In NW China’s Gansu, the Dunhuang Railway runs through the desert, where trains meet golden dunes and boundless skies. What was once the ancient Silk Road, now on rail tracks.

👍While a driver in Lanzhou #Gansu# stopped to give way to pedestrians another car tried to force its way into the line. A traffic policeman stepped in immediately and told the offending vehicle to pull back. Many internet users applaud this quick response to discourteous driving on public roads.#ChinaStory#

Deep in NW China’s Gansu Province, a high-speed railway winds its way through rolling loess hills. Boring tunnels through mountains has never been an easy feat—yet China makes it happen, all for the people waiting beyond the peaks.

China has hills that look painted. They’re outside Zhangye in Gansu Province, where bands of red, orange, yellow and gray run across the landscape. Early or late in the day, the colors can look almost unreal. They aren’t. The hills formed over tens of millions of years as layers of sediment built up, were pushed and tilted by tectonic forces, then slowly worn down by wind and rain. The famous striped hills are part of the Zhangye Danxia landforms, but the area doesn’t all look the same. Nearby Binggou Danxia is rougher and more dramatic, with formations that look like walls, towers and cliffs. The setting matters too. Zhangye sits along the old Hexi Corridor, one of the main routes that connected China with Central Asia along the Silk Road. People, goods and ideas moved through this region for centuries. So when you visit, you’re looking at more than colorful rock. You’re standing in a place shaped by geology over millions of years and by human movement for a very long time after that. That’s the kind of place I like writing about in the Timeless Traveler newsletter. It catches your eye first, then gives you a reason to keep thinking about it. Subscribe if that sounds like your kind of travel.

Chinese startup LandSpace successfully landed the booster of its Zhuque-3 rocket in Gansu province on its second attempt, joining SpaceX and Blue Origin as the only private companies to recover an orbital-class booster

Chinese startup LandSpace successfully landed the booster of its Zhuque-3 rocket in Gansu province on its second attempt, joining SpaceX and Blue Origin as the only private companies to recover an orbital-class booster

Approximately 6,000 marathon runners gathered at Zhangye Colorful Danxia Scenic Spot in #Gansu# province on Sunday for the 2026 Linze Marathon. The race route was set within the geopark's core scenic area, allowing participants to traverse the region's iconic multi-colored geological formations and to experience both the physical challenge and the natural scenery. #FunChina# #ChinaBound# China Bound — where vivid destination stories meet effortless trip planning.