Alxa League (Mongolian: , Alaša ayimaɣ, Chinese: 阿拉善盟; pinyin: ālāshàn Méng) is situated at the northwest of Inner

Mongolia Autonomous Region, administering 3 Banners (County) including Left

Banner, Right Banner and Ejina Banner containing totally 23 Sumus (Township)

and 190 Gachas (Village). Alshan is a Mongolian name which means "Hot

Spring". With the largest area of 270,000km2 and the least population of

200,000 in Inner Mongolia, there are 28 ethnic

minorities such as Mongol, Han and Hui people, living together in harmony and

striding ahead with concerted efforts.

Landscape of Alshan features great

grasslands, within the terrain of which four great grasslands: Mongolian

Grassland, Xilinguole Grassland, Ke'erqin Grassland and Hulunbuir Grassland

meer, and rolling and endless mountains, the Daxingganlin Mountain running through its terrritory.

Alshan is well-known to Chinese tourists

and is beginning to be heard of among foreign travelers for Alshan Ski Resort,

which is China's second-best

ski resort in China,

surpassed only by Yabuli Ski Resort in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

The long snow season each year in the area has resulted in snow of high

quality.

Alxa League possesses the vast land with

the land area per capita of 1.35km2 developed in form of the typical ecological

economic model. It has usable pasture area of 150 million mu, the arable land

of 3 million mu, among which 400 thousand mu has been developed with the green

plantation of cotton, sweet melon and organic vegetables in top quality. Also,

the significant ecological barrier is formed as one important components of “Three-North

Shelter Belt” with its rich forest resources, mainly including the natural

second-forest of 540,000mu, diversiform-leaved poplar of 440,000mu in Ejina and

natural sacsaoul forest distributed from east to west Alxa League.

Alxa’s bactrian camel and cashmere goat are

the local prepotent sire. Camel hair and cashmere produced with high quality

received the awards of the American Amika and Italian National Chaikena

separately.There are plenty of rare and valuable herbal medicines and

biological resources with great potential for development such as desert

ginseng, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, C.songaricum Ruqr, Ephedra sinica, Lycium

Barbarum L.,salinity algae, S.alopecuroides and Artemia.

With geological prospecting, 84 minerals

have been explored, among which the reserves of lake salt,anthracite and

granite rank first in Inner Mongolia. Many

minerals like lake salt, coal, mirabilite, gold and iron enjoys distinct

advantages in development with large scale mining. The world largest metallic

potassium production base, the Asia largest

indigo production base and national lake salt production base have been

developed.

Alxa is the typical mid-temperate

continental climate with great potential for future development of solar and

wind energy. Ceke – Xibokulun Trading Port is the third largest overland ports in Inner Mongolia as the outside door to

Bayanhongor, Ömnögovi, Övörhangay, Arhangay and Govi-Altay aymags with rich

mineral resources in Mongolia State and the inside overland port shared with the

West Inner Mongolia and Ningxia Autonomous Regions, and Shaanxi,Qinghai and Gansu Provinces.