Introduction to Alxa Left Banner in Alxa, Inner Mongolia

Geographical location Alxa Left Banner is located in the west of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, bordering Bameng Dengkou County, Wulatehou Banner, and Wuhai City to the east; and Ningxia Shizuishan City, Yinchuan City, Qingtongxia City, and Pingxia City to the southeast. Luo County faces each other; it borders Jingtai County and Gulang County in Gansu Province to the south, Zhongwei County and Zhongning County in Ningxia Province; Wuwei City, Minqin County, and Alxa Right Banner in Gansu Province to the west; it borders Mongolia in the north, with a 188.28-kilometer national border. The total area of ??the flag is 80,412 square kilometers, and it governs 10 towns and 13 Sumu. It has a population of 150,000 and 14 ethnic groups including Mongolian, Han, Hui, Manchu, Korean, and Daur. The ethnic minority population accounts for 28.3%. It is a Mongolian country. It is a border flag inhabited by ethnic minorities with Han as the majority and Han as the majority.

The terrain of Alxa Left Banner is high in the southeast and low in the northwest, with an average altitude of 800-1,500 meters and a maximum altitude of 3,556 meters. The entire flag is 495 kilometers long from north to south, 214 kilometers wide from east to west, and covers an area of ??80,400 square kilometers. The total population is nearly 150,000. There are 46,000 square kilometers of available grassland, mainly desert and semi-desert grasslands. The desert covers an area of ??34,000 square kilometers, mainly including the Tengger Desert and the Ulan Buh Desert. Alxa Left Banner is a temperate desert arid area with a typical continental climate, characterized by heavy sandstorms, drought and little rain, sufficient sunshine, and strong evaporation. The annual rainfall is 80-----220 mm, and the annual evaporation is 2900--3300 mm. The sunshine time is 3316 hours, the annual average temperature is 7.2 degrees Celsius, and the frost-free period is 120-180 days.

Natural resources are characterized by wide distribution, high grade, and easy extraction. There are 60 types of minerals and 310 mineral origins, including 14 large deposits, 20 medium deposits, 37 small deposits and 239 mineral sites. There are considerable reserves of coal, salt, saltpeter, gypsum, limestone, iron, copper, gold, graphite, marble, bentonite, dolomite, granite, etc., including 1.47 billion tons of coal reserves, 130 million tons of salt, 49.6 million tons of Glauber's salt, and 100 million tons of gypsum. tons, 440 million tons of bentonite, 38.5 million tons of iron, and 60 tons of gold. The entire flag has 69 million acres of grassland, 1.2 million acres of forestland, and 240,000 acres of cultivated land. In particular, the Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve has 360,000 acres of primary secondary forest, which is a natural ecological barrier for the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and even North China. Alxa Left Banner has successively developed and constructed four well irrigation areas: Yaoba Beach, Chahar Beach, Gelingbulong Beach, and West Beach; and four yellow irrigation areas: Bayin Maodao, Laoya Beach, Shuangjing Beach, and Manshui Beach. , the agricultural products are mainly wheat, corn, sorghum and other high-quality grains, pastures, oil-bearing beans, fruits and vegetables, etc. Alxa Bactrian camels and Alxa-type white cashmere goats are two excellent local livestock breeds, "Wangfu Camel Hair" Won the international "Amika Camel Hair Award" with an annual output of 210,000 kilograms. Alxa type white cashmere, known as the "fiber gem", won the third international "Chaigna Cashmere Award" in Italy. Its fineness, brightness and whiteness rank first among similar products in the world. It is truly the best among cashmere. The annual output is 160,000 kilograms. There are many kinds of wild animals and plants in Alxa Left Banner. The village is rich in traditional Chinese medicines such as Cistanche deserticola, licorice, ephedra, astragalus, and Cynomorium cynomorium, as well as wild animal resources such as snow leopards, argali sheep, wild ass, deer, orchid-pheasant, deer deer, and lynx.

Cultural brilliance] Melodious long tunes, fresh short tunes, highly infectious folk dances, festive Alxa weddings, luxurious Mongolian costumes, mysterious Tibetan Buddhism and Lamaism, grand Naadam, the grand sacrifice to Aobao, the unique ethnic catering, and the rich sports and competitive activities, display the customs and cultural charm of Alxa and become the treasure of our country's national art. This is one of the areas with the best preservation of the traditional Mongolian etiquette in the world.

