BEIJING, July 30 -- An ethnic minority culture exhibition is attracting hundreds of people in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Photos and cultural relics displayed here are really enchanting, visitors said.

    The event, scheduled from Monday to Friday this week, is one of the six major exhibitions held during the 16th International Conference of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (ICAES).

    Among the visitors are K. P. Singh and Ashok Oraon, two professors from northeast India's Ranchi University. Singh said he was enchanted by what he saw at the exhibition.

    Soundbite: Prof. K. P. Singh, Ranchi University, India "Almost all things here are really enchanting. Most of the costumes were used by the old Chinese dynasties. It is an unique one. It is a cultural heritage of China. All ethnic groups used to have their own costumes. It is really fantastic, highly sophisticated and they present us all with these things in a novel way. It gives us a very good picture of the Chinese cultures, Chinese societies. So I'm extremely impressed by things which have been displayed here. I'm enchanted very much."

    American visual anthropologist Jack Rollwagen used to teach in Shandong University in late 1990s. He said he was impressed by the development of China's anthropological studies.

    Soundbite: Jack Rollwagen, American visual anthropologist "China has made tremendous steps (in anthropology). So it was very enlightening for me to be able to come to China, because we may see occasionally a person (anthropologist) from China in the United States, but here there are so many."

    The exhibition held in nearly 20 booths mainly showcases arts, crafts, working tools, food, costumes and religions of Chinese ethnic minorities.

    Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kunming.