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The Mogao Grottoes, a world heritage site in northwest China's Gansu province, have handled a record one million visitors so far this year.
Bolstered by the weeklong National Day holiday, the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang has seen its highest number of annual visitors since it was opened in 1979.
The number of visitors surpassed 6,000 daily for the past three months. The number reached 10,000 on some days during the period.

Visitors now have to book their tickets ahead of time.
The 1,600-year-old Mogao Grottoes was China's first UNESCO World Heritage site. There are more than 700 caves which are home to more than 2,000 colored sculptures and 45,000 square meters of frescoes.
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Beijing's Zhong-guan-cun, one of China's leading technological hubs, plans to upgrade its core 7-kilometer-long street area into one serving innovation and business start-ups.
Under the plan, the area will include key universities including Peking University and Tsinghua University, as well as electronics shopping centers. Some 3 dozen office buildings are on both sides of the street, which houses more than 6,000 companies.
The street will focus on providing services to boost technological financing, innovation and business start-ups, creative culture as well as industries related to information, big data and smart hardware.

In June last year, a 220-meter-long section of the street was transformed and has attracted some 40 companies serving business start-ups.
The street aims to realize a remarkable improvement in serving innovation by 2020.
The technology area based in Haidian District became China's first innovation demonstration zone in 2009 and aims to become a technological innovation center with global influence.
In the first eight months of this year, revenue from the high-tech firms in Zhongguancun reached 2 trillion yuan, roughly 330 billion U.S. dollars, up 10 percent year-on-year.