{"id":61,"date":"2015-08-08T17:19:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T17:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.themevan.com\/citynews\/?p=61"},"modified":"2021-11-26T05:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T05:23:06","slug":"chenlu-an-old-hub-for-ceramic-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/2015\/08\/08\/chenlu-an-old-hub-for-ceramic-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Chenlu, an old hub for ceramic making"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Located in the mountainous area of Tongchuan city, Northwest China\u2019s Shaanxi province, Chenlu is an ancient town known for its kilns and ceramics. On its loessial land of dozens of miles around, big and small kilns dot everywhere. As the biggest ceramic kiln in Shaanxi province, the Yaozhou Kiln in Chenlu has its fires blazing for more than 1,400 years. The ancient ceramic handicrafts are handed down to the generations today.<\/p>\n

Chenlu formed its distinctive rural features during the long history of ceramic making. Pots make its village walls, and ceramic pieces make the roads. More than 120 kilns in Chenlu ancient town were named the national key cultural relics protection units in 2006.<\/p>\n

People in Chenlu still live in caves as their ancestors did. The yard of a person’s cave house is often the cave roof of another. The roads in the town paved with ceramic shards and failed pottery works have withstood the vicissitudes of the ancient town, and are witnessing the diligence of Chenlu people today.<\/p>\n

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative has set one of the country’s western provinces up for tourism-led growth.<\/p>\n

Northwestern China’s Gansu province, known for its Mogao Buddha grottoes and Silk Road relics, is seeing more growth from tourism than traditional heavy industries.<\/p>\n

The province, once considered a strategic corridor connecting ancient Chinese dynasties with Europe and the Middle East along the Silk Road routes, saw its economic growth outperform the country’s average of 7.4 percent last year, thanks to tourism-related services that overtook manufacturing as the biggest pillar of the local economy.<\/p>\n

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“Tourism is becoming a new driver for the economy in a change of gears,” said Wang Fumin, deputy director of the province’s tourism bureau. “It creates consumption, spurs investment and could also be billed as a service export.”<\/p>\n

Both visitor numbers and tourism revenues have seen an average of 30-percent annual growth over the past four years in Gansu. More visitors are expected this year, with growth during the first half already hitting 25 percent.<\/p>\n

The boom in tourism is mainly fueled by two things. The first is China’s grand Belt and Road Initiative, proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping to build stronger economic and cultural links with countries situated along the ancient Silk Road via both land and sea, which is raising more awareness among travelers of Gansu’s Silk Road legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Located in the mountainous area of Tongchuan city, Northwest China\u2019s Shaanxi province, Chenlu is an ancient town known for its kilns and ceramics. On its loessial land of dozens of miles around, big and small kilns dot everywhere. As the biggest ceramic kiln in Shaanxi province, the Yaozhou Kiln in Chenlu has its fires blazing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}