Que'er Mountain is located in Southwest China and the northernmost part of the Hengduan Mountains. It is also one of the few snow mountains named after birds in China. Local people once called it "the mountain over which the eagle cannot fly".
In ancient times, Zhenjiang city in East China's Jiangsu province was called Jingkou. Located at the golden cross of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it is a place of strategic importance. The upper reaches of the Yangtze River deposit a lot of silt here, which has gradually built up into a small island in the river. There are three beautiful mountains here, namely, the Jinshan Mountain, the Beigu Mountain and the Jiaoshan Mountain, which are closely connected with the Yangtze River and are called the Three Mountains of Jingkou.
In Southwest China, there is a rift zone with a length of more than 300 kilometers and a width of tens to hundreds of kilometers, which is called the Panxi Rift Valley. With untouched forests, mountains, sinkholes and floor drains, and other geological wonders, this place is known as the "natural geological museum".
As construction workers race against time to build two special hospitals in Wuhan, the center of the novel coronavirus outbreak, tens of millions of people around the country are watching the construction through a live streaming broadcast.
In Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, there are many different landscapes and remarkable views. Deep in its northern dense forest, there is an amazingly beautiful lake - the Kanas Lake. The color of the lake changes with the seasons, light and temperature difference between morning and evening.
With 14 volcanoes nearby, Wudalianchi, or "Five Connected Lakes", in Heihe city of Heilongjiang province, preserves typical volcanic landforms and serves as a giant natural volcanic museum.
Jingpo Lake, the largest alpine lava barrier lake in China, is as famous as Lake Geneva in Switzerland. It is located in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. Although the winter temperature here is lower than -20 C, the temperature at the bottom of the water is kept above 10 C all year round.
The Singing Sands Mountain is located in Dunhuang in western China. Nestled between the tall sand dunes is a little miracle -- a spring which looks like a crescent moon.
Sayram Lake is located in the northern part of the Tianshan Mountains in western China. The gem-like pure blue is the most outstanding feature of this mountain lake.
Spanning thousands of kilometers, the Grand Canal starts from Zhejiang province in East China and runs through Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shandong and Hebei provinces and Tianjin, before reaching Beijing.
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Hong Kong reported two highly suspected cases of novel coronavirus that caused the pneumonic epidemic outbreak in Wuhan on Wednesday. The infections came after its neighboring cities -- Macao and Shenzhen -- were both found to have confirmed cases of infections earlier.
In the desolate Gobi Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, there are more than 5,000 mounds, known as Yardang landforms. Walking through the area, you can hear the eerie howling winds, which have not only carved this unique landscape but also led people to call it "The Place of Devils".
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