Zhonghe is a town 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 ...

Gansu 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 Tibet ...

, China. It is located 15 km from Lanzhou city centre. The town has an mountainous landscape and arid climate. About half of its arable land is irrigated. Owing to its location near Lanzhou, it has been developed into a logistics base.

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 ...

forms the transport artery of the town. Planning documents of Lanzhou city government indicate that Zhonghe will be fully integrated in the urban area of Lanzhou. The town may become part of

Anning District Anning District () is one of 5 districts of the prefecture-level city of Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, Northwest China. It forms part of the urban core of Lanzhou. The district was established in 1953 and is named after a former Ming dyna ...

. The Lanzhou Zoo is being relocated to Zhonghe.

Administrative divisions

Zhonghe governs one residential community and 8 villages: * Yanchi residential community * Zhonghe village * Yachuan village * Fengdeng village * Pingxian village * Liuhe village * Yanchi village * Luoguan village * Shuiyuan village

References

{{Gansu-geo-stub Township-level divisions of Gansu