the Grand Canal).Property of the cultural landscape integrated architecture,gardens,natural settings as well as the attached cultural backgrounds of the constructions and landscapes,such as the tradition or history of families or clans,stories an myths of scholars,celebrities,heroes and immortals,ritual or traditional activities,educational programmes,religions,tea and wine culture,music,and so on.In order to prepare application documents for World Heritage site in the near future,the local government is launching a five-year research plan program including site surveying,historic,social and architectural analyses,conservation planning,heritage management,and so on.The authors research team is in-charging the data acquisition part of the earlier stage of this research program.In order to organizing collected data for better supporting to the further heritage research,planning and management,the research team proposes an extended database based on geographic information system (GIS).