Why did Yumen in Gansu abandon the city?

In 2009, Yumen City was listed as a resource-exhausted transition city by the state. Without resources, there is no support for urban development. Because there is no oil exploration task, many oil exploration workers have moved their families and the permanent population has decreased. There are few people here, and there is no previous commotion in the streets.

Many buildings began to be abandoned, many business people moved away, house prices fell to freezing point, many young people also went out to work, and only the elderly stayed here. Besides, there are many resource-exhausted cities in China, which have the same fate as Yumen in Dachuan, because of the rise of resources and the decadence of resources.

Introduction to Yumen

Yumen is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiuquan City, Gansu Province. It is located in the northwest of Gansu Province, west of Hexi Corridor, adjacent to Jiayuguan City and Jinta County in the east, Guazhou County in the west, and Subei Mongolian Autonomous County in the north and south. Its geographical coordinates are between 9615' and 98 30' east longitude and between 39 40' and 4 1 0' north latitude.

According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 1 1 on June 2020, the permanent population of Yumen City was 137736.

Total area 1.35 million square kilometers. By 2020, Yumen will have jurisdiction over two old and new urban areas, three industrial parks and 12 towns, with 29 ethnic minorities including Han, Hui, Mongolian, Tibetan and Dongxiang.