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Chengdu
Chengdu,
capital of Sichuan Province is China's important
industrial base, covering an area of 12,390
square kilometers and with a population of 9.4
million.
It's
also a famous Chinese historical and cultural
city, endowed with unique natural conditions
and beautiful environment.
Jiuzhaigou - Nine-Village
Valley
 Jiuzhaigou
is a narrow strip of lowland, four hundred kilometers
long, in the Minshan Mountain Range in Nanping
County, northeast Sichuan. It got its name because
there are nine Tibetan villages in the valley.
As it is a remote place with unusually charming
scenery and few inhabitants, it is often called
the "wonderland on earth." The valley,
surrounded by snow-capped mountains, is covered
with luxuriant primitive forests and dotted
by more than a hundred lakes and ponds of various
sizes. The valley is home to a great variety
of plants and rare animals, such as the giant
panda, lesser panda, golden monkey, and antelope.More...
 The
Dazu Rock Carvings
The steep hillsides of the
Dazu area contain an exceptional series of rock
carvings dating from the 9th to the 13th century.
They are remarkable for their aesthetic quality,
their rich diversity of subject matter, both
secular and religious, and the light that they
shed on everyday life in China during this period.
They provide outstanding evidence of the harmonious
synthesis of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism.more...
Yangtze River Gorges
The Yangtze River, originating
on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, flows through
seven provinces, an autonomous region and a
municipality before it enters the East China
Sea. It is the largest river in China and the
third largest in the world. The Three Gorges
of Yangtze River extend 193 kilometers from
the western Baidicheng in Sichan Province, to
Nanjinguan of Yichang city in Hubei Province
in the east. A boat cruise through the three
gorges - the Qutang, Wuxia and Xiling - of the
Yangtze River provides one of the most exciting
river trips in the world.
Wonder
of Nature-Taizi Town (The Town of Prince)
Like
an ancient castle, the Pengzhou Taizi Town is
located on Feilai peak of the Longmen mountains,
4,770 meters above sea level. It is the remains
of the geographical movement of Longmen Mountains,
and is of great value to geographical scientific
surveys and mountaineering.
The
Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Base
The
Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Base was built
to imitate the wild ecological environment of
pandas. It covers a space of 560 mu, with a
green coverage of 96 percent. The base created
a perfect ecological environment for the living
and breeding of pandas and other precious and
rare wild animals. It breeds over 20 pandas
and lesser pandas, black-necked cranes, white
cranes and others.
It
is a panda breeding scientific research institute
built in accordance with international standards
for the purpose of rescuing the endangered wild
animal, i.e. the panda. It includes a scientific
research building, an open research laboratory,
an animal hospital, an animal house, a panda
playground, a swan lake, a panda museum, and
a comprehensive service department. Here, green
bamboo and trees, birds, and flowers combined
with man-made sights constitute the living and
breeding place for pandas and other rare animals.
Till 1998, the base had bred 32 pandas, giving
birth to 48 baby pandas, of which 28 lived,
and accomplished scientific research in over
50 related subjects, winning more than 30 awards.
The
base has won the UN Environmental Program's
award of the "global 500 best", and
the gold award of green science and technology
of China, an excellent national project of environment
control, 100 advanced units of green plantation
of Sichuan Province, and the title of model
base of popular science education of Sichuan
Province.
To
achieve the aim of protecting and expanding
the wild species of panda and finally returning
them to their natural habitat, the base imitated
the wild ecological environment of pandas in
its second and third stages of construction.
Yincang
Valley
The
valley is located in the north of Pengzhou,
extending over 30km. It forms the main part
of the Longmen Mountains scenic spot. Here,
the valley is deep and winding, with waterfalls
pouring down and strange rocks standing. Plank
roads were built along the face of the cliff.
Mountain
Lake-Ganlong Lake
Located
in the north of Pengzhou under Chengdu city,
Ganlong Lake is 4,500 meters above sea level.
It is an ancient glacier lake on Longmen Mountains.
Here, visitors could appreciate the remains
of ancient glaciers, stone desert on high mountains,
and a sea of cloud. It is of precious value
for scientific research, mountaineering, expeditions
and tourism
Ice
on Masong Mountain
In
the 2,200-meter-high mountains in the north
of Pengzhou, visitors can see stretches of various-shaped
ice in winter. The ice scenes on Masong Mountains
include ice pagoda, ice pillar, ice bamboo shoot,
ice curtains and ice balls.
Bamboo
Sea of South Sichuan
The
Bamboo Sea of South Sichan sprawls on the border
of Changning and Jiang'an counties in Yibin
and 300 km south of Chengdu. Its entire area
of 110,000mu is, as its name suggests, a vast
stretch of bamboo groves. The air is fresh,
the place foggy, while streams run with a rich
susurrus, waterfalls tumble and splash, and
mirror-like pools reflect a host of imaginative
silhouettes-all this qualifies the Bamboo Ocean
as an ideal bio-tourist destination.
Satellite
Launching Centre
Xichang
in southwest Sichuan and 400 km from Chengdu
is capital of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture.
Since 1984, more than 20 man-made satellites
have been orbited from a local launching center
that has earned Xichang the title "China's
Space City". Today, the launching center
is open to visitors from at home and abroad,
who may choose to go there in time for the Yi
people's Torch Festival.
Other
Attractions
State
of Shu's mountain paths in Jianmen under the
jurisdiction of Guangyuan; stone carvings of
Anyue, Neijiang; Sansu Temple in Meishan County;
Conch Gully; Gongga Mountain; Mountain of Four
Girls; Deng Xiaoping's former residence.
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