Tianshui is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with an altitude of 1000-2 100 meters, and its climate belongs to temperate monsoon climate. [3] Tianshui is one of the important old industrial bases in China, with 44 national and provincial enterprise technology centers and engineering technology research centers, one national key laboratory/kloc-0, and six provincial key laboratories. [2] It has universities such as tianshui normal university, Gansu Forestry Vocational and Technical College, gansu industry polytechnic college and Gansu Electromechanical Vocational and Technical College. In 20 17, Tianshui achieved a regional GDP of 6149.6 billion yuan, a large-caliber fiscal revenue of1484.4 billion yuan, and a total retail sales of social consumer goods of 3131000 billion yuan. [4]
Tianshui has a long history and is the birthplace of Qin people and early Qin culture. Written records have a history of more than 3,000 years, and the city has a history of more than 2,700 years. In 688 BC, the State of Qin established Yunxian County and Jixian County here, which was the earliest place in the history of China to set up cities and counties. There are national, provincial and municipal key protected cultural relics 169 in China, among which Maijishan Grottoes, a world cultural heritage, is one of the four largest grottoes in China and is known as the "Oriental Sculpture Art Exhibition Hall". [3][2]
Tianshui is a national historical and cultural city and an excellent tourist city in China, with famous scenic spots such as Maijishan, Fuxi Temple, Nanguo Temple, water curtain cave, Dadiwan Site, Qin 'an Apple, Huaniu Apple, Gangu Pepper, Tianshui Guagua, Tianshui Fishing and Tianshui Pipi. [5]