Industrial Development] The entire flag has formed a coal industry based on coal mining and processing; a salinization and nitrification industry based on salt and nitrate mining and conversion; and a coal industry based on the mining and processing of gypsum, talcum powder, and limestone. Building materials industry; textile industry mainly based on camel hair products and handmade carpets; brewing industry and pharmaceutical processing industry using meat cistanche and Cynomorium as raw materials. Asia's largest metal sodium plant - TEDA Sodium Production Branch, the country's first mechanized lake salt plant "Jilantai Salt Chemical Group", the country's largest anisole production base, the largest fuel production base in northwest China - Alxa The northwest dyeing factory, Inner Mongolia's key chemical factory enterprise "Jilantai Alkali Plant", the high-quality "Taixi Coal" export base, and the "Zhula Gold Mine" with the largest proven reserves in the region are all within the territory of our banner.

In the new century, with the in-depth implementation of the country's western development strategy, Alxa Left Banner creatively proposed a "concentrated development" strategy, firmly grasping the national development strategy.

It will provide favorable opportunities to invest in infrastructure and ecological construction in the western region, further deepen reform, expand opening up, accelerate the process of industrialization, urbanization, agricultural and animal husbandry industrialization, and develop the tourism industry.

The Banner Committee Government regards accelerating industrial development as a breakthrough and issued the "Opinions on Accelerating Industrialization". Relying on superior resources, it further accelerates resource transformation and cultivates eight characteristic industries, including relying on raw salt resources, raw salt-sodium production-dyes, etc. The salt chemical industry is a chain; the coal chemical industry is based on coal resources and has raw coal - fine washing - fine coke as a chain; the nitrate chemical industry is based on Glauber's salt resources and is a chain of Glauber's salt - alkali sulfide - anisole, etc. ; Relying on the high-energy industrial park policy to develop high-energy industries mainly based on metallic sodium and ferroalloys; the gold industry relying on gold resources; the iron-copper mining and dressing industry relying on iron ore resources; relying on wind resources It relies on the wind power industry; the beverage industry mainly focuses on Cistanche deserticola series products and mineral water. By 2010, the GDP of the whole flag is expected to reach 5 billion yuan, the proportion of industry will reach more than 50%, and the per capita GDP will reach more than 20,000 yuan.

Urban Construction Bayanhot is the seat of the party and government agencies of Alxa League and Alxa Left Banner. In recent years, a number of landmark projects such as the New Century Plaza have been built. An office street and a strange stone street have been planned and constructed. We have carried out the "three modernization" projects of road lighting, beautification and hardening, urban water supply network renovation, sewage discharge, sewage treatment and other projects, and built the "Healthy Garden", "Meigui Garden", "Warm Garden", Turgut Community Such as residential areas, the city has a completely new look.

In 1995, Alxa Left Banner formulated and implemented the "Economic Development Strategy Along the Helan Mountains" based on the "Transfer Strategy" thinking of the League Committee and the Administrative Office and combined with the situation of the flag. In the past few years since the implementation of the mountainous strategy, the national economic development has entered the fast lane and the comprehensive economic strength has been greatly enhanced. The GDP achieved the goal of doubling in ten years two years ahead of schedule in 1998. Fiscal revenue exceeded the 100 million yuan mark in 1999. The GDP increased by an average of 100 million yuan per year, and the fiscal revenue increased by an average of 10 million yuan per year. , the economic growth rate has exceeded the national and regional average for four consecutive years. In 2002, the banner's GDP reached 1.1 billion yuan, fiscal revenue reached 135 million yuan, and the per capita disposable income of urban residents and the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen reached 6,037 yuan and 2,580 yuan respectively.

Azuo Banner's transportation, communications, and electric power industries have developed rapidly, and all 23 Sumu towns in the banner have access to electricity, telephone calls, and roads. The international and domestic program-controlled telephone network has an installed capacity of 32,000 lines, and the number of mobile users has reached more than 15,000. The Beijing-Lanzhou Railway, National Highway 110, and Ganwu Line pass through the territory. The three black roads of Uba, Baji and Dayin form the main transportation artery. Among them, the Wuhai-Bayanhot and Yinchuan-Bayanhot highways will be upgraded to first-class highways. They are 130 kilometers away from Yinchuan Hedong Airport and Wuhai Airport. Around the same time, the Lin-Harbin highway and railway are also under construction soon, and the transportation conditions throughout the flag will be more convenient.

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