| Gansu--Survey |
| Friday,April 27,2007 Posted: 14:50 BJT(0650 GMT) MOFCOM |
(i) Geographic and Main Cities Gansu situated at the geographical center of China, lying on the upper reaches of the Yellow River and has a vast area. Gansu province is lying between 32°11′ - 42 °57 ′of north latitude and 92 °13 ′-108 ° 46′of east longitude. It meets Shanxi in the east, nears Sichuan in the south, joins Qinghai and Xinjiang in the west, and leans on Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and border on Mongolia in the north. The total land area of Gansu Province is 425,800 square km and ranks the seventh place in China. Gansu is a mountainous province and the major mountains are Qilianshan Mountain, Wushaoling, Liupanshan Mountain, Aerjinshan Mountain, Mazongshan Mountain, Helishan Mountain, Longshoushan Mountain, Xiqinshan Mountain and Ziwuling etc. Most of them orientate from northwest to southeast. The forest resources are centralized in these mountain areas and most rivers form their headstreams from these mountains. The landforms are complex and complextypes, the mountainous regions, plateaus, plains, river valleys, deserts and Gobi are in staggered distribution. The topography shapes long and narrow aresa with the length 1,655 km from the east to west and the width 530 km from north to south, and can divide into the 6 large regions with different features: Longnan mountainous region, Longzhong loess plateau, Gannan plateau, Hexi corridor, Qilian mountain area and north area of Hexi corridor. Gansu Province, Long for short, has 12 prefectural level cities of Lanzhou, Tianshui, Baiyin, Jinchang, Jiayuguan, Wuwei, Qingyang, Pingliang, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dingxi and Longnan and 2 autonomous prefectures of Linxia and Gannan. There are 4 county level cities, 58 counties, 7 national autonomous prefectures and 18 districts under city’s jurisdiction all together. The capital of the province is Lanzhou Municipality. (ii)Climate Gansu is located at the joint area of three plateaus of Loess P l a t e a u , Q i n g h a i - Tibetan Plateau and Mongolia Plateau. It has various climates of north subtropical zone, high and cold area and dry area from southeast to northwest. The climate of Gansu Province is dry, the daily difference in air temperature is large, the sunlight is sufficient and sun radiation is strong. The annual average air temperature is between 0-14 ℃ and reduces from the southeast to the northwest; the annual average air temperature in Hexi Corridor is 4-9℃ and the annual average precipitation is about 300 mm. The precipitation varies greatly from place to place between 42-760 mm and reduces from the southeast to the northwest. Gansu has sufficient sunlight and rich light energy, the number of hours of annual sunlight can reach 1,700-3,300 hours and increases from the southeast to the northwest. (iii) Population and Nationalities By the end of 2005, the total population of Gansu Province reached 25,943,600, in which the urban population was 7,788,300, and the rural population was 18,155,300 and accounted for 30.02% and 69.98% of total population respectively. The birthrate was 12.59‰ , mortality was 6.57‰，natural growth rate of the population was 6.02‰。 Gansu is a multinational province, now the whole province has 54 minorities and the total population of minorities amounts to 2.199 million and accounts for 8.7% of the total population of Gansu Province. There are 16 main minorities of Hui, Tibetan, Dongxiang, Tu, Yugu, Baoan, Mongolia, Sala, kazakstan, and manchu etc., living in the province for generations. At present, there are two nationality autonomy prefectures of Gan and Linxia, 7 autonomy Counties of Tianzhu, Sunan, Subei, Akesai, Dongxiang, Jishishan and Zhangjiachuan and 39 nationality villages in Gansu Province. The land area of the autonomy areas has reached 179,000 km2, which accounts for 39.8% of the area of Gansu Province. (iv) Infrastructure and Transportation Highways At present, the fi ve highways leaving from Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu Province, are all high-speeded and connected with all capital cities in neighboring Provinces with expressways. There are 72 national highways and provincial highways that are linking vertically and horizontally. The cconstruction of the project of renovation of highway network in Gansu Province is strengthened continuously and rural highway construction is accelerated in steps obviously. By the end of 2005, Gansu Province