A view of Kalajun Grassland after the rain is seen in Tekes County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on July 22, 2026. (Photos: CGTN)
A view of Kalajun Grassland after the rain is seen in Tekes County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on July 22, 2026.
A view of Kalajun Grassland after the rain is seen in Tekes County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on July 22, 2026.
A view of Kalajun Grassland after the rain is seen in Tekes County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on July 22, 2026.
After the rain, Xinjiang's Kalajun Grassland is wrapped in a drifting sea of cloud mist set against the backdrop of layered rolling mountain ranges. Meaning "vast wildland on mountain ridges" in Kazakh, Kalajun is a prime natural alpine wildflower meadow grassland. Recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in the early 1980s as a world-class natural pasture, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List in 2013.