Brief introduction of Alashan Zuo Qi in Alashan, Inner Mongolia

Location Alashan Zuo Qi is located in the west of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, bordering Dengkou County, Urad Houqi and Wuhai City of Bameng in the east. Southeast and Ningxia Shizuishan City, Yinchuan City, Qingtongxia City and Pingluo County; South to Jingtai County and Gulang County in Gansu Province, Zhongwei County and Zhongning County in Ningxia; Minqin County, Alashan Right Banner, west of Wuwei City, Gansu Province; It borders Mongolia in the north, with a length of188.28km.. The flag has a total area of 804 12 square kilometers, governs 10 towns, 13 sappan trees and a population of150,000. There are Mongolian, Han, Hui, Manchu, Korean and Daur ethnic groups 14, and the minority population accounts for 28.3%.

Alashan Zuo Qi is high in the southeast and low in the northwest, with an average elevation of 800- 1500m and the highest elevation of 3556m. The flag is 495 kilometers long from north to south and 2 14 kilometers wide from east to west, covering an area of 80,400 square kilometers. The total population is nearly 6.5438+0.5 million. The available grassland is 46,000 square kilometers, mainly desert and semi-desert grassland. The desert covers an area of 34,000 square kilometers, mainly Tengger, Wulanbuhe and other two deserts. Alashan Zuo Qi is a temperate desert arid area, with a typical continental climate, which is characterized by heavy sandstorm, drought and little rain, abundant sunshine and large evaporation. The annual rainfall is 80-220mm, and the annual evaporation is 2900-3300mm. The sunshine duration is 33 16 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 exploitation. There are 60 proven mineral species and 3 10 deposits, including 4 large deposits 14, 20 medium deposits, 37 small deposits and 239 occurrences. Coal, salt, nitrate, gypsum, limestone, iron, copper, gold, graphite, marble, bentonite, dolomite, granite and other reserves are considerable, including coal reserves of 65.438+0.47 billion tons, salt of 65.438+0.3 billion tons, mirabilite of 49.6 million tons, gypsum of 65.438+0 billion tons and bentonite of 440 million tons. There are 69 million mu of grassland, 6.5438+0.2 million mu of woodland and 240,000 mu of cultivated land in the whole flag. In particular, Helanshan National Nature Reserve has 360,000 mu of original secondary forest, which is a natural ecological barrier in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and even North China. Zuo Qi, Alashan has successively developed and constructed four well irrigation areas, namely Yaoba Beach, Chahar Beach, Gelingbulongtan and Xitan, and four yellow irrigation areas, namely Bayin Maodao, Laoya Beach, Shuangjing Beach and Shuiman Beach. Agricultural products are mainly wheat, corn, sorghum, pasture, oilseeds, fruits and vegetables, and Alashan bactrian camel and Alashan white cashmere goat are two excellent local livestock breeds. Alashan white cashmere, known as "fiber gem", won the 3rd Italy International "Chaigena Cashmere Award". Its fineness, brightness and whiteness rank first among similar products in the world, and it is indeed the best cashmere with an annual output of 6.5438+0.6 million kg. There are many kinds of wild animals and plants in Alashan Zuo Qi. There are abundant Chinese medicine villages such as Cistanche deserticola, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, Herba Ephedrae, Radix Astragali and Cynomorium songaricum, and there are wild animal resources such as snow leopard, argali, wild donkey, deer, blue pheasant, roe deer and raccoon dog.

Melodious long tune, fresh short tune, infectious national dance, festive Alashan wedding, luxurious Mongolian costumes, mysterious Tibetan Buddhism, Lamaism, grand Nadam, grand Aobao sacrifice, unique ethnic catering and rich sports activities show the customs and cultural charm of Alashan, which has become the treasure of our national art and one of the most intact areas of Mongolian traditional etiquette in the world.

