Annual precipitation in Jiuquan

The annual precipitation in Jiuquan is 58.4 ml.

Jiuquan, known as Suzhou in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Gansu Province, an important node city and a provincial sub-central city in Gansu section of the Silk Road Economic Belt approved by the Gansu Provincial People's Government. By June 2020, it had jurisdiction over 1 1 district, 2 county-level cities and 4 counties, with a total area of192,000 square kilometers. According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 on June 2020, Jiuquan.

Jiuquan is located in the northwest of China, the northwest of Gansu Province and the western end of Hexi Corridor. It is connected with Zhangye City and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in Gansu Province in the east, Qinghai Province in the south, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the west and Mongolia in the north. Since ancient times, it has been a traffic fortress leading to Xinjiang and the western regions, the cradle of modern space flight, the birthplace of new China's oil industry and nuclear industry, and an important new energy base in China.

The geographical environment of Jiuquan City:

Jiuquan, one of the four counties in Hexi in Han Dynasty, is an important town on the Silk Road. Because there are springs under the city and water is like wine, it is named. Jiuquan is the hometown of Dunhuang art, which has created brilliant history and culture. At the same time, due to the movement of nature and human activities, it has created strange and magnificent natural beauty and magnificent human landscape, and has successively won the honorary titles of China Cultural Tourism City and China's most internationally influential tourist destination.

Jiuquan has a continental arid climate, which is dry and cold with little precipitation. From east to west, the altitude is 1500 to100 meters, the annual average temperature is 3.9℃ to 9.3℃, and the frost-free period is 127 to 158 days. The dry heat in summer is short and the cold in winter is long, but the temperature rises rapidly in spring, mainly in temperate arid climate and alpine semi-arid climate, and some places belong to warm temperate arid climate with excess heat.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jiuquan City