Stock Photo: Dukezong Ancient Town, Shangri-La County
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Dukezong Ancient Town, South-east of Xianggelila, Shangri-La County。Shangri-La was formerly called Zhongdian County but was renamed on 17 December 2001 and upgraded into a county-level city on 16 December 2014 as Shangri-La after the fictional land of Shangri-La in the 1933 James Hilton novel Lost Horizon, in an effort to promote tourism in the area.Dukezong or Dorkhar is a Tibetan town in Shangri-la County, The town is over thirteen hundred years old.
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