
Since the completion of the Sanmenxia Damn, Sanmenxia City, a richly endowed land, has emerged as a boom town. The only city where swans inhabit along the Yellow River and an important birthplace of the Yellow River Culture, the place is reputed as a gem studded along the banks of the Yellow River. In history, Sanmenxia was an economic and cultural centre of this border area. There are many places of historic and cultural interests, such as Guo Kingdom Museum, Hangu Pass, the Cauldron Casting furnaces of the Huangdi Emperor and the Baolun Temple Pagoda, one of the four echo architectures in China.