Baotou City is located at the southern end of Inner Mongolia Plateau, 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. The Yellow River flows through the southern edge of the city and has a temperate continental climate. The annual average temperature is 6.4℃, the annual precipitation is 3 10 mm, and the frost-free period is 10 ~ 142 days. Rich in mineral resources, more than 40 kinds have been proved. Baiyun ebo enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. It is a giant polymetallic mine with the largest rare earth reserves in the world. Baotou Steel Rare Earth Company is a famous backbone enterprise in China's steel industry. With developed traffic, it is the intersection of Beijing-Baotou-Baolan-Bai Bao-Baoshan Railway. Civil aviation has flights to Hohhot, Beijing and other places. Wudangzhao (Guangjue Temple), located 70km northeast of the city, was built in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, and is a famous temple in China. In addition, there are famous temples such as Meidai Zhao, Kundulun Zhao and Beautiful Geng Zhao. Zhuanlongcang Science and Technology Resort in Donghe District is a scenic tourist area.
Baotou City is located in the west of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is adjacent to Hohhot in the east, Bayannur League in the west, Mongolia in the north and Ordos City (formerly Yikezhao League) across the river in the south. The total area is 2769 1 km2. The total population is 265.438 million (2004).
Resident of the Municipal People's Government: Kundulun District,
Postal code: 0 14025.
Administrative division code: 150200.
Area code: 0472.
Pinyin: Baotou.
The climate belongs to continental mid-temperate semi-arid monsoon climate, with annual average rainfall of 312mm, annual average temperature of 6.4℃ and annual average sunshine of 3145h.
Baotou, which means "a place with deer" in Mongolian, is also called Lucheng. Baotou is the largest city in Inner Mongolia, and it is also the city with the largest green area in Inner Mongolia.
Regarding the origin of the place name of Baotou, another view holds that it comes from the inflexion of Botou and the river name Botou River.
Baotou, located at the top of the famous Yellow River Hetao, is a strategic place connecting the Bohai Economic Belt and the northwest region, and a key area for hinterland development in the strategic layout of the autonomous region.
Baotou has a vast territory, with a total area of 2769 1 square kilometer, including urban area 146 square kilometer. It governs 9 counties and districts with a total population of 2.3 million, of which the urban population is more than 65,438 +0.6 million. It is one of the 23 cities in China with a population of over one million.
Baotou City is located in the Yinshan-Tianshan longitudinal metallogenic belt, which is rich in mineral resources, including 54 kinds of metals, nonmetals and energy and chemical raw materials such as rare earth, iron, coal, aluminum, gold and niobium. Among them, the most famous Bayanobo mine is a rare raw metal ore in the world. The proven reserves of iron are about 654.38 billion tons, with niobium reserves ranking first in China and rare earth reserves ranking first in the world. Rare earth reserves are not only huge, but also of high grade and low production cost, accounting for 965.438+0.6% of the national rare earth reserves and 54.2% of the world's proven reserves.
Baotou is an important transportation hub connecting the north and northwest of China and an important post and telecommunications center in the west of China, basically forming a comprehensive transportation network of railways, highways and aviation. Among them, the Beijing-Baotou-Baolan-Baoshen Railway, which runs through North China and Northwest China, meets in Baotou, starting from Beijing in the east, Lanzhou in the west and Taiyuan, Xi, Shanghai and Ningbo in the south. 1 10, 2 10 national highways pass through the urban area, and Hu Bao Expressway is completed and opened to traffic. Twenty-seven trunk highways lead to all parts of the country, forming counties with Dandong-Beijing-Baotou-Yinchuan-Lhasa as the east and Beihai -Xi 'an-Baotou-Baiyun as the north-south axis, connecting Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and neighboring provinces and cities. Modern civil aviation airports have realized nationwide computer ticketing. The airport has reached the 4C standard, and large aircraft such as Boeing 737 can take off and land safely. At present, flights have been opened to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Xi 'an, Taiyuan, Shijiazhuang, Lanzhou, Wenzhou and other cities, basically forming a relatively perfect regional air transport link covering North China, Northwest China, East China, Central China and South China, providing convenience for local people and foreign businessmen to travel or do business.
Baotou is the largest industrial city in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and an important industrial base in northwest China. Since the reform and opening up, Baotou's economic construction has entered a period of sustained, rapid and healthy development. The industrial structure has been constantly adjusted, the basic industries have been strengthened, and the national economy has grown rapidly. It has formed a complete industrial system focusing on copper-iron metallurgy, rare earth metallurgy and its application, machinery manufacturing, non-ferrous metals, textiles, electronics, chemicals and other industries, and established trade exchanges with more than 30 countries and regions such as South Korea, Japan, the United States, Thailand, China and Hongkong. A number of large-scale high-tech enterprises with local characteristics have continued to grow and develop. Among them, Baotou Steel is one of the large-scale steel enterprises in China and the largest integrated steel enterprise in minority areas. Baotou Aluminum Factory is one of the top ten aluminum factories in China and the first national key production enterprise of rare earth aluminum in China. Baotou Rare Earth Hi-Tech is the first rare earth listed company in China. Inner Mongolia No.1 Machinery Manufacturing Group and northern heavy industries Group are super-large enterprises in China ordnance industry. The East Hope 500,000-ton aluminum-electricity integration project under construction will become one of the largest single aluminum plants in China and even the world. Cashmere and linen yarn in Baotou occupy a decisive position in China, and many key technologies are in the leading position in the world. Among them, Inner Mongolia Wang Lu Cashmere Group is one of the largest cashmere products enterprises in the world, and its export volume has been in the forefront of the same industry in China. In 2004, the city's GDP was 60.8 billion yuan, and its fiscal revenue was 7.33 billion yuan. The per capita disposable income of urban residents even reached 1 1508 yuan. Investment in fixed assets reached more than 34.065438 billion yuan.