Gansu recently launched a tourism preferential policies, in the near future to travel to Gansu should know that there is a message, Gansu A-level scenic spots can be tickets can be free or half price, and for health care workers hotels there are half-price concessions, so do you want to go to see it?

2020 to 2021 during the winter and spring (December 1 to March 31), Gansu Province, 323 A-class scenic spots for tourists across the country to implement free tickets, half-price or heavily discounted and other preferential policies.

Gannan Prefecture, Jinchang City and other cities and states and Lanzhou New Area on the jurisdiction of the A-level tourist attractions for national tourists to implement the whole area free of charge to open the policy.

The province's 384 star-rated hotels for the country's tourists were launched accommodation 3 to 20% discount.

Tourism preferential policies in tribute to the "white angels": Before December 31, the province's 128 A-level scenic spots (world cultural heritage) continue to implement a free admission policy for the national medical workers, 115 star-rated hotels to implement the accommodation Half-price discount policy.

Care for public security police tourism preferential policies: The province's tourist attractions to the national public security police have implemented free open preferential policies.

"Gansu people tour Gansu" special tourism preferential policies: more than 100 A-class scenic spots in the province for Gansu residents to implement free tickets or half price and other special tourism preferential policies, so that Gansu people can get out of the house to get concessions.

Gansu has a unique natural scenery of tourism resources, after entering the winter, and will not be reduced due to climatic conditions, but increased snow, ice waterfalls and many other rare summer landscape.

In this activity, Gannan State, Jinchang City and other cities and states and Lanzhou New Area on the jurisdiction of the A-class tourist attractions for national tourists to implement the whole area of free open beneficiary policy; the province's 384 star-rated hotels for the national tourists to launch accommodation 3 to 20% discount.

Honor "white angels" tourism preferential policies are: before December 31, the province's 128 A-level scenic spots (world cultural heritage) continue to implement free tickets for medical workers across the country policy, 115 star-rated hotels to implement half-price accommodation preferential policies;

Care for public security police tourism preferential policies

"Gansu people tour Gansu" special tourism preferential policies are: the province's more than 100 A-level scenic spots for Gansu residents to implement free admission or half price and other special tourism preferential policies, so that Gansu people can get out of the house to get concessions.

It is understood that, in this activity, the Gansu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism also specially revised the "" attract guests into Gansu "" subsidies for the implementation of the "", a new increase in the object of subsidies and subsidies for the project, in particular, to improve the subsidy standard. Among them, the tourism charter subsidy standard from 1 to 20,000 yuan to 2 to 50,000 yuan, tourism train subsidy standard from 20,000 yuan to 40,000 to 50,000 yuan, and the implementation of the provincial and municipal stacked subsidy policy, stacked subsidy standard from 20% to 40%, winter and spring subsidy standard from the original up 40% to 80%.

In addition, Gansu Province, winter and spring cultural and tourism activities from December 1 has been extended to March 31 of the following year, and the launch of the "10 + 8 + N" cultural and tourism action "combination punch".

Lanzhou

The Yellow River flows day and night to the far side of the river, making Lanzhou a city of "sex".

The rolling waves and the sound of the waves not only nourish the water and soil of Lanzhou, but also create a bold, rough character of the people of Lanzhou, the city is also because of the Yellow River and the growing warmth and abundance.

Zhongshan Iron Bridge is the oldest ancient bridge in Lanzhou and the first real bridge on the Yellow River, which was built in 1907 and has a history of more than 100 years.

When you come to Lanzhou, Gansu Provincial Museum is not to be missed. With 16 national treasures and more than 700 national-level cultural relics, it is one of the most important museums for understanding the history and culture of the Silk Road.

One of the museum's treasures, the "Bronze Prancing Horse" (also known as the "Horse Treading Flying Swallow"), is a cast bronze work of art from the Eastern Han Dynasty, from the Leitai Han Tomb in Wuwei, which is an icon of Chinese tourism.

Baiyin

Baiyin City, neighboring Lanzhou to the south, is located in the transition zone between the Loess Plateau and the Tengger Desert. It is rich in mineral resources, and during the Ming Dynasty, an official mining organization, the Baiyin Factory, was set up here, from which the city of Baiyin got its name.

The Yellow River Stone Forest National Geopark is located in Jingtai County, generated in four million years ago, due to crustal movement, weathering, rain erosion and other geological effects, the formation of the shape of a variety of geomorphological wonders.

Different from the southern stone forest of the clean and wet, the northwest accompanied by the Yellow River Canyon of the stone forest landscape cool and harsh, magical and majestic.

Gannan

Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is adjacent to Qinghai and Sichuan, which seems to be a far cry from our impression of Gansu, with not only beautiful plateau scenery, but also a strong Tibetan flavor.

Zagana, which means "stone box" in Tibetan, is a Tibetan village hidden in the mountains, and is often shrouded in clouds and mist, like a paradise.

Lok Qu County Langmusi area of fresh mountain pastures, as early as the early 1950s was known as the "Oriental small Switzerland", but also the backpacker's private collection, but also by the CCTV rated China's charm of the town.

