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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)

	Gansu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gansu is the acronym first used in Song Dynasty, China, of two Sui and Tang Dynasties prefectures (州): Gan (around Zhangyi) and Su (around Jiuquan).
		Gansu is known as a source for wild medicinal herbs which are used in Chinese medicine.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gansu (1240 words)

	gansu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gansu (Simplified: 甘肃, Traditional: 甘肅, Pinyin: Gānsù, Wade-Giles: Kan-su, or modified as Kan-suh) is a province located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.
		Gansu is the acronym first used in Song China, of two Sui and Tang prefectures (州;): Gan (around Zhangyi) and Su (around Jiuquan).
		Gansu province has an area of 390,000 km², and the majority of its land is above 1 km over sea level.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /gansu.html (399 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.
		The population is sparse for such a large province and much of the territory is unsuitable for settlement.
	www.chinaetravel.com /province/pr06.html (188 words)

	Gansu province - China cities Directory, tour & trip guide for Gansu
		Gansu province is also called Long or Gan for short.
		Gansu province is located at a place with a varied topography, where Loess Plateau, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Inner Mongolian Plateau meet.
		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.tour33.com /china_province/gansu.htm (285 words)

	Province View-china.org.cn
		Gansu features a land area of 455,000 sq km, including 4.54 million ha of cultivated land at the end of 2004.
		The water resources in Gansu are mainly distributed in nine river systems in the Yellow, Yangtze, and inland river drainage basins with an annual discharge of 61.4 billion cubic meters and a combined hydropower potential of 17.24 million kw.
		Gansu holds second place among China's provinces and autonomous regions in the variety of medicinal herbs.
	www.china.org.cn /english/features/ProvinceView/164352.htm (1066 words)

	CNTO - China National Tourist Office
		Gansu Province is located in the northwestern China.
		Gansu covers an area of 175,289 square mile with a population of 24 million.
		To the west of Lanzhou and west of the Yellow River is the famous "Hexi Corridor," an important strategic passage on the ancient Silk Road stretching to the west.
	www.cnto.org /silkroad-gansu.asp (1755 words)

	Gansu,Gansu Province,Gansu China,Gansu Province China,Gansu Travel,Gansu Province Travel Guide,Gansu Travel China,Gansu ...
		The ethnic groups that stay in the Gansu province include the Han, Mongols, Kazak and Tibetans.
		Since most of the terrain in the Gansu province is comparatively uninhabitable, the people stay in the capital city, Lanzhou and near the Gansu province's industrial center, Tianshui.
		Gansu is located in northwestern China close to the Xinjiang province.
	www.holidayschina.com /china-provinces-holidays/gansu.html (247 words)

	Gansu Province China - China tourist & travel guide for Gansu Province, China
		Gansu province is also called Long or Gan for short.
		Gansu province is located at a place with a varied topography, where Loess Plateau, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Inner Mongolian Plateau meet.
		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 Province
		Air Transport －The only airport in the province is in Lanzhou, though the scarcity of flat land places it some distance from the city itself.
		Gansu is an important base of oil refining and the petrochemical industry.
		Baiyin is about 70 km northeast of Lanzhou and with the longer distances associated with the western provinces, it could be considered a suburb of Lanzhou.
	www.accci.com.au /keycity/gansu.htm (1468 words)

	Xinhua News Agency: Gansu province's last SARS patient discharged from hospital.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gansu province's last SARS patient discharged from hospital.
		Local authorities in northwest China's Gansu Province on Friday announced the discharge of the province's last remaining SARS patient.
		Seven of the province's total of eight SARS patients have been discharged from the hospital, while the eighth succumbed to the disease, said Hou Shenghua, director of the provincial health bureau.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:102841859&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (185 words)

	Gansu: My Home Province (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gansu is on the upper part of the Yellow River (Huang He), with a corridor extending north and west between the northernmost part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on the south, and the Gobi desert on the north.
		One notable aspect of Gansu's ancient culture is that its dry climate has preserved many valuable paintings and manuscripts, including an entire library which had been sealed in a cave in western Gansu since 1035 AD.
		The cuisine of Gansu is based on the staple crops grown there: wheat, barley, millet, beans, and sweet potatoes.
	www.magma.ca /~mtooker/cities/gansu.htm (379 words)

	Gansu on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		The former province of Ningxia was joined to it in 1954, then detached in 1958 and reconstituted as an autonomous region.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Gansu.asp (667 words)

	Gansu Province travel guide - China travel guide, Gansu China travel services, Gansu tours
		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.chinaplanner.com /gansu (374 words)

	Geography - Gansu Province - West China Travel Guide
		Gansu Province lies on the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River in Northwest China.
		Long and narrow in shape, Gansu has a landmass that is generally high in the southwest and low in the northeast.
		The province borders Shaanxi on the east, Sichuan on the south, Qinghai and Xinjiang on the west, and Ningxia and Inner Mongolia and the People's Republic of Mongolia on the north.
	www.chinaplanner.com /westchina/gansu/geograph.htm (264 words)

	Who Are We? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		GANSU, INC's mission is to provide eyecare, through Teaching and Surgery, for the underserved peoples of West China, specifically Gansu and Xinjiang Provinces.
		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, specifically Gansu Province, in China's northwest.
		GANSU, INC has purchased a YAG laser which is utilized for treating any of these who require it.
	www.gansuinc.org /Who.htm (614 words)

