Dunhuang Movie and Television City

Dunhuang Movie and Television City is commonly known as Dunhuang Ancient City for being part of the ancient city. Located in Gobi desert on the south side of the highways between Dunhuang and Yangguan, it is 25 km away from city center of Duhhuang. Covering and area of more than 10,000 square meters, it was built in 1987 to co-produced movie Dunhuang by China and Japan. Referring to Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival (or Along the River During the Qingming Festival) , a famous painting in the Song Dynasty, it is a movie and television city in the style of Shazhou ancient town. With unique advantage of producing movies on ancient military frontier fortress, it is now the largest movie and television base in China.

Architecture of the movie and television city is of strong northwestern taste with gates on the east, west and south sides and high gate towers. Inside the city there are five major streets name Gaochang, Dunhuang, Ganzhou, Xingqing and Bianliang with temples, pawnshops, store, tea houses, wineshops and resident houses on both sides of the streets. Restoring the majestic post in northwest China during the Tang (618- 907) and Song (960 - 1279) dynasties, it is called "Museum of West China's Architectural Art".