Introduce an overview of Golmud

Golmud City Golmud Railway Station longitude: 94.89°, latitude 36.42°. The city government is 338 kilometers away from the state capital and 710 kilometers away from the provincial capital Xining City. It is an emerging industrial city in the west of Qinghai Province. Golmud is Mongolian, meaning a place with dense rivers. Located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it has a vast territory and consists of two jurisdictions, the central and southern Qaidam Basin and Tanggula Mountain Town, which are not connected to each other and are separated by more than 400 kilometers. The basin jurisdiction is on the southern edge of the Qaidam Basin and at the northern foot of the Kunlun Mountains. The Municipal People's Government is located in Golmud. The jurisdiction of Tanggula Mountain Town is in the southwest corner of the province, with an average altitude of 5,400 meters and an area of ??49,557.5 square kilometers. The total area of ??the two parts of the jurisdiction is 126,220.5 square kilometers, which is equivalent to one Fujian Province. The Golmud area has a continental plateau climate, with little rain, windy and drought, long and cold winters, and cool and short summers. The average annual rainfall is only 41.5 mm, but the evaporation is as high as more than 3000 mm. The sunshine hours are long, with an annual average of 3358 hours, and there are sufficient light and heat resources. The area under the jurisdiction of Tanggula Mountain Town has a typical alpine landform and a cold climate, with only winter and summer. The annual average temperature is -4.2℃, the extreme high temperature is 35℃, and the extreme low temperature is -33.6℃. There is no absolute frost-free period. The average annual precipitation is 284.4 mm, and the annual evaporation is 1,667 mm. The salt lake resources in the basin area have large reserves, wide distribution, high grade and many varieties. The total reserves of salt resources in the Qarhan Salt Lake and the East and West Taijinel Mining Area are rare in the world. Their area is equivalent to 50 times that of the Sears Salt Lake in the United States. They are the largest magnesium-lithium salt deposits in my country. Among them, 60 billion tons of modern salt sedimentation minerals, mainly chloride, are concentrated. The reserves and grades of potassium, magnesium, lithium, boron, bromine, iodine, rubidium, etc. rank first in the country. Relying on the rich salt lake, oil, and natural gas sources in the Qaidam Basin, Golmud City's salt chemical industry and petrochemical industry are beginning to take shape. The Qinghai Potash Fertilizer Plant, currently built in the Qarhan Salt Lake District, is designed to produce 1 million tons of potash fertilizer per year. It is the largest base for potash fertilizer production in my country. The refinery in the eastern suburbs of the city, with an annual processing capacity of 1 million tons of crude oil, is a national key construction project. Correspondingly, industries such as machinery, electricity, building materials, automobile repair, fur processing, and food have also developed rapidly. The Tanggula Mountain area is a wildlife nature reserve in Qinghai Province. The plateau's unique wild yak, white-lipped deer, wild ass, snow leopard, snow chicken, black-necked crane, snow lotus, etc. are extremely precious and rare species. Crystal, lead, zinc, coal and other mineral deposits are abundant and await development. Agriculture and animal husbandry are developed, mainly producing wheat, highland barley, potatoes, sugar beets and sheep. It is an emerging industrial city in western Qinghai with electricity, building materials, chemical industry, leather, salt industry, food, automobile repair and other industries as its pillars. Located at the intersection of Qinghai-Tibet, Qingxinxi, Dunge Highway and Qinghai-Tibet Railway, it is a transportation hub in western Qinghai. It can connect to Tibet in the south, the Gansu Hexi Corridor in the north, Xinjiang in the west, and Xining, the provincial capital, in the east. Civil flights can reach Xining, Lanzhou, Xi'an and Lhasa, and it is an important transit station and material distribution center from Tibet to the mainland of the motherland. In 1954, the Altonquke Kazakh Autonomous Region was established. In 1956, the Garmu Working Committee was established. In 1960, it was changed to Golmud City. In 1965, the city was removed and changed into a county. In 1980, it was reestablished as a city (county level) and is now a deputy prefecture-level city. In just 40 years, Golmud has become the second industrial city in Qinghai Province and the center of economy, science and technology, culture and transportation in western Qinghai. The city has a population of 270,000, of which the Han population accounts for 90.2%. The name of the city is Mongolian, which means a place where rivers gather densely. The famous Qinghai-Tibet Railway passes by. Be sure to bring a digital camera when taking the train. The scenery along the way is breathtaking! ! ! The top ten scenic spots include Jiangyuan Glacier, Kunlun Snow Scenery, One-step Natural Danger, Ten Thousand-Zhang Salt Bridge, Salt Lake Mirage, Nachi Fountain, and Kunlun Pass. Area code: 0979 Postal code: 816000 Code: 632801 Pinyin: Ge'ermu Shi.