Racing to capture ancient sites By CHEN LIANG | China Daily | Updated: 2026-10-06 07:48

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202610/06/WS6ac43766e4b06d4aa05616ee.html Drone photographer Rong Kaiyuan has spent two decades building a photographic record of historical sites. Over the past 20 years, he has traveled across 30 provincial-level regions and 196 prefecture-level administrative areas. He has systematically surveyed and photographed more than 1,700 nationally protected cultural relic sites, accumulating hundreds of thousands of aerial images.