Baotou is located in the hinterland of the Bohai Economic Circle and the Economic Belt along the Yellow River, at the southern end of the Mongolian Plateau, north of North China, central Inner Mongolia and south of the Yellow River, and the yinshan mountains traverses the central part of the city, forming three topographic regions: the northern plateau, the central mountainous area and the southern plain. Baotou is an important hub connecting North China and Northwest China, a key development area for China and Inner Mongolia to open to the outside world, and one of the railway transportation hub cities in Chinese mainland. ?
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Baotou the yinshan mountains (bounded by Kundulun River) has Daqing Mountain and Wula Mountain, with an average elevation of 2,000 meters and the highest elevation of 2,324 meters. The city consists of three parts: the central mountainous area, the grassland in the northern mountainous area and the plain in the southern mountainous area. High in the middle, low in the north and south, high in the west and low in the east. The Yellow River flows through 2 14 km in Baotou City, and the highway and railway bridges fly north and south parallel to the Yellow River.
Baotou belongs to the semi-arid mid-temperate continental monsoon climate. The scenery here is pleasant and the temperature is moderate. According to 20 1 1 statistical bulletin of Baotou national economic and social development, the annual average temperature is 7.2℃, the annual average wind speed is1.2m/s, the annual precipitation is 421.8mm, and the annual sunshine hours are 2882.2h.. The number of excellent days with air quality above Grade II reached 324 days, an increase of 3 days over the previous year.
The Yellow River flows through Baotou for 214km, with water surface width130m to 458m, water depth1.6m to 9.3m, average flow1.4m per second, maximum flow of 6,400m3 per second and annual average runoff of 26 billion cubic meters. It is the main water source for industrial and agricultural production and people's life in Baotou area.
In addition, rivers such as Abigail River, Hadimengou, Kundulun River, Wudanggou, Shuijiangou and Meidaigou have considerable water flow and are also important water resources that can be utilized.
The total surface water available in Baotou City is 90 million cubic meters (excluding the Yellow River transit water). The groundwater recharge is 860 million cubic meters. Since 1950s, Baotou has started to develop water resources on a large scale, and has successively built many water sources of the Yellow River, as well as Ordovician kilns, Tuanjie Canal, Minsheng Canal and Dengkou Pumping Station (a village in Donghe District, different from Dengkou County in Bayannaoer City).
Large-scale Yellow River water lifting projects such as Huajiangying Water Source have successively built small and medium-sized reservoirs such as Kundulun, Liubaoyao and Shuijiangou, and carried out large-scale water resources development. The domestic, industrial and agricultural water facilities in Baotou area can meet the needs of economic and social development in this area.
The mountainous area of Baotou City accounts for 14.49%, the hilly grassland accounts for 75.5 1%, and the plain accounts for 10%. Among the developed land, cultivated land accounts for14.3% of the land area; Forest area 149.2 thousand hectares, grassland area 2086.5 thousand hectares.
Many dry crops are planted in the hilly areas of northern China, mainly including naked oats, buckwheat, potatoes, flax, rape and so on. The northern grassland is rich in sheep, goats, cattle, horses, camels and other livestock. The southern plain has fertile soil, irrigation system from the Yellow River and underground water irrigation facilities, which can ensure a bumper harvest in drought and flood, and is rich in wheat, millet, beets, sunflowers, corn, sorghum, vegetables and fruits.
According to the preliminary investigation, there are 88 families, 302 genera and 60 1 species of wild plants in the mountainous areas of Central China. The rare species listed as important national protection include Astragalus membranaceus and Prunus mongolica. There are more than 200 kinds of important medicinal materials commonly used, such as Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, Astragalus membranaceus, Ephedra sinica, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Radix Saposhnikoviae, Radix Bupleuri, Radix Platycodi, Radix Polygalae, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, Radix Codonopsis and Fructus Lycii.
In the secondary forest belt and grassland areas in mountainous areas, it is the place where wild animals inhabit and multiply. Mammals 2 1 species, among which Qingyang and Snow Leopard are rare animals under national second-class protection. Roe deer, fur animals, red foxes, badgers, leopards, wild cats and Mongolian rabbits are protected animals in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. There are many birds, including 25 resident birds, 8 summer migratory birds/kloc-0, 80 traveling birds and 7 winter migratory birds.
Among them, there are 13 kinds of rare birds protected by the state, such as sparrow hawk, vulture, golden eagle, kestrel and sparrow hawk.
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