The giant Buddha statue is carved into a cliff of sandy rocks at the Tianti Mountain, separated by a dam in the Huangyang River Reservoir in Wuwei, Gansu province. SHEN LONGQUAN/FOR CHINA DAILY ...

Popular tourist destinations include the lush and verdant Wuyi Mountain, the ancient tulou (earthen buildings) that echo with ...

The next day, we went to Fenghua to visit the biggest copper statue of the Maitreya Buddha at Xuedou Mountain (the fifth sacred mountain in China). We could not help but smile when we saw the ...

CHINA DAILY Staying true to its role as a cultural ... fours to navigate the extremely narrow staircases built inside the mountain. These staircases lead to all 21 interconnected caves, which ...