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Cattle on a mountain pasture

Nanshan Pasture is the high grassland of Chengbu where cattle graze and the dairy is a local industry. The grass can carry some 87,000 head of livestock, it feeds a dairy of thousands of tons of milk a year, and the pasture now lies inside a national park.

Red cliffs in the shape of a table

Langshan is a Danxia mountain of red sandstone in Xinning County, part of the China Danxia World Heritage site. Water carved the rock into peaks and lanes across 108 square kilometres, the Fuyi River runs beneath them, and the site is now a 5A attraction.