Southwest China's Guizhou province, which is relatively economically undeveloped, will step up its efforts to open up to the outside world, said a senior local official on Monday.
Communities are already being transformed in Guizhou province thanks to efforts to make tourism a pillar industry.
More than 500 Party officials in Guizhou took part in the annual retracing of the route of the Long March, a military retreat from 1934 to 1936 by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China.
The Chinese Cultural Heritage Day is held in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province on June 9, 2012.
A group of ethnic artists from Southwest China's Guizhou province bring a series of shows to Beijing, from June 13 to June 26.
Traditional ethnic cultures in China are being increasingly threatened by rapid industrialization and urbanization and should be better protected, said experts who attended a recent forum in southwest Guizhou province.
The first documentary micro-movie from Guizhou province premiered on June 28.
The Guizhou province town was formerly a garrison populated by migrant Han people sent there by Ming Dynasty emperors, but is now concentrating on becoming an eco-museum.
Two villagers cross a gorge on a liusuo, a cable-car-style mechanism between two cliffs, in Shuicheng county, Guizhou province in April.
Life of the Bouyei people