Xigu District has a total area of 385 square kilometers, with 40 administrative villages in 5 townships and 1 township, 69 communities on 9 streets, and a current population of 366,000 people. 2016 annual GDP of 31.35 billion yuan, an increase of 5.3%; total investment in fixed assets of the whole society of 24.82 billion yuan, an increase of 12%; total social consumer goods Total retail sales amounted to 12.23 billion yuan, an increase of 9.8%; general public **** budget revenue amounted to 1.28 billion yuan, an increase of 10%; per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents reached 32,348 yuan and 15,790 yuan respectively, an increase of 9% and 10.5%.
West has a long history, was once the county seat, the seat of the Western Qin capital, known as the northwest border town, the Silk Road, the ancient road known as the key. Accompanied by the development of historical and cultural heritage, close to the reform and opening up the beat of the times, the ancient Silk Road culture, the Yellow River culture, stone culture and modern industrial civilization in the mingling here, casting the Xigu "open and progressive, inclusive" of the city's personality and quality of the city. With the implementation of the development strategy of "One Belt, One Road" and the accelerating pace of the construction of the regional modernization center city of Lanzhou City, Xigu District adheres to the strategic layout of "Four Comprehensives", and tightly focuses on "Innovation, Coordination, Green, Open, **** enjoy the "five major development concepts, to the district party committee "three major strategies" for the program, in accordance with the grasp of the "three major industries", accelerate the "three major construction", promote the "three major service management", "three major service management", and "three major construction". The four major tasks are: construction of small towns, renovation of the main city, ecological environment management, and social public **** services, and strive to make Xigu District a humanistic Xigu, energetic Xigu, and happy Xigu.
The Yellow River in the urban area through the city, the South Mountain lush and beautiful, the North Mountain Danxia handsome, the heart of the river reeds. Sanjiangkou thousand acres of wetland, Dachuan thousand acres of jujube garden, Hekou Ming and Qing Dynasty ancient dwellings, Shichuan hundred years of ancient waterwheel, clip beach island and moon island resort and leisure area, Chaijiatai primitive historical relics and other attractions dotted, forming a unique western flavor of the Yellow River terraced tourism; Guanshan primitive forests, the Nanshan Forestry, the Yuanxuan mount, the stone ping ecological park and other scenic areas of lush vegetation, constituting an ecological barrier to the Xigu and the forest tourism belt; Lanzhou petrochemical, CNNC, Lanzhou Aluminum Plant, Veolia Water Group and a large number of industrial sites built during the first three five-year plan periods of the country, endowing Xigu with rich industrial tourism resources. With the ecological tour along the river, primitive forest tour, industrial site tour "three" boutique line to build, Xigu will become an important regional tourism distribution center and destination.
Xigu adhere to the synchronous promotion of industrialization and urbanization, coordinated development, the city's functions are becoming more and more perfect, the exchange of foreign information is very convenient; Hongsheng Shopping Plaza, China Resources Vanguard, Hualian Supermarket, Gome Electrical Appliances, ceramics wholesale market and other characteristics of large shopping malls and professional markets, as well as financial and insurance outlets, various types of medical and health care institutions all over the urban area, which can provide residents with convenient and efficient services. The district has the advantage of the best basic education resources in Gansu Province, with 3 provincial demonstrative secondary schools, 7 municipal demonstrative secondary schools, 12 municipal standardized secondary schools, and the average on-line rate of the college entrance examination reaches more than 97%.
Xigu enjoys a unique advantage in Lanzhou traffic, located in the national urban system of 9 major integrated transportation hubs, 21 logistics nodes, 18 railroad container center station, adjacent to Lanzhou Zhongchuan Airport, the regional traffic advantage is obvious. Highway: 109 National Highway, 312 National Highway and Lanhai Highway are important transportation hubs connecting Qinghai, Xinjiang and Tibet, and are organically connected with Liuzhong, Bailan and Lanlin highways around Lanzhou, as well as the soon-to-be-constructed Nanshan Transit Highway and South Bypass Highway to form an all-around, convenient and fast transportation network. Railroad: Longhai, Lanxin, Lanqing, Baolan and Lanxin Second Line and other railroad lines intersect here, and a number of railroads under construction, such as Lanzhou-Chongqing and Zhongchuan High-speed Railway, cross the city, by then there will be 19 railroads in 10 directions passing through Xigu, especially after the completion of the Lanzhou Railway Hub North Formation Station and Dongchuan Container Center Station, which will be integrated with highway traffic.
In 2020, Xigu District was listed on the 2020 China's Hundred Happiest Counties and Cities, ranking 43rd.
August 16, 2018, Xigu District won the fourth batch of national rule of law counties and municipalities in the creation of advanced units.
On February 16, 2016, Xigu District was on the list of 2015 National Basic Balanced Counties (Cities and Districts) for Compulsory Education Development.