CIIC:Today's featured article/April 9, 2010

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Shangri-La

On September 25, 1997, Shangri-La was determined to be located in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Zhuang Autonomous Region, after Chinese scholar Xuan Ke's theory was approved by the academic community. The mystery of the century had finally been solved.

In 1933, British author James Hilton described a place called "Shangri-La" in his novel "Lost Horizon." From then on, though many wondered where Shangri-La was actually located, efforts to find it were in vain. Someone once claimed that the mystery would not be solved until the 21st century. (More...)