Zhangjiajie

A pristine stream winding through towering sandstone pinnacles, famed for its serene ecology.

Sandstone spires shooting upward like inverted calligraphy brushes amidst a vast sea of peaks.

The highest observation plateau in Zhangjiajie, offering a 360-degree panorama of 3,000 sandstone peaks.

A colossal natural water-eroded cave cut straight through the high mountain cliff like a doorway to heaven.

A ten-mile natural sculpture gallery where the Herb-Gathering Old Man Peak rises in lifelike serenity.

A vertical sandstone pillar towering hundreds of meters, inspiration for the floating Hallelujah Mountains.

A Zhangjiajie local tradition places the opening of Tianmen Cave in Wu Yong’an sixth year, when Sun Xiu interpreted the opening as auspicious and the mountain became known as Tianmen.

In September 1982, the State Planning Commission, acting for the State Council, approved Zhangjiajie as China's first national forest park.

Landscapes Join the World Heritage List

Huangshan was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1990, and by 2017 Mount Wutai, Longhushan, Xinjiang Tianshan, Guilin, Shennongjia, Hoh Xil and other Chinese mountain and landscape sites had followed.

In 1992, Wulingyuan was inscribed for its landscape of more than 3,000 sandstone pillars, ravines, streams, caves, and natural bridges.