Guizhou Province is a land of mountains, rivers and canyons. In order to pass through this spectacular but rugged landscape, the Chinese have built a number of     1     (bridge).

In fact, three of the world’s five highest bridges     2     (find) in Guizhou, where they carry roads across plummeting valleys. And since December 29, 2016,     3     king of these bridges has been the Duge Beipanjiang, which holds the records     4     the highest bridge in the world.

The Duge Bridge is a concrete cable-stayed bridge that     5     (carry) four lanes across the Beipan River.     6     (connect) Xuanwei in Yunnan Province and Liupanshui in Guizhou, the bridge reduces travel times between the two cities from four hours to just over an hour.

It was a massive construction project. The designers kept having to move the final     7     (locate) of the bridge higher and higher     8     (avoid) caves and cracking in the karst mountains at either side of the valley. The eastern tower of the bridge is 883 feet tall,     9     is up there among the tallest bridges in the world. Even more     10     (impress), however, is the huge expanse between the road deck (层面) and the river below. The deck is 1,854 feet above the average water level of the river.

It took six hours for Liu Yi to get to Tianshui, Northwest China’s Gansu province by train. He     1     (spend) another two hours waiting in a queue and finally got his hands on a bowl of local malatang — a mix of foods     2     (boil) in hot, spicy broth. While choosing the     3     (ingredient) he wanted, Liu picked wide, thin rice noodles and a lot of chillis, along     4     the usual vegetables and meat. Spicy food is a must for Liu, a native of Southwest China’s Sichuan province. “The malatang did not disappoint me. It has a kind of rich     5     (fragrant),” Liu said, after wiping his bowl clean.

The popularity of the dish is     6     (sudden) increasing. Thousands of diners like Liu have been making their way to the little-known northwestern city     7     (try) malatang, overwhelming local restaurant owners and contributing to local wealth. Since early March, videos and photos of Tianshui malatang     8     (go) viral on social media platforms. It all started when a netizen released a seven-second video on Feb 13 that gained millions of views. More vloggers followed suit, and then the tourists began to arrive in groups.

Within a month, bookings for hotel rooms in Tianshui had increased year-on-year, according to Ctrip,     9     online travel platform. Qinzhou district,     10     most malatang restaurants and attractions are located, received more than 770,000 tourists, local authorities said.

China’s “ice city” Harbin in Northeast Heilongjiang Province has definitely become a tourism hotspot,     1    （attract） millions of tourists from home and abroad. Beyond the attraction of ice and snow tourism, the lesser-known     2    （diverse） and rich cultures of local ethnic（民族的） minority groups have also been brought under the spotlight.

At the tourist-packed Central Street, a street famous     3     its Western architecture during different times in downtown Harbin, a group of Aoluguya Ewenki（敖鲁古雅鄂温克民族） people     4    （dress） in their ethnic costumes with seven reindeer（驯鹿） are singing their     5    （tradition） songs while walking down the street. Tourists crowd around them,     6    （excited） taking photos and videos.

The Aoluguya Ewenki is the only ethnic group in China     7     raises reindeer. According to media reports, sometimes people confuse the Ewenki people with the Oroqen people, one of     8     smallest ethnic groups in China. The Aoluguya Ewenki decided to take advantage of the opportunity of Harbin’s booming tourism industry     9    （show） their unique culture and identity to visitors from all over the country.

Since the Aoluguya Ewenki people’s public appearance, more and more local ethnic minority groups     10    （do） the same, with some from other parts of the nation even journeying to Harbin. “If you want to see China’s rich multi-ethnic cultures, you should come to Harbin now,” netizens state encouragingly on social media.

The 2.4-km-long Peljesac Bridge (佩列沙茨大桥), connecting Croatia’s mainland with the Peljesac Peninsula on the country’s southern Adriatic coast,     1     (be) a Belt and Road Initiative project built by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) .

The bridge has     2     (significant) improved people’s lives, cut travel time to the Adriatic coast and increased     3     (economy) opportunities for the region. “This bridge is not a luxury; it is our     4     (necessary),” said Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic when the bridge was opened.

The construction team attached great importance     5     environmental protection. While     6     (build) the bridge, they took different measures to create     7     environmentally friendly site. A bubble curtain, a measure to reduce noise caused by underwater construction,     8     (apply) to decrease the disturbance to the wildlife in the sea and neighboring residents. In addition, oil containment zones were set up at the site     9       (prevent) possible oil leaks.

“I have worked on some other big projects in Europe, but none compare with the Peljesac Bridge project,” Selma Knudsen said,     10     worked as a commercial coordinator on the Peljesac Bridge project.

In Xinjiang, China, the beautiful scenery can often take miraculous forms. Anjihai Town has become famous the world over due to one canyon (峡谷) in particular. The river,     1     originates in the Tianshan Mountains,     2     (rush) down the steep slopes, carving its way through cliffs formed over thousands of years.

The canyon is about 30 kilometers     3     length, with the valley floor being 3 to 4 hundred meters at its     4     (wide), while the narrowest part is only two or three meters. From above, Anjihai Grand Canyon is rich in colors. On either side of the canyon, red sandstone and gray mudstone alternate to create an astonishing landscape. The colors are formed as the river erodes and dissolves the sandstone and mudstone,     5     (draw) abstract pictures on the land. It is one of the most beautiful and yet     6     (virtual) unknown canyons in Xinjiang. Because it is so     7     (hide) and the land on either side of the canyon is the same     8     (high), people sometimes come across it without warning. If they don’t stop in time, they are likely     9     (fall) off the cliff. No wonder it     10     (recognize) as one of the steepest cliffs in China.

Hope Justman, in 81-year-old American, has just completed her 24th trip along the shudao,     1     ancient road system in Sichuan province that dates back to two thousand years ago.

Running for around 1,000 kilometers, the shudao     2    (wind) through mountains and crosses streams, connecting Sichuan province with the northern Guanzhong Plain, which was once the heartland of ancient China.

Justman’s     3    (connect) to the ancient road system dates back to her college days. As part of a course on Chinese literature and art, she     4    (visit) an exhibition in Boston,     5    a painting captured her attention.

In 1997,after reading almost every English travel book, finally she found the shudao     6    the help of local guides. Since then, she has hiked more than 400 km of it.

Justman created a website to share her     7    (photo) of the ancient road network. In2015, a friend shot a documentary about the shudao and uploaded it to YouTube,     8    (earn) the attention of like-minded people, some of whom asked to join the American on her walks.

Last month, she took some of those friends to the Cuiyunlang section of the shudao,     9    (line) by ancient cypress trees with an average age of 1,050 years, the oldest tree being     10    (approximate) 2,300 years old. She and her friends planted two cypress trees, and promised to meet again there next year.

Atule’er village in southwest China’s Sichuan province, known     1     a “cliff village”, has become an Internet-famous tourist attraction.

In the past, villagers used handmade ladders     2     (climb) the cliff when they returned from the outside. According to locals, about eight people died on the “road” while there were more people who fell and     3     (injure). Among those who climbed the high handmade ladders almost every day were 15village children     4     attend the primary school on the lower mountain. Life was     5     (extreme) hard for the village’s 84 needy households.

Chen Jie, a photographer and a     6     (journal), released the report, A Village on a Cliff on May 24, 2016, which revealed the unsafe situation. This aroused concern from the     7     (centre) government and the local government. At the end of 2016, the local government invested over one million yuan in building a 2,556-step and nearly 3-km-long steel ladder,     8     (improve) the travel conditions for locals significantly. Since then, the “cliff village”     9     (witness) steady improvement in its infrastructure (基础设施).

After being covered by5G signals, Atuleer village has become more widely known through live-streaming shows and seen a growing number of tourists. Even the steel ladder becomes     10     must-see tourist spot. In the future, the “cliff village” will become more famous with the help of the government.

Lhasa, the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau, has been the administrative capital of Tibet since the mid-17th century. If you’ve ever had the chance     1     (visit) it, there are many places you.     2     (simple) cannot miss. The Jokhang Temple is like the ultimate hotspot for pilgrims (朝圣者),     3     total must to see. It stands as one of the most appealing sites in Tibet as it     4     (house) the statue of Shakyamuni Buddha that’s more than 2, 500 years old, with tons of people     5     (look) around. The temple surroundings have become quite commercialized over the years.

The Barkhor Street,     6     all high tech has been used to create a good atmosphere, is a popular place for     7     (local) and now for tourists. The local crew teamed up with the brainiacs from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and built this wireless street lamp network. No more     8     (mess) wires ruining your view so now you can become completely involved in the scenery     9     anything that turns your attention away.

You can find many surrounding sites attractive and get almost everything here: beautiful objects, a constant stream of tourists and some seriously passionate pilgrims. All this is     10     makes this place a magical one-of-a-kind destination.