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	Gansu
		Geography: Gansu lies at the juncture of three highlands: Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Inner-Mongolia Plateau and Huangtu Plateau, and is bounded on the east by Shanxi, on the west by Xinjiang, on the south by Sichuan, on the north by Inner-Mongolia, Ningxia and Mongolia.
		Gansu has large land resources as well, but the percentage of utilizable land is low, the proportion of cultivated land is small and the capacity of the land is low.
		According to the fourth national census, Gansu's population had become an adult population and the total dependency ratio declined from 73.19% in 1964 (with the ratio of children being 69.61% and of the elderly 3.59%) to 47.14% (with the ratio of children being 41.16% and of the elderly 5.98%).
	www.unescap.org /esid/psis/population/database/chinadata/gansu.htm (2622 words)

	China in 1997 (14 Gansu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Lanzhou, located at the southern end of the Gansu corridor was of enormous strategic value as the bolt of the silk road to the west.
		Gansu province is a narrow corridor between two ranges of the Qilian mountains.
		It was an obligatory passageway between the lush, green plains of the ancient Chinese lowlands to the east and the dry highlands that lead to Central Asia and Persia to the west.
	berclo.net /page97/97en-china-14.html (2245 words)

	Gansu - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Gansu is bordered by the Republic of Mongolia on the north.
		Gansu's mineral resources include coal, copper, gold, nickel, zinc, and large deposits of iron ore and oil; two important oil fields are in the province.
		In 1979 this decision was reversed, and Gansu was restored to its former size.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-gansu.html (454 words)

	Gansu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gansu province has an area of 454,000 km², and the majority of its land is above 1 km over sea level.
		Gansu is known as a source for wild medicinal herbs which are used in Chinese medicine.
		The cuisine of Gansu is based on the staple crops grown there: wheat, barley, millet, beans, and sweet potatoes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gansu (2046 words)

	CNTO - China National Tourist Office
		Gansu covers an area of 175,289 square mile with a population of 24 million.
		Gansu Provincial Museum, in Qilihe District, Lanzhou was opened in early 1956.
		The most prized objects in the museum are the bronze galloping horses, unearthed in the Eastern Han Tomb in the Lejtai Temple in Wuwei City, and a gold coffin of Sarira in the Dayun Temple of the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
	www.cnto.org /silkroad-gansu.asp (1755 words)

	A growing dustbowl in China - The Boston Globe
		The leading cause of China's desertification is the growing number of sheep and goats reared in places such as Gansu for China's increasingly prosperous 1.3 billion people, who are eating more meat.
		Many counties in Gansu have restricted herders from grazing their animals on damaged grasslands, and cities such as Beijing are creating ``shelter belts" of grass and trees around themselves to prevent topsoil from loosening.
		China is even trying to water arid regions by seeding clouds with silver iodide, which creates ``artificial" rain.
	www.boston.com /yourlife/health/other/articles/2006/09/18/chinas_dangerous_dustbowl (1073 words)

	Gansu, China
		Gansu province lies in the northwest of China, between 93°28' and 108°44'E and 32°36' and 42°48'N. The height of the province above sea-level varies between 1000m and 3000m (3300ft and 9900ft), the highest peak being 5808m/19,060ft and the lowest point 600m/1970ft.
		To the northwest, between the northeastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Gobi Desert, the province is in the form of a long ''corridor'', with oases fed by water from the Qilianshan Mountains marking the course of the Silk Road.
		Gansu became part of the Chinese empire back in the time of Emperor Shihuang of the Qin dynasty (221-206 BC).
	www.planetware.com /china/gansu-chn-gs-gs.htm (383 words)

	Gansu - China Tour - Travel to China
		Gansu is abbreviated Gan or Long (陇/隴), and is also known as Long West or Long Right, in reference to the Long Mountain east of Gansu.
		Gansu is the acronym first used in Song China, of two Sui and Tang ChinaTang prefectures (州): Gan (around Zhangyi) and Su (around Jiuquan).
		Gansu province is second place in China for most medicinal plants and herbs, including some odd ones like hairy asiabell root, fritillary bulb, and Chinese caterpillar fungus.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Gansu (1299 words)

	GANSU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Gansu is in the north west of China on the border between central China and Chinese Central Asia.
		It is one of the poorest provinces in China with most of the population trying to make a living on the terraced hills that cover much of the province.
		Gansu is sandwiched between the Gobi desert and the Tibetan plateau and this makes for a harsh climate.
	www.projecttrust.org.uk /countries/gansu.htm (363 words)

	LiangZhou - Oldest City in Gansu? - China History Forum, chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		China History Forum is an online chinese history forum, discussion board or community for all who are interested in learning and discussing chinese history from prehistoric till modern times, including chinese art of war, chinese culture topics.
		The south eastern part of modern Gansu was the commandery (Jun 郡) of Longxi (隴西), the capital of which (Didao 狄道) correspond to the modern city of Lintao (臨洮), a city of Shangfeng (上封) corresponded to modern Tianshui.
		China History Forum is hosted on a AMD Opteron Server managed by MicfoGroup.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=11980 (862 words)

