As the world's deepest canyon, the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon in Tibet stretches for 496 kilometers and runs 6,009 meters at the deepest, surpassing the once-believed deepest Grand Canyon of Colorado in America.

"Yarlung Zangbo River" means "water flowing down from the highest peak" in ancient Tibetan language. The Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon is in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and around the highest peak of east Himalayas-Namjiagbarwa peak (7,787 meters above sea level), forming a huge horseshoe-shaped turn. It's an unusual canyon and the biggest moisture channel of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The canyon area boasts grand and imposing scenery, rich biological resources and ever-changing climate. It's a primitive eco-tourism destination of high values.

But glaciers, precipices, steep slopes, mud-rock flows and billowy rivers are crisscrossing in the whole canyon area, causing great danger. Many areas remain un-traveled and can be called "mysterious regions on the globe".
   
The Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon has a special charm to the people. It's unique environment and rich natural resources are precious treasures of China as well as valuable natural heritage of the whole mankind.