Ejina Banner, a remote border town

Ejina Banner is located in the border area of ??the motherland. It is not only dry and rainless, but also a magical area surrounded by desert and Gobi.

Ejina Banner is located in the westernmost tip of Inner Mongolia. It is a county-level unit under the jurisdiction of Alxa League, the largest prefecture-level administrative region in Inner Mongolia. The entire banner covers an area of ??approximately 116,000 square kilometers, almost the same area as Jiangsu Province. However, permanent residents The population is only over 30,000. It is a basin-shaped area with high sides and low middle, with an altitude of 898 meters to 1598 meters.

Ejina Banner is the banner-level unit with the largest area and the smallest population in Inner Mongolia. It is home to 12 ethnic groups including Han, Mongolian, Hui and Russian. The landform is mainly desert and Gobi, but there are also a small number of rivers, lakes and grassland oases.

Although it is located in a border area, the transportation here is not backward. Not only does the Beijing-Xinjiang Expressway pass through, but there are also multiple railways and high-end highways connecting Gansu, Xinjiang, and Ningxia.

The Ejina Banner government headquarters is located on a large oasis at the end of the Heihe River. It has jurisdiction over 3 towns and 6 Sumu. Sumu is what we commonly call a township-level administrative district and is also a township-level area unique to Inner Mongolia. administrative unit.

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, due to the melting snow of the Qilian Mountains and the flow of the Heihe River, Ejina Banner, including the Hexi Corridor, became excellent grazing grounds for the Xiongnu.

It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that Huo Qubing led his troops to recover and cut off the green channel connecting the Hexi Corridor to the Mongolian desert. After that, through continuous immigration and reclamation, it gradually became an important frontier fortress town in the past dynasties.

Including the disappeared Blackwater City, they are powerful witnesses to the abundant water and grass in this area in history.

Ejina Banner borders Alxa Right Banner to the east, Jiuquan, Gansu Province to the west, and Mongolia to the north. The land border is 507 kilometers long.

The local economy is mainly based on agriculture, animal husbandry, industry, and tourism. Due to the lack of sufficient water sources deep in the mainland, coupled with the continuous erosion of the Badain Jaran Desert, environmental protection This is an issue that every traveler must pay attention to. Of course, compared with Ejina Banner’s rich agricultural, animal husbandry, and mineral resources, what everyone is more familiar with is the unique desert tourism style here.

When autumn comes every year, the Populus euphratica forest in Ejina Banner becomes a tourist attraction in the hearts of countless travel enthusiasts. Since the end of the Heihe River divides the east and west channels of the Ejina River, a large area of ??dense Populus euphratica forest grows where it flows.

In particular, the East and West Juyan Seas formed by the tail end of the river have been important local water supply areas since ancient times. However, as the environment changed and population activities intensified later, the West Juyan Sea today , has dried up and disappeared in large areas.

In addition to the desert Populus euphratica forest, Ejina Banner is also known as China’s first aerospace port, because Dongfeng Space City, one of the world’s three largest manned space centers, is located in Ejina Banner. Southern Zone.

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