Fengxiang, a county in Baoji, a city in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, is renowned for its clay figurines. The bright-colored figurines, which come in different shapes, embody the county's distinct cultural features, and rich historical and cultural messages.

While city folk flock to zoos or animal parks for a glimpse of wildlife, the threats posed by predators such as snow leopards, wolves and brown bears are a daily fact of life for 41-year-old forest ranger Zhao Hongshang in the Qilian Mountains in northwestern China's Qinghai province.

Demand for domestic travel was rekindled last month when approval for cross-provincial group tours to most areas was granted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Forty-one villages in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region were selected as the second batch of national key rural tourism villages for 2020, bringing the total in the region to 56.

At the end of July 2019, I visited the Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Gansu province that has a population of about 700,000.

Zhang Guangqi immediately shared his joy of booking a flight to Hainan province on WeChat in late July. The 37-year-old Beijing resident booked the trip to the southern island the moment he saw the news on July 20 that Beijing had lowered its public-health-emergency response from the second to the third level after recording zero new COVID-19 cases for 14 days in a row.

Visitors to the mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang, where the Terracotta Warriors are displayed, can now access technology that provides user-friendly tourist maps on mobile phones featuring 360-degree panoramic views and even the ability to find one's warrior "twin".

Group visits, admission tickets, other excursions up 60% on monthly basis. Nighttime tours and performances are becoming increasingly popular in China, as rising daytime temperatures are cooling the fervor for visiting popular tourist spots and other attractions, a new report said.

The beckoning road proves too tempting for a traveler with an adventurous spirit and a passion to explore the country's natural beauty, Xu Lin reports.

XI'AN -- A total of 51 crested ibis have been relocated to a nature reserve in Northwest China's Shaanxi province in 2020, local authorities said.

URUMQI - The laying of railway tracks for a new line linking Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region with Qinghai province and beyond was completed Tuesday, paving the way for accelerating development in the country's western region.

Dunhuang, a Silk Road international cultural tourism city in Gansu province, features spectacular desert scenery against the fish-scale clouds and yellow sand in midsummer, attracting many tourists.

The task of space archaeology is to reveal the history, characteristics and patterns of human activities in the past, as well as to understand the evolutionary processes guiding the relationship between people and their environment.

Shanxi is one of the provinces and regions in China with the largest number of cultural sites. Yungang Grottoes is representative of all the ancient cultural assets in Shanxi.

I’ll readily admit that I’m a fan of Starbucks. Even so far as to collect the mugs from different cities, but while I salute their empire, there are times when you want to break away from the Moby Dick inspired namesake. When that time hits, try and check out some of these other great Xi’an coffee shops.

A meeting to promote cooperation and exchanges in cultural tourism between Maoming, South China's Guangdong province and Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province took place on June 6 at Tang Paradise, a large theme park in Xi'an.

A section of the Yinchuan-Xi'an high-speed railway in northwest China completed track-laying on Thursday.

The domestic tourism market is expected to peak during the coming Dragon Boat Festival holiday later this week, despite recent reported clusters of new COVID-19 infections in parts of the country, industry observers said.

In China, there at the ?? (w? yuè) or five great mountains, each one coinciding with one of the five cardinal directions of the traditional Chinese religion; North, South, East, West, and Center. During the imperial period, it was common for the Emperor to perform rituals at each of the five mountains in order to cement their claim on the lands. People still make pilgrimages to these mountains today.

The Terracotta Warriors museum in China's northwestern city of Xi'an is considered one of the greatest archaeological sites in the world.