Xigu District () is one of 5 districts of the

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of Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, Northwest China. It is the westernmost part of the city of Lanzhou proper. Until 1952, Xigu was part of Gaolan County as a township and in 1953 it was established as the fifth district level division of Lanzhou. During this period, as part of China's first five-year plan, the petrochemical industry was developed in the area.

Administrative divisions

Xigu is divided in 8

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5 towns and 1 township (which contain 40 villages in total) and (which are divided in 70 communities). ;Subdistricts ;Towns ;Townships * Jingou Township ()

Economy

Xigu District is highly industrialized, and most of Lanzhou's heavy industry is located in the district, including PetroChina's Lanzhou Petrochemical complex, an aluminium smelting plant, power plants, and textile industry. It was also the site of a

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factory, completed in 1958, which provided the material for China's first atomic bomb. The Bapanxia Dam on the

Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth-longest river system in the world at the estimated length of . Originating in the Bayan Ha ...

is located within the district, at .

Transport

China National Highway 109 China National Highway 109 connects Beijing with Lhasa. It runs westwards from Beijing via Datong, Yinchuan and Xining to Golmud before turning southwest to Lhasa. The portion of the highway from Xining to Lhasa is known as the Qinghai-Tibet Hig ...

China National Highway 213 China National Highway 213 (G213) runs from Ceke, Inner Mongolia, to Mohan, on the border with Laos, in Yunnan. It is in length and runs via Chengdu, Sichuan and Kunming, Yunnan. Before the 2013 Highway Planning, the route started in Lanzhou, ...

* G2201 Lanzhou Ring Expressway * Lanzhou–Zhongchuan Airport intercity railway *

Lanzhou–Xinjiang railway The Lanzhou−Xinjiang railway or Lanxin railway (), is the longest railway in Northwestern China. It runs 1904 kilometres (1,183 miles) from Lanzhou, Gansu, through the Hexi Corridor, to Ürümqi, in Xinjiang. It was Xinjiang's only rail link ...

* Lanzhou Metro Line 1 * Dongchuan Railway Logistics Center, freight train land port with trains to destinations as far as Pakistan and Nepal.

Administrative divisions

Economy

Transport

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