What is 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.

By 2020, Yumen will have a total area of 1.35 million square kilometers, and will govern two old and new urban areas, three industrial parks and 1.2 towns, with a permanent population of 1.66 million, including 29 ethnic minorities such as Han, Hui, Mongolian, Tibetan and Dongxiang.

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Introduction:

Yumen City, Gansu Province is a city born of oil and abandoned by oil. China's first oil city was born here, and the oil fields here once supported China's oil industry. In 2003, workers in the oil industry moved to Jiuquan and Hami due to the shutdown of oil wells.

The residence of Yumen Municipal Government also began to move to Yumen Town, 80 kilometers west, and 90,000 citizens abandoned the city and moved out. Artists Xu Ruotao, Huang Xiang and Shi Jiepeng, a doctor of anthropology from the United States, came to this legendary "ghost town".

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