Datong, an old town and its island in the river
Lanxi and Heyue streets preserve a riverside townscape beside the Yangtze finless porpoise reserve and old civic sites.
Tongling.
Copper mining, smelting and river-town histories shape this industrial stretch of the Yangtze.
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Tongling’s ancient mines and smelting sites
Mine shafts on a slope, smelting remains below and heavy slag blocks record a landscape shaped by extraction.
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A lantern and dragon procession during the 15–17 September 2024 night-tour programme at Datong Ancient Town. The Tongling Culture and Tourism Bureau placed this photograph in its “Ancient Town Night Tour” item; it is a record of that programme, not a claim about another date or the old street scene described in the story.Photographer not credited on the source page · Rights unknown; selected under the established official-source policy Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Retrieved from the Tongling Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau page “Ancient Town Night Tour,” in its 文旅资讯 (tourism and culture information) section. The text identifies the Datong Ancient Town event dates as 15–17 September 2024 and describes dragon-lantern and other performances. No image-specific open licence, photographer, or reuse restriction was stated; rights remain unknown under the accepted official tourism-source policy. Original kept privately without cropping, retouching, or enlargement.
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At night, Tongling’s bronze-chalice sculpture catches the streetlights above passing traffic—a modern civic emblem for a city whose history is closely tied to copper.Rui NI (Ranqus) · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Photograph by Rui NI (Ranqus), dated 14 July 2018; the Commons file page records CC BY-SA 4.0. The saved file is the standard 960px thumbnail (960×1428), not the upstream original (1270×1889); no enlargement, crop or retouching.
