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Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is rich in resource
(tianshannet) Updated: 2008-January-8 17:35:31


Xinjiang is with advantaged resource of water, soil, light and heat. The sunshine duration is long, the temperature difference is big, the frost-free period is long, and the annual solar radiation amount is much, which is good for the growth of crops. It has the arable land over 4.1 million hectares, and the soil quality is good, the terrain is flat and concentrated, which is convenient for piloting gravity irrigation and large scale reclamation. As one of five pastures in China, there are a large quantity of fine pastures surrounding the three mountains and two basins in Xinjiang, the animal husbandry in Xinjiang is with long history, the ancient blood-sweat horse, modern Ili horse, Altay sheep are all famous livestock species. You may think most area of Xinjiang are desert and Gobi, while you do not know there are 570 rivers and over 100 lakes in Xinjiang, the surface runoff is over 88 billion cubic meters every year, the underground water amount also exceeds over 25 billion cubic meters, the glacier reserve is 50% of China, the theoretical reserve amount of water resource is the fourth in China, Ili River and Erqis River flow into the Arctic Ocean. The wind energy resource is also rich in Xinjiang. The mineral resource in Xinjiang is of great variety, the resource reserve is rich, from the proved resource situation, and it can be proven that Xinjiang is an enrichment region with mineral resource. Currently, the discovered minerals are 138 kinds, among of which 9 kinds of minerals reserve ranks the first in China, 32 kinds of minerals ranks the first in northwest region. As one of key base of nonferrous metal, ferrous metal and rare metal mineral deposit in China, Xinjiang is a place of “treasure on every mountain, oil in every basin”. Altay means “the place producing gold” in Mongolian, there is a saying of “seventy-two ditches in Altay Mountain, each ditch has gold.” Many of non-metallic minerals in Xinjiang, which is very rare in China, such as Hotan jade, graphite in Qitai. As one of important energy bases in China, the oil resource amount in Xinjiang is 30% of land oil resource amount in China; the natural gas resource amount is 34% of land natural gas resource amount in China. The exploration and development potential of oil and gas in Xinjiang is enormous, the prospect is considerable. The predicted coal resource amount in Xinjiang is 40% of China. Xinjiang is really a treasure. Due to the diversity of geography, there are over 4000 kinds of wild animals and plants in Xinjiang, the category of birds and beasts is rich, such as snow cock, dzeren, wild horse, wild camel etc.; the wild fruit in Xinjiang, the diversifolious poplar in desert are all with features greatly, the natural medicine is as follows: Chinese ephedra, apocynum, liquorice, bulb of fritillary, snow lotus are widely spread with good quality, which have unique quality and fine performance.

(SOURCES: aboutxinjiang.com)Editor: enmb
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