Xigu District () is one of 5

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of the

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Lanzhou Lanzhou (, ; ) is the capital and largest city of Gansu Province in Northwest China. Located on the banks of the Yellow River, it is a key regional transportation hub, connecting areas further west by rail to the eastern half of the country. H ...

, the capital of

Gansu Province Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibeta ...

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. It is the westernmost part of the city of Lanzhou proper. Until 1952, Xigu was part of

Gaolan County Gaolan County () is a county of Gansu Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu, one of 58 counties of Gansu. Its postal code is 730200, and its population in 2019 was 147,000 pe ...

as a township and in 1953 it was established as the fifth district level division of Lanzhou. During this period, as part of China's first five-year plan, the petrochemical industry was developed in the area.

Administrative divisions

Xigu is divided in 8

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5 towns and 1 township (which contain 40 villages in total) and (which are divided in 70

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). ;Subdistricts ;Towns ;Townships * Jingou Township ()

Economy

Xigu District is highly industrialized, and most of Lanzhou's heavy industry is located in the district, including

PetroChina PetroChina Company Limited () is a Chinese oil and gas company and is the listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), headquartered in Dongcheng District, Beijing. The company is currently Asia's largest oil and gas pr ...

's Lanzhou Petrochemical complex, an aluminium smelting plant, power plants, and textile industry. It was also the site of a

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factory, completed in 1958, which provided the material for China's first atomic bomb. The Bapanxia Dam on the

Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Standard Beijing Mandarin, Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the List of rivers by length, sixth-longest river system in the world at th ...

is located within the district, at .

Transport

China National Highway 109 China National Highway 109 connects Beijing with Lhasa. It runs westwards from Beijing via Datong, Yinchuan and Xining to Golmud before turning southwest to Lhasa. The portion of the highway from Xining to Lhasa is known as the Qinghai-Tibet Hi ...

China National Highway 213 China National Highway 213 (G213) runs from Ceke, Inner Mongolia, to Mohan, on the border with Laos, in Yunnan. It is in length and runs via Chengdu, Sichuan and Kunming, Yunnan. Before the 2013 Highway Planning, the route started in Lanzhou ...

G2201 Lanzhou Ring Expressway The Lanzhou South Ring Expressway (), designated G2201, is a that bypasses the built-up area of Lanzhou on the south side, the capital of Gansu Province. The design speed of the road is . Construction started in 2014 and the Expressway was opened ...

* Lanzhou–Zhongchuan Airport intercity railway *

Lanzhou–Xinjiang railway The Lanzhou−Xinjiang railway or Lanxin railway (), is the longest railway in Northwestern China. It runs 1904 kilometres (1,183 miles) from Lanzhou, Gansu, through the Hexi Corridor, to Ürümqi, in Xinjiang. It was Xinjiang's only rail link wi ...

* Lanzhou Metro Line 1 *

Dongchuan Railway Logistics Center Dongchuan District is one of seven districts of the prefecture-level city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China. The district was approved to form from the former ''Dongchuan City'' by the State Council on Decembe ...

, freight train land port with trains to destinations as far as Pakistan and Nepal.

Administrative divisions

Economy

Transport

References

See also