Tongliao Municipality Overview
Tongliao (simplified Chinese: 通辽; traditional Chinese: 通遼; pinyin: Tōngliáo) is located in the eastern portion of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, at the intersection of Inner Mongolia and Jilin and Liaoning Provinces, and has an area of 59,535 km2, accounting for 5.4% of Inner Mongolia's total. Its population is 3.1 million. It is the most intensive place of the Mongolian people all over our country. Tongliao Power Station is located here. Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities and Inner Mongolia College of Farming and Animal Husbandry are among the educational institutions of Tongliao. Not far from Tongliao are silica sands. The original Mongolian name for Tongliao is Bayisingtu ('having buildings'). The city is 315 km from Beijing, the capital of China.
Tongliao has a temperate continental climate with a dry, windy spring, a short, rainy summer, a cool autumn and a dry, chilly winter. The average annual temperature is 0-6 Celsius, while the average annual precipitation is 400 mm.
Tongliao is replete with various natural resources. There are 12,500 km2 of forest in the surrounding area, accounting for approximately 21% of the city's total land area. Daqing Valley, a national-level nature reserve, is located in Tongliao. Additionally, Tongliao has approximately 41 various mineral resources such as coal, oil, Niobium, tantalum, beryllium, zirconium and other rare metals. Reserves of natural silica sand rank first in China, while reserves of coal and oil amount to 12.1 billion tons and 800 million tons, respectively.
Tongliao has convenient access to transportation. The Tongliao Airport is seated in the southwest on the outskirts of the city, 7 km from the city's downtown area. It operates flights to Hohhot every two days. Additionally, the Tongliao-Beijing Railway conveniently connects the city with Beijing. State Highway 111, State Highway 303, State Highway 304 and State Highway 204 run through the city and extend to harbor cities such as Tianjin, Dalian, and Qinhuangdao.
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