Wuwei

Wuwei is a prefecture-level city in northwest focal Gansu region. In the north it fringes Inner Mongolia, in the southwest, Qinghai. Its focal area between three western capitals, Lanzhou, Xining, and Yinchuan makes it an imperative business and transportation center for the region. In light of its situation along the Hexi Corridor, generally the main course from focal China to western China and whatever is left of Central Asia, many real railways and national interstates go through Wuwei.

In old occasions, Wuwei was called Liangzhou and is the eastern end of the Hexi Corridor. Individuals started settling here 5,000 years back. It was a key connection for the Northern Silk Road, and ious critical archeological finds were revealed from Wuwei, incorporating antiquated copper trucks with stone animals. The themes and kinds of articles in the Wuwei graves, and in addition their stoneware, polish, and bronze sythesis, establish regular models of the Han Chinese internment style that can be discovered all over China.

Different graves found along the Hexi Corridor demonstrate Xiongnu and other minority impact, which are utilized to follow routines, for example, the Northern Liang. In 121 BC Han head Wudi brought his rangers here to protect the Hexi Corridor against the Xiongnu Huns. His military achievement enabled him to grow the passageway westbound. Its significance as a stop along the Silk Road made it a junction of societies and ethnic gatherings from all over focal Asia. Various Buddhist grottoes and sanctuaries in the territory bear witness to its job as a way to convey Buddhism from India and Afghanistan to China.