Diqing -Plateau Wonderland

DEEP in the snowy mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, legend recalls, is a blessed valley in the shape of an eight-petal lotus. Spectacular snowcapped mountains, steep gorges and alpine meadows sprinkled with wildflowers are found here. It is Shangri-La in Yunnan Province＇s Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.     

Building Nanjing at High Qrality and Upgrading a New Image in a Leaping Manner——An Interview with Mr.Dai Yongning,Vice Mayor of Nanjing City

Nanjing has a history of over 2, 470 years and is one of the four ancient cities in China. It is famous for its beautiful mountains, rivers and its history for an ancient capital of six dynasties.Nanjing is surrounded by mountains, lakes and rivers. Its mountains, lakes, rivers, and forest are integrated into a whole body and the city is noted for its excellent physical geographical     

Tibetan New Year Celebration at Labrang Monastery

LABRANG Monastery is a place hidden high in the hills southwest of Lanzhou in Gansu Province. Nestling at an altitude of almost 3000 meters amid surrounding mountains, and lying on the northern banks of the Daxia River, Labrang is centermost in the small …     

Exploring Shangri-La

THERE is a mystical ex-panse of snow-capped mountains on the eastern slopes of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in west-ern China.     

Protecting the Environment as a Way of Life

LAQIAO is a tiny village in the karstic mountains of Libo. Its 96 Shui residents in their community of 20 households decided,     

Should Poor Students Have Luxury Schooling?

It is called the most beautiful Hope school in China. Located at the foot of the mountains of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality,the primary school has a sweeping view of the     

Tujia Song and Dance

CHANGYANG is a Tujia ethnic autonomous county. It is also cradle of the ancient Ba Civilization of the Yangtze River Valley in the southwestern mountains of Hubei Province. The Tujia community's rich folklore gives visitors a glimpse of its ancient civilization.     

Mount Wudang——Abode of Immortals and a Martial Monk

CHINESE mythology tells of the perilous sea voy- ages by Chinese ancestors in search of the penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou mountains whereT aoist immortals dwelt. Mount Wudang is one of China’s Taoist mountains that actually exists. It is the mainspring of a wealth of legends that have been told for 2,000 years. abode of immortals The Chinese character xian consists of the radical (element of a character that conveys its meaning) representing a person on the left and the character for …     

Huashan,the Mountain for the Strong-Nerved

Huashan Mountain in Shaanxi Province is one of the top f ive mountains in China. It is distinguished from others for its perilous cliffs and strangely shaped     

Bassom Lake-Switzerland in Tibet

Nyingchi in South East Tibet is an area of spectacular natural beauty. For millions of years massive geological forces have slowly pushed up jagged fold mountains against the solid mass of the Tibet Plateau.     

SOCIETY

正Cosmic Observation An observatory for detecting cosmic rays under construction in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.The project,known as LHAASO,is located in the mountains at the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at an average altitude of 4,410meters.     

Xiong Qinghua—Mayor and Scholar

Editor: Baoshan is a frontier city in western Yunnan Province on the Myanmar border.It was formerly one of the Southwestern Silk Road trade routes. Nestled among mountains, Baoshan is green as far as the     

The Sudden Mountains of Yangshuo

AFTER the clogged roads of Beijing that I’d left behind three hours previously, the hour’s drive speeding along 66 km of road from Guilin in northeastern Guangxi to the picturesque county of Yangshuo was a dream. The strange Karst topography of the area is made up of distinctive upright mountains that rise suddenly from flat-bottomed valleys. Already breathtaking in Guilin, the views grew stranger and more stunning as we rushed towards Yangshuo. Only when we arrived in the county did I truly understand the truth behind the pervasive Chinese saying, "Guilin has the best rivers and mountains, but those of Yangshuo eclipse them all."     

FOLK ARTS-CHINA 2002

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA is thethird largest country in the world in terms ofarea and the largest in terms of population. Itstotal area is 9.6 million square kilometers andits population is 1.3 billion. China is a country with long-standing his-tory and natural scenery that includes magnifi-cent mountains and rivers. With its thousands     

A Checklist of Aid Distribution

Getting the mountains of earthquake relief supplies from the point of arrival at Shuangliu Airport,a major distribution hub for domestic and international aid provision in Chengdu, capital of quake-hit Sichuan Province,to the far reaches of the devastated countryside is no mean feat.It is a systematic process that     

Small City in the Mountains

CHENZHOU is a small scenic city in the mountains and a major stop on the Beijing-GuangzhouRailway. The recently opened Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway and National Highway No. 107 pass through the city, and it is only a four hour drive to Guangzhou and Changsha. Since opening of the Guangdong-Hunan segment of the     

Wonders Out of Stone Cracks

正Guizhou Province has explored quite a few efficient ways to deal with stony desertification Located in the southwest of China, Guizhou Province is at the center of the country's karst regions. Jagged mountains of limestone and other     

A Countryside Education

<正>Government introduces new measures to support struggling rural teachersIn the heart of the mountains in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of central China’s Hubei Province lies Liufeng Village.Liufeng Primary School,where Huang Jiaju works,is located in the village,which is more than 1,100 meters above sea level.     

China at Eye Level

It seems, with the current state of technolog-ical advances and continual development of infrastructure, that almost every corner of the world is now accessible by some means of transport. Air travel means that a journey that would have previously taken weeks is now shortened to a matter of hours. For me to reach China from my home in the middle of the United States would have seemed borderline impossible without flying. Now, however, it takes less than 24 hours from leaving my house in the mountains of Colorado to walking in the front door of my urban residence in Beijing. However, while convenience may abound, the enchantment of such expedited travel is largely left wanting.