Zhagana Village is located in Yiwa Town, Diebu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, central and western China. With an average elevation of 2800 meters, it belongs to a semi humid climate in the alpine region. The village has four village groups: Dongwa, Yeri, Dari, and Daba. Zhagana Village has a total of 225 households and 1601 people, making it a Tibetan community. The village has 1094 acres of arable land, 125000 acres of grassland, and over 16000 livestock of all sizes. Zhagana Village integrates resources such as stone forests, forests, ancient glacier sites, agricultural culture, pastoral scenery, temples, and Tibetan villages. The main economic sources of the village include crop cultivation, animal husbandry, rural tourism, and understory harvesting. I n September 1925, Joseph Locke, a famous Austrian American botanist, explorer, anthropologist and father of Naxi culture, visited Zagana Village to collect herbarium and seeds. He called it “the Eden of the East”. The reasonable combination and complementary integration of various production activities
such as nomadic, agricultural, hunting, and woodcutting in Zhagana Village has become a model of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. In 2018, Zhagana Village was rated as the “Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems” by FAO. With complete tourism facilities, Zhagana Village is a national 4A tourist attraction, and also rated as the national “key village of rural tourism” by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Zhagana Village warmly welcomes friends from all over the world to come for sightseeing and tourism!
