Shandan County, which belongs to Zhangye City, Gansu Province, is located in the middle of Hexi Corridor. It is the east gate of Jin Zhangye, a pearl and an important town on the Silk Road. It is adjacent to Yongchang in the east, Qinghai in the south and Alashan Right Banner in Inner Mongolia in the north. It is 0/48km long from north to south and 89km wide from east to west, with a total area of 5402.43km2..
According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 1 1 on June 2020, the resident population of Shandan County was 15003 1. Shandan County is at an altitude of 1550-444 1 m, surrounded by mountains on three sides, high in the southeast and low in the northwest, and has a continental cold and semi-arid climate. Shandan County's economy is dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, with 857,000 mu of cultivated land and 460,000 mu of cultivated land all the year round. This is a county that is semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral.
Shandan has the largest military horse farm in Asia. Shandan Military Racecourse has become the location of many movies. Shandanming Great Wall is the best preserved Great Wall in China. 20 18 10 10, Gansu provincial government approved Shandan county to withdraw from poverty-stricken counties.
The specialty of Shandan county
1, Shandan mutton
Shandan county is a big county for raising sheep. The local traditional products have a long history, no fishy smell, delicious meat and unique taste, which are well received by merchants inside and outside the county.
2. Zhangye beef cattle
Specialty of Shandan County, Zhangye, Gansu Province. Zhangye beef cattle are mainly produced in Ganzhou, Linze, Gao Tai, Shandan, Minle and Sunan counties in Zhangye City, Gansu Province.
3. Zhangye yellow rice wine
Zhangye's yellow rice wine has a long history. Long ago, local ancestors began to collect medicinal songs. After that, with sorghum and highland barley as the wine base and glutinous rice as the leading material, dozens of precious Chinese herbal medicines, such as angelica, amaranth, dried tangerine peel and safflower, were selected and made into wheat koji, which was carefully brewed.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Shandan County.