CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Tuesday, October 27, 2020 | 17 LIFE

Spectacular scenery draws visitors to the Kanas Nature Reserve in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region’s Altay in autumn. YUAN HUANHUAN / FOR CHINA DAILY Xinjiang’s autumnal allure

The brilliance of the region during the season goes beyond vibrant leaves, Yang Yang reports.

utumn is not only arguably the The 33­year­old and her friend, Lan an emerald pond. most spectacular season in the Yun, recently traveled though Xinjiang, The nearby 3,600­square­meter Kok­ Xinjiang Uygur autonomous from Hami northward to Altay via Akasu, tokay Geological Museum details the sto­ region’s north but also is par­ Ili and Karamay. ries of the mine and the science of the ticularlyA spectacular there compared They spent two days hiking in Kanas. minerals. with other places. They hired two guides, rented two horses Fuyun is working to also employ Winter temperatures plummet to below to carry their luggage and slept in tents. nomadic culture to attract visitors and ­40 C. The world is coated in fluffy white. The short videos Shi posted on WeChat increase local incomes. The county’s Altay’s powdery snow makes it an inter­ captured the beauty of the bright leaves, 102,000 people are from 29 ethnic nationally acclaimed ski destination. sunshine, blue skies and turquoise groups. Most are Kazak and share a deep It’s a stark contrast from autumn’s mosa­ springs. They mostly met group tours of connection with horses. ic of yellow, orange and red leaves that elderly photographers along their way. Since 2013, the government has invest­ tinge the mountains and reflect on the “Autumn is the most beautiful season ed 45 million yuan to build a 100­hectare lakes of such places as the Kanas Nature for Kanas, and there are few tourists center devoted to ethnic Kazak horse cul­ Reserve and Koktokay Scenic Area. since Xinjiang has just reopened. That’s ture. Fuyun’s Kazak horse racing was list­ The Tianshan Mountains divide Xinji­ why we went,” she says. ed as a national intangible cultural ang’s 1.66 million square kilometers into “There are lots of rooms available in heritage form in 2014. north and south. Kanas due to the epidemic. Otherwise, all All of Fuyun’s children learn three Northern Xinjiang includes such cities the hotels would be full.” sports at school — skiing, horse riding as the capital, Urumqi, Karamay, Shi and Lan also went to another The No 3 lobe of the rare­metal mine in Koktokay, Fuyun county, Xinjiang and soccer. Tacheng, Altay, Beitun and the Ili Kazak national 5A­level scenic spot, Koktokay, Uygur autonomous region, looks like an upturned straw hat. Schools have hosted horse races at the autonomous prefecture. in Altay’s Fuyun county. PHOTOS BY YANG YANG / CHINA DAILY cultural center every weekend since July The south is home to Kashgar, Aksu It’s the hometown of Chinese writer Li 2019, with about 100 male and female and Hotan. Juan, whose essays about the traditional sunflower fields abruptly thrive near its er they found sand that contained rare students competing, cultural center Diverse geographical features, rich cul­ nomadic lifestyle of the local Kazak eth­ banks. It’s a place that reminds us that metals in the Irtysh’s downstream manager Li Liangliang says. ture and unique cuisines have made Xin­ nic group have been translated into water is the source of life, in every sense. region and traced their origins to Kok­ “Local herders provide the horses, and jiang one of the most popular French and Korean. Koktokay means green wood in the tokay. all the riders are students. Kids usually destinations in recent years, and tourism Autumn is when herdsmen on horses Kazak language and blue river bend in After New China’s founding in 1949, start learning at age 3,” he says. has become a pillar industry. or motorbikes ride beside the roads, driv­ Mongolian. The road to Koktokay passes the two countries signed an agreement to Performances precede the competi­ Over 230 million tourists traveled ing sheep, cattle and camels to their win­ the Irtysh Grand Canyon and the bell­ co­mine the site that ended in 1955, when tion, including girls’ chases (women pur­ there in 2019, 100 million more than in ter pastures. shaped Zhongshan Mountain. China started running it independently. suing their crushes on horseback) and 2014. The region was expecting even Li Juan faithfully records nomads’ People can hike, drive or cycle in a qui­ Rare metals from the mine were used sheep grabbing (developed from when more this year, until the epidemic. migrations and describes the simple white et valley where tall trees, flowers and to make China’s first missile, atomic herdsmen needed to nab sheep on horse­ It reopened to tourists at the start of tents that sometimes stand alone on grass shimmer along the springs. bomb, hydrogen bomb, nuclear­powered back when wolves approached). September, after a six­week lockdown boundless wild land and other times clus­ It’s said a cave in the area is scattered submarine and satellite. Competition distances range from 3 to due to an outbreak in mid­July. ter together near grazing sheep and cattle. with precious stones. The 300­meter­deep pit looks like an 15 km. All A­level tourist spots are admission­ There are occasionally camels, too, espe­ Another major attraction is the Koktok­ upside­down conical straw hat after dec­ “Since 2015, we’ve hosted six big events free to attract more travelers. cially in the Gobi Desert, which hosts little ay National Geopark, where the No 3 lobe ades of exploitation. here. A total of 80,000 people came, and Shi Manlin has enjoyed lower travel beyond scattered stones. That is, aside from of a special mine contains 86 minerals, It measures 400 meters from east to 250,000 people watched online,” Li Lian­ expenses during her travels across the where the sands approach the water, espe­ including 26 that are rare, which equals a west and 600 meters from north to gliang says. country over the past six months after cially the Irtysh River that runs through majority of rare earths on the planet. south. A road wide enough for trucks quitting her publishing­house job since Altay and empties into the Arctic Ocean. The former Soviet Union sent the first coils from the surface to the bottom, Contact the writer at the lift of the COVID­19 lockdown. Tall grass, forests and vast corn and miners to the No 3 lobe in the 1930s, aft­ where the Irtysh’s water seeps in to form [email protected]

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