Maqu means Yellow River in Tibetan. The Yellow River flows eastward from Ba Yan Ka La Mountain, forming a long "First Bend of the Yellow River" in the territory of Maqu County, and the sunsets are especially beautiful.

Besides the water of the Yellow River, Maqu's Hequ horses are also famous for their strength, and the horse races here are very enthusiastic and well worth watching.

Linxia

Linxia is located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the Loess Plateau and the Tibetan Plateau junction, is the ancient Silk Road, Tangfan Ancient Road, the ancient Silk Road, there are "Huangshuangrui town" called.

Bingling Temple Grottoes was built in the Western Qin Dynasty, more than 1,600 years ago. Cut in the north bank of the Yellow River cliffs, grotto shrines lined up, stacks in the air, very spectacular.

The Lower Temple is the most spectacular, with its bas-relief stupas and Tantric murals on a par with the Mogao Grottoes and the Maijishan Grottoes.

Jiuquan

Jiuquan, anciently known as "Suzhou", since ancient times, is a transportation hub from the Central Plains to the Western Regions. Its water is like wine" and named.

It is the hometown of Dunhuang art, the cradle of modern aerospace and the birthplace of new China's petroleum industry.

Many people will visit Mingsha Mountain when they first arrive at Dunhuang in Jiuquan. Mingsha Mountain reputation, because in the wind, the sand mountain will make a loud sound, light wind blowing, the sound is like a string silk bamboo, so the name "Mingsha Mountain".

The crescent moon spring is shaped like a crescent moon, surrounded on all sides by the Mingsha Mountain, clear as a mirror, let a person's eyes bright.

Mogao Grottoes, famous for its exquisite murals and statues, was excavated in the pre-Qin period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, and has been built through nearly 1,500 years of construction in the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Northern Dynasties, the Sui, Tang, the Five Dynasties, the Xixia, the Yuan, the Ming, and the Qing Dynasties, forming a huge scale.

It is the world's largest and richest existing Buddhist art place.

Hidden in Guazhou, the large outdoor sculpture Earth's Child, with the sky as a quilt and the earth as a bed, brings incomparable shock.

It's also a place where young people who love niche destinations will come to hit.

Zhangye

Zhangye was one of the four counties in the Hexi Corridor in ancient times, known as Ganzhou, and was known as "Golden Zhangye, Silver Wuwei" with Wuwei because of its strategic location.

Many people know Zhangye because of Danxia.

Nice Zhangye Danxia is a great, colorful, changing, red like fire, yellow like gold, gray like steel, color matching exceptionally eye-catching, look after can not help but admire nature's ingenious work.

Zhangye Qilian Mountain scenery is also unforgettable, as the so-called "do not look at Qilian Mountain snow, wrong Zhangye as Jiangnan", to Zhangye, you will find the rough Northwest also has a soft side.

Jiayuguan Pass

Jiayuguan City is famous for the Great Wall and has become one of the richest cities in the Northwest because of its steel.

And this small northwestern city is not at all old-fashioned, but rather refreshing and pleasant, full of vigor and vitality against the backdrop of the rolling Qilian snow-capped mountains outside the city.

Jiayuguan Pass has the reputation of "the most majestic pass in the world" and is the first pass at the western end of the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty, which is not only a separate pass, but also divided into an inner city, an outer city and a city trench.

The Xiongguan water fortress in the outer city can be a distant view of the outside of the pass, and enter the inner city to climb the city tower, the Qilian mountain range in the distance rolling.

Jinchang

Jinchang is famous for its nickel production, and is known as the "Nickel Capital of China".

The history of the area should not be underestimated, with the ruins of Li in the Western Han Dynasty, the Great Wall of the Han and Ming Dynasties, the Pagoda of Rongsi in the Tang Dynasty, and the Bell and Drum Towers of Yongchang in the Ming Dynasty, which are known as the "Pillar in the Middle of Heaven in the West of the Hexi River".

Summer Jinchang, Zijinhua City, thousands of purple and red, the scenery is picturesque, all kinds of flowers compete, everywhere overflowing with warm and romantic atmosphere.

Wuwei

Wuwei is the ancient name of Liangzhou, the capital of the ancient Northwest China, and has become the ancient capital of Wuliang, the capital of Xixia, and the seat of the Tang Hesiduzhuzhu, etc. It was named by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in order to highlight the military might of the army of the Han Empire.

Today Wuwei is still worth a visit: Xixia Museum is a good place to learn about the Xixia Dynasty; Leitai Han Tomb had unearthed copper galloping horse; Hatamo Roshi Temple existing Roshi Temple Tower octagonal twelve-story, is Hatamo Roshi after the silence of the hidden tongue of the place; Horsetooth Snow Mountain year-round snow, majestic and holy.

Tianshui

Tianshui ancient name "Qinzhou", is located in the eastern part of the long and narrow Gansu, and Pingliang, Qingyang are in the Gansu-Ningxia junction of the Longshan Mountain (Liupan Mountain) to the east, so this land is also called Longdong.

