甘肃简介 英语版

An Introduction to Gansu Province 甘 肃 省 简 介
Abbreviation: Gan 甘 or Long陇
Capital: Lanzhou
Area: More than 390,000 square kilometers
Population: 25.68 million
Location: In northwestern China or the upper reaches of the Yellow River

Gansu Province is situated at the joint of the Huangtu (Loess) Plateau, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Mongol Plateau. The provincial terrain varies in elevation, sloping downhill from west to east and from south to north respectively. The Gansu corridor stretches at the province’s northwest part. Most of the rivers in the province belong to the Yellow River water systems. Its climate features both temperate monsoon and continental, transferring from subtropical zone in south to temperate zone northward of semi-arid and arid area.

Gansu abounds in various produces. It has laid its solid foundation on electric power, nonferrous metallurgy, machine building, and petrochemical. Lanzhou’s petrochemical indus