jiaohe ruins

Jiaohe Ancient City is an ancient and well preserved city of primitive architecture in the world, and also a complete urban relic that has been preserved for more than two thousand years in China. The Anxi Protectorate, a high military and political institution in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, has long been located in Jiaohe Ancient City. In 1961, it was listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit

On June 22, 2014, at the 38th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee held in Doha, Qatar, Jiaohe Ancient City was successfully listed in the The World Heritage List as one of the sites in the "Silk Road: the road network of Chang'an Tianshan Corridor" jointly applied for World Heritage by China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan