Tibetan towns and villages to lure Shanghai tourists

Tourism authorities from Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Gansu Province launched seven new tourism routes during a tourism event in Shanghai on Wednesday, inviting Shanghai residents to experience its natural wonders, folk culture and red tourism.

The routes are designed to display the ethnic minority folk culture found along the Taohe River, religious cultural glamour along the Daxia river, the landscape of the first bend of the Yellow River, the Bailongjiang Canyon, and the grasslands and wetlands in Gannan. 

Red tourism spots like the former residence of Chairman Mao at Cirina Village, Lazikou, the place where a famous battle of the Red Army took place in 1935, and memorials are also covered.

Gannan will offer more diversified tour itineraries to lure tourists from Shanghai, Ou Jiecao, director of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Tourism Administration, said.

Gannan is home to mostly Tibetan towns and villages, and is known as the window of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.