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Dunhuang is a county-level city in the westernmost part of Gansu Province and a national-level historical and cultural city. Before it was converted into a city in 1987, it was just a small county. However, the popularity of this remote small county far exceeds that of Zhongzhou County. It is not only well-known at home and abroad, but also admired by the whole country and the world. Dunhuang played a huge role in the cultural exchange between the East and the West in ancient times. Dunhuang has been an ethnic inhabited area since ancient times. Many ethnic groups such as the Han, Yuezhi, Xiongnu, Di, Qiang, Xianbei, Tubo, and Uighurs have thrived here. It has played an important role in the formation and development of China's unified multi-ethnic country. The art of the Dunhuang Grottoes, mainly including the Mogao Grottoes, and the tens of thousands of ancient documents preserved in the Mogao Grottoes' Sutra Cave have fascinated countless literati and contributed to the birth and development of Dunhuang Studies, an internationally renowned study. This has also made Dunhuang's history and culture shine.