Baiyin, Gansu Province, China
🇨🇳 Baiyin is a prefecture-level city in north-eastern Gansu province, People's Republic of China. Established in the 1950s as a base for mining non-ferrous metals, its mines are becoming exhausted in recent decades, requiring the city to reinvent its economy. Located around 60 km from Gansu's capital Lanzhou, it is part of the Lanzhou-Baiyin Economic Belt.
Baiyin has 2 urban districts, 3 counties, 64 townships, 18 towns, and 7 sub-districts.
Baiyin District (白银区) is the main urban district of and the economic, cultural and political centre of the prefecture-level city.
Economy The Baiyin Nonferrous operates copper, zinc and selenium mines around Baiyin, although these mines are getting exhausted of ore. Financed by development funds, a high-tech park is being built, which is home to a contact lens factory. Pingchuan District and Huining County are the largest coal production bases in Gansu province.
The Yinguang Group, a subsidiary of Norinco, operates a major factory making chemicals for defence and civilian use, the factory was a key project of the first five-year plan.
Transportation Baiyin is directly served by the Baotou–Lanzhou railway, Honghui railway, China National Highway 109, China National Highway 341 and G6 Beijing–Lhasa Expressway.
Asia/Shanghai/Gansu
Baiyin has a population of over 895,300 people. Baiyin also forms the centre of the wider Baiyin prefecture which has a population of over 1,740,800 people.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Baiyin has links with:
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Locations Near: Baiyin 104.201,36.549
🇨🇳 Lanzhou 103.826,36.054 d: 64.5
🇨🇳 Linxia City 103.242,35.605 d: 135.8
🇨🇳 Linxia 103.21,35.602 d: 137.9
🇨🇳 Liangzhou 102.642,37.928 d: 206.3
🇨🇳 Wuwei 102.638,37.929 d: 206.6
🇨🇳 Xining 101.779,36.623 d: 216.4
🇨🇳 Wuzhong 106.196,37.985 d: 238.1
🇨🇳 Tianshui 105.725,34.582 d: 258.6
Antipodal to: Baiyin -75.799,-36.549
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🇨🇱 Concepción -73.05,-36.817 d: 19768.2
🇨🇱 Chiguayante -73.017,-36.917 d: 19763.8
🇨🇱 Cauquenes -72.35,-35.967 d: 19699.2
🇨🇱 Temuco -72.667,-38.733 d: 19647.6
🇨🇱 San Carlos -71.95,-36.417 d: 19670.7
🇨🇱 Angol -72.25,-38.25 d: 19649
🇨🇱 Valdivia -73.233,-39.8 d: 19589.7