Sharing the treasures

A group of around 150 people now provide guide services in six languages to tourists who visit the famed Mogao Grottoes

Bian Lei is 31 years old, and he has visited the Mogao Grottoes, a 1,600-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site in Dunhuang, Gansu province, more than 5,500 times over the last decade.

As a professional guide at the site, he walks tourists around the many Buddhist sculptures and frescoes there every day.