The Yellow River Stone Forest Scenic and Tourist Area is a national AAAA level tourist attraction, a national geopark, and a patriotism education base.
Jingtai Yellow River Stone Forest is located in the southeastern part of Jingtai County, Baiyin City, Gansu Province, adjacent to Longwan Village, Zhongquan Township. It is surrounded by mountains, quiet environment, fresh air and beautiful scenery. Jingtai Yellow River Stone Forest scenic area by the combination of high-grade natural tourism resources, set the east and west, south and north of the natural scenery of the great, rare in the country in the north is unique. Because of its unique shape. Large-scale, scenic combination of superior, can be called "China's natural wonders".
Jingtai Yellow River Stone Forest is located in the southeastern part of Jingtai County in Baiyin City, adjacent to Longwan Village in Zhongquan Township. Here surrounded by mountains, quiet environment, fresh air, beautiful scenery. The ancient stone forest group is the most characteristic and grand in scale, covering an area of about 10 kilometers. The stone forest is made up of orange gravel rocks, with a height of 80-100 meters, and the highest point reaches more than 200 meters. In the scenic area, the canyon is winding, the peaks and forests are towering, the walls are overhanging, the momentum is magnificent, the natural shape is colorful and evocative, and it is characterized by curiosity, majesty, danger, antiquity, wildness, and seclusion. Stone forest landscape and the Yellow River flows in the mountains and water, static in motion. Longwan oasis and dam beach Gobi, two kinds of ecology, a river that separates, contrast, stretching sand dunes and river island far away. The Yellow River nine curves, Longwan more beautiful. Wandering in the scenic area, color, form, danger, straight, bright and quiet, ancient and new changes, quite a natural garden charm. There are many natural attractions in the scenic area, each with its own characteristics. From the Yellow River Shilin scenic area downstream about 48 kilometers, up to the "China's most" reputation of the King Electric Project a pumping station, a rare humanistic landscape, the waterway between the smooth and wide, the two rocky scenery fresh and romantic, if through the boat, there is the icing on the cake effect. Westbound to the top of Shoulu Mountain, you can visit the Ming Dynasty ancient city date Yongtai City.
Introduction of Jingtai County
Jingtai County belongs to Gansu Province, Silver City, east of the Yellow River, west of Wuwei, south of Baiyin, Lanzhou, north of Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, is located in the Loess Plateau and the Tengger Desert transition zone for the eastern end of the Hexi Corridor gateway. Jingtai county has a total area of 5483 square kilometers.1 Jingtai county terrain is high in the southwest, low in the northeast, mountains and hills account for about 3/4 of the county area. the highest elevation of 3321 meters above sea level, the lowest elevation of 1276 meters above sea level.1 Jingtai county is a temperate arid continental climate. The annual sunshine hours are 2652 hours, the sunshine percentage is 60%, the average annual solar radiation is 147.8 kcal/cm2, the annual ≥0℃ active cumulative temperature is 3614.8℃, ≥10℃ effective cumulative temperature is 3038℃, and the frost-free period is 191 days.11 The fruits of Jingtai County are crispy pears, watermelons, apricots, daban, melon seeds, etc.2 The main tourist attractions of Jingtai County are the Yellow River Rock Forest and the Turtle City of Yongtai, etc. .3 In 2011, Jingtai County completed a GDP of 4.334 billion yuan, an increase of 14.6% over 2010 at comparable prices. Among them, the added value of primary, secondary and tertiary industries amounted to 774 million yuan, 2.24 billion yuan and 1.32 billion yuan respectively, with an increase of 6.6%, 19.6% and 13% respectively. The total grain output of Jingtai County is 147,000 tons, the total meat output is 14,900 tons, and the fixed assets of the whole society completes 2.857 billion yuan, up 45.4%. Completed large-caliber financial income of 314.07 million yuan, an increase of 29.93% compared with 2010; completed the total retail sales of consumer goods of 930 million yuan, an increase of 21.8%. The disposable income per capita of urban residents reached 10,494 yuan, an increase of 15.0%, and the net income per capita of farmers reached 4,439 yuan, an increase of 12.7%.
What are the tourist attractions in Jingtai, Gansu?
