The wall people still walk
Thirteen point seven four kilometres of Ming brick still carry visitors above chess boards, opera speakers and morning exercise on the streets below.
Xi'an sits in the middle belt Shaanxi calls the Guanzhong plain, the "eight-hundred-li Qin River plain" between the northern loess plateau and the Qinba mountains. The Qinling cuts the province in two: rivers north of it belong to the Yellow River system, rivers south to the Yangtze. The provincial profile counts ten prefecture-level cities and, separately, the Yangling agricultural high-tech demonstration zone—not an eleventh city, but a named zone on the same map.
