China's Secret Lands

The natural barriers in China's remote southwestern frontier create isolated pockets of culture, incubating some of the world's most extraordinary ways of life.

Tibet is the rooftop of the world, the highest plateau on earth and an extreme high-altitude environment where people have lived for five thousand years.

The vast expanse of Xinjiang is set to take a pivotal role again as China builds 21st-century trade routes to take its goods to the world, as in the ancient Silk Road.