Introducing  

Gansu Province 

Introduction

Gansu is located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, known as a cradle of the Chinese civilization. The province covers an area of 425,800 square kilometers and has a permanent residents of 25 million. Divided into 14 municipalities and prefectures, Gansu has a long and slim shape with a length of 1,655 kilometers from east to west and a width of 530 kilometers from north to south, with mountains, plateaus, plains, river valleys, deserts and gobi-deserts crisscrossing all over the province.

Gansu has a number of pillar industries that include petrochemicals, nonferrous metallurgy, energy, machine building, electronics, building materials, pharmaceuticals, foods, textiles, manufacturing, aviation and space industry. The province has 10 civil aviation airports. The Zhongchuan International Airport links the capital city of Lanzhou with 120 cities in China and beyond with more than 15 million passengers each year. one can also easily reach Gansu from Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’an and Guangzhou by high speed train.