(2002 est. pop. 27.1 million). Gansu (Kansu) Province is located in northern China at the upper reaches of the Huang (Yellow) River. In the west, the province borders on Qinghai and Xinjiang, in the north on Mongolia, in the east on Ningxia and...

Coordinates: 38°0′N, 102°20′E Gansu (help·info) (simplified Chinese: 甘肃; traditional Chinese: 甘肅; pinyin: Gānsù; Wade-Giles: Kan-su, Kansu, or Kan-suh) is a province located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It...

A province in China's poor interior sets its sights on foreign trade and investment Most of sparsely populated Gansu Province sits between 1,000 and 3,000 meters above sea level. With more than 30 percent of its area covered by grassland, Gansu is a...

A once-sleepy province is waking up When I arrived at the Shanghai train station on a cold February day, it seemed that half of the city's 15 million people had gathered in front of the entrance, and everyone was struggling to be first...

Western sections of the Great Wall of China are being reduced to "mounds of dirt" by sandstorms and may disappear entirely in 20 years, a report said Wednesday.The reasons for the deterioration are entirely manmade, the official Xinhua News Agency said, pointing to destructive farming...

China is forcing nomadic Tibetan herders to settle in towns to clear land for development, leaving many unable to earn a living, a human rights group said in a report issued Sunday.Herders have been forced to slaughter herds of yaks, sheep and goats and Communist...