Since the days of Genghis Khan, competitors have gathered each summer to show off their skills in horseback riding, archery and wrestling. Xing Yi and Yuan Hui explore the scene in Hohhot.
The region is holding a month-long driving festival, which allows participants to enjoy the unique northern landscape -- prairies, deserts, wetlands -- and folk customs at the same time along a 5,000 km drive.
To give the tour more complete interaction there were online activities such as "culture heritage stories" and "representative cultural inheritor selection".
An opening ceremony is held for the annual Nadam Fair of Inner Mongolia autonomous region in Hohhot, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, July 23,
The income generated by the Baotou tourism industry for the past six month period was reportedly 15.1 billion yuan ($2.26 billion), a year-on-year growth of 23.5 percent.
A bullet train departed Hohhot East Railway Station for Ulanqab marking the start of high-speed rail services using Inner Mongolia’s first newly-laid high-speed railway on Aug 3.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the autonomous region, during which various celebrations are planned to showcase its prosperity and ethnic diversity.