Artisans and technicians in Dunhuang, Jiuquan city, have been diligently crafting and installing festive lanterns in preparation for the Dunhuang Lantern Festival, which celebrates the upcoming New Year holiday.
In the vast, barren Gobi desert of northwestern China, over 25,000 heliostats arranged in concentric circles span a total reflective area of 770,000 square meters, equivalent to 108 standard football fields.
Jiuquan is famous at home and abroad for its Dunhuang culture, frontier culture and space technology and was selected as "The Most Popular Well-Known Western City".
