China has long been among the world’s most populous nations, enduring invasions, floods and other natural disasters to sustain a population that thrived on rice in the south and wheat in the north.

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Fanjing Mountain is an otherworldly place on our planet, where people and our land reach for the heavens, where wildlife makes our Earth theirs, and where the sun and Buddha illuminate our world.

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The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, ...

The area is also host to the country’s only permanent natural waterfall. “Over 60 springs feed into the water stream that extends over 6km and drains into the waterfall that is 13m high ...