	Gansu Province China - China tourist & travel guide for Gansu Province, China
		Gansu province is located at a place with a varied topography, where Loess Plateau, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Inner Mongolian Plateau meet.
		Most of the middle and east part of it is of special loess topography, the Hexi (or Gansu) Corridor (in northwestern Gansu) is of green land and Gobi Desert intermittently spread.
		Gansu province was the place where the main traffic line in ancient time between China and western countries, the famous Silk Road, passed through.
	www.orientaltravel.com /province/Gansu.htm (286 words)

	Gansu Provice - Travel Guide & Tour Packages
		Due to its position, Gansu at the forefront of China was one of the first Chinese regions to accept material and spiritual influence from the West.
		Gansu is one of the major pastoral areas in China.
		As one of the major plateau areas in China, Gansu is troubled by the lack of forestation and severe soil erosion.
	chinatravelz.com /china/Gansu (695 words)

	Gansu Province : China : Sister Cities
		Gansu is a province in the north west of the People's Republic of China that extends from the Mongolian border in the north to the geographic centre of China in the south.
		Gansu has a long history of international trade and transport because of its geographic link between east and west.
		Gansu is also a leading producer of petro-chemicals and machinery for the petro-chemical industry, electronic goods and textiles.
	www.christchurch.org.nz /SisterCities/GansuProvince (418 words)

	Gansu
		Gansu is located in the northwest of China, bordering on Xinjiang, the country’s most westerly province.
		Gansu stretches from the Yellow River in the north, through mountains and deserts to the edge of the Tibetan Plateau in the south.
		Some of the world’s finest examples of Buddhist art are to be found in the vast Mogao Cave complex near Dunhuang in the east of the province, and the Great Wall comes to an end at the fortress of Jiayuguan in the south.
	www.chinaetravel.com /province/pr06.html (188 words)

	2200-year old map of China
		The map was drawn on four pine plates, 23 cm long, 17 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick each, and includes a drawing of Guixian County of the Qin Kingdom, one of the seven major principalities in the era of the Warring States (475-221BC).
		This map provided material evidence of the developed cartology of ancient China and was a precious artefact in the study of China's map-drawing technologies, said Li Wanru, a research fellow with the ancient maps laboratory of the Natural Science Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
		Archaeologists with the Gansu Provincial Archaeological Research Institute excavated 13 Qin tombs and one tomb of the Western Han at Fangmatan in 1986, unearthing over 400 relics including the map of Guixian County.
	www.chinapage.com /map/gansu-oldmap.html (574 words)

	The Chinese Education Industry
		During the conference, the film, focused on the remote and mountainous villages of Gansu province, China also was shown to the audience.
		Located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, northwest China, Gansu is one of the cradles of Chinese cultures.
		In China, the research project was conducted in Gansu Province, exploring the nature and role of private schools serving for the poor.
	www.ncl.ac.uk /egwest/countries/china.html (1614 words)

	The Opposite End of China \|\| Xinjiang & Northwest China Blog (中国的另一端 \|\| 新疆 & ...
		The forest is on the border between Gansu and Qinghai.
		SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Scores of human skulls, many of them with the top sawn off, have been found in a hillside forest in northwestern China, though it is unclear how or when the people died, police said Wednesday.
		The two artists only needed the top of the skulls and dumped the rest in the ravine, leading to speculation after their discovery that the skulls might be anything from monkeys to the victims of a serial killer.
	china.notspecial.org /archives/2006/04/gruesome_gansu.html (1467 words)

	Gansu Province
		Gansu Communist Party Secretary Song Zhaosu rose through the political ranks of his native Henan, ultimately becoming vice governor in 1988 and deputy secretary of the Henan Communist Party from 1993 to 1998.
		Gansu, GTECO says, is also in the process of improving its science and technology resources as well as its legal framework to improve its international competitiveness.
		Located near the headwaters of the Yellow River at the geographic center of China, Gansu’s capital city is fast becoming a major trade center for provinces in the north and west, such as Xinjiang and Qinghai.
	www.chinabusinessreview.com /public/0209/gansu.html (1595 words)

	China Travel/Tour Resource
		Gansu Province is located in the middle part of the Silk Road between Xinjiang Yygur autonomous Region and Shanxi Province in the Northwest China.
		Gansu has always been a must along Silk Road, and an important thoroughfare of culture and trade between China and the west.
		Gansu is reputed as the Golden Section along the road, and regarded as "The Hometown of Grotto Arts." The most popular ones are Mogao Grattoes, Maijiashan Grottoes and Bingling Si Grottoes.
	www.2002china.net /china_columns/provinces/gansu/index.shtml (420 words)

