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| | | | | A girl from Southwest China's Sichuan province performs Tibetan dance at the opening ceremony of the Seventh National Games for Traditional Sports of Minority Nationalities in Yinchuan, capital of northwest Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, September 6, 2003. A total of 3,700 ethnic athletes from China's 55 minority groups will participate in the week-long Games. [Xinhua] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A room in the Western China Movie and TV Center, China's only film set with original ancient castles, in Zhenbeipu, an ancient city in the desert to the northwest of Yinchuan. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Yellow River runs through Shapotou, 200 kilometers southwest of Yinchuan, capital of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A hamonious integration of desert and lake in the Shahu Lake Tourism Resort, some 56 km north of Yinchuan. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The sculpture - God of Sun - in the Helan Mountains, 50 kilometers from Yinchuan. Over 1,000 rock paintings are scattered over the cliffs on both sides of a long valley in the eastern Helan Mountains. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Western Xia Tombs is located at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain, close to Yinchuan city in Ningxia Autonomous Region, and measuring 10 kilometers north to south, 4 kilometers east to west, the Mausoleum contains the tombs of emperors of the Western Xia. | | | | | | | | |
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