Wuwei City Public *** Resources Trading Center

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Wuwei, referred to as "Wu" or "Liang", was known as Liangzhou, Guzang and Yongzhou in ancient times. It is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Gansu Province and approved by the Gansu Provincial People's Government. It is an important node city in the Gansu section of the Silk Road Economic Belt, a national historical and cultural city, and a central city in the Hexi Corridor. As of 2020, it governs 1 district, 2 counties and 1 autonomous county, with a total area of ??32,300 square kilometers, and is home to 41 ethnic groups including Han, Tibetan, Hui and Mongolian. According to the seventh census data, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Wuwei City was 1,464,955. ?[1]?[3]?[89-90][92]?

Wuwei is located in northwest China, in the middle of Gansu Province, at the eastern end of the Hexi Corridor, bordering Lanzhou to the east, Xining to the south, and Xining to the north. It is adjacent to Yinchuan and Inner Mongolia, and connected to Xinjiang in the west. It is an open city named by the State Council, a regional central city determined by Gansu Province, and an important traffic pass city in the west. Wuwei has many places of interest and historical sites, and its natural landscape and history and culture complement each other. It has been named a national historical and cultural city, an outstanding tourist city in China, and a Chinese wine city. ?[3-4]?

Wuwei has a long history. As early as four or five thousand years ago, northern ethnic groups such as Rong, Cui, Yuezhi, and Wusun lived together. It has a history of nearly 2,200 years since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Hussar General Huo Qubing to an expedition to Hexi, where he defeated the Xiongnu and demonstrated the "martial power" of the Han Empire. Because Wuwei is located at the strategic point of the ancient Silk Road, it was the economic hub between the Central Plains and the Western Regions in ancient times, the place where the culture of the Central Plains and the Western Regions blended and spread, a key pass in the western section of the Silk Road, and a city where Chinese and foreign merchants gathered. All dynasties have visited here. Wuwei established a county and a government. ?[2-3][5-7][95]?

In 2014, Wuwei Bonded Logistics Center was jointly approved by the national ministries and commissions to establish, becoming the first special customs supervision zone in Gansu Province; in December of the same year , the China-Europe freight train "Tianma" was put into operation; in 2016, the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government decided to use the province's efforts to accelerate the construction of Gansu (Wuwei) International Dry Port, and the construction of Gansu (Wuwei) International Dry Port rose to the forefront of the province's opening up and Strategic aspects of developing an export-oriented economy.