	Gansu, China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		China Finds Oldest Environmental Protection Rule - A report from Xinhua that China was taking legal measures to protect the natural environment as early as West Han Dynasty (206 BCE to 24 CE), in Gansu Province.
		Gansu - Travel China Guide - Offering full travel information of the history of the ancient Silk Road and some major cities in Gansu province.
		Gansu Province - A rundown of the sights of Gansu.
	www.website.to /gansu (257 words)

	Map of Gansu Province, China
		Situated in the upper reaches of the Huanghe River, northwest China, Gansu Province borders on Ningxia, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Mongolia.
		Gansu Province occupies a long narrow area at the junction of Loess Plateau, Mongolia Plateau and Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau.
		The province belongs to the temperate monsoon climate zone, and is one of the arid provinc in China.
	www.maps-of-china.net /p_gansu_map.html (220 words)

	Gansu China Asia Regional (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Gansu Dunhuang Seed, based in China's Gansu province, owns 51 percent of the venture and DuPont owns the rest.
		China is stepping up efforts to reduce dependence on coal for its booming economy and...
		Judge and his family killed at homeShanghai Daily, China - 1 hour agoA GANSU criminal judge and his family members as well as their nanny were killed...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Regional/Asia/China/Gansu (417 words)

	SPACE.com -- China Launches Its First Piloted Spaceflight
		China became the third country to send an astronaut toward orbit, four decades after the Soviet Union and the United Sates.
		China launched its first manned space mission on Wednesday, sending an astronaut hurtling toward orbit and becoming the third country in Earth's history to do so, four decades after the Soviet Union and the United Sates.
		And clearly, one of China's aims is to enhance its prestige, said Dean Cheng, a China space specialist for the CNA Corporation in Arlington, Va.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/shenzhou5_launch_031014.html (1282 words)

	Gansu Travel Guide: Gansu Tour, Map, Hotel, Tips, Gansu China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Lanzhou, a well-known ancient city in China, is the capital of Gansu.
		It is the second largest city in northwest China, and also the political, economic and cultural center of the province.
		The traditional handicrafts in Gansu are archaized carpets (using patterns from ancient carpets), luminous cups and the duplicates of sculptures and murals of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /cityguides/gansu (447 words)

	Welcome to the Gansu Inc
		GANSU, INC was founded in 1990, as a Christian charitable organization, by William C. Conrad, M.D., with a mission purpose to provide eye care, through surgery and teaching, to the underserved peoples of west China and Tibet.
		Gansu, Inc, Founded in 1990, is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, non-political, charitable corporation dedicated to promoting and delivering eye care to the people of remote China, especially Gansu and Xinjiang provinces, through education and active delivery of care.
		Donations to Gansu, Inc are deductible for U.S. Income Tax purposes to the extent eligible by law.
	www.gansuinc.org (192 words)

	Country Profile:Gansu Province--People's Daily Online
		Northwest China Province on the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
		Gansu has a temperate monsoon climate with the marked transitional characteristics of a continental climate.
		The grassland in Gansu Province is the fifth biggest in China.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /data/province/gansu.html (160 words)

	Railways,Gansu Travel Guides-China City Tours Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu Province, is the geographical center of China, where the Lanzhou-Urumqi, Baotou-Lanzhou, Longhai (Lianyungang-Lanzhou), and Lanzhou-Xining trunk railways meet.
		By the end of 1997, the length of Gansu’s railroads in operation had totaled 1,982 kilometers, the volume of rail freight had become 42 billion tons, and the passenger volume had reached 5 billion people/km.
		Those coming into Gansu from Shaanxi to the east, will also pass through Tianshui on their way towards Lanzhou.
	www.achinatravel.com /china-travel/china-gansu-railways.asp (262 words)

	CNN - China intensifies iodine health campaign - Sept. 27, 1997
		GANSU, China (CNN) -- China's Ministry of Health has concluded that more than 1 billion Chinese residents live in areas where they are at risk of not getting sufficient iodine, a vital trace element.
		Gansu province, in north-central China, is one of the regions targeted by the health ministry.
		Unless there is proper testing, there is no way of knowing how many children in rural China already have suffered from the deficiency, or will continue to suffer silently because they aren't getting the iodine they need.
	www.cnn.com /HEALTH/9709/27/china.iodine (595 words)

	Gansu — FactMonster.com
		Lanzhou is an important transportation hub; the Lanzhou–Xinjiang RR crosses the province, and the Lanzhou–Beijing RR has a connection through Mongolia to Russia.
		In the 1969–70 redistricting, Gansu received a portion of W Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region.
		Wei, river, China - Wei, river, c.450 mi (720 km) long, rising in SE Gansu prov.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0820159.html (366 words)

	Beauty, the Land of China - Gansu
		Gansu is a mid-northwestern province that stretches along the Silk Road.
		Gansu's capital city, Lanzhou, is near the center of China on the Huang He.
		On the way to the Pass one can see ancient tombs where visitors can have a look at life as it was 1,600 years ago.
	library.thinkquest.org /20443/gansu.html (1044 words)

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