甘肃英语导游词汇总.doc

甘肃概况 A Survey of Gansu Gansu Province, lying in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, is in the heart of China. Tell you its neighbors. Neighboring Shaanxi to the east and Sichuan on the south, Gansu is adjacent to Qinghai and Xinjiang by the west and linked up with Ningxia and Inner Mongolia in the north. The outline of Gansu is shapped like and dumbbell, which means it’s very long from east to west, but at the narrowest place, the north-south distance is only 25kilometers. In ancient China, Gansu’s important geographical position made Gansu a key junction in ancient Silk Road. Now tell you some numbers. Gansu covers an area of 390,000 square kilometers, taking up about 4.72% of the total land territories of China. And the province has a population of around 25.18 million consisting of 44ethnic minorities and most of them are Hui, Tibetan, and Dongxiang ethnic people. Under the administration of the province are 14 cities, prefectures and autonomous prefectures consisting of 86 countries with Lanzhou as the capital city of the province. Climate： Climate in Gansu province has specific features. Belonging to north temperate monsoon climate, featuring a distinctive transitional tendency to continental climate. Dry and short of rain it sees great differences in temperature. The distinctive features of the four seasons are as follows: Lack of rain and snow in winter with longer time cold but the spring witnesses a fast rise of temperature and a drastic change of warm and cold days. It is hot in summer with a concentration of rainfalls and the autumn features a quick falling of temperature and an early frost fall. However, compared with other cities in China, cities of Gansu are cool in summer, so summer is appropriate for your travel. Resources and Mountains：The geomorphology in Gansu is quite complicated featuring mountains, plateaus, plains, river-valleys and deserts and Gobi as well. Moreover, Gansu’s great plateaus and mountains have plentiful mineral