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About the Province of Gansu, China
Gansu is a strip of territory lying southeast-northwest in northwestern China. It is 454,000 square kilometers in size, with a population of 22,849 million. Lanzhou is the capital city.
Gansu is one of the origin places of the ancient Chinese civilization. It is said to be the birthplace of Fuxi, an ancestor of the Chinese nation who is said to have created Chinese characters and calendrical system.
The Silk Road zigzags across the province for 1,600 kilometers. Along the way are historic sites, cultural relics, beautiful landscape and ethnic folklore. Main spots of the Silk Road cultural include grottoes at Maijishan, Dunhuang, Binglingsi and Tiantishan, Jiayu Pass of the Great Wall and Labrang Monastery.
Gansu's landscape is composed of alpine grassland, the Gobi deserts, the Loess Plateau, wind-corroded terrain, glaciers and snow-capped mountains. The province is inhabited by over 10 ethnic groups, such as the Han, Tibetan, Hui, Yugur, Bonan and Dongxiang
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In the News...
China launches its fourth unmanned spaceship, Shenzhou IV at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province. The capsule blasted into orbit announcing China's return to manned flight, the official Xinhua News Agency said.(AP Photo/Cha Chunming, XINHUA)
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