A local rider performs to entertain the tourists in a grassland near Chifeng, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Sept. 27, 2006. The region, featuring beautiful scenery, rich ethnic costums and long-history cultural heritage, is now attracting tourists from at home and abroad, witnessing a sharp increase of tourism income in the recent five years.

A tourist takes photos in a birch woods in Bayan Obo near Chifeng, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Oct. 6, 2006.

Tourists are wolcomed in a local fashion in Hexigten Qi near Chifeng, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Oct. 2, 2006.