Gansu

The Jade Gate Pass is also called the Small Square Tray City, known in Chinese as Xiaofangpancheng. Towering on a sandstone ridge some 100 kilometers to the northwest of Dunhuang .built of rammed yellow earth, is well kept with two gates opened at west and north, Standing 10 meters high with 3meters in width at the top […]

Situated at a strategic point along the Silk Route, at the crossroads of trade as well as religious, cultural and intellectual influences, the 492 cells and cave sanctuaries in Mogao are famous for their statues and wall paintings, spanning 1,000 years of Buddhist art. Carved into the cliffs above the Dachuan River, the Mogao Caves […]

Labrang monastery is one of the six great monasteries of the Geluk (Yellow Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism. Labrang is located in Xiahe County in Gansu province, and also considered to be in the traditional Tibetan area of Amdo. Labrang Monastery is home to the largest number of monks outside of Tibet Autonomous Region. Xiahe […]

Xiahe County (Chinese:夏河县; Tibetan:བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་།) is a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province, China, bordering Qinghai province to the west. The name (both Chinese and Tibetan), which literally means “Xia River”, refers to the Daxia River which runs through the county. It is home to the famed Labrang Tibetan Buddhist monastery, one of the […]

Tianshui, city, southeastern Gansu sheng (province), north-central China. It is situated along the Wei River and was historically an important place along the Silk Road, the great route westward from Chang’an (present-day Xi’an, Shaanxi province) to Central Asia and Europe. This route is today followed by a highway and by the Longhai Railway, which was […]

The city of Dunhuang, in north-west China, is situated at a point of vital strategic and logistical importance, on a crossroads of two major trade routes within the Silk Road network. Lying in an oasis at the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, Dunhuang was one of the first trading cities encountered by merchants arriving in […]

The nominated property is located in Zhangye City, Gansu Province, western China. Centered on Su’nan Yugur Autonomous County, it also extends slightly into Linze County and Ganzhou District. Overall, it lies in the transitional zone between the foreland fault belt on the northeastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Hexi Corridor, at the junction […]