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	wuhai city introduction
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·area：1754 square kilometre ·longitude：106° 48' 东 ·latitude：39° 41' 北 ·altitude：1092 m ·population：41 0000 ·postcode：016000 ·areacode：0473	Wuhai city, which is a municipality directly under the local government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, lies in the west of Inner Mongolia and is a new industrial city with natural resources. In the year of 1988 it was established as an experimental area of Inner Mongolia economic structural reform and an open city to foreigners, and enjoys the limits of authority of provincial management. Wuhai City ,with abundant natural resources, serialized process of production to make it complete, and enjoying exceptional advantages ,is a piece of hot land yet to be explored. After 40 years’ development, especially after carrying the policy of reform and open, and backed by resource advantages ,Wuhai makes efforts to improve the investment environment ,to expand openness ,and to strengthen the comprehensive economic strength .Its GDP increases 40 times than in 1950s’,and it has set up as industrial economic system with five main support industries :coal ,chemical engineering ,building materials ,metallurgy and mechanic engineering, and it has a suburban agricultural system with production and deep-processing of vegetables and fruits. Wuhai has rich and particular tourist resources and has extreme value of exploration, with its convenient transport and communications, perfect functions of basic facilities , flourishing markets and strong radiation strength. In July of 1996, it was established by the National Building Ministry as a pilot city of urban construction of national factory areas. Wuhai is located in the west of Inner Mongolia, at the upper reaches of Huanghe River, bordering Ningxia. It is the joint between the North China and the West China ,an important hub of communications of the Northeast and the North China to the West China, and it is a binding site of “Nin-Men-Shan” Economic Zone. the center of economic zone along Huanghe River, and the east gate of exploration in Xinjiang,Gansu and Ningxia. It occupies an important position in the West Development Strategy carried by the country. Wuhai’s climate is temperate continental climate, with distinctive four seasons, cold winter and hot summer. There is a big temperature difference between day and night ,with the maximum temperature of 40.2 degree C ,minimum of -36.6 degree C. The annual average maximum temperature is 16.1 degree C, minimum 3 degree C. Frost-free period is long, with 156-165 days of annual average frostless season. Duration of sunshine is long, with 312 hours of annual sunshine. With rich energy resource of visible light, the city is one of the regions which has most sufficient light and heat resources to develop farming and breeding and high-efficient farming. The yearly rainfall in the city is 162mm,and the maximum evaporation capacity is 3375.7mm. In the city there are 37 varieties of proven minerals, of which there are 25 varieties of demonstrated reserves, mainly including coal ,limestone ,silica , kaolin, ,quartz-sand, quartzite, disabuse, dolomite limestone, ordinary clay and magnet, lead and zinc etc. Among them the demonstrated reserves of raw coal is 4,200,000,000tons,the rest of which is coking coal except 100,000,000 tons of weak caking coal, covering 82% of the total reserves of coking coal in the Autonomous Region. The future reserves of limestone are 20,000,000,000tons, the total reserves of high-quality quartz-sand and quartzite are 5,000,000,000tons,and the reserves of coal-measure hard kaolin is over 1,000,000,000tons .In the neighborhood there are rich salt, alkali, reussin and Taixi coal. With big reserves , high quality and good collocation conditions of these minerals, they are the important raw materials in developing the products .of chemical engineering, building materials and high-consumed energy industry. There are great potentialities in Wuhai’s tourist resources, with famous scenery, such as the cliff paintings of Zhuozi Mountains, stone inscriptions of “six-character true statement” in Wulunmu Mountains, the Magic Chasm , Huyang Island, The Yellow River ,shoal island in The Yellow river and the grassland of west Erdos. Five places of Zhuozi mountain cliff paintings have been discovered, of which the biggest one is in Zhaoshao valley, and others are in Shubaiyin Valley, Maoer Valley,and Kucai valley etc. The cliff paintings are mostly the pictures of human faces, animal figures, hunting activities, signs etc, with varied and colorful contents and vivid images, they are rare unearthed cliff paintings at home and abroad. The cliff paintings in Zhuozi mountains were done in the New Stone Age ,and are the traces of historical culture of the northern hunting ethnic groups. They have strong color of primitive religion and have a style of their own in craving, particularly, the cliff paintings with human faces are the quintessence of the human face cliff paintings of China and the world. The cliff paintings have rich cultural intentions and important aesthetic values, so Zhuozi Mountians has become a well-known tourist spot in our country. 　 Another scenic spot is the Magic Chasm in Gandeer Mountains and it is called “A Break in the clouds”. The Chasm is about 250m long ,and on either side, the peaks of grotesque shapes tower aloft ,as though they were split and chopped with axes and choppers. The narrowest spot is only one or two meters wide. When one walks through about one hundred meters through, one may see a huge stone happen to get stuck between the two peaks , settling high up in the air, which makes one feel wonderful , meanwhile, adds a shade of mystery to the whole chasm. The Yellow River flows through the city gently , naturally forming many bigger and smaller beach islands, of which the famous ones are Lihuazhong flat and Huyang Island both of them are rare islands in Huanghe River ,covering an area of 3500mu. Lihuazhong flat surrounded with green trees, and a long stretch of reed grass, so that it appears a natural view. Huyang Island is famous for its diversiform leaved poplars that mean Huyang trees in Chinese. There is a reach of tall diversiform-leaved poplars that form a green and luxuriant forest, with the river flowing around the island, which is really a wonderful view of The Yellow River. 　 In the neighborhood there are also quite a few tourist spots, and the famous ones are Helan Mountain natural scenic spot, the Tomb of Western Xia Regime ,the Sand lake and the Tomb of Genghis Khan etc.

wuhai city introduction