The total driving distance from Linxia to Lanzhou is 150.7 kilometers and the driving time is 2 hours 5 minutes.

Lanzhou is now under the jurisdiction of Chengguan, Qilihe, Xigu, Anning, Honggu 5 districts and Yongdeng, Yuzhong, Gaolan 3 counties, as well as the state-level Lanzhou New District, high-tech development zones and economic and technological development zones, with a total area of 13,100 square kilometers of municipal territory and a population of 3,242,300 people 2016 end of the household registration population.

Lanzhou is a major town on the ancient Silk Road. As early as 5,000 years ago, human beings flourished here. In the Western Han Dynasty, the county was established, and it was called Jincheng in the sense of "Golden City and Soup Pond". At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, Lanzhou was changed to the Lanzhou Governor's Office, and was first called Lanzhou.

Since the Han to Tang and Song dynasties, with the opening of the Silk Road, the silk to the west, Tianma to the east, Lanzhou has gradually become an important Silk Road transportation routes and ports and towns, contact with the Western ethnic minorities of the important capitals and ties, in communication and promotion of economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West has played an important role.

On August 28, 2012, the State Council approved the establishment of Lanzhou New Area, the first in Northwest China and the fifth state-level new area in China. The document clearly stated that the construction of Lanzhou New Area should be taken as an important measure for the in-depth implementation of the strategy of western development, and that Lanzhou should be developed into a modernized metropolis in the northwest region by 2020.

Lanzhou has a complex and varied landscape, with mountains, plateaus, plains, river valleys, deserts, and the Gobi, all of which are of different types and are interspersed with each other, and the terrain slopes down from the southwest to the northeast. The terrain is narrow and elongated, with an east-west length of 1655 kilometers and a north-south width of 530 kilometers. The complex geomorphological formations can be roughly divided into six major terrain regions with their own distinctive features.

Lanzhou terrain is high in the west and south, low in the northeast, the Yellow River flows from the southwest to the northeast, crossing the whole territory, cutting through the mountains, forming a bead-shaped valley between the canyon and the basin. The canyons are ? Bapang Gorge, Chaijia Gorge, Sangyuan Gorge, Daxia Gorge, Wujin Gorge, etc.; Basin has the Xincheng Basin, Lanzhou Basin, Naiwan Shichuan Basin, Qingcheng Shichuan Basin, etc.. And? Huangshui Valley, Zhuanglang River Valley, Yuanchuan River Valley, Datong River Valley and so on.