The ranking of tourist attractions in Ningxia is Helan Mountain Rock Painting Scenic Area, Shahu Lake, Shuidonggou, Helan Mountain Suyukou National Forest Park, Zhenbeibao Western Cinema, Xixia Mausoleum and Shapotou Zhongwei. Helan Mountain is worth visiting compared with Shahu Lake and Shuidonggou.

Shuidonggou tourist scenic spot in Ningxia is the earliest Paleolithic cultural site excavated in China, which is known as "the birthplace of prehistoric archaeology in China" and "the historical witness of cultural exchange between China and the West", and is listed as one of the "111 archaeological discoveries with the greatest significance of Chinese civilization" by the state. Shuidonggou ruins tourist area is located in the core of Yinchuan Hedong tourist belt, which is the link connecting Ningmeng tourism.

The rock paintings of Helan Mountain have peculiar compositions and grotesque images: there are both individual images and combined pictures; There are not only figures and faces, but also symbols of animals, celestial bodies and plants and symbols with unknown meanings; In addition, there are pictures depicting nomadic, hunting, fighting, dancing, acrobatics and other scenes. The rock paintings of Helan Mountain are generally distributed on the mountains inside and outside the gully mouth and on the alluvial fan desert grassland outside the gully mouth.

Ningxia Shahu Eco-tourism Zone is a tourist pearl on the "Silk Road Station", which integrates the exquisite water town in the south of the Yangtze River and the majestic desert in the north of Saibei. The main attractions include Shahu International Sand Sculpture Garden, Bird Island (Bird Paradise), Hudong Wetland (Bird Observatory), Xinmen District Square, Shahu Inscription Stone and other redundant landscapes.