Baotou belongs to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Baotou is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and a larger city with local legislative power. It is the manufacturing and industrial center and largest city in Inner Mongolia, and the central city of the Hohhot-Baotou-Yin Economic Belt and the Hohhot-Baotou-E urban agglomeration.
It is an important basic industrial base in China and the global light rare earth industry center. It is known as the "Prairie Steel City" and the "Rare Earth Capital".
?Baotou is located in the hinterland of the Bohai Rim Economic Circle and the Economic Belt along the Yellow River. It is located at the southern end of the Mongolian Plateau, the northern part of North China, the central part of Inner Mongolia, and the Yellow River in the south. The Yinshan Mountains traverse the central part of the city, forming three parts: the northern plateau, the central mountainous area, and the southern plain.
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Baotou is an important hub connecting North China and Northwest China. It is a key development area for China and Inner Mongolia to open to the outside world, and one of the railway transportation hub cities in mainland China.
?Extended information Baotou includes Daqing Mountain and Wula Mountain (bounded by the Kundulun River) in the Yinshan Mountains. The average altitude of the peaks is 2,000 meters, and the highest peak is 2,324 meters above sea level.
The city is composed of three parts: the central mountainous area, the northern mountain plateau grassland and the southern plain. The terrain is high in the middle, low in the north and south, and high in the west and low in the east.
The Yellow River flows through Baotou City for 214 kilometers, with two highway and railway bridges flying parallel to the north and south of the Yellow River.
Baotou has a semi-arid mid-temperate continental monsoon climate.
The scenery here is pleasant and the temperature is moderate.
According to the "Baotou City 2011 National Economic and Social Development Statistical Bulletin", the annual average temperature is 7.2°C, the annual average wind speed is 1.2 meters/second, the annual total precipitation is 421.8 mm, and the annual sunshine hours are 2882.2 hours.
The number of days with good air quality of Level 2 or above reached 324 days throughout the year, 3 days more than the previous year.
The Yellow River flows through 214 kilometers in Baotou, with a water surface width of 130 meters to 458 meters, a water depth of 1.6 meters to 9.3 meters, an average flow speed of 1.4 meters per second, a maximum flow of 6,400 cubic meters per second, and an average annual runoff of 26 billion cubic meters.
It is the main water source for industrial and agricultural production and people’s lives in Baotou area.
In addition, rivers such as Aibugai River, Hademengou, Kundulun River, Wudanggou, Shuijiangou and Meidaigou have considerable water flows and are also important water resources that can be utilized.
The total amount of surface water available in Baotou is 90 million cubic meters (excluding the Yellow River transit water).
Groundwater recharge is 860 million cubic meters.
Since the 1950s, Baotou has begun large-scale water resource development, and has successively built many Yellow River water sources, as well as the Orto Kiln, Tuanjie Canal, Minsheng Canal, and Dengkou Water Yangtze Station (a village in Donghe District, different from Ba
Dengkou County, Yannur City), Huajianying Water Source Area and other large Yellow River water pumping projects, successively built Kundulun, Liubaoyao, Shuijiangou and other small and medium-sized reservoirs, and carried out large-scale water resources development.
The domestic, industrial and agricultural water facilities in Baotou have been able to meet the needs of the region's economic and social development.
Baotou City's mountains account for 14.49%, hilly grasslands account for 75.51%, and plains account for 10%.
Among the developed and utilized land, cultivated land accounts for 14.3% of the land area; forest area is 149.2 thousand hectares, and grassland area is 2086.5 thousand hectares.
Most dry crops are grown in the northern hilly areas, including oats, buckwheat, potatoes, flax, rapeseed, etc.
The northern grasslands are rich in sheep, goats, cattle, horses, camels and other livestock.
The southern plain area has fertile soil, a Yellow River (river) irrigation system and groundwater irrigation facilities. The harvest is guaranteed despite droughts and floods. It is rich in wheat, millet, sugar beet, sunflower, corn, sorghum, vegetables, melons and fruits.
In the central mountains, according to preliminary investigation, there are 88 families, 302 genera, and 601 species of wild plants.
Rare species listed as important national protection include Astragalus scutellaria and Mongolian almond.
There are more than 200 commonly used important medicinal materials such as licorice, astragalus, ephedra, red peony root, saposhnikovia, bupleurum, platycodon, polygala, anemarrhena, dangshen, wolfberry, etc.
The secondary forest belts and grassland areas in the mountains are places where wild animals inhabit and breed.
There are 21 species of mammals, among which green sheep and snow leopards are national second-level protected rare animals; roe deer, furry animals, red foxes, badgers, leopards, wild cats, Mongolian rabbits, etc. are protected animals at the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region level.
There are many species of birds, including 25 species of resident birds, 18 species of summer migratory birds, 80 species of traveling birds, and 7 species of winter migratory birds.
Among them, 13 species of rare birds under national protection include: sparrowhawk, great vulture, golden eagle, kestrel, sparrowhawk, etc.