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Shapotou: National AAAAA-level tourist scenic spot, National Desert Ecological Nature Reserve, World Top 500 Environmental Protection, Top 20 National Fitness Scenery and Special Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress.

Shapotou is located at the southeast edge of Tengger Desert in the west of zhongwei, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. It starts from Erdaogou South Forest Protection Room in the east, reaches Toudaodun in the west, connects Tengger Desert in the north and the Yellow River in the south. It is about 38km long and 5km wide, with an altitude of1.300 ~1.500m, with a total area of 4,599.3 hectares, accounting for 3% of the total land area of zhongwei. It is one of the 20 key desertification control areas in China.

Shapotou integrates desert, Yellow River, mountain and oasis, with magnificent northwest and beautiful south of the Yangtze River. There is the largest natural sliding sand field in China, the "first rope of the Yellow River in the world" across the Yellow River, the ancient waterwheel and sheepskin raft represented by the Yellow River culture, the oldest means of transportation on the Yellow River, and a rare mirage in the desert. You can ride a camel through the Tengger Desert, surf in the sand sea by off-road vehicle, and enjoy the wonders of desert solitary smoke and long river sunset at close range.

Shapotou mainly protects natural desert landscape, natural sandy vegetation, sand control scientific research achievements, wild animals, the ancient Great Wall of Ming Dynasty, Shapotou ringing bells and other cultural landscapes and their natural complexes.

Nature reserves belong to temperate continental climate, and belong to temperate arid climate zone in national natural division. It has the characteristics of drought and little rain, strong evaporation, large temperature difference between hot and cold, abundant sunshine, big sandstorm, long cold winter and short hot summer, warm spring and cool autumn, and many meteorological disasters. The annual average total solar radiation is 6.2× 10J/m, sunshine hours are 2776.72 hours, and the annual average temperature is 9.6℃.

The lowest temperature in January is -25. 1℃. The highest temperature in July is 38.65438 0℃, and the highest temperature in the whole year is 63.2℃. The accumulated temperature ≥ 10℃ is 30 17℃, and the average frost-free period ≥0℃ is 179 days. Annual average precipitation 186.6 mm, annual evaporation 3000 mm. It is 16 times of the annual average precipitation, and the dryness is 2.4. The annual sandstorm duration is more than 900 hours, the annual average wind speed is 2.8m/s, the sandstorm days are mostly from March to June, and the maximum wind power can reach 8. Strong winds are often accompanied by sandstorms, averaging 5~ 19 days a year. The wind direction is mostly northwest wind. The main disastrous weather includes drought, frost, strong wind, rainstorm, hail, dry and hot wind, low temperature and chilling injury.