Lu Wucheng, a senior legislator of northwest China's Gansu Province, was removed from official post and stripped of status as a national law-maker on Sunday.
Chinese archaeologists have discovered more than 40 rock paintings in northwestern Gansu Province that may shed light on nomadic lives thousands of years ago.
Tourists ride camels as they visit the Mingshashan and Crescent Lake in northwest China's Gansu on May 18, 2014.