Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China

Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is located in the southwest of Gansu Province. With a vast land, the prefecture is crisscrossed by rivers, and features diverse and unique landforms and terrains, and an intense religious atmosphere. It boasts abundant resources of tourism, livestock, minerals, Tibetan and Chinese medicines and clean energy. In recent years, the prefecture has carried out five development strategies, i.e., creating an eco-friendly prefecture, achieving prosperity through tourism, promoting culture, prospering with industry development and maintaining social stability”, and accelerated the pace of developing an advanced eco-culture demo zone and eco-friendly modernization. Focused on the scheme of “integrating urban and rural development, building a beautiful and happy Gannan and setting up a major industry of all-for-one tourism”, the prefecture has taken vigorous effort to develop rural tourism and effectively pressed ahead with targeted poverty alleviation, creating jobs for 21,500 people. 479 registered poor households and 43,000 people in the prefecture have shaken off poverty through rural tourism, realizing a per capita annual income of 29,300 RMB. 

Photos

  • 图片10_副本920.pngZagana Village, YiwaTown, Diebu County
  • 图片11_副本920.pngLeisure street in Guanjie Village, Zhiliguan Town, Lintan County
  • 图片12_副本920.pngGaxiu Tibetan Village, Luqu County
  • 图片13_副本920.pngPanorama of Gaxiu Tibetan Village, Luqu County
  • 图片14_副本920.pngTents in Gaxiu Tibetan Village, Luqu County
  • 图片15_副本920.pngAwancang wetland in Quma County
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Scenic Spots in Surrounding Areas

  • 4、甘肃甘南.jpg Gansu Province 1.Mingshashan (Sounding Sand Dunes) and Crescent Moon Spring 2.Mogao Grottoes 3.Jiayuguan Pass
  • 鸣沙山月牙泉风景名胜区.jpg Mingshashan (Sounding Sand Dunes) and Crescent Moon Spring are located 5 kilometers south of Dunhuang city, Gansu province. Mingshashan is so named because of the sound produced by the moving sand which forms sand dunes with red, yellow, green, white and black hues. Crescent Moon Spring is surrounded by sounding sand dunes and its shape resembles a crescent moon.
  • 莫高窟.jpg Mogao Grottoes, located in Dunhuang City at the western end of Hexi Corridor, Gansu Province and built during the Sixteen Kingdoms period prior to the Qin Dynasty, have 735 caves containing 45,000 square meters of frescoes and 2,415 colored clay sculptures. As the largest existing site with the richest Buddhist art in the world and one of the three major grottoes in China, Mogao Grottoes was inscribed as World Cultural Heritage Site in 1987.
  • 嘉峪关.jpg Jiayuguan Pass, located in the middle of the narrowest valley 5 kilometers west of Jiayuguan City, Gansu Province, is the western most pass of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, and a strategic outpost on the ancient "Silk Road". Listed as a World Cultural Heritage Site, Jayuguan Pass is one of the three main spectacles of the Great Wall of China.

Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China

Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is located in the southwest of Gansu Province. With a vast land, the prefecture is crisscrossed by rivers, and features diverse and unique landforms and terrains, and an intense religious atmosphere. It boasts abundant resources of tourism, livestock, minerals, Tibetan and Chinese medicines and clean energy. In recent years, the prefecture has carried out five development strategies, i.e., creating an eco-friendly prefecture, achieving prosperity through tourism, promoting culture, prospering with industry development and maintaining social stability”, and accelerated the pace of developing an advanced eco-culture demo zone and eco-friendly modernization. Focused on the scheme of “integrating urban and rural development, building a beautiful and happy Gannan and setting up a major industry of all-for-one tourism”, the prefecture has taken vigorous effort to develop rural tourism and effectively pressed ahead with targeted poverty alleviation, creating jobs for 21,500 people. 479 registered poor households and 43,000 people in the prefecture have shaken off poverty through rural tourism, realizing a per capita annual income of 29,300 RMB. 

Photos

图片10_副本920.png Zagana Village, YiwaTown, Diebu County
图片11_副本920.png Leisure street in Guanjie Village, Zhiliguan Town, Lintan County
图片12_副本920.png Gaxiu Tibetan Village, Luqu County
图片13_副本920.png Panorama of Gaxiu Tibetan Village, Luqu County
图片14_副本920.png Tents in Gaxiu Tibetan Village, Luqu County
图片15_副本920.png Awancang wetland in Quma County

Scenic Spots in Surrounding Areas

4、甘肃甘南.jpg Gansu Province 1.Mingshashan (Sounding Sand Dunes) and Crescent Moon Spring 2.Mogao Grottoes 3.Jiayuguan Pass
鸣沙山月牙泉风景名胜区.jpg Mingshashan (Sounding Sand Dunes) and Crescent Moon Spring are located 5 kilometers south of Dunhuang city, Gansu province. Mingshashan is so named because of the sound produced by the moving sand which forms sand dunes with red, yellow, green, white and black hues. Crescent Moon Spring is surrounded by sounding sand dunes and its shape resembles a crescent moon.
莫高窟.jpg Mogao Grottoes, located in Dunhuang City at the western end of Hexi Corridor, Gansu Province and built during the Sixteen Kingdoms period prior to the Qin Dynasty, have 735 caves containing 45,000 square meters of frescoes and 2,415 colored clay sculptures. As the largest existing site with the richest Buddhist art in the world and one of the three major grottoes in China, Mogao Grottoes was inscribed as World Cultural Heritage Site in 1987.
嘉峪关.jpg Jiayuguan Pass, located in the middle of the narrowest valley 5 kilometers west of Jiayuguan City, Gansu Province, is the western most pass of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, and a strategic outpost on the ancient "Silk Road". Listed as a World Cultural Heritage Site, Jayuguan Pass is one of the three main spectacles of the Great Wall of China.