had completed 463 km of new-built highways of B-level or above, of which 320 km of expressway. The expressway construction in Gansu Province has made a breakthrough of 0km to 1,000 km. The three provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia have realized connection with expressways and have realized the goal of tar highway connect from cities to counties and from counties to villages. Railway Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province is an important traffic and communication hinge and staple center in Northwest of China. The railway net consists of 6 trunk railways of Longhai (Lanzhou, Gansu – Lianyungang, Jiangsu), Lanxin (Lanzhou – Urumqi, Xinjiang), Baolan (Baotou, Inner Mongolia – Lanzhou), 10 branches and 317 special lines taking Lanzhou as the center and linking the province with the outside world closely. And we have constructed the railway connecting the countries of Commonwealth of Independent States at Ala Mountain on the basis of Longhai Railway, as well as multiple track of Lanxin Railway, and second line of Baolan, this will make Gansu the traffi ce center for northwest area and the hinge of the communication of from north to the south. Airport ansu Province has established 4 civil airports of Lanzhou Zhongchan, Dunhuang, Jiayuguan and Qingyang. There are more than 40 domestic airlines that connect 37 large and medium cities as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Guilin, Chengdu, Xi’an, Urumchi and Shenyang and there are also two airlines direct to Hongkong and Singapore. Transportation capacity In 2005, various transportation means completed 85.51 billion ton-km of goods turnover, 28.831 billion person-km of passengers transfer. The number of civil motor-vehicles in Gansu Province have reached 457,700.  Finance and Insurance By the end of 2005, the total assets of banking financial organizations in Gansu Province amounted to 343.712 billion Yuan and banking financial organizations have realized 775 million Yuan of profit, the Chinese and foreign currency balance reached 293.137 billion Yuan and the balance of various RMB loans reached 192.346 billion Yuan. Insurance revenue in Gansu Province in 2005 was 4.824 billion Yuan, of which property insurance income 1.297 billion Yuan, life insurance income 3.098 billion Yuan, health insurance income 290 million Yuan, and the accident insurance income 139 million Yuan.   Post, Telecommunication and the Internet Gansu province has completed 13.777 billion Yuan of total business of post and telecommunications in 2005, in which 13.065 billion Yuan is for telecommunication service and 0.717 billion Yuan for postal service. The general capacity of exchangers amounted to 6.93 million sets by the end of the year. The telephone subscriber reached 5.4804 million in 2005, in which, 3.9529 million are for urban users, and 1.5275 million for rural users. There are 4.0844 million mobile users and the popularization rate of telephone has reached 36.34 sets/100 persons. At present, 10,397 domain names, 3,985 CN domain names, and 2,855 websites have already been applied for in Gansu Province. (v) Foreign Exchange States of Sister Friendship Gansu Province has established friendly provinces and states with 14 administrative regions of foreign countries.  Cities of Sister Friendship 5 cities and prefectures of Gansu Province has established twin cities with 13 administrative regions of foreign countries.  International Exposition and Conferences China Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair China Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair have been successful conducted for 13 sessions continuously and it is a grand meeting in economy and trade in the west of China. China Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair has insisted the theme “opening, exploitation, cooperation and development” and is becoming a general layout by taking investment negotiation as the key point, to accelerate the activities by taking investment and trade, and taking professional exhibition, series cultural tourism as the major content. The fair possesses strong west features and has become an important window of Gansu and even the west of China opening to the outside world and the major channel for inviting investment. The 13th China Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair in 2005 has signed 41 key contract projects all together, and the total amount signed has reached 5.544 billion Yuan, and it is planning to introduce in 5.135 billion Yuan of domestic and foreign fund.  (vi) Higher Education and Scientifi c Research There are 12 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering in Gansu Province. There were 33 colleges and universities in Gansu Province in 2005, and there were 229,500 undergraduate students and 14,900 postgraduates in colleges and universities. There was 1 newly-built national engineering research center and 2 state-level technological centers of enterprises (group) qualifi ed in 2005. 634 scientific and technical payoffs above provincial or ministry levels have been obtained all together. 1,759 patents applications have been accepted and 547 have been authorized. 1,877 technical contacts were signed in 2005 and the sum of money of the technical contracts closed and dealt reached 1.72 billion Yuan. (vii) Tourism Gansu Province is located at the golden section of the Silk Road, it has not only abundant historical cultural heritages and human cultural sights, but also multiform natural landscapes. The scenery o f m o u n t a i n s a n d r i v e r s a r e beautiful and charming. In 2005, the Province received tourists for about 12,078,500 person-times. Scenic Spots Gansu Province now has 17 China AAAA level tourism scenic spots,167 China AAA level tourism scenic spots. There are 43 places are state key cultural relic protection unit and 477 places are of provincial level. There are 4 national-level tourist attactions, 4 state level scenic spots, 4 state level geological parks and 6 China excellent tourism cities, namely, Lanzhou, Tianshui, Jiayuguan and Dunhuang etc. Gansu Province has“ World Artistic Treasure-house” Dunhuang Mogao Grotoo, “Desert Miracle” Mingsha Mountain and Yueya Spring in Dunhuang; the biggest scale wind erosion landform in the world- Dunhuang Yadan National Geology Park; “Eastern Sculpture House” Tianshui Maiji Mountain;“ The First Taoist Religion Mountain in China” Pingliang Kongtong Mountain;“ The First Impregnable Pass of the Great Wall” Jiayuguan; Excavation place of China travel sign of East Han Dynasty Bronze Galloping Horse-Leitai Han Dynasty Tomb; one of the six largest suzerain temple of Tibetan Buddhism- Lapuleng Temple; the biggest interior reclining Buddha temple in the world- Zhangye Great Buddha Temple;“ Green Corridor” Lanzhou Yellow River Customs and Practices Line; the most beautiful plateau grassland in China- Gannan Prairie as well as Yongjing Yellow River Three Gorges scenic spots that collect the biggest ancient dinosaur footprint fossil group in the world, ancient grotto and reservoir and wetland sight on one area. Characteristic Merchandise (1) Cultural tourist products: Reader magazine, Bronze Galloping Horse, Jiuquan luminous cup, Mogao characteristic products, Lanzhou engraving calabash, Lanzhou dipping snuff, Lintao inkstone, Tianshuicarved lacquerware, Qingyang aromatic bag and scissor-cut. (2) Characteristic vegetable and fruit: Lanzhou Bailan Melon, Kushui rose, Lanzhou lily, Lanzhou peach, pear, soft pear, Tianshui Huaniu apple, Longnan Chinese goosebeery, Longnan persimmon, osmund, Kangxian agaric, day lily, Gangu chili, Linze red date, Hexi narrow-leaved oleaster and Shaji. (3) Characteristic material of traditional Chinese medicine: Milkvetch, Minxian angelica, desert saline cistanche, Suoyang, liquorice and Zushima. (4) Local produced wine: Longnanchun and Jinhui liquor, Zhangye Nanjiu, Bingzhou Qujiu, Hongchan special liquor, Linxia yellow wine, Mogao red wine, Qilian red wine and Guofeng red wine. (5) Characteristic farming byproduct: Potato, alfalfa, beer barley, hop, oil olive, vintage grape, splendid achnatherum, white yak, domestic goat and domestic fur as well as kinds of crops’ seed. Characteristic Food L a n z h o u B e e f N o o d l e s (hand-pulled Beef Noodles) is the most famous flavor snack and most characteristic and popular economic snack. Beef Noodles become famous in China and foreign countries with its beef thoroughly cooked, soup fresh and noodles fine. The famous local flavor snakes also include three unique in Gansu Province of ham, preserved ham and donkey flesh, as well as cured mutton and salted meat, bully beef, bittern meat,“ one stamp”, “Sky Stars”, leek steamed stuffed bun, steamed stuffed bun with pork and mutton, buckwheat noodles, rice powder, cooking starchs’residue, sweet oil cake, jellied bean curd, naked oats fermented glutinous, sticky rice, fermented glutinous rice and Niangpi etc. |
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