The Silk Road Places

Gansu
Gansu is the long, narrow province linking central China with the desert regions of the Northwest. For centuries, as goods were transported through the region, Gansu acted as a conduit between China and... (more)
Qinghai
A remote province on the northeastern border of Tibet, Qinghai's sweeping grasslands locked in by icy mountain ranges are relatively unknown to most Chinese people. They tend to think of the province as... (more)
Shaanxi
Shaanxi has more often than not been the axis around which the Chinese universe revolved. It was here more than 6,000 years ago that Neolithic tribes established the earliest permanent settlements in China... (more)
Xinjiang
The vast Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, covering more than 1.6 million square km (640,000 square mi), is China's largest province. Even more expansive than Alaska, it borders Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan... (more)

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