The town was built in 1984. Before 1958, there was a vast Gobi desert with no people, no water and no vegetation. 1958 During the Great Leap Forward, in order to vigorously develop the iron and steel industry in Xinjiang, builders all over the country built a large-scale open-pit iron mine, Yamansu Iron Mine, which belongs to Xinjiang Bayi Iron and Steel General Factory and is a sophomore enterprise in China. The largest open-pit iron mine in Xinjiang and northwest China. The 36km self-provided railway of Yamansu Iron Mine is connected with Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway, and the 63km third-class highway of the township intersects with the 3 12 national highway. There is no water source in Fiona Fang 100 km. At the initial stage of construction, water was transported from other places by camels. There is a gale of magnitude 8 or above on 183 days a year. It is not an exaggeration to say that "the yellow sand is connected with the sky, and the stone is scraping and running". The workers who built iron mines in those years were mainly from Shanghai. In addition to mining, these marginal workers from big cities also sow green. They dug up the Gobi, dug out stones, put several layers of soil in the pit, and planted drought-tolerant elm seedlings in it. They say that when the tree grows up, it costs at least 1000 yuan to plant a live tree. At that time, the iron mine family was the hardest. Although they don't have the status of formal employees, they don't care about fame and fortune, they just work hard. Miners don't have houses, so they build houses with stones everywhere; There is no road in the mine. They use carts to transport stones to pave the road. There is a shortage of labor in special railway lines, and they unload hundreds of thousands of tons of iron ore and bricks; Their lips are chapped, their palms are swollen and bleeding, and their skin is chapped. Cui Dengxian is the winner of "National May 1st Labor Medal". He worked in the mine for 20 years and suffered from severe silicosis and dust disease. His lungs have become fibrous, but he still refused to leave the mine and his team. There are few women in towns and mines, so it is not easy for workers to get married. Generally, you have to go to your hometown in the mainland to ask someone to introduce you to solve the marriage problem.

Since the completion of the 1958 mine, Yamansu Iron Mine has been providing various social services and infrastructure for its settlements. 1984 after the establishment of the construction system of Yamansu town, the basic social services are still provided by enterprises themselves. More than 90% of the employed residents in this town are employees of mining companies.

In 2004, Yamansu Mining Company achieved a sales income of 3095 1 10,000 yuan and a profit of 4 million yuan.

After nearly 50 years of mining in Yamansu Iron Mine, three generations of mine dug a pit with a length of 1600 m, a width of 300 m and a depth of 100 m on the Gobi Desert. Only one ore body of Yamansu No.2 Iron Mine has mined ore100000 tons. In 2006, the iron ore resources of the mine were almost exhausted, and a pit closing ceremony was held. At the ceremony, the national model workers and retirees from iron mines bowed three times to this mine that has supported three generations. The driver drove down the mine and pulled the last car. Men, women and children took pictures and shot at the mine.

After the closure of Yamansu Iron Mine, the government of the autonomous region and Bayi Iron and Steel Group have exploited Cihai Iron Mine as the main replacement mine. Cihai Iron Mine is located 285km southeast of Hami City, and115km south of Yamansu Iron Mine. The area is rich in iron, gold, manganese, salt and other minerals, of which the resources in the porcelain sea area are108.2 million tons. In 2006, the production capacity of 600,000 tons of raw ore was formed. In June 2007, with the approval of the autonomous region, Yamansu Town Government moved to Cihai Iron Mine.