Does Yinchuan belong to Gansu Province?

Yinchuan city does not belong to Gansu province, but is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

Yinchuan, referred to as "Yin" for short, is the prefecture-level city and capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and an important central city in northwest China determined by the State Council. By the end of 10 in 2022, the whole city had jurisdiction over three districts and two counties, 1 county-level city, with a total area of 9,025.38 square kilometers, a permanent population of 2,882,000 and an urban population of 2,347,000, with an urbanization rate of 8 1.44%.

Yinchuan is located in the northwest of China, in the middle of Ningxia Plain, bordering the western edge of Ordos in the east, Helan Mountain in the west and the Yellow River passing through the city. It was an important commercial center of the ancient Silk Road.

Ningxia's military, political, economic, cultural, scientific research, transportation and financial centers, the central cities in the neighboring regions of Ningmeng and Shaanxi-Gansu, the core cities along the Yellow River urban agglomeration, and the core cities of China, Mongolia, Russia and the New Eurasian Continental Bridge Economic Corridor are the windows for the country to open to the west.

Yinchuan's comprehensive competitiveness ranks among the top 100 cities in China, and it has successively won the titles of national civilized city, national water-saving city, national sanitary city, national garden city, national environmental protection model city, and China's human settlement environment model award, and has been rated as one of the "Top Ten New Riches in China".

20 18, 10 won the title of "International Wetland City" in June. 20 18 reconfirming the national health city; In June, 2020, 10 was awarded as a national model city (county) with double support.

The topography of Yinchuan City:

The topography of Yinchuan city is divided into two parts: mountains and plains. It is higher in the west and south, lower in the north and east, and slightly inclined from southwest to northeast. There are various types of landforms, which are divided into Helan Mountain, alluvial plain, alluvial plain, alluvial lake plain, valley plain and flood plain from west to east.

The altitude is between1010m-150m, the ground slope is about 2‰, and the soil layer is thick. Helan Mountain in the west of Yinchuan is a middle-high mountain with northeast trend. The total length is about 150km and the width is 20km-30km. The highest peak is 3556 meters above sea level, which is a natural barrier to stop the northwest cold air and sandstorm from driving directly to Yinchuan.