	GANSU PROVINCE (tdctrade.com)
		Gansu - abbreviated as Long（隴）- is situated in northwestern China at the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
		Gansu is abundant in resources and its reserves of coal and oil are considerable.
		Gansu is also the major industrial base of high-speed camera and imitated tape-making equipment.
	www.tdctrade.com /mktprof/china/mpgan.htm (1611 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.
		The province is also famous for its large tracts of pastoral land where both sheep and cattle are grazed.
		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)

	Route in China (CHINA - Gansu province) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 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.
	www.odyssei.com /travel-article/1663.html (583 words)

	Gansu Travel Guide: Gansu Tour, Map, Hotel, Tips, Gansu China
		Located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, northwest China, Gansu is one of the cradles of Chinese cultures.
		It occupies a total area of 450,000 square kilometers (173,700 square miles) Neighboring provinces are Shaanxi to the east, Sichuan to the south, Qinghai and Xinjiang to the west and Inner Mongolia and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to the north.
		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 (448 words)

	(China) Traditional Chinese medicine and Tibetan medicine wins governmental support in Gansu Province :: BiotechEast - ...
		With the aim of consolidating the traditional Chinese medicine and Tibetan medicine industry, Gansu Province recently hosted a seminar on rejuvenating and nurturing the province’s TCM and Tibetan medicine enterprises to become a leading component of Gansu’s economic growth, according to mainland media reports.
		Gansu Province, one of the main herbal production areas in China, is home to more than 9500 species of medicinal plants, with 450 medicinal plants currently being harvested for medicinal use including angelica, rhubarb, liquorices etc.
		Yang Zhiming, vice governor of Gansu Province, pointed out that the twin pillars of traditional Chinese medicine and Tibetan medicine have synergistic benefits similar to those found in the petrochemical and machinery industries already prevalent in Gansu.
	www.biotecheast.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=887&topic=3 (320 words)

	Gansu - China Tour - Travel to China
		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 is 92% Han ChineseHan and also has Hui peopleHui, Tibetan, Dingxiang, Tu (ethnic group)Tu, Manchu, Yugar, Bonan, MongolsMongolian, Salar, and Kazakh minorities.
		Within China, Gansu is known for its pulled noodles, and Chinese Islamic cuisineMuslim restaurants which feature authentic Gansu cusine are a common in most major Chinese cities.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Gansu (1299 words)

	Gansu Province Solar Home System Project (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gansu project is being implemented by the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) in Washington, D.C. and the Gansu Solar Electric Light Fund (GSELF) in Lanzhou, Gansu, and builds upon work previously conducted by these organizations.
		The Gansu project is directed toward poor communities in rural Gansu, using limited subsidies that are being phased out during the course of the project.
		The province of Gansu has among the lowest annual income levels in all of China for remote farming communities.
	www.nrel.gov /international/china/gansu_pilot_project.html (628 words)

	Gansu
		Lanzhou, located in the northwestern part of Gansu province, is the capital city of the province.
		Lanzhou is a major transport terminal of Gansu province.
		Jiayuguan is situated in the middle of the Hexi Corridor of the province of Guansu.
	www.worldandchina.com /provinces/Gansu.html (647 words)

	Practitioner Bi Wenming Tortured to Death at the Dingxi Jail in Gansu Province \| Clearharmony - Falundafa in Europe
		Practitioner Bi Wenming Tortured to Death at the Dingxi Jail in Gansu Province
		Even after the facts of the persecution of practitioner Jin Jiling were exposed earlier this year, guards at the Dingxi Jail in Gansu Province showed no remorse for their actions.
		Zhang Yuling, from Gansu Province Tortured to Death in 2002
	www.clearharmony.net /articles/200501/24267.html (415 words)

	Country Profile:Gansu Province--People's Daily Online
		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.
		The province is also rich in coal, troilite, cement, limestone, gypsum, mirabilite and fluorite.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /data/province/gansu.html (160 words)

	ADB to Help Bring Clean and Reliable Hydropower Energy to Gansu Province, PRC - ADB.org
		The Gansu Clean Energy Development Project - ADB's first loan project in the province - will finance the construction of a 98-megawatt run-of-the-river Xiaogushan Hydropower Plant (XHP), together with substation and transmission lines, to serve Zhangye City.
		Coal fired thermal plants are the main source of energy in Gansu province.
		The planned hydropower plant is the least-cost alternative for generation expansion in Gansu and will represent about 38% of the installed capacity in the Zhangye grid when it is completed in 2007.
	www.adb.org /documents/news/2003/nr2003177.asp (610 words)

	Welcome to Official Website of Gansu Provincial People’s Government
		Lu Hao, secretary of the CPC Gansu Provincial Committee and chairman of Gansu Provincial People’s Congress interviewed a delegation of young Japanese leaders led by Anami Koresige, ambassador and counselor of Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Septemb
		Organizations in Charge of Foreign Affairs of Gansu Province
		Prime Minister Wen Jiabao accompanied by Lu Hao, secretary of the CPC Gansu Provincial Committee and Governor Xu Shousheng, went to the Qingtu Lake, Minqin County on October 1 to investigate desertification prevention and control and
	www.gansu.gov.cn /en/default.asp (174 words)

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