Present situation of Jishishan in Gansu Province

Some infrastructures such as water, electricity, transportation and communication have been destroyed. There are some minor injuries in the village at present. The villagers gathered in a factory building. In order to resist the cold weather, everyone uses a bonfire to keep warm. At present, the village lacks generators and some emergency living materials to keep out the cold.

Jishishan is an extension of Qilian Mountain. Because there are two Jishi mountains in history, people often call this mountain Small Jishi Mountain, which is the floorboard of a series of peaks from Tumenguan to the Yellow River in the south-central part of the western boundary of Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, with a total length of 50 kilometers and a total area of 320 square kilometers. It is the watershed of a series of tributaries of Qingshui River and Daxia River in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the dividing line between Gansu Province and Qinghai Province, and the landmark mountain range for the transition from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to Loess Plateau.

This Jishishan is generally considered to be the Jishishan recorded in Gong Yu, that is, Dayu began to control the Yellow River flood from Jishiguan of the Yellow River Canyon in Xunhua County. Jishishan is an extension of Qilian Mountain, which is the general name of Dalijia Mountain at an altitude of 4,636 meters, Leiji Mountain at an altitude of 42 18 meters, Wutai Mountain at an altitude of 4 123 meters, Braque Mountain at an altitude of 3,356 meters and its eastern peaks.

Brief introduction of Gansu province

Gansu Province, referred to as Gan for short, is a provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC), with Lanzhou as its capital. It is located in the northwest of China, bordering Shaanxi in the east, Xinjiang in the west, Sichuan and Qinghai in the south, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia in the north, and Mongolia in the northwest, between 3211'-42 57' north latitude and 9213'-108 east longitude.

Gansu has a long and narrow landform, which is complex and diverse. Surrounded by mountains, plateaus, plains, valleys, deserts and Gobi, the terrain inclines from southwest to northeast. Gansu is located at the intersection of the Loess Plateau, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Inner Mongolia Plateau. The climate types are divided into subtropical monsoon climate, temperate monsoon climate, temperate continental arid climate and plateau mountain climate from south to north.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Gansu