Jiayuguan city is situated in the middle part of Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province. Gotten its name from the well-known Impregnable Pass under Heaven, the west end of the Great Wall, Jiayuguan is the strategic pass of ancient “Silk Road”. It covers an area of 2935 km2 in which 30km2 is busy urban area. The population of the city is 145,500 of which 115,700 are city dwellers. The elevation is between 1412 and 2722 metres above sea level, where the city central is located on 1462m. Greenland accounted to 1.9% of total area. Annual average temperature is 7.7?C. Precipitation annually is 85.3mm. All these constitute the temperate inland climate. It features with long sunshine time (3000.2hours at 68% per year), large difference in temperature between day and night (10.67C average).
The gravel structure of urban area is of naturally strong ground load, enjoys exceptional advantage for construction. There are rich of mineral deposits distributed at 40 places, in which iron, manganese, copper, gold, limestone, mirabilite, clay for mold, heavy spar, etc. are dominant products of the city. The Jingtieshan iron mine has 483 million tons of geological deposit; annual productivity is 5 million tons, being presently the largest tunnel mine in our country.
There are 2840 hectares of cultivated land full of irrigation in countryside. Advantageous condition with villages, farmland, road, water channels, electricity and communication facilities forms the typical irrigation agriculture. Highway, railway, aviation extend in all directions by grade separation. National highway goes through the city.
Perfect conditions come from loop net power supply, ease and leisure environment, broad and tidy streets, complete sets of communication, telecom, water system heating, gas supply etc. Gas and water are 100% to the user. Together with the Great Wall and the Impregnable Pass under Heaven, there are Jiayuguan Fortresses, the First Beacon Tower of the Great Wall, Overhanging Great Wall, and Heishan Rock Painting, Underground Gallery of Weijin Tomb, showing ancient art.
“July the First glacier” is the nearest one to city in Asia. One of the three international gliding bases is Jiayuguan.Jiayuguan is the largest iron and steel industry base in the Northwestern of China. Leading by metallurgy there are more then 50 kinds of industrial products come from chemical industry, electric power, building material, mechanical, textile industry, food industry etc.
Nowadays, Jiayuguan already became a newly expending industrial and touring city; a dazzling pearl along the new Continental Bridge of Asia-Europe.

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　　Thanks to its footing as a major tourist destination on the Silk Road, Jiayuguan has in recent years rapidly become a transport hub only slightly less important than the provincial capital Lanzhou or Dunhuang. The city can now conveniently be accessed either by air, railway or bus.

Airport

　　There are five weekly flights from Lanzhou and Dunhuang to Jiayuguan, not flying on Tuesday and Saturday. There are also infrequent flights to Xi'an (RMB1,180) and Urumqi. For detailed information, go to the CAAC office at 4-3 Xinhua nanlu in town, to the south of the Jiayuguan Hotel, or call them at 0937-6226237. The airport is about 12km northeast of the city proper and a taxi should cost around RMB40. A cheaper choice is the CAAC bus, which meets every flight.

Railway station　

　　Traveling by train is also fairly convenient. The railway station is just 5km from the city center, a RMB10 ride by taxi or a mere RMB1 ride by mini bus No.1 from Xinhua nanlu. The Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway line traverses the city proper. There are regular trains to Beijing, Chengdu, Korla, Lanzhou, Shanghai, Urumqi, Xi'an and Zhengzhou. For tourists traveling between Lanzhou and Jiayuguan, the tour train leaves one city in the morning and arrives at the other in the evening. The ticket office is at 8-2 Lanxin zhonglu (Tel: 0937-6288777).

Bus station

city transport

You can find different modes of transport in town--taxis, motorbikes, minibuses and buses form a huge pool around the Jiayuguan and Changcheng Hotels. To go to each attraction, you will generally be charged about RMB12 for each hour the driver has to wait, although you have the discretion to drive the price down with your bargaining technique. It is also fairly easy to travel in town by hiring a bike for about RMB2 or RMB3 per hour, so long as you do not mind braving the occasional gusts of sandy and dirty wind. Hotels with bike hire include the Jiayuguan, the Changcheng and the Youth Hotels.

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