A brief summary of the contents of the Hexi Corridor

The Hexi Corridor, referred to as "Hexi", is located in the western region of China. In the northwest of Gansu Province, south of the Beishan-Alxa Plateau and north of the Qilian Mountains, it is a long and narrow corridor running from northwest to southeast. The zone is named after its corridor-like shape and is located west of the Yellow River in Gansu Province. It is about 1,000 kilometers long from east to west and about 30-120 kilometers wide from north to south. The total area including the central and western regions of the Alxa Plateau is about 400,000 square kilometers. ?Mainly involving cities such as Wuwei, Jinchang, Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Jiayuguan in Gansu Province. ?The central city of the Hexi Corridor is Wuwei City.

The Hexi Corridor has been an important transportation artery connecting China’s Central Plains and the Western Regions since ancient times. It is a core area where multiple ethnic groups continue to interact and integrate, leaving behind a large number of usable cultural heritage and cultural tourism resources.

Due to the Hexi Corridor’s unique status as a passage and as an important place for constant conflict and integration among multiple ethnic groups, the Hexi Corridor area has become a treasure trove for experiencing the rich and colorful multiculturalism of the Chinese nation and understanding the cultural differences between different ethnic groups. At the same time, it is also a living historical textbook for understanding the formation, integration and development of the Chinese nation, and has become an area for cultivating the cultural identity of the Chinese nation. The Hexi Corridor has outstanding ecological status, obvious location advantages, and profound cultural heritage. It is not only an important ecological security barrier in China, but also a strategic channel for China's transportation, energy, telecommunications, and logistics and an important section of the "Belt and Road" construction. It has formed a new model in promoting the development of the western region. It plays an important role in the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin.