The agriculture in Qilian Mountains is mainly limited to Huang Shuihe in the east, the valleys in the middle and lower reaches of Datong River and the hilly areas on the north slope. Spring wheat, highland barley, potatoes, rape, peas and melons and vegetables are harvested once a year.
The vast grassland is suitable for the development of animal husbandry, and there is a large area of water conservation forest.
There are many kinds of medicinal and other economic plants, and there are many precious animals, such as Gansu red deer, blue pheasant, blood pheasant, forest musk deer and so on.
mineral resources
There are siderite-specularite and hematite-magnetite in North Qilian Mountains. There are pyrite-type copper deposits in the east of Qilian Mountain. The chronological wolframite and tungsten-molybdenum deposits in Subei and Jiuquan Nanshan are one of the rich tungsten deposits in western China.
Qilian Mountain Nature Reserve is located at the junction of Gansu and Qinghai provinces, covering an area of more than 230,000 hectares. 1988 has been designated as a national nature reserve.
cultural heritage
Hexi Corridor in front of Qilian Mountain has been a natural passage from the mainland to the northwest since ancient times, with many cultural relics and historical sites.
During the Han and Tang Dynasties, the famous "Silk Road" passed through here, leaving many historical sites, portals and towns for cultural exchanges between China and the West, such as Jiayuguan, Heishui National Han Tomb, Horseshoe Temple Grottoes, Xixia Monuments and Bingling Temple Grottoes.
The bronze galloping horse unearthed in Wuwei, a famous historical and cultural city in the east of Hexi Corridor, has become a symbol of China tourism.
tourist resources
The famous Sun Moon Mountain at the southern foot of Qilian Mountain is located in the east of Qinghai Province, east of Qinghai Lake and west of Huangyuan County.
Datong Mountain in the north and Laji Mountain in the south are in the southeast direction of northwest jujube, stretching for dozens of kilometers.
Sun Moon Mountain is located on the northeast edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with an average elevation of more than 4,000 meters. There are Bison Mountain (4832 meters above sea level), Al Dawan Mountain (4455 meters above sea level) and other peaks, among which there is the famous Sun Moon Lake.
Sun Moon Mountain is the dividing line between the inflow area and outflow area in eastern Qinghai, and it is also the only way for the mainland to enter Tibet and go to the source area of the Yellow River. Princess Wencheng and Princess Jincheng entered Tibet in the Tang Dynasty, and the envoys of Tang and Fan all passed through here.
Xichuan River and Beichuan River on the Shandong side flow into Huangshui River, belonging to the Yellow River system.
There is an inverted Tang River at the southern foot of Shanxi, which flows into Qinghai Lake inland.
There are significant differences in natural conditions and cultural landscapes on both sides of Sun Moon Mountain, which has always been called "the gate of grassland" and "the screen of the West Sea (Qinghai Lake)", and is the natural dividing line between agricultural areas and nomadic areas.
To the east of the mountain is the Huangshui River Basin, with developed towns such as Xining, Huangzhong and Huangyuan, and many places of interest are distributed.
To the west of the mountain are Qinghai Lake and endless grasslands.
Edit the geographical meaning of this paragraph.
Chinese national geography (No.3, 2006) once described the significance of Qilian Mountain to China: "The Qilian Mountain in the east, blown by the monsoon from the Pacific Ocean, is a wet island, extending to the arid area in the northwest.
Without Qilian Mountain, the desert in Inner Mongolia will be connected with the desert in Qaidam Basin, and the desert may be pushed to Lanzhou greatly.
It is precisely because of Qilian Mountain, glaciers on extremely high mountains, rainfall in mountainous areas and rivers that the Hexi Corridor was developed and the Silk Road emerged.
However, the significance of Qilian Mountain does not stop there.
""Qilian Mountain's greatest contribution to China is not only the Hexi Corridor, not only the Silk Road, but also religion and jade. More importantly, Qilian Mountain created and bred glaciers, rivers and oases as stepping stones and bridges to cross it, allowing China's politics and culture to cross the tidal desert in the northwest and shake hands with Tianshan Mountain in Xinjiang, and the people of China went to Tianshan Mountain and Pamirs under the escort of Qilian Mountain.
It is said that Zhang Ye's name means' Broken Xiongnu's arm, Zhang China's armpit', and Hexi Corridor is the arm of China, dragging China back to Xinjiang.
The geographical significance of Qilian Mountain: 1, the boundary between Inner Mongolia Plateau and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; 2. The dividing line between the first step and the second step; 3, 200 mm annual precipitation line; 4. The dividing line between the internal and external flow areas; 5, the dividing line between arid and semi-arid areas; 6. The dividing line between grassland landscape and desert landscape; 7. The dividing line between Qinghai-Tibet region and northwest arid and semi-arid region