An exhibition that portrays the cultural and ethnic diversity of Northwest China's Gansu province opened in the Austrian capital on Sunday.

Visitors to the exhibition, which will run until Nov 6, can marvel at 10 thangka paintings (a type of Tibetan Buddhist scroll painting), and 60 photographs showing Gansu province's ethnic cultures, folk customs and landscapes.

Guo Jinshi, director of the information office of the Gansu provincial government, said in a video speech at the exhibition's opening ceremony that he expected the event to serve as a window for visitors to appreciate the culture of western China and to help promote cultural exchanges and friendship between China and Austria.

The exhibition is co-hosted by the information office of the Gansu provincial government and the China International Communications Group.