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I. BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE PEOPLE, LAND, AND ECONOMY OF GANSU         

• Basic Facts, Geography, Natural Resources, Administrative Divisions, Population and Nationalities, Tourism Sites, etc. (Gansu Provincial Government)
• Gansu Province (People’s Daily)
• Population and Family Planning in China by Province: Gansu Province (UNESCAP)
• Report on 2000 Census Results from Gansu (National Bureau of Statistics, in Chinese)

II. HISTORY, CULTURE, AND POINTS OF INTEREST

Overview

• Gansu (China Daily)   

Specific Sites from the Gansu Provincial Government

• Bingling Gorge, Liujiaxia Gorge and Yanguoxia Gorge, Yongjing
• Gannan (Southern Gansu)
• Giant Buddha Temple, Zhangye
• Jiayuguan Pass (the western-most piece of the Great Wall), Jiayuguan
• Kongtong Mountain, Pingliang
• Labrang (Labuleng) Monastery, Xiahe
• Leital Han Tomb, Wuwei
• Maiji Mountain, Tianshui
• Mingha Sand Dunes and Crescent Moon Spring, Dunhuang
• Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang
• Yardang National Geologic Park

Other Information on Dunhuang, the Silk Road, and the Labrang Monastery

• International Dunhuang Project (British Library)
• Dunhuang Studies: An Introduction (Silk Road Foundation)
• A Brief History of the Labrang Monastery

III. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN GANSU EDUCATION AND HEALTH     

• The World Bank (see the World Bank-China Education and Health Projects)
• Department for International Development (See DFID China)
• The European Union (see EU-China Gansu Basic Education Project)
• The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (See Using Distance Education and ICT to Improve Teacher Quality in Nine Poor Counties of Three Western Provinces in China)

IV. US-BASED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING RURAL EDUCATION IN CHINA

• Overseas China Education Foundation (local branch at Penn organized by Wei Zhu, Wharton (see Penn Directory for contact information)
• Phelex Foundation
• Rural China Education Foundation
• Zigen Foundation