- Gansu is a province located in northwest China, with Lanzhou as its capital city. It borders several other provinces and autonomous regions. - The Yellow River passes through southern Gansu. Parts of the province are located in the Gobi Desert and Qilian Mountains. - Gansu has a population of 26 million people, mostly Han Chinese but also Hui, Dongxiang, and Tibetan minorities. Mandarin Chinese is the most common language. - Historically, Gansu hosted Neolithic cultures and was an important location along the Silk Road. It remains one of China's poorer provinces despite recent economic growth.

1. Presented By
Muhammad Kashif (卡夫)
ID: D202261009
Ph.D. in Material Science
University of Science and Technology Beijing
Gansu

2. Lanzhou is the capital of Gansu province.
• Gansu is a province in Northwest
China
• Capital and largest city is Lanzhou,
in the southeast part of the province
• The seventh-largest administrative
district by area at 453,700 square
kilometers
• Gansu is abbreviated as "甘" (Gān)
or "陇" (Lǒng), and was also known
as Longxi (陇西; '"[land] west of
Long"')
Gansu

3. • Gansu lies between the
Tibetan and Loess plateaus
and borders Mongolia, Inner
Mongolia, and Ningxia to the
north, Xinjiang and Qinghai
to the west, Sichuan to the
south, and Shaanxi to the
east
• The Yellow River passes
through the southern part of
the province
• Part of Gansu's territory is
located in the Gobi Desert
• Qilian mountains are located
in the south of the Province.

4. • Gansu has a population of 26
million, ranking 22nd in China
• Its population is mostly Han,
along with Hui, Dongxiang, and
Tibetan minorities
• The most common language is
Mandarin.
• The city of Jiayuguan, the
second most populated city in
Gansu, is known for its section
of the Great Wall and the
Jiayuguan Pass fortress
complex.

5. Ancient Gansu
• In prehistoric times, Gansu was host
to Neolithic cultures
• The Dadiwan culture, from where
archaeologically significant artifacts
have been excavated, flourished in
the eastern end of Gansu from about
6000 BC to about 3000 BC.
• The Majiayao culture and part of the
Qijia culture took root in Gansu from
3100 BC to 2700 BC and 2400 BC to
1900 BC respectively

6. • As a result of frequent earthquakes,
droughts, and famines, the economic
progress of Gansu was significantly
slower than that of other provinces of
China until recently An earthquake in
Gansu at 8.6 on the Richter
scale killed around 180,000 people
mostly in the present-day area
of Ningxia in 1920, and another with
a magnitude of 7.6 killed 275 in 1932
Earthquakes in Gansu
• Based on the area's abundant mineral resources it has
begun developing into a vital industrial center.

7. Administrative Divisions of Gansu

8. Economy
• Despite recent growth in Gansu and the booming economy in the
rest of China, Gansu is still considered to be one of the poorest
provinces in China
• For several years, it has ranked as one of the provinces with lowest
GDP per capita
• Its nominal GDP for 2017 was about 767.7 billion yuan and per
capita of 29,326 RMB (US$4,343)
• The province also has a large difference in wealth between regions
and urban versus rural areas
• The poorest areas are Dingxi, Longnan, Gannan and Linxia
• According to analysts, the local economy failed to gather momentum
while other provinces did manage to increase their economic growth

9. • Due to poor natural conditions such
as aridness, Gansu is one of the
Chinese provinces with smallest per
capita area of arable land
• Agricultural production
includes cotton, linseed
oil, maize, melons (such as
the honeydew melon, known locally
as the Bailan melon, millet,
and wheat
• However, pollution by heavy metals,
such as cadmium in irrigation water,
has resulted in the poisoning of
many acres of agricultural land
Agriculture

10. • The industrial sector in Gansu
was developed after completion of
the Longhai railway in 1953 and
blueprinted in the first five-year
plan of China
• Until 2014, the industrial sector
contributed the most to Gansu's
economy
• The most important industries are
petrochemicals, non-ferrous
metallurgy, machinery, and
electronics
• The province is also an important
base for wind and solar power.
Industry

11. Languages
• Most of the inhabitants of Gansu speak dialects of
Northern Mandarin Chinese
• On the border areas of Gansu one might
encounter Tu, Amdo Tibetan, Mongolian, and the Kazakh
language
• Most of the minorities also speak Chinese.

12. Religion
• According to 2012 the largest group was Buddhists with
8.2%, followed by Muslims with 3.4survey around 12%
of the population of Gansu belongs to organised
religions, %, Protestants with 0.4% and Catholic with
0.1%
• Around 88% of the population may be either irreligious
or involved in Chinese folk religion,
Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and folk religious
sects.
• Muslim restaurants are common, and feature typical
Chinese dishes, but without any pork products, and
instead an emphasis on lamb and mutton
• Gansu has many works of Buddhist art, including
the Maijishan Grottoes. Dunhuang was a major centre of
Buddhism in the Middle Ages.

13. Tourism
Jiayuguan Pass of the Great Wall
• Jiayuguan Pass, in Jiayuguan city, is
the largest and most intact pass, or
entrance, of the Great Wall
• Jiayuguan Pass was built in the
early Ming dynasty, somewhere
around the year 1372
Mogao Grottoes
• The Mogao Grottoes
near Dunhuang has a collection
of Buddhist art.

14. Silk Road and Dunhuang City
• The historic Silk Road starts
in Chang'an (present-
day Xi'an) and goes
to Constantinople (Istanbul)
• On the way merchants would
go to Dunhuang in Gansu
• In Dunhuang they would get
fresh camels, food, and
guards for the journey around
the dangerous Taklamakan
Desert
View of the Taklamakan desert
The Taklamakan Desert is a desert in Southwestern
Xinjiang in Northwest China. It is bounded by the
Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Pamir Mountains to
the west, the Tian Shan range to the north, and the Gobi
Desert to the east.

15. Education
•Lanzhou University, Lanzhou (兰州大学)
•Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou (西北师范
大学)
•Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou (兰州
理工大学)
•Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou (兰州交通
大学)
•Northwest University of Nationalities, Lanzhou (西
北民族大学)
•Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou (甘肃农业
大学)

16. Energy
• Among Gansu's most important sources
of energy are its water resources: the
Yellow River and other inland river
drainage basins.
Space launch center
• The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center,
located in the Gobi desert, is named after
the city of Jiuquan, Gansu, the nearest city,
although the center itself is in the Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region

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