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Hulunbuir

2017-06-19

Hulunbuir covers 253,000 square kilometers of northeast Inner Mongolia, 21.4 percent of Inner Mongolia’s total area. Hulunbuir is divided into 14 different county-level jurisdictions: two districts, five county-level cities, four banners and three autonomous banners, and is home to 2,530,000 permanent residents. 

Hulunbuir has plentiful tourism resources ranging from prairie, forests, and lakes to minority ethnic customs. Its major scenic features include the high steppes of the Hulunbuir grasslands, the Hulun and Buir lakes (meaning “otter” in Mongolian), and the Khingan range. Hulunbuir as a whole is governed as a prefecture-level city, and has been honored as an outstanding tourism city, best ethnic charm city, one of six tourism development zones, and the only prairie tourism development area in China.

Hulunbuir has a long history and is one of the birthplaces of northern hunting or nomadic peoples. Xianbei, Khitan, and Jurchen once lived here. Three of the ethnic minority autonomous banners of Inner Mongolia, Daur, Oroqen, and Ewnki, are all in Hulunbuir city; 14 out of 18 national ethnic townships are also there. 

Hulunbuir’s GDP reached 119.30 billion yuan ($16.84 billion) in 2019, an increase of 2.7 percent year on year. The added value of the primary industry totaled 27.91 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.7 percent; the added value of the secondary industry was 33.26 billion yuan, an increase of 2.2 percent; and the added value of the tertiary industry was 58.14 billion yuan, an increase of 4.1 percent.

The proportion of Hulunbuir’s industrial structure was adjusted to 23.4:27.9:48.7.
Per capita GDP of the resident population was 47,116 yuan, an increase of 2.6 percent compared with that of the previous year.