Shapotou District (,
Xiao'erjing: شَاپُوَتِوْ ٿِيُوِ) is a
district
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of
Zhongwei,
Ningxia, China, noted for the
Tengger Desert, and bordering
Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...
to the north and
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 ...
province to the west.
It is the site of the
Shapotou Desert Experimental Research Station
Shapotou District (, Xiao'erjing: شَاپُوَتِوْ ٿِيُوِ) is a district of Zhongwei, Ningxia, China, noted for the Tengger Desert, and bordering Inner Mongolia to the north and Gansu province to the west.
It is the site of the Shapot ...
. The research station is located at the southern end of the dune sea on the banks of 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 ...
. Research at station includes dune stabilization using grasses and microbial mats. Regions stabilized in the 1950s are now used for fruit and vine crops.
Sand dune stabilization in the region is required to curtail burial of the trans-Asia
Baotou–Lanzhou Railway.
Administrative divisions
In the present, Shapotou District, has 10 towns and 1 township.
;10 towns
*
Binhe (, )
* Wenchang (, )
* Dongyuan (, )
* Rouyuan (, )
*
Zhenluo (, )
* He (, )
*
Yongkang (, )
* Changle (, )
*
Yingshuiqiao (, )
* Xingren (, )
;1 township
* Xiangshan (, )
External links
Tengger desert & Tonghu grassland
Deserts of China
County-level divisions of Ningxia
Dunes of China
Zhongwei
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