Hongyuan

Hongyuan Top 4 in Amazing Natural Scenery

The air in the county is clean, quiet and peaceful, and the climate is good. The noodles in the restaurant are delicious.

Watch the most beautiful sunset at the Tangke Observatory in Hongyuan. The weather is amazing. Walking on the wooden plank road, it rains on the left and sunny on the right. The scenery is super beautiful. Although the high-reverse climbing is very tiring, it is worth it !

Hongyuan-the only pure animal husbandry county in Aba Prefecture where Tibetans live mainly The Tibetan compatriots’ support to the Red Army delivered supplies and the wounded and sick to the Red Army. Grasslands and swamps played a very important role. Comrade Mao Zedong highly praised the great pioneering work of the "yak revolution" unique to the history of the Chinese revolution in the Red Army's long march on snow-capped mountains and grassland.

There is grassland experience, original yak products, and fresh air

Hongyuan County is the snow-capped grassland that the Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants passed through in the Long March. It was established in 1960 and named "Hongyuan" by the beloved Premier Zhou Enlai. Hongyuan is located on the eastern edge of the "Roof of the World" Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, in the northwest of Sichuan Province, in the middle of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, 450 kilometers from Chengdu to the south and 640 kilometers from Lanzhou to the north. The boundary is divided into two major river systems, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. The average altitude is above 3,600 meters, the annual average temperature is 1.1℃, the extreme minimum temperature is minus 36.2℃, and the annual rainfall is 753 mm. The county covers an area of more than 8,400 square kilometers, governs 9 townships, 2 towns, and 36 administrative villages. It has a total population of 38,000, of which Tibetans account for 74 [%] of the total population. It is the only pure pastoralist mainly inhabited by Tibetans in Aba Prefecture. Ye County.