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Marfa is a small town in southern Texas, USA. It is located on a plateau in the largest desert of the North American continent, less than 100 kilometers away from the U.S.-Mexico border. Founded as a railway station in the early 1880s, Marfa later developed into a settled community.
The town has a small population, with 1,788 residents recorded in the 2020 census. Boasting unique and pristine Western landscapes, it has served as a filming location for numerous movies such as No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. Marfa also draws many tourists with the "Marfa Lights," a natural mystery, and an official observation site has been set up for visitors to view this phenomenon. Additionally, it is a hub for contemporary art—minimalist artist Donald Judd has a large number of his works on display here, and the Chinati Foundation he founded is a major art attraction.
Gansu Wuwei, located in the center of Gansu Province, the eastern end of the Hexi Corridor, is an important node city of the ancient Silk Road, since ancient times, it has been called "a line in the desert, control of five counties of the throat". As one of the ancient "four counties in the west of the river", Wuwei was once called "Liangzhou", is the hub of cultural exchanges between the Central Plains and the western region, witnessed the East and West civilization of the fusion of collision. This place has nurtured the splendid Liangzhou culture, with the "ancestor of China's grottoes", the Leitai Han Tomb (Horse Treading Flying Swallow out of the land), the Temple of Literature, "the crown of the Longyi Palace of Learning," and other historical treasures, the Border Poetry, "Qiang Flute Why Complain? The sentiment of "Qiang flute, why complain about the willow" in the border poem has also been passed down in this area. Nowadays, Wuwei is not only an important corridor of the Silk Road Economic Belt, but also the origin of plateau summer vegetables, wine and other specialty agricultural products, where the millennium history and modern vitality are intertwined.