Industrial development] The whole flag has formed a coal industry mainly engaged in coal mining and processing; Salinization and nitration industry, which mainly focuses on salt and nitrate mining and transformation; Building materials industry with gypsum, talcum powder and limestone as the main mining and processing; Textile industry with camel hair products and handmade carpets as raw materials, wine-making industry and pharmaceutical processing industry with Cistanche deserticola and Cynomorium songaricum as raw materials. TEDA Sodium Company, the largest metal sodium factory in Asia, Jilantai Salt Chemical Group, the first mechanized lake salt factory in China, the largest anisole production base in China, the largest fuel production base in Northwest Alashan Printing and Dyeing Factory, Jilantai Alkali Factory, a key chemical plant enterprise in Inner Mongolia, the export base of high-quality Taixi coal, and the Jura gold mine with the largest proven reserves in the whole region are all in our flag.

In the new century, with the in-depth implementation of the national strategy of developing the western region, Alashan Zuo Qi creatively put forward the strategy of "centralized development" and firmly grasped the country.

It is a favorable opportunity for economists to increase investment in infrastructure and ecological construction in the western region, further deepen reform, expand opening up, accelerate the process of industrialization, urbanization and industrialization of agriculture and animal husbandry, and vigorously develop tourism. Taking accelerating industrial development as a breakthrough, the government of Banner Committee issued the Opinions on Accelerating Industrialization, relying on superior resources to further accelerate resource transformation and cultivate eight characteristic industries, namely, the salt chemical industry based on raw salt resources and taking raw salt-sodium-dye as the chain; Coal chemical industry relying on coal resources and taking raw coal-fine washing-fine coke as the chain; Nitrate chemical industry based on mirabilite resources and taking mirabilite-alkali sulfide-anisole as the chain; Relying on the policy of high-energy industrial park, develop high-energy industries, mainly sodium metal and ferroalloy; Gold industry based on gold resources; Iron and copper mining and dressing industry based on iron ore resources; Wind power generation industry relying on wind resources; Beverage and beverage industry with Cistanche series products and mineral water as the main products. By 20 10, the gross domestic product of the whole flag is expected to reach 5 billion yuan, the proportion of industry will reach more than 50%, and the per capita gross domestic product will reach more than 20,000 yuan.

Urban Construction Bayanhaote is the seat of the party and government organs of Alashan League and Alashan Zuo Qi. In recent years, a number of landmark projects such as New Century Plaza have been completed, and an office street and a strange stone street have been planned and built. The "three-oriented" project of road lighting, beautification and hardening, the transformation of urban water supply network, sewage discharge and sewage treatment projects were implemented, and the "healthy garden", "sweet garden" and Turkut were built.

From 65438 to 0995, Alashan Zuo Qi formulated and implemented the "Economic Development Strategy along Helan Mountain" according to the idea of "transfer strategy" of the League Committee and the administrative office and combined with the flag situation. Since the implementation of the mountain strategy for several years, the national economic development has entered the fast lane, and the comprehensive economic strength has been greatly enhanced. 1998 double the GDP 10 two years ahead of schedule. 1 99 fiscal revenue exceeded1100 million yuan, GDP increased1100 million yuan annually, and fiscal revenue increased1100 million yuan annually. The economic growth rate has exceeded the national and regional average for four consecutive years. In 2002, the gross domestic product reached 1 1 billion yuan, the fiscal revenue reached1300 million yuan, and the per capita disposable income of urban residents and the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen reached 6037 yuan and 2580 yuan respectively.

The traffic, communication and electric power in Azuo Banner have developed rapidly, and all 23 Sumu towns in the whole banner have realized electricity, telephone and highway access. The installed capacity of international and domestic program-controlled telephone networks is 32,000, and the number of mobile users has reached 1.5 million. Jinglan Railway, 1 10 National Road and Ganwu Line pass through the territory. Three black roads, namely Wupa, Baji and Yinda, form traffic arteries, among which Wuhai-Bayanhaote and Yinchuan-Bayanhaote highways are about to be upgraded to first-class highways, about130km away from Yinchuan Hedong Airport and Wuhai Airport, and highways and railways near Harbin are about to be completed, making the traffic conditions of the whole flag more convenient. Brief introduction of Alashan right banner