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Gulang County’s generalization, economic and agricultural actuality
1/Generalization：Gulang County is located in the furthest east of Hexi Corridor, being one of three counties belonging to Wuwei Area (Wuwei is Liangzhou on the Old Silk Road) with the other two being Minqin and Tianzhu. In the three counties, Minqin’s economic situation is the best; Tianzhu is the first China autonomous county of Zhuang ethnic minority group. With care of Nationalities Policy plus animal husbandry resource and dense vegetation cover, its condition is better than Gulang. Gulang is national key poverty Alleviation County. It lacks products resource, hardly having any property or industry with terrible agricultural condition. Especially south-central areas are short of water resource and people still live a life of depending on the weather.
The north of Gulang County is contiguous to the south edge of Tengger Desert. The south is a mountainous area that adjoins the rest of Qilian Mountain. Huangyangchuan is also one of six mountainous area villages. Gulang is in charge of Gulang, Tumen and Dajing three towns. 312 National Highway runs through Gulang County seat. Between Gulang County and Jingtai County there is a road that goes through Huangyangchuan Village Government seat, Zhangjiadun. But the road condition is not good. When it snows or rains, the regular bus will stop. At present the road has been started working to rebuild. After rebuilding the road condition will be much better. The traffic from Zhangjiadun to Gulang is comparatively convenient. Most of the mountainous areas have bad traffic condition. Some places can only run a few agricultural tricycles and some are not open to traffic at all. Huangyangchuan is a long and narrow plain field. Its south marches with Tianzhu County.
2/Economic and agricultural actuality：The north area of Gulang County that is adjacent to Tengger Desert is yet an area with comparatively better economic condition. Because motor-pumped well can be dug there. Some places can make use of Jingtai Rivers Yellow River Diversion Project and can irrigate with Yellow River. So the problem of water shortage is small. But in the southern mountainous area villages including Huangyangchuan, agricultural use water is all but rainwater. While the drought already lasts nearly 6 years, some families of the villages have been out of stored grain and have to buy grain to eat. Now many peasants in the mountainous area have dug water wells, reserving rainwater. Drinking water depends mainly on springs. Crops are mainly wheat, potato, pea as well as a small quantity of horsebean and vegetable seeds. The climate is the kind of mountainous region’s cool climate. Many crops can’t be planted. Poverty alleviation support has put up greenhouses to plant vegetables in some places, but not with much profit up to present. The cultivation manner is manual still with little use of agricultural machines and without modern agricultural technology. There is almost no mine resource. The environment has much deteriorated in the past 10 years and the vegetation cover has decreased greatly in area. Many a mountain is bare. To cultivate land is equal to loss, for the grain price is quite low. In such a case, every family man works outside most of a year, basically in Hexi and Xinjiang zones. Earning money by working outside is no more than allowing the expenses of family. The perspective of the place is little.
Author: Cong Feng
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