CHONGQING, April 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Wushan County of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality plans to launch an archaeological tourist route to trace and study the palaeoanthropological cultural ruins in Longgupo, the prestigious ruins of prehistoric man. according to a local source.

    Experts from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences spotted the fossils of ape-man dating back 2.04 million years at the site of Longgupo in Miaoyu Town of Wushan County in the 1980s. The findings were named "Wushan Man" by the archaeologists.

    The Wushan County is striving to make the ruins in Longgupo into a national ecological park and launch archaeological inspection routes to encourage foreign and domestic tourists to visit.

    The travel route will start from Fengjie County of Chongqing Municipality and pass through a number of caves and waterfalls before reaching the ruins and the Research Institute of "Wushan Man."

    The tourists will also have the chance to view the specimen andfossils of the prehistoric man and see models of how he might havelived. Enditem