Jiayuguan City is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Gansu Province, located in the northwest of Gansu Province, in the middle of Hexi Corridor, bordering Suzhou District, Jiuquan City, an important town in Hexi, and 650 kilometers away from Lanzhou, the provincial capital, in the southeast. It is connected to Yumen City, Jiuquan, an oil city in the northwest, and 650 kilometers to Hami, Xinjiang in the northwest; It is bordered by Qilian Mountain in the south and Sunan Yugur Autonomous County in Zhangye City. The northern pillow Montenegro is connected with Jinta County of Jiuquan City, and the middle part is the western edge of Jiuquan Oasis.

Jiayuguan must visit the following tourist attractions:

1, Qilian Mountain

The average mountain range in Qilian Mountain is between 4000 meters and 5000 meters above sea level, and the landform is spectacular. In the virgin forest area of Qilian Mountain, there are157,000 hectares and more than 2 million cubic meters of forest resources, including spruce, cypress, poplar and other trees and shrubs such as whip hemp, black thorn and willow. It is one of the larger forest areas in Qinghai Province. Saussurea involucrata, Bombyx Batryticatus and Snow Mountain Grass are the "three friends who are old and cold" on the snow line of Qilian Mountain.

2. July 1st Glacier

It is 30 kilometers away from Jiayuguan city/kloc-0, which is the nearest glacier in Asia. The glacier tongue part of the glacier is 4300 meters above sea level, the ice peak is 5 150 meters above sea level, the glacier area is 5 square kilometers, and the average ice thickness is 78 meters. The slope is less than 45 degrees and easy to climb. The glacier tongue terminal is carved with a monument of "the green hills are not old, the snow is the head".

3. Guancheng

Located in the middle of the narrowest valley in Jiayuguan, the city walls on both sides of the city pass through the desert Gobi, connecting the Great Wall with hanging walls in Montenegro in the north and the first pier in the world in the south. It is the westernmost pass of the Great Wall in Wan Li in the Ming Dynasty and has been the first pass in Hexi since ancient times.

4. Tower

Jiayuguan is grand in scale and imposing in momentum. The whole building is composed of inner city, outer city and city wall, which is tragic and brilliant. The whole Guancheng building is solid and magnificent, with a trapezoidal shape, with a circumference of 733m, an area of 33,500m2, a height of10m and a piled wall height of1.7m.. The city wall protrudes to the west, and the door opens in the middle. The word "Jiayuguan" is engraved on the threshold.

5. The first pier in the world

The starting point of the first pier at the western end of the Great Wall in Ming Dynasty. The original length, width and height were all 14 meters, and it was a square pyramid. Later, part of the bank wall collapsed, and only the existing pier stood against the wall, which was extremely dangerous.