YAN'AN, July 8 (Xinhua) -- After months of interviews in Yan'an of northwest China's Shaanxi Province in the 1930s on the arid Loess Plateau, U.S. journalist Edgar Snow turned his experiences into "Red Star Over China," a book that brought the remote yet resilient land to international audiences and, for the first time, fully and honestly presented the Communist Party of China (CPC) to the world.

Steeped in revolutionary history, Yan'an is home to 445 revolutionary sites, 19 revolutionary memorial halls and 43,000 revolutionary cultural relics, a powerful draw for tourists seeking to connect with the past. Follow our lens to take an aerial view of today's Yan'an.