Scenic spot introduction - Yumen Pass

World Cultural Heritage - Yumen Pass

Yumen Pass was first built when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened the road to the Western Regions. It was the gateway to various places in the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty. Its original site is in Xiaofangpan City, northwest of Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. During the Yuanding or Yuanfeng period (116 BC to 105 BC), the Great Wall between Jiuquan and Yumen was built, and Yumen Pass was established accordingly. The existing city wall is intact and square in shape. It is 24 meters long from east to west and 26.4 meters wide from north to south. The remaining wall is 9.7 meters high and is made entirely of yellow clay. It covers an area of ​​633 square meters. There is a gate on each of the west and north walls. There is a large east-west carriageway under the north slope of the city. It was the way for communication and postal service between the Central Plains and the Western Regions in history.

On June 22, 2014, at the 38th World Heritage Committee meeting of UNESCO held in Doha, Qatar, the Yumenguan Ruins were successfully included in the World Heritage List as one of the sites of the "Silk Road: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor Network" jointly applied for by China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.