Guazhou County belongs to which province and which city.

Guazhou County belongs to Jiuquan City, Gansu Province.

Guazhou County is located at the western end of Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province. Yumen City in the east, Dunhuang City in the west, Subei Mongolian Autonomous County in the north and south, and Hami City in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the northwest. It is a transportation hub connecting Gansu, Xinjiang, Qinghai and Tibet.

The county is185km long from east to west, 220km wide from north to south, covering an area of 24,000km2, with an average elevation of1150-2000m. Area code 620922, postal code 736 100, long distance area code 0937.

In 2022, the county will administer Yolanda Town, Liuyuan Town, Sandaogou Town, Nancha Town, Suoyang Town, Xihu Town, Guazhou Town, Hedong Town, Yaozhanzi Dongxiang Town, Shuangta Town, Bulongji Township, Qidun Hui Dongxiang Township, Shahe Hui Township, Lianghu Township and Guang Zhi Tibetan Township 10 Township.

natural resource

There are two major water systems in Guazhou County, Shule River and Yulin River, with an average annual runoff of 420 million cubic meters. There are 37 reservoirs and ponds with a total storage capacity of 253 million cubic meters, of which Shuangta Reservoir has a storage capacity of 240 million cubic meters, making it the largest agricultural irrigation reservoir in Gansu Province.

In 20 19, the planting area of crops in the county was 705,800 mu, an increase of 78,000 mu over the previous year. Among them, the grain planting area was 73,000 mu, a decrease of 34,000 mu. The total grain output is 37,700 tons. The sown area of cash crops is 458,900 mu, including cotton 1.77 million mu, oilseeds 45,900 mu and Chinese herbal medicines 2 1.66 million mu.

Other crops 173800 mu, including 37600 mu of vegetables, 7 mu of melons, 23200 mu of seed production and 4 mu of green feed11000 mu. In the whole year, the area of artificial afforestation was 0.73 million mu, the area of returning farmland to forest was10.497 million mu, and the forest coverage rate was 6.93%.

1992 Guazhou County is listed as a national extremely arid desert nature reserve. There are 7 species of national first-class protected animals, 20 species of second-class protected animals, 14 species listed in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Animals and 42 species of birds listed in the Sino-Japanese Agreement on the Protection of Migratory Birds.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Guazhou County