Diqing (Shangri-La) in brief
"Shangri-La", a name of wonders to many people... Located in northwestern Yunnan Province, the place also known as "Zhongdian (中甸)" in Mandarin Chinese or "Gyeltang", "Gyalthang" in Tibetan is the capital of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, a primarily Tibetan county in southwest China. Even if the exact situation of this dreamland isn't very clear, the place is still the cradle of dreams and wonders of travelers to China and the Tibetan region. Shangri-La is tremendously known all over the world thanks to the British writer James Hilton's fictional novel: "Lost Horizon".
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