Alxa League Overview
Alxa League (Mongolian: , Alaša ayimaɣ, Chinese: 阿拉善盟; pinyin: ālāshàn Méng) is situated at the northwest of Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region, administering 3 Banners (County) including Left
Banner, Right Banner and Ejina Banner containing totally 23 Sumus (Township)
and 190 Gachas (Village). Alshan is a Mongolian name which means "Hot
Spring". With the largest area of 270,000km2 and the least population of
200,000 in
Landscape of Alshan features great
grasslands, within the terrain of which four great grasslands: Mongolian
Grassland, Xilinguole Grassland, Ke'erqin Grassland and Hulunbuir Grassland
meer, and rolling and endless mountains, the
Alshan is well-known to Chinese tourists
and is beginning to be heard of among foreign travelers for Alshan Ski Resort,
which is
Alxa League possesses the vast land with the land area per capita of 1.35km2 developed in form of the typical ecological economic model. It has usable pasture area of 150 million mu, the arable land of 3 million mu, among which 400 thousand mu has been developed with the green plantation of cotton, sweet melon and organic vegetables in top quality. Also, the significant ecological barrier is formed as one important components of “Three-North Shelter Belt” with its rich forest resources, mainly including the natural second-forest of 540,000mu, diversiform-leaved poplar of 440,000mu in Ejina and natural sacsaoul forest distributed from east to west Alxa League.
Alxa’s bactrian camel and cashmere goat are the local prepotent sire. Camel hair and cashmere produced with high quality received the awards of the American Amika and Italian National Chaikena separately.There are plenty of rare and valuable herbal medicines and biological resources with great potential for development such as desert ginseng, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, C.songaricum Ruqr, Ephedra sinica, Lycium Barbarum L.,salinity algae, S.alopecuroides and Artemia.
With geological prospecting, 84 minerals
have been explored, among which the reserves of lake salt,anthracite and
granite rank first in
Alxa is the typical mid-temperate
continental climate with great potential for future development of solar and
wind energy. Ceke –
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