The nearest desert in Hohhot

1, located in the Kubuqi Desert on both sides of the Yellow River at the junction of Zhungeer Banner in Ordos City and Tuoketuo County in Hohhot City, about 300 kilometers away from Hohhot.

2. The road conditions from Hohhot to Kubuqi Desert are still very good, and most of them are expressway. With the progress of greening projects in recent years, people have retreated to the sand, and the area is a bit small.

3. Kubuqi Desert is the seventh largest desert in China. "Kubuqi" is Mongolian, which means the string on the bow. It is named because it hangs on the Yellow River like a string under it.

There are only two kinds of weather in the desert, windy days and when the wind stops. Sandstorms gradually engulf the only remaining grasslands and farmland around them, and the tragedy of sand forcing people to retreat has been staged for thousands of years. Extensive grazing and destructive excavation activities worsen the fragile ecology.

5. The eastern Kubuqi Desert has good water conditions and belongs to semi-arid area. There is little precipitation in the west and it has entered an arid area.

The desert area has good light, heat and water conditions, which is suitable for the growth of food crops and cash crops. The eastern, central and western parts of the desert have their own characteristics, with more rainfall in the central and eastern parts and sufficient heat in the western part.

Extended data

The rich solar energy in Kubuqi Desert has also become one of the main energy sources. Solar energy research has achieved great success. Solar energy has been widely used in civil heating, hot water supply or the production and application of agricultural products, and solar energy heating devices are installed in residential buildings. Domestic hot water, heating and lighting are mostly solved by solar energy.

From 65438 to 0988, out of love for desert and concern for desertification, Yili Resources Group began to restore its former style and start a journey of sand control.

Enterprises explore the compound ecological model of sand control and economic coexistence, and adopt the company? Farmers, enterprises? The alliance development mode of the base has realized the green circular interaction between sand control and economy, and finally the herdsmen have become rich.

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