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GANSU |
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"Gan"
is the abbreviation for Gansu Province. The name Gansu was originated
from the Gan Prefecture and the Su Prefecture of the province
in the ancient time. Gansu was once abbreviated as "Long" in history
as there is a Mt. Long within the boundaries of the province.
It is an inland province in the northwestern region of China,
located at the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Geographically,
it is situated between 92กใ 10' and 108กใ46' E, and 32กใ31' and 42กใ47'
N. The province neighbours |
| Inner
Mongolian Autonomous Region and the People's Republic of Mongolia
to the north, the provinces of Sichuan and Qinghai to the south,
Sha'anxi Province to the east and Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
to the west. It has an area of 454,400 square metres in total.
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| Administrative
Divisions |
| With
Lanzhou as its capital city, the province administers 5 cities
at prefecture level, 2 autonomous prefectures, 8 cities at county
level, 60 counties and 7 autonomous counties. |
| Natural
Resources |
| Gansu
is rich in natural resources. Its land area covers 45.4402 million
ha. The land area per capita amounts to 2 ha, topped the fifth
in the nation. In addition to the areas which are unable to be
utilized directly, such as deserts, Gobi, marsh lands, stony hills,
glacier and those covered with ever-existing snow, there are still
27.3141 million ha. of land available for production and construction,
covering 60.11% of the total. The afforested area reaches 3.9665
million ha. There are 54 breeds, including some sub-breeds, of
wild animals in the province filed on the list of the rare and
precious ones in the whole country. |
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one of the nation's major bases for animal husbandry, the meadow
area of the province stretches for 15.7529 million ha., covering
34.67% of its total land. Its hydro-power reserves available for
development amount to 10.6889 million kw with annual output of
electricity being 49.298 billion kw. |
| Gansu
possesses abundant reserves of minerals in varies kinds, listed
as below: |
| Energy
minerals: |
| coal,
petroleum, oil-shale, natural gas and hot water from terrestrial
heat |
| Ferrous
metals: |
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14 kinds, e.g. iron, manganese, vanadium, chromium and subsidiary
materials used in metallurgical process such as the fluxes limestone
and dolomite |
| Non-ferrous
metals: |
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exist 28 metals with reserves already probed, including non-ferrous
metals, noble metals, rare metals and some dispersed mineral elements.
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Non-metallic ores for chemical production: |
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9 kinds in total with probed reserves, such as sulphur, phosphorus,
serpentine and mirabilite |
| non-metallic
ores for building construction: |
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14 kinds with probed reserves, such as asbestos, muscovite, gypsum
and limestone |
| Agriculture
& Industry |
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Main crops in Gansu: |
| Wheat
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Maize
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| Potato
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Millet
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| Huma
(an oil crop similar to the rape-seed plant) |
Dengshen (Codonopsis pilosula) |
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Rape-seed |
Sugar-beet |
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Cotton |
Hemp
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| Tobacco
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Chinese
angelica |
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| And
there are fruits and vegetables in various kinds produced in the
province. |
| Animal
husbandry is also an important economic sector in Gansu. Livestock
and poultry can be found here in different variety. Gansu is famous
domestically for its fine breeds such as Hequ horse, Shandan horse,
Minxian (county) black sheep, Hezuo pig, Jingning chicken and
Gansu twin-hump camel. Pisciculture is now engaged here in over
20,000 ha of water area with more than 100 breeds of fish. |
| With
its forest resources and land areas suitable for afforestation,
the province has taken a vigorous move to developing forestry.
Its forestry system is formed by timber woods, shelter-belt trees,
forest for special-usage, economic forest and fuel forest, with
some fine varieties such as fir, dragon spruce (Picea asperata),
Chinese pine (Pinus tabulaeformis), Huashan pine, oak, poplar
and birch. The overall reserves of the forest available for timber
amount to 174 million cub m. |
| Industry
is the leading sector in the province's economy. With its priority
in rich resources, Gansu stresses the development of basic industries.
Today, a mechanism of industrial production has taken shape in
the province with heavy industry as the major part and both light
and heavy industries well coordinated. The structure is mainly
built up with some ten major industries, such as coal, petroleum,
electricity, metallurgy, machine building, chemistry, building
materials, forestry, food processing, textile and paper making.
Gansu has now become an important base for producing non-ferrous
metals, electricity, petro-products, chemicals, petro-machinery
and building materials. |
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Please also see: PROMOTE TOURISM OF GANSU PROVINCE IN DEVELOPING
WEST CHINA, |
| TOURISM
RESOURCES IN GANSU PROVINCE, |
| ADMIRE
GANSU SPECIALTIES IN TOURING WEST CHINA and |
| TRAVEL
AGENCIES IN GANSU PROVINCE |
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