China: A man plays a sanxian in a park in Wuwei, Gansu Province

The city of Wuwei has a population of around 500,000, mainly Han Chinese, but with visible numbers of Hui as well as Mongols and Tibetans. Dominating the eastern end of the Hexi Corridor, it has long played a significant role on this major trade route.<br/><br/>The city of Wuwei has a population of around 500,000, mainly Han Chinese, but with visible numbers of Hui as well as Mongols and Tibetans. Wuwei's most famous historic artefact, the celebrated Han Dynasty (BC206-220AD) bronze horse known as the Flying Horse of Gansu, was Although the original is now on display in the Gansu Provincial Museum at Lanzhou at Lanzhou, the horse's likeness - depicted at an elegant, flying gallop, with one hoof briefly resting on the head of a flying swallow - is everywhere to be seen, most notably at the center of Wuwei's downtown Wenhua Square.