湖南洪江古商城以其保存完好的古建筑群被譽為"中國第一古商城"。古商城地理位置優越、歷史悠久,城內建筑選址科學、布局合理,大街小巷靜謐優雅、古樸幽深,具有十分珍貴的歷史、科學、藝術價值。本文通過分析洪江古商城的保護現狀和管理水平,對古商城的各項指標進行評估,從而評價洪江古商城申報世界遺產的可行性。

Hunan Hongjiang Ancient Commercial City with its well preserved ancient buildings is known as "China's first ancient Commercial city". Hongjiang Ancient Commercial City with advantageous geographical locations has a long history. The city construction site selection is scientific and layout is reasonable. High streets and back lanes are quiet and deep. Hongjiang Ancient Commercial City has very precious historical, scientific, artistic value. Through the conservation present situation and management level analysis of Hongjiang Ancient Commercial City, to evaluate the indexes of ancient commercial city, we can evaluate the possibility of Hongjiang Ancient City declared world heritage.