After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Inner Mongolia's industry developed rapidly, with mining, metallurgy and rare earth industries as the backbone, and wool spinning, forest industry, machinery, food, building materials and chemical industry developed in an all-round way. This area is one of the important animal husbandry bases in China, with rich pasture and beautiful scenery. Sanhe horse, Sanhe cattle and Inner Mongolia fine-wool sheep are all famous livestock breeds. Agricultural areas are concentrated in Hetao Plain and hilly valleys in the southeast, producing grain crops such as wheat, rye and potato and cash crops such as flax and beet.
mineral resources
Inner Mongolia is one of the provinces with relatively complete types of mineral deposits in China. At present, more than 4 100 deposits of various types have been discovered, with 128 species. There are 83 kinds of proven reserves listed in the reserve balance table, including 2 kinds of energy minerals, 32 kinds of metal minerals and 49 kinds of non-metal minerals. Among the minerals with proven reserves, there are 7 kinds with the highest reserves in China, with 22 kinds in the top 3, 4 1 species in the top 5 and 56 kinds in the top 10. There are large mining areas 106, medium mining areas 177 and small mining areas150. The reserves of niobium, zirconium, rare earth, Iceland spar, coal, chromium, zinc, tantalum, beryllium, lead, fluorite, arsenic, vermiculite, tin, diatomite, perlite, iron, copper, silver and tungsten rank first in China 10, especially in the world. The proven ferrous metal mines in Inner Mongolia mainly include iron, manganese and chromium, among which iron ore resources are the most abundant. At present, 254 large and small iron ore producing areas have been discovered, with the accumulated proven reserves of17.10.20 billion tons, ranking ninth in China, and the reserves are concentrated along Bai Bao and Jiji railways. Among them, Baiyuneboyin is rich in iron, rare earth and other metals, and it is a rare "Baoshan" in the world. The proved reserves of chromite are 6.5438+0.8 million tons, ranking second in China. There are 35 known manganese ore producing areas with reserves of 310.4 million tons, ranking10.5 in the country. There are 10 kinds of non-ferrous metal resources listed in the reserve list, including copper, lead, zinc, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, tungsten, tin, bismuth, molybdenum, etc., among which 6 kinds occupy the position of 10 in China, and there are 102 mineral deposits. Precious metal resources, more than 200 gold deposits and occurrences have been discovered in the whole region, and there are 28 primary gold minerals with proven reserves, with various gold reserves of 127 tons. There are 23 producing areas of silver deposits, with accumulated proven reserves of 4,749 tons and retained reserves of 4 1 and 4 1 ton. Metallurgical auxiliary raw material resources, non-metallic mineral proven reserves of 64, of which molding sand, bauxite, fluorite reserves rank among the top three in China. Chemical raw material resources such as pyrite, lake salt, mirabilite and trona are 1 1 species, among which trona, pyrite, mirabilite, arsenic, peat and bromine rank in the top five in the national reserves ranking. Dalat Banner has a reserve of 3.4 billion tons of mirabilite, which is one of the largest mirabilite mines in the world. Proved reserves of asbestos, graphite, gypsum, limestone and other building materials resources 15 species. Vermiculite and Iceland spar rank first in China, second in China for gypsum and brick clay, third in China for refractory clay and mica, and fifth in China for graphite.
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