Where is
Gansu Province
Gansu Province
Gansu Province is located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in northwest China. It covers an area of 425,800 square kilometres and has a population of 26.47 million. Divided into 14 municipalities and prefectures, Gansu has a long and slim shape with a length of 1,655 kilometres from east to west and a width of 530 kilometres from north to south, with mountains, plateaus, plains, river valleys, deserts and gobi-deserts crisscrossing all over the province. Lanzhou is the capital city of the province. The climate in Gansu is typical arid in most areas. Gansu is home to many ethnic minorities, among which Yugur, Dongxiang and Bao’an are unique to the province, and Gannan and Linxia are two ethnic minority autonomous prefectures that it has.
Gansu province, known as a cradle of Chinese nationality and its civilization, is home to 7 world cultural heritage sites, 61 national intangible cultural heritage programs, 73 state key cultural relic preservation units, 337 Buddhist cave temples, 4400 km of the Great Wall, and 7000 ancient cultural sites. In 2019, Gansu received 374 million both domestic and foreign tourists, and the revenue of tourism has reached 26.8 billion Yuan.
Gansu is rich in mineral and energy resources. 119 varieties of minerals, in which 11 rank top one including nickel and cobalt and 33 top five nationwide. Coal, petroleum, hydropower, nuclear power, solar power and wind power all hold out considerable potential.
The province 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. And the province is blessed with some favourable conditions for agricultural production, such as broad terrain, long sunshine hours and sharp temperature gap between day and night. It is among the top suppliers of meat, hide, wool, milk and cashmere in the country. At the same time, it is a main producer of traditional Chinese herbal medicine, offering over 9500 kinds of medicinal herbs including wild herbs which ranked second in the country. The GDP of Gansu in 2019 was 87.17 billion Yuan.
The province, being a golden section of the Silk Road, is the transportation and communications centre as well as the trading and logistics hub of northwest China, with the new Eurasian Continental Bridge running across the province from east to west. There are 10 civil airports including Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport in Gansu with 17.96 million passengers a year, and 4000 km expressway, 5000 km railway and 1215 km high speed train.
