The "Harmonized Silk Road & Beautiful Gansu" themed float

The “Harmonized Silk Road & Beautiful Gansu” themed float is presented by Gansu as a gift to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Being 15 meters long, 6 meters wide and 10 meters high, it integrates 16 different local elements of Gansu, such as Jade ruyi (a traditional Chinese mascot), the Galloping Flying Horse, Mogao Grottoes, rocket carrier, Qilian Mountain, loess plateau, flying apsaras, auspicious clouds, the Yellow River, Danxia landform, prairie, glacier, oil field, wind power, terraced landfield, rape flowers, etc. Utilizing the artistic forms like sculptures, embossment and oil paintings, it fully displays Gansu’s splendid culture and magnificent scenery where people of 14 ethnicity living happily together, demonstrates Gansu’s great economic and social achievement 70 years on, as well as people’s new morale in the new era for poverty reduction and hometown building, expressing 26 million Gansu people’s dearest wishes to their motherland upon its 70th birthday.

The float is steel structured and made of 20 tons of stainless steel and 2 tons of oil paint. There are nearly 100 people participated in its design and production for 6 months. Exquisite in design and rich in content, it is a mobile artwork foreseeing an even more auspicious and joyful future. The derivative products of the float are in supply.