Map of Gansu Province

Author: Cheng Haigang
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Brief Introduction... Gansu Province is located in the northwest of China, a long and narrow province extending from northwest to southeast. The province consists of 14 prefecture-level cities and 86 county-level cities and districts, covering an area of 454,000 square kilometers with a population of 24 million. The provincial capital, Lanzhou, is the political, economic, and cultural center of the province. From southeast to northwest, Gansu transitions from subtropical humid climate to temperate arid climate. The average annual temperature ranges from 0 to 15°C, and the average annual rainfall is between 300 and 500 millimeters.
Historical Culture and Tourism Resources
Gansu has a long history and is one of the ancient cultural cradles of the Huaxia nation. The legendary ancestor of the Huaxia people, Fuxi, was born here and created writing, the calendar, and pioneered the beginning of human civilization. Over 3,000 years ago, primitive agriculture emerged in the Jing and Wei River valleys, marking the start of the splendid agricultural civilization in the Yellow River Basin. Gansu was once the destination of Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, the journey of Xuanzang to India, and the battlefield of Genghis Khan's campaigns south and north.