Jiayuguan City, named for enterprises set off for the city, which is developed with the construction of the 1958 National "15" key construction project "Jiuquan Steel Corp" of the emerging modern industrial tourism city, named for the the Great Wall, known to the world "the best in all the land". The city was set up in 1965 and was approved by the State Council as the province in 1971. It is one of the four prefectural cities in the whole country. Under the jurisdiction of the the Great Wall District, District, district city spiegeleisen (Agency), the total population of 300 thousand people, the resident population of 246 thousand people, the urbanization rate reached 93.4%.
Jiayuguan city is located in the middle of Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province, Suzhou District, East West Center in Jiuquan City, 760 kilometers from the provincial capital of Lanzhou City, west of the oil city of Yumen City to Xinjiang, Hami City, 600 kilometers south, bordering the Sunan Yugur Autonomous County and Zhangye City, Jinta County, North and Jiuquan city Jiuquan health launch base adjacent, is with the Department of Gansu, Qinghai, Mongolia, the new four provinces, the ancient Silk Road traffic hub, the starting point at the western end of the Ming Dynasty the Great Wall, is also the new Eurasian Continental Bridge transit center, the mainland of China to Xinjiang and Central Asia transportation hub, known as "the world first", "Yue frontier". The total area of the area is 1330 square kilometers, and the average altitude is 1600 meters. It belongs to the continental desert climate. The annual temperature is 6.7 - 7.7 degrees, the annual rainfall is 85 mm, and the evaporation is 2149 mm.
Jiayuguan city has obvious regional advantages, and the traffic conditions are superior. Large and medium-sized enterprises in China and the surrounding areas gathered, strong technical force, northwest steel base, Yumen oil base, Chinese nuclear industry base and Jiuquan satellite base for the development of the adjacent, the factor of production and the richest, the most active area in Western Gansu. The road, railway and air transport in Jiayuguan are in a three-dimensional traffic pattern, and the 312 line highway of the national highway runs through the whole territory. JiaYuGuan Railway Station in Hexi Corridor is the largest railway hub marshalling station, Jiayuguan south station is one of the important new high-speed LAN traffic node, Jiayuguan Airport is a 4E International Asia Europe route of the Alternate airport, has been opened to Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Xi'an, Chengdu, Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi and other 16 city routes, forming a contact channel and the Bohai sea, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Chengdu and other economically developed areas, exchange and cooperation and deep economic ties and all-round strengthening. The "Jiayuguan" international freight train is running normalization. The opening of Jiayuguan Airport's air port is included in the national port development plan, and the level of opening to the outside world is further improved. The national "western big development" 13th Five-Year "plan" will be identified as Jiayuguan secondary growth area, West Bridge channel node city "," 13th Five-Year "modern comprehensive transportation system development plan" will be identified as the Jiayuguan national comprehensive transportation hub of the city, "city full circulation node layout planning in (2015 - 2020)" in Jiayuguan for the city to determine the regional circulation node city.
The industrial base of Jiayuguan is rich and the production factors are rich. Western Jiayuguan is an old industrial base construction, after nearly 60 years of development, has become the Northwest's largest production base of iron and steel industry, with millions of tons of high-quality steel, million kilowatts of photovoltaic power generation, millions of tons of aluminum products deep processing capacity, formed in the metallurgical industry as the main body, new energy, equipment manufacturing, electric power, new building materials, chemical, food and brewing as the backbone of the modern industrial system. In recent years, have implemented a number of new energy, equipment manufacturing and other emerging industries, iron and steel metallurgy, nonferrous metal, chemical building materials, equipment manufacturing, new energy industry go hand in hand, aluminum products deep processing, equipment manufacturing, new energy and recycling economy up the chain strong chain project of continuous efforts to continuously improve the integrity of industry. In 2016, Jiuquan Steel Group was ranked 109th in the top 500 of Chinese enterprises and thirty-ninth in the top 500 of Chinese manufacturing enterprises. Jiayuguan economic and Technological Development Zone has been identified as a national low-carbon pilot park, gassie photovoltaic industrial park has been listed as one of the 7 million kilowatts of photovoltaic power generation base in the province.
Jiayuguan has a beautiful living environment and a strong modern atmosphere. The urban planning area is 260 square kilometers, the built-up area is 67 square kilometers, the built-up area green coverage rate reaches 39.2%, the per capita public green area reaches 36 square meters, and the average water area reaches 27 square meters. China has won the excellent tourism city, National Sanitary City, national environmental protection model city, National Garden City, national model city "six consecutive years", the national civilized city for city and many other national city name card, but also the 9 typical city and the cultivation of social governance to         establish peace Chinese demonstration zone.
        Jiayuguan has a profound cultural heritage and rich tourist resources. Tourism resources comprehensive and regional combination, there are national level 5A of the Jiayuguan city cultural tourism area, Asia closest to the city "71" world famous glaciers, Wei Jin tombs underground gallery and the Great Wall pier, the first hanging wall the Great Wall and other famous scenic spots and cultural relics, as well as the East Lake national 4A level scenic spots, the ecological Peacock Garden, Wine Zixuan manor and Grass Lake National Wetland Park, Fantawild and a number of ecological and cultural landscape. Fantawild is the Northwest's largest, highest tech cultural theme park, and Jiayuguan City, constitute an ancient one, this new one, a move a quiet two tourism subject, effectively promote the cultural tourism industry in depth of integration and development, is listed as a unit to create a national whole region tourism demonstration area. Urban infrastructure and sports venues are perfect, and it is one of the three largest international gliding bases in the world.