Other Scenic Spots 其它景点

Hulun Lake 呼伦湖

It is a bright pearl in the middle of the pastureland. The lake is also known as the Dalai Lake. Dalai means sea. It is about 80 kilometers in length and 33 kilometers approximately in width. It encompasses 2,339 square kilometers and is the fifth largest freshwater lake trailing Boyang Lake, Dongting Lake, Lake Tai, and Hongze Lake in China. The boundless water makes visitors feel as if they were standing on the edge of the sea. Some 31 varieties of fish and shrimp teem in the lake. To preserve these resources, the local government has banned fishing during the reproductive season. It is said that it is more fun to go angling in winter. Fishermen drill holes through the thick ice and fish through the hole. The harvests that can be reaped from the frozen lake make it worthwhile despite the biting cold. The 151-kilometer-long Huhhot-Baotou Expressway was completed in December 2001 and has four lanes and allows automobiles to run at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour.

Hulunbuir Pasture Land 呼伦贝尔草原

The Hulunbuir League is in northeastern China and shares borders with Russia and Mongolia. It also has a territory of 253,000 square kilometers, almost as big as Shandong and Jiangsu provinces together. There are 31 ethnic groups living in the area. The Hulunbuir Pasture Land is one of the world’s largest unspoiled natural grasslands in the world, with a total land area of 80,000 square kilometers. The State Council has recently approved a plan to designate Hulunbuir League as a national ecology zone to carry out this policy. The league plans to turn 133,000 hectares (328,643 acres) of land into pastureland in 2001 and by the year 2005 there will be an extra 266,000 hectares (657,286 acres) of forest and grassland. It has been nicknamed China’s air conditioner and oxygen factory. It is said that there are hundreds of traditional Chinese herbs growing on the grasslands. The area’s mutton tastes fresh and good because the sheep eat these herbs. It is also said that the herbs can help people stay healthy. The herdsmen have perfected the cooking of mutton and use their animals’ milk to make button, cheese, milk tea, and milk wine.

Trench of Jin 金朝战壕

An 800-year-old wall stretching some 5,000 kilometers has been found in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The newly identified wall was built during 1123-1198 by the Nüzhen people, a nomadic tribe who established the Jin Dynasty. It extends from the western bank of the Nenjiang River in Heilongjiang Province to the city of Baotou in southern Inner Mongolia. The clay wall, called the “Trench of Jin,” features watchtowers, fortresses, and trenches along its outside.

China has a 2,000-year history of wall building, and boasts a total of 40,000 kilometers of walls in 16 provinces and autonomous regions. Some 15,000 kilometers of the walls were found in Inner Mongolia; the Trench of Jin is the longest. Another long wall built in the region by the Jin people runs from the northern foot of the Daxing’anling Mountains (Greater Xing’an Mountain Range), via grasslands in Inner Mongolia, to Mongolia.

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