This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Jiuzhaigou means "valley of nine villages," because it once harbored nine, but other numbers are more significant now.

A Chinese mountain cat captured by an infrared camera in Jiuzhaigou, Southwest China's Sichuan province. [Photo/Chinanews.com] The Chinese mountain cat (Felis bieti), a national first-class ...

Lacime Architects has renovated the Ritz-Carlton Reserve Rissai Valley hotel, located in Jiuzhaigou County, China. After the Jiuzhai Valley earthquake, the original structure and site of the hotel ...