What cities are there in the west?

The cities in the west of China are: Chengdu, Xi, Lanzhou, Chongqing, Urumqi, Lhasa, Yinchuan, Hohhot, Kunming, Guiyang, Xining and Nanning.

China is high in the west and low in the east. Mountains, plateaus and hills account for 67% of the land area, while basins and plains account for 33% of the land area. The mountains are mostly east-west and northeast-southwest, mainly including Altai Mountain, Tianshan Mountain, Kunlun Mountain, Karakorum Mountain, Himalayan Mountain, Yinshan Mountain, Qinling Mountain, Nanling Mountain, Daxinganling Mountain, Changbai Mountain, Taihang Mountain, Wuyishan Mountain, Taiwan Province Mountain and Hengduan Mountain.

Chengdu, the representative of the western city, introduced.

Chengdu is rich in soil resources, good natural ecological environment and rich in biological resources, including rare animals such as giant panda, red panda and golden monkey. Chengdu is well-developed in planting and breeding, and pig breeding is famous all over the country. Cold water fisheries have also developed rapidly; Medicinal plant resources are abundant. Chengdu is also a famous key scenic tourist city in China, with various mountains and rivers, beautiful natural scenery, unique tourism resources and rich natural, cultural and biological landscapes.

Chengdu has a subtropical monsoon climate, with early spring, hot summer, cool autumn and warm winter. The annual average temperature is 16℃, and the annual rainfall is about 1000 mm. A remarkable feature of Chengdu's climate is cloudy and short sunshine time. The folk proverb "Shu dog barks at the sun" is an image description of this climate feature.

Another notable feature of Chengdu's climate is humid air. Therefore, although the temperature is not high in summer (the highest temperature generally does not exceed 35℃), it looks sultry. The average temperature in winter is above 5℃, but it is very cold because of cloudy days and humid air. The rain in Chengdu is concentrated in July and August, and there is less rain and less ice and snow in winter and spring.