Etuokeqian Banner was built in August 1980. Located in the southwest of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, at the junction of Mongolia, Shaanxi and Ningxia provinces. The territory is mainly composed of Mu Us Sandy Land and Erdos Liangdi, with a total land area of 1.2 1.8 million square kilometers. The whole banner governs 68 Gacha villages in 4 towns with a total population of 75,000, of which the Mongolian population accounts for about 3 1% of the total population. It is a minority area with Mongolian as the main body and Han as the majority.