Gansu

•  Mogao Caves

  The Mogao Caves, or Mogao Grottoes (also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves) form a system of 492 temples 25 km (15.5 miles) southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu province, China. The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 1,000 years. Construction of the Buddhist cave shrines began in 366 AD as places to store scriptures and art.

  

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•  Labrang Monastery

  Labrang Monastery is one of the six great monasteries of the Geluk (Yellow Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism. Labrang is located in Xiahe County in Gansu province, and also considered to be in the traditional Tibetan area of Amdo. Labrang Monastery is home to the largest number of monks outside of Tibet Autonomous Region. Xiahe is located about 4 hours from the city of Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu.

  

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•  Music of Gansu

  Gansu is a region in northwest China. The capital is Lanzhou, a city with a vibrant musical life, including many nightclubs. The daoqing folk tradition is an important part of the music of Gansu, especially in Huanxian; daoqing is also found in Yichi in Ningxia Hui and Dingbian in Shaanxi. Daoqing is used to accompany shadow play theater. Daoqing comes from the Tang Dynasty and was originally a cappella Taoist music.

  

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•  Bingling Temple

  The Bingling Temple is a series of grottoes filled with Buddhist sculpture carved into natural caves and caverns in a canyon along the Yellow River. It lies just north of where the Yellow River empties into the Liujiaxia Reservoir. Administratively, the site is in Yongjing County of Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu province, some 100 km southeast of Lanzhou The caves were a work in progress for more than a millennium.

  

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•  Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture

  Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture is in Western China's Gansu Province, south of the capital, Lanzhou. It is an autonomous prefecture for the Muslim Hui people, a large Chinese ethnic group. It also includes two autonomous counties for other Muslim groups, namely Dongxiang, Salar, and Bonan.

  

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•  Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

  Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in southern Gansu Province, China. It includes Xiahe and the Labrang Monastery, Luqu, Maqu, and other mostly Tibetan towns and villages. Gannan has an area of 40,898 km² and its capital is Hezuo.

  

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•  List of administrative divisions of Gansu

  Gansu, a province of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions: 14 prefecture-level divisions 12 prefecture-level cities 2 autonomous prefectures 86 county-level divisions 4 county-level cities 58 counties 7 autonomous counties 17 districts 1348 township-level divisions 457 towns 740 townships 30 ethnic townships 121 subdistricts These administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at Political divisions of China.

  

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•  Xifeng District

  Xifeng District is a district of Qingyang in Gansu Province, China. The city has an area of 996 km² and a population of approximately 325,200. In 1985, Xifeng was upgraded to a city in Qingyang Prefecture. In 2002, Qingyang Prefecture was upgraded to a prefecture-level city, and Xifeng City (county-level) became its district.

  

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•  Liancheng National Nature Reserve

  Liancheng National Nature Reserve is located in Gansu Province in the Yellow River Basin. It consists of 47,930 hectares, of which 14,223.1 is core area, 13,189.4 is buffer area, and the remaining 20,517.5 is experimental area mainly targeted for the protection of the spruce ecosystem, especially Picea wilsonii. The reserve is located approximately between 36°33' and 36°48' North latitude, and between 102°36' and 102°55' East longitude.

  

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•  List of prisons in Gansu province

  This is a list of prisons within Gansu province of the People's Republic of China.

  

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  Avgas is a high-octane aviation fuel used to power many aircraft and racing cars. Avgas is a portmanteau for aviation gasoline, as distinguished from mogas (motor gasoline), which is the everyday gasoline used in cars. Some light aircraft also use automobile fuel instead of avgas. Avgas is used in aircraft that have piston or Wankel engines. Gas turbines can operate on avgas, but typically do not. Turbine and diesel engines are designed to use kerosene-based jet fuel.

  

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•  Dagens Industri

  Dagens Industri (often referred to as DI) is a financial newspaper in tabloid format and the most profitable daily newspaper in Sweden. It was founded in 1976 with two issues per week. In 1983 it increased its periodicity to five issues per week and in 1990 to six. It has since started affiliate newspapers in Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Scotland and Slovenia. Dagens Industri is owned by the Swedish family-owned media group Bonnier AB.

  

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