Gansu jingtai yellow river stone forest print yellow river stone forest is located in the southeast of jingtai county in gansu province in the spring township longwan village, north from jingtai county 70 kilometers, 70 kilometers from silver city in the south, from lanzhou 136 kilometers, scenic spot north of the yellow river main stream longwan river bends, south of continuous erosion of hills, the yellow river from east to west flow through the scenic area. Scenic area covers an area of 34 square kilometers, of which the stone forest area of 10 square kilometers. Geographic coordinates are: 103.33'-104.43' east longitude, 36.43'-37.38' north latitude, altitude between 1340-1600 meters. In January 2004, it was approved as a national geopark by the Ministry of Land and Resources.
The Yellow River Stone Forest was created at the end of the Tertiary and the beginning of the Quaternary geological era, four million years ago. As a result of the Yanshan movement, crustal uplift, riverbed undercutting, coupled with weathering, rain erosion, gravity collapse formed in the yellowish-brown river and lake phase gravel rocks dominated by the stone forest geomorphological wonders. Scenic area of steep cliffs in the air, modeling a thousand forms, peaks and turns, the scene step by step. Stone pillars, stalagmites generally between 80 - 200 meters. Expert inspection and evaluation identified: the Yellow River Stone Forest can be called the Chinese natural wonders, highly valuable for tourism development. Stone Forest scenic area has eight ditches, is in the crust of the strong uplift, the Yellow River valley to form a deep canyon, so that the gully continues to widen, the local light layer in the role of water and gravity quickly cut, along the sides of the gully to form a large number of stone peaks. Stone columns, and at the same time by the wind erosion of the transformation, in the cliff wall formed a lot of such as the window lattice of the structure, in the water erosion. Under the strong effect of water erosion and wind erosion, the present unique landscape was formed. The developed Drinking Horse Gully Grand Canyon has many attractions, such as Lion Dangguan, Falcon Looking Back, Elephant Sucking Water, Thousands of Sails Racing, Taking Scripture from the Western Heaven, Couple Under the Moon, Qu Yuan Asking for Heaven and so on, which are both in shape and spirit, and are very vivid.
The Yellow River Stone Forest is grand in scale and beautiful in scenery. The entire stone forest scenic area of thousands of peaks competing strange. The canyon is winding. Steep cliffs in the air, a variety of stone peaks style magical unique, realistic modeling. Live. From a distance, the peaks as waves rushing, close to see its shape like vivid sculpture, stroll through the scenic area of winding paths, such as into the labyrinth.
The Yellow River Stone Forest Scenic Area will be the Yellow River, stone forests, deserts, Gobi, oasis, farms and other resources are skillfully combined together, water and mountains, static and dynamic combination of magnificent. The area is suitable for exploration, hunting, rafting, rock climbing, leisure and vacation and geological investigation and its majestic, dangerous, strange, ancient, wild, secluded and other characteristics of the western film and television movies, science fiction film location shooting base. After the broadcast of the TV series "Grain Silos of the World", "Hot Land in the West", "BMW of Sweat and Blood", "Amazing Legend", "Dunhuang in the Desert" and so on, the Yellow River Stone Forest has become more famous all over the world. The Yellow River Stone Forest and Shoulu Mountain Forest Park, five Buddha along the temple, Yongtai Turtle City constitutes the Jingtai tourism skeleton, the west and Tianzhu small three gorges, the north and Zhongwei Shapotou and other tourist attractions adjacent to the formation of the golden tourism line.
Jingtai where, introduce the characteristics, folk customs and attractions?
Jingtai
Jingtai County is located in central Gansu Province, east of the Yellow River, west of Wuwei, south of Baiyin, Lanzhou, north of Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, is located in the Loess Plateau and the Tengger Desert transition zone for the eastern end of the Hexi Corridor gateway. The county has a total area of 5,432 square kilometers, with 690,000 acres of arable land, of which 360,000 acres of irrigated land, 5.9 million acres of natural grassland. It has 6 towns and 8 townships under its jurisdiction, 140 administrative villages and 7 community neighborhood committees, with a total population of 233,000 people.
