Dunhuang Tourism Guide

 Dunhuang is known as "Dunhuang of mankind", "Dunhuang of the world", "Dunhuang of culture" because of the Mogao Grottoes, a World Heritage Site, which is not only the honor of Dunhuang, but also the pride of the motherland. Dunhuang is located in the west corridor of the river.
      Dunhuang is located in the westernmost part of the Hexi Corridor, at the junction of Gan, Qing and Xin provinces, with a total area of 31,200 square kilometers and a total population of 200,000. 1979, Dunhuang was listed by the State Council as the first batch of cities open to the outside world 1986, Dunhuang was named by the State Council as "China's Famous Historical and Cultural Cities" In 1998, Dunhuang was named the first batch of China's excellent tourist cities, and in recent years, it was awarded the title of "World Branding City" by the China 29... In recent years, Dunhuang has been honored as one of China's 29 "Moving World Brand Cities", one of the country's eight "National Tourism Business Card" cities, one of the "Citizen's Most Satisfied Cities", and one of the "Best Ecotourism Destinations in China". It is also one of the "Best Eco-tourism Destinations in China". One of the "2008 China Charming Small and Medium-sized Cities", "60th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China - China's Best Cultural Tourism City", "Internationally Famous Tourist destination", "2010 Ten Excellent Cities of Fine Cultural Tourism Routes", "China's Most Internationally Influential Tourist Destination", and in 2011, it was honored as one of "China's Top Ten Cities for Tourism", "China's Top Ten Cities for Tourism", and "China's Top Ten Cities for Tourism". Tourism City", "China's Best Eco-tourism Destination", "Most Popular Tourism Destination", "National Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism Demonstration County" and so on. "Dunhuang, the Han Ying Shao interpretation of the title.

      Dunhuang, explained by Han Ying Shao as "Dun, big; Huang, prosperous", takes the meaning of openness and tolerance, prosperity. The word Dunhuang highly summarizes her glorious history and indicates her bright future.
      Dunhuang since the Han Emperor "four counties, according to the two passes" began, she has gone through more than two thousand years of vicissitudes of the years. Looking back at history, due to the opening of the Silk Road, so that Dunhuang has become an international metropolis of the Han and Tang dynasties, as if today's Shanghai, Hong Kong. According to historical records, the Lantern Festival was "the first in Chang'an, the second in Dunhuang, and the third in Yangzhou", which shows the prosperity of Dunhuang at that time. The Silk Road from Chang'an through Dunhuang out of Yangguan, Yumen Pass and through the Middle East and West, is a link of economic and cultural exchanges. The ambassadors, merchants, scholars, monks, artists from all over the world gathered at Dunhuang, and wrote a magnificent chapter of economic and cultural exchanges between the East and the West, making a great contribution to human civilization.
      Dunhuang has a rich cultural heritage and peculiar natural scenery. In this ancient and young land, with all kinds of cultural relics attractions a total of more than 241, of which three national key cultural relics protection units (Mogao Grottoes, Yumen Pass, hanging spring site), 9 provincial cultural relics protection units, municipal cultural relics protection units of 35, 4A attractions of 3 (Mingsha Mountain - Crescent Springs, Yangguan, Yadan National Geopark), 3A attractions 4 (Dunhuang Film and Television City, Sanqi Mountain, Dunhuang Night Market, Tonghuang). Dunhuang Film City, Three Dangerous Mountains, Dunhuang Night Market, Tongzhou Island), many cultural relics and landscapes recount to us the prosperity and prosperity of Dunhuang in the past. The world-famous Mogao Grottoes, with 735 caves, 45,000 square meters of murals, and 2,415 colorful clay sculptures, is the world's largest and richest existing Buddhist art shrine. The Yulin Grottoes and the West Thousand Buddha Caves are part of Dunhuang's grotto art, while the Mingsha Mountain - Moon Spring and Yadan Landscape are unique natural landscapes in the Gobi Desert, glaciers, snow-capped mountains, desert, Gobi, wetlands, grasslands, poplars and a large number of wildlife constitute another beautiful picture scroll of Dunhuang. Numerous places of interest, natural scenery and colorful folk customs, making Dunhuang today's golden section of the Silk Road and famous tourist city. In the National Tourism Administration launched 35 "absolute, strange, beautiful, winning" Chinese tourism ace attractions "Silk Road Dunhuang" is known as "China's one of the five best.
      Dunhuang tourism infrastructure is improving, there are 137 hotels and restaurants (30 star hotels), with a total of more than 16,000 beds, 64 travel agencies, more than 1,000 tour buses, 1,063 tour guides (covering the English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and other 8 languages), and more than 17,000 tourism employees. Dunhuang in history, is the ancient Silk Road transportation hub, today's Dunhuang, highway, aviation, railroads in all directions, into a benign development track. Dunhuang is not only a collection of east and west, north and south of all kinds of food and snacks, and a wide range of tourist art souvenirs and local souvenirs, can greatly meet the needs of Chinese and foreign tourists.
      Dunhuang is a beautiful "Gobi Oasis", fertile land, rich in produce, Gansu is one of the main source of grain, cotton, fruits and vegetables. Dunhuang produced grapes, Li Guang apricot, purple rouge peach, Mingshan jujube, Dunhuang melon high sugar content, known far and wide. Dunhuang is also a pot of gold, silver, vanadium, iron, phosphorus, sulfur, asbestos, manganese, etc., of which vanadium reserves ranked fourth in the country. Dunhuang is rich in light and heat resources, is one of the highest solar radiation in the country, 3257.9 hours of sunshine throughout the year, in 2010, Dunhuang City was identified as the country's first one million kilowatts of solar photovoltaic power generation demonstration base in 2011 was included in the country's second batch of new energy demonstration city. At the same time, Dunhuang is rich in wind energy resources, and is an ideal area for wind power generation. 2012, 250,000 kilowatts of wind power settled in Dunhuang.
      Flying sky flowers and rain, guests from afar. Hospitable sons and daughters of the flying sky open arms, warmly welcome friends from afar and insightful people to come to sightseeing tours, investment and entrepreneurship, hand in hand to create a new brilliant Dunhuang!

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