Maizi Mountain is a lone peak in the Qinling Mountains, not too high, and the ancients thought it looked like a stack of wheat, hence the name "Maizi".

The biggest attraction is the grottoes, the cliffs of Maiji Mountain are almost perpendicular to the ground, with nearly two hundred large and small caves cut into the overhanging surface, and it is still thrilling to walk on the cliff walkways built by modern people.

Tianshui is also known as the hometown of Hsi Huang, Hsi Huang is one of the ancient "Three Emperors" Fuxi, Fuxi Temple was built in the Ming Dynasty, simple and deep, courtyard heavy, the first day of the Hall of China's only statue of Fuxi enshrined.

Pingliang

Pingliang is located at the eastern foot of the Liupan Mountains, the upper reaches of the Jing River, for the Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia confluence of the "Golden Triangle" zone, since ancient times is a place of war.

Pingliang is also a major town at the eastern end of the northern route of the ancient Silk Road, known as "the first city out of Chang'an in the west", and has a lot of humanistic monuments.

Kongdong Mountain is the northwest Taoist shrine, belongs to the six pan mountain branch, the scenery is like "Kongdong" two words, strange and dangerous and beautiful. South Grotto Temple was excavated in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Qingyang North Grotto Temple together known as the "East Longdong Grottoes Pearls".

Qingyang

Qingyang is located in the Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia provinces at the junction of the three provinces, is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation's early farming civilization, since ancient times has been known as the "grain silo of Longdong".

The fossils of the "Huanjiang Pterodactyl" and the "Yellow River Ancient Elephant" that have attracted world attention were excavated in the Malian River basin.

Longnan

Longnan City is located in the high mountains and valleys between the basin, is the birthplace of the Qin culture, the starting point of the ancient Shu Road, walking in the Longnan mountain road, you can trace the remains of the three kingdoms thousands of years ago.

Guanqigou Geological Park is known as "Little Jiuzhai", suitable for hiking enthusiasts who like nature; Wenxian Tianchi is no less colorful than the colorful sea next door to Jiuzhaigou; Wanxiang Cave stalactites are splendid and colorful, and it's the largest natural cavern in Northwest China.

Dingxi

Dingxi is located in the Loess Plateau and the western Qinling Mountains at the intersection of mountain ranges across the country, taking the "stability of the western side of the meaning of the name, from the scenery is a not so "Gansu

The city of Gansu is a city that is not so "Gansu" in terms of scenery.

Longxi County's Weiyuan Building, built in the Northern Song Dynasty, still stands in the center of the county and has become a landmark in Longxi County; and Weiyuan County's Ba Ling Bridge is the country's only purely wooden, stacked-beam arch bridge.

Tianjing Gorge scenic area of the canyon water cool refreshing, the legend is the Queen Mother's pool; Guiqing Mountain scenic area of the peaks, ancient trees in the sky, a collection of many waterfalls and springs, inhabited by a variety of wildlife.

Lanzhou Beef Noodle is the best endorsement of Lanzhou, the choice of ingredients, the thickness of the noodles, the soup is thick or thin, the chili oil is spicy.

Hand-held mutton is served cold and hot, and the mutton is delicious, not greasy and not stinky.

Wuwei three sets of car by the Liangzhou line noodles, bacon, brown sugar red dates Por tea, known in the northwest, for the popular flavor of the food package.

Zhangye rolled chicken Northwest pasta and dishes of the fusion of rich flavors, rolls of gluten, color and flavor.

Jiayuguan barbecue meat is famous in the Hexi Corridor, and it is said that local sheep grow up drinking snow water from the Qilian Mountains and camel grass from the Gobi Beach, which is why the meat is so tender.

The yellow noodles with donkey meat are a famous local food in Dunhuang, with a bright golden color and strong taste, and the soup is made with mushrooms and diced donkey meat.

One of the local breakfast specialties in Tianshui is called croak, which is made with buckwheat starch and is known for its aroma, spiciness, and softness.

Best Time to Visit

July-September is the best time to travel to Gansu. At this time, the Gannan grassland is thick green, wildflowers are all over the place, and cattle and sheep dot the landscape.

For the more northwestern Hexi Corridor, the summer climate is cool and temperatures are comfortable for cooling off, but you need to be well protected from the sun, and with the big difference in temperature between day and night, you should also bring a long coat and long pants.

But there are other benefits to arriving in the winter, not only might you encounter wonderful sights such as snowing deserts, but there are also a number of amenity policies.

Basically every November and December you can get some great deals on tickets and hotels.

Dressing Guide

Gansu four seasons, summer heat up to 30 degrees Celsius can wear shorts, UV rays are strong, you need to wear sunscreen clothing and wear a sun hat.

Winter temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius, you need to wear down jackets and other cold-resistant warm clothes, scarves and hats are also essential. In addition, Gansu has a dry climate, so you should carry moisturizing cream and lip balm.