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  Jiayuguan City is located in the middle of Hexi Corridor, at the northwest part of Gansu Province. It is a famous tourism city in China with amazing frontier cultural and natural landscape. Jiayuguan Pass is the landmark of the city. It is the main hub of the Silk Road and the western starting point of the Great Wall since ancient time. The most famous eight spots of Jiayuguan City are Jiayuguan Pass, Jiayuguan International Glide Base, The First Fire Tower of the Great Wall, Overhanging Great Wall, Weijin Tomb, Heishan cliff painting, Great Wall Museum and Qiyi Glacier, which you should never miss during your Jiayuguan tour.

  Jiayuguan is located in the middle of Hexi Corridor, at the northwest part of Gansu Province. It has Jiuquan City to its north, Yumen City to its west, Qinlian Mountain lying at its south border with Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, Heishan Mount at its north and about 776 km away from Lanzhou City.

  Jiayuguan Pass is the western starting point of the Great Wall and enjoys the reputation of  "World’s Greatest Pass”. The city was founded in 1965. The administration area is 2935 square km with urban area 60 square km. The city's permanent population is 300,000 and urbanization rate of 91%.

  Jiayuguan City boasts rich tourism recourses. There are cultural landscapes such as: magnificent Han and Ming Great Wall, Jiayuguan Pass, the First Fire Tower of the Great Wall, Overhanging Great Wall, Weijin Tomb, Heishan cliff painting, and natural landscape as the Qiyi Glacier, Qinlian Mountian and Dessert Mirage. Also the first “Great Wall Museum” is built in hit city. One of the three world’s famous Glide bases is located here-Jiayuguan International Glide Base. Here you can also join many explore activities such as valley exploration, desert exploration, ghost city exploration and so on. You will never regret for your tour to this amazing city.

Jiayuguan Pass was approved as one of the national key cultural protection units by the State Council in 1961 and was listed as one of the world’s cultural heritage sites by the UNESCO in 1987.