Have you ever seen the three terrain ladders of China?
In the hinterland of southwest China,
lies the miraculously magnificent “mountainous region of China,” created by plate collisions 65 million years ago,
and the region where thousands of rivers meet and inter-wind, giving birth to Chinese civilization.
Within China's vast territory of 9.6 million square kilometers,
Sichuan is the only province
that allows you to travel from west to east across totally different landforms. For example, highland snow mountains, melting glaciers, wetlands, grassland, lacustrine tufa, hilly land and plains.
Along your travels to the south, experience the many ancient cultures that Sichuan has to offer!
Sichuan is well-known in China as the “land of abundance” since ancient times as the Dujiangyan Irrigation System has been controlling the waters of the Minjiang River and distributing it to the fertile farmland of the Chengdu plains.
Through millions of years of natural evolution, Sichuan has been a natural habitat for the panda, China's national treasure.
Through thousands of years of continuous development, here in Sichuan, the Ancient Shu civilization, with all its glitz and glamor, is becoming more attractive and charming to the world.
And through thousands of years of exchanges and integration, local ethnic groups like Tibetan, Qiang and Yi, are showing the world elegant demeanor like shining pearls.
Sichuan has magnificent and changeful prospects due to its rich natural resources like famous mountains and great rivers.
Here, you can experience an altitude difference of 7 thousand kilometers and exclaim at all landscapes heartily.
Here, you may also take a time-travel tour across the 5 thousand years of Chinese civilization, and be confirmed heartily that it can fully satisfy people's imagination with its numerous cultural relics.
At the same latitude of 30° north,
the Sanxingdui Site, together with the Egyptian pyramids, the Mayan Ruins, and the Babylon Ruins,
is dubbed as world miracles of human civilization.
Sichuan, a land of plenty endowed by nature,
is a fantastic place of China.
