2. Yinchuan, referred to as "Yin" for short, is the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and an important central city in northwest China approved by the State Council.
3. Yinchuan is located in the northwest of China, in the middle of Ningxia Plain, bordering the western edge of Ordos in the east, Helan Mountain in the west, and the Yellow River passes through the city. It is the commercial center of the ancient Silk Road, the military, political, economic, cultural, scientific research, transportation and financial center of Ningxia, the central city of the adjacent areas of Ningmeng, Shaanxi and Gansu, the core city of the urban agglomeration along the Yellow River, the core city of China, Mongolia, Russia and the new Eurasian continental bridge economic corridor, and the window of the country's opening to the west.
4. The city's comprehensive competitiveness ranks among the top 100 in China, and it has successively won the honors of national civilized city, national water-saving city, national sanitary city, national garden city, national environmental protection model city, and national living environment model award, and was named as one of the "Top Ten New Riches in China".