Located on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in western China, Qinghai Province is the birthplace of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and the Lancang River, and is known as the "source of rivers" and the "water tower of China". There is the Qinghai Lake, the largest inland saltwater lake in China, which gives Qinghai Province its name. The province covers an area of 722,300 square kilometers, with an east-west length of more than 1,200 kilometers and a north-south width of more than 800 kilometers, and governs six states, one prefecture, one city and 51 county-level administrative units, with a total population of 5.18 million in 2000. Qinghai is a multi-ethnic region, the main ethnic minorities are Tibetans, Hui, Mongols, Salarians, and Turks, and the ethnic minority population accounts for 42.76% of the province's population. The neighboring provinces and regions are Tibet, Xinjiang, Gansu and Sichuan. The climate of Qinghai Province is a typical plateau continental climate with long sunshine hours. The provincial capital Xining City and Haidong area has no scorching heat in summer and no severe cold in winter.
Qinghai Province is mountainous and watery. The main peaks of the major mountain ranges are generally above 4,500 meters. The Kunlun Mountains are the main body of the Qinghai mountain range, with an average elevation of 5,500 meters; the Tanggula Mountains straddle the southwestern part of Qinghai; the Arjinshan Mountains and Qilian Mountains are located in the northwestern part of Qinghai; in addition, there are also famous mountain ranges such as the Ba'erkala Mountains and the Animaqing Mountains. There are many rivers in Qinghai, with 2,043 large and small lakes within its territory, and a total water body area of 13,665 square kilometers.
Qinghai is a resource-rich province, very rich in natural resources. Various types of minerals have been found 123 kinds of minerals in the proven mineral reserves, 53 kinds of minerals in the country's top 10, 11 kinds of the first in the country.
Since the founding of the country, Qinghai's national economy has achieved sustained and rapid growth. With the goal of building a socialist market economic system, the reform of the economic system focusing on the reform of state-owned enterprises has made significant progress; the pace of opening up to the outside world has been accelerated; the social undertakings focusing on science and technology and education have made progress in all aspects, national unity and social stability, and the people's living standards have been improved year by year. Significant progress has been made in resource development, and a number of key national construction projects have been completed one after another.
Qinghai's infrastructure has improved greatly, Lanqing and Qinghai-Tibet Railway runs through the province to the east and west, and there are 8 pairs of passenger trains to Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Qingdao, Lanzhou, Golmud and other large and medium-sized cities. Road transport has formed a transport network centered on Xining and radiating across the province. Civil aviation has opened flights from Xining to Beijing, Urumqi, Lanzhou, Xi'an, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shanghai, Shenyang, Wuhan, Lhasa, Golmud and other places. Post and telecommunications, communications equipment is relatively advanced, Xining and most of the states and counties of the program-controlled telephone can be directly to all parts of the country and more than 160 countries and regions.
Over the years, Qinghai's research, education, medical care, urban construction and environmental protection undertakings have developed at a relatively fast pace, and the contribution rate of scientific and technological progress to economic growth has been increasing year by year, with education and other social undertakings being generally emphasized by the whole society. The strategy of "science and education for the development of Qinghai" is being fully implemented,
In order to speed up the process of the development of Qinghai's advantageous resources, Qinghai Province firmly implement the open door, out of Qinghai, the introduction of joint efforts, all-round opening up of the policy, has formulated the preferential policies to attract investment, the development of horizontal economic cooperation and collaboration. Constantly adjusting and enriching the foreign investment project database, actively and sincerely looking for partners. The "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for the modernization of Qinghai, the main tasks are: laying a solid foundation; focusing on ecology; adjusting the structure to create characteristics; reform and opening up to promote the development of relying on science and technology to increase efficiency.
Forward to the twenty-first century, the western development will become the strongest voice of China's economic development, Qinghai's economy will also be accelerated into the development of the track. Advancement of drums, trumpets frequently urged, Qinghai people of all ethnic groups are hesitant, depicting a more glorious new Qinghai.
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