Hohhot began in the 1570s as a Mongol khan's copy of the lost Yuan capital, was named for submission by the Ming and for the colour blue by the Mongols, and is now a city where dairy giants share...
Mongolian named it first, as "a place with deer", and Chinese has since added two nicknames, the Steel City on the Grassland and the Rare Earth Capital. Both come from one mountain of iron ore to the north, which...
Chifeng has given its name to eight prehistoric cultures, yielded some of the world's earliest known cultivated millet, and is the only prefecture-level city officially called China's hometown of nonferrous metals. It also gets 2,800 to 3,100 hours of...
Tongliao sits on 55 billion tonnes of silica sand, a raw material of solar glass, and 46 percent of its people are Mongol. Its university trains Mongolian doctors, and every August the city's horse-racing festival draws crowds to a...
Coal gives Ordos the highest GDP per head of any mainland city, ¥272,704 in 2025. The city also built a "ghost city", turned up the first Palaeolithic human fossil confirmed in mainland East Asia, and keeps the shrine of...
Hulunbuir covers about 253,000 square kilometres, roughly the size of Wyoming and bigger than 40 of the 50 US states by total area, and touches Russia, Mongolia and Heilongjiang. Its port of Manzhouli handles most of China's rail trade...
Water makes Bayannur. The Yellow River's diverted flow irrigates more than 10 million mu of desert-edge farmland, the runoff feeds a lake of 293 square kilometres, and the city plants about half of China's edible sunflower area.
水造就了巴彦淖尔。黄河引来的水灌溉着一千多万亩沙漠边缘的农田,退水汇入一片二百九十三平方公里的湖,全市的葵花种植面积约占全国食用葵花的一半。
Bayannur is Mongolian...
Ulanqab averages 4.3°C a year, cold enough to help cool servers for Huawei and Apple. It is also China's potato capital, beside some of the youngest volcanoes on the Mongolian Plateau.
乌兰察布年平均气温只有四点三摄氏度,冷得足以帮助给华为和苹果的服务器降温。它也是"中国马铃薯之都",城边还立着蒙古高原上一些最年轻的火山。
It also gave China a banker who became governor...
