Yinchuan_Plain
Yinchuan Plain
Plain in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
Yinchuan Plain[2] (simplified Chinese: 银川平原; traditional Chinese: 銀川平原; pinyin: Yínchuān píngyuán), also called the Yinchuan–Wuzhong Plain[3] or Xitao Plain (西套平原)[4] or Ningxia Plain (宁夏平原),[5] is a plain located in the north central part of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China.[6]
Since ancient times, Yinchuan Plain has been well developed in irrigation agriculture, so it has been hailed as the "southern type of scene in the northern frontier" (塞上江南)[7] and "the barn in the northern frontier" (塞上谷仓). [8]
Yinchuan Plain is the largest plain in Ningxia and an important commercial grain base in Northwest China.[9] It is a Cenozoic fault basin covered by about 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) of unconsolidated Quaternary deposits.[10]