Time Zone |
Asia/Shanghai |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+8 |
Daylight Saving Time |
Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
Time Zone |
Asia/Shanghai |
Standard Time GMT / UTC |
UTC+8 |
Daylight Saving Time |
Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
Mangkang County is located in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, at the intersection of Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet, with an average altitude of about 4,300 meters, which is the transition zone from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. As an important node on the Ancient Tea Horse Road, Mangkang has been the key point of cultural exchanges between China and Tibet since ancient times, with unique landscapes such as the ancient salt fields of salt wells and the Hongla Mountain Nature Reserve existing.
Mangkang is famous for its Kham culture, and has the only salt well scenic spot in Tibet where a Catholic church and a Tibetan Buddhist temple coexist, and the thousand-year-old salt field jointly created by Naxi and Tibetans using the ancient method of sun-drying salt by the river, which has been included in the preliminary list of World Cultural Heritage. The Lancang River Canyon and the Hongla Mountain Dian Golden Monkey Reserve form a magnificent vertical ecological landscape.
National Highways 214 and 318 intersect here, making it an important gateway for traveling into Tibet. The local area is rich in barley, matsutake mushrooms and wine, and the cuisine such as Yanjing Gajia noodles is unique. The annual String Dance Festival focuses on the charm of national intangible cultural heritage.
Baoding, a prefecture-level city in Hebei Province, is located in the northern part of the North China Plain, constituting a golden triangle with Beijing and Tianjin, and is known as the "Gateway to the Gorge" and the "Southern Gate of the Capital". The city has a long history, since the Neolithic era, there will be the first people to flourish, the Warring States period for the junction of Yan and Zhao, the Yuan Dynasty, set up Baoding Road, to "defend the metropolis, stabilize the world," the Ming and Qing Dynasty for the capital of the Zhili province, is one of the political and cultural centers of northern China's modern times. There are many scenic spots and monuments in Baoding, including the Governor's Office of Zhili, one of China's top ten museums, the national 5A scenic spot Baiyangdian, and the thousand-year-old temple Mancheng Han Tomb, etc. Baoding has a rich cultural heritage. Cultural heritage, Baoding Military Academy is known as "China's modern military cradle", training a large number of military personnel; food culture is unique, Baoding dishes, locust Mao pickles, white Yunzhang buns and other famous. Nowadays, Baoding, as a regional center city in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei world-class urban agglomeration, is relying on the advantages of its location to vigorously develop new energy, automobile manufacturing and other industries, and is a livable city with both historical heritage and modern vitality.