Wenchuan

Wenchuan County is located on the northwest border of Sichuan Basin, in the southeast of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, about 146 km to the capital city – Chengdu. It is rich in mineral resources as well as animal and plant species; the tourism resources are even more of its distinctive style, which boast natural scenic spots such as the Wolong Nature Reserve, Three-River (the West River, the Middle River, and the Heishi River) Ecological Tourism Zone etc and cultural attractions like Yu culture, Qiang culture, and the cultural site of the Thre e Kingdoms, and so on. Wenchuan County is not only the hometown of Chinese Ethnic Group Folk Arts – Qiang-style embroidery, but also the hometown of the living fossil of animals – the giant panda. Wolong Giant Panada Research Center, the world’s number one of its kind, is situated in the southwest of the county.
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