Inner Mongolia has 8.8 million square meters of grasslands, accounting for 22 percent of the national total. I grew up here, but never quite understood the grassland.

Photo taken on September 18, 2012 shows the scenery of wheat field in New Barag Left Banner of Hulunbuir city, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Photo: Xinhua ...

Were Genghis Khan to arrive in Inner Mongolia today and hail one of the many buses that take tourists to the province’s famed grasslands, he would probably ask for his bus fare back. And maybe ...

INNER MONGOLIA, North China — A powerful gale whips up dust from the earth, engulfing elm trees as they teeter back and forth. It’s supposed to be peak sowing season in the Horqin grasslands of Inner ...

The Xilinguole Grassland, one of the world's largest grasslands, is located in the central area of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Its name means "river on hilly lands" in Mongolian.

Grasslands and clear, blue skies define Inner Mongolia.

In China's barely populated Inner Mongolian grasslands, what had defined Mongolian culture for outsiders have long been swapped for leather outfits, motorbikes, cell phones and tourism.

Areas of the grasslands suffered severe degradation and desertification in the late 1990s due to drought and overgrazing. The environment of Inner Mongolia's grasslands has significantly improved as ...

Inner Mongolia has long been known for its natural grassland. As the poem says, “Vast the sky, boundless the wilds, sheep and cattle emerge before your eyes.” Since the 1980s, the tourism ...