Scientific Sites Tourism Urged in ShaanxiChinese experts and scholars have urged Shaanxi Province, which is well-known for its ancient relics, to make full use of its advantages in science and technology to develop tourism.Shaanxi ranks third in China in the number of universities and research institutes, after Beijing and Shanghai. It has built the country's first agricultural high-tech city, the Xi'an satellite control center and a hall for making artificial rain, and cloned the first live goat from adult body cells in the world. Yu Guangyuan, a leading Chinese scholar and a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said during an inspection tour of this provincial capital that the satellite control center, aircraft company and high-tech development zone in Xi'an should be opened to Chinese and foreign tourists. Tours of historical sites can be arranged together with visits to sites of modern development, he added. Ma Yaofeng, a professor at the Tourism Department of Shaanxi Teachers University, highly praised the practice of organized tours to the science and technology museum and high-tech zones. Shaanxi, on northwest China's Loess Plateau, was one of the cradles of the Chinese nation. Thirteen dynasties made Xi'an their capital. The province has 300 cultural and historical sights, which belong to different periods in history, including the world-famous Qin Shihuang Tomb and terracotta warriors, Famen Temple and Mount Huashan, attracting millions of visitors every year. |
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