Jingtai has a long history, as early as 4,500 years ago, there are ancestors in this place to flourish, the Western Han Dynasty, the old woman in the county, is the Silk Road on the northern route of the transportation town. 1933 was established in jingtai county, the county name of the "prosperity of the scene, the country of the people's peace" meaning. Abundant light and heat resources, annual sunshine hours of 2725 hours, sunshine percentage of 62%, the average annual solar radiation 147.8 kcal / cm2, annual ≥ 0 ℃ active temperature of 3614.8 ℃, ≥ 10 ℃ of the effective temperature of 3038 ℃, the frost-free period of 141 days, in addition to the Tibetan Plateau in China, one of the richest light and heat resources in addition to one of the regions. Rich in mineral resources, gypsum reserves of 385 million tons, ranking second in the country, more than 800 million tons of limestone, 380 million tons of coal, more than 20 million tons of quartzite, more than 2 million tons of copper, in addition, gold, silver, manganese, nephrite, potter's clay, serpentine also has a certain distribution of the local industry is mainly cement, ferrosilicon, malt, forage, gypsum powder, coal, the six major industries. Irrigation conditions are superior, the territory has "China's most" Jingdian high-lift large-scale irrigation projects in two places, with a total installed capacity of 245,600 kilowatts, water lifting capacity of 28.6 cubic meters / second, is an important irrigated agricultural area in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Convenient transportation, located in the hinterland of the Asia-Europe Continental Bridge, the county is less than 100 kilometers away from the Zhongchuan Airport, Baolan, Ganwu Railway runs through the whole territory, the annual throughput reaches more than a million tons, the provincial highway 201 line, 308 line of grade highway connecting a number of national highways. Convenient communication, with more than 20,000 program-controlled phones, digital cell phone coverage of all townships in the county, Internet connection at home. Power supply is sufficient, with one 220,000-volt transmission line, 14 110,000-volt transmission lines, 8 35,000-volt transmission lines, total installed capacity of 349,000 kilowatts, and annual power supply of 1 billion kilowatt-hours. Tourism resources are unique, there is a national geopark Yellow River Stone Forest, there is a "desert treasure island" Shoulu Mountain Provincial Forest Park, there are five Buddha along the temple grottoes excavated in the Northern Wei Dynasty, there are Yongtai Turtle City, Ming Dynasty, built during the reign of the Ming Dynasty Wanli, the Ming Great Wall. There are 34 kinds of wild animals and birds, 115 kinds of wild plants and more than 60 kinds of forest trees. Produces a variety of agricultural and sideline products, the bulk of agricultural products wheat, corn, barley, mutton, pork; characteristics of the products are desert taro, wolfberry, honeydew melon, honey, white mushroom, large apricot, early pear, large pear dates and so on. Development potential is huge, the upper reaches of the Yellow River Black Mountain Gorge Xiaoguanyin section of the construction of large-scale water conservancy hubs is the ideal site for the dam, available for the issuance of 1.4 million kilowatts of electric power resources, with an investment of 9 billion yuan, the installed capacity of 240 kilowatts of the Jingtai Thermal Power Plant has passed the preliminary examination of the project, and is expected to be constructed ahead of schedule. Numerous natural landscapes and historical sites are increasingly favored by the film and television industry, and have become rare film and television bases at home and abroad. The last winter", "beautiful big foot", "sweat and blood BMW", "the world's grain silo", "western hot land", "amazing legend" and other films and TV dramas were filmed in the Yellow River Stone Forest, Yongtai Turtle City, etc., and the famous CCTV director Yang Asia, Tang Jili, Chen Jialin, etc., have to come to the scene of the directing. Great Dunhuang" film and television city has been completed shooting and open to visitors, there have been a number of film and television drama shooting here, the desert, Dunhuang, oasis, the Yellow River and the grandeur of the West has become a boutique film and television base.
In 2004, the gross domestic product (GDP) of 1.408 billion yuan, an increase of 12.93%, of which 384 million yuan in the primary industry, 456 million yuan in the secondary industry, and 568 million yuan in the tertiary industry, an increase of 4.8 %, 21%, 11.83% respectively. The whole society fixed assets investment completed 435 million yuan, an increase of 35.2%. Completed large-caliber financial income of 61.61 million yuan, an increase of 12.78%. Completed the county general budget revenue of 29.64 million yuan, an increase of 12%. The total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 305 million yuan, an increase of 13%. The per capita net income of farmers reached 2,200 yuan, an increase of 5.2%. The disposable income per capita of urban residents reached 4,761 yuan, an increase of 15.8%. The urban registered unemployment rate was 3.8%. The natural population growth rate was 6.37 per thousand. The county's social and political stability, all causes maintain a good momentum of development.