Xinhua News Agency, Hohhot, May 13 Caption: The road to the transformation of "poor roots" into "rich mines"-A development report from Ulanchabu City, Inner Mongolia, in a deeply impoverished area

　　Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhang Honghe and Beri Khan

　　Cold weather, fierce strong winds, and barren land are the root causes of deep poverty in Wulanchabu City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Nowadays, these natural disadvantages that have been abandoned have turned into resource advantages, attracting many well-known enterprises such as Huawei, Apple, Alibaba, Baidu, Shanghai Electric, etc. to gather here. All poverty-stricken counties have taken off their caps and high-quality development has become a leap forward. Trend.

Day cold wind has become a high-tech "power source"

　　The indicator light flashes rapidly, "buzzing" echoes in low sound, and a high-speed server is storing, reading, and transmitting massive amounts of data. This is a view of the computer room of the Huawei Cloud Data Center in Ulan Qab. Hundreds of meters away from Huawei Cloud Data Center, Apple iCloud North China Data Center and Alibaba Information Port are intensifying construction and will be put into operation this year. Beidou Guoxing, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ... There are an endless stream of enterprises coming to discuss the construction of data centers.

　　"At present, Ulan Qab City has gathered 10 data center projects including Huawei, Apple, Alibaba, and IWC, with a total investment of 35.7 billion yuan and a server scale of 1.5 million units." Ulan Qab City Big Data Development Bureau Deputy Director Ma Shaoming said that with the establishment of multiple well-known information technology companies' storage data centers, some big data application companies also quickly settled in Ulan Qab.

　　However, a few years ago, in the city of Ulanqab, this traditional farming area with no grass on the ground and no treasure on the ground was completely incompatible with big data. The cold weather greatly restricts the development of agriculture here. Among the 11 Qixian districts under its jurisdiction, 10 are poverty-stricken counties, and the deeply impoverished population once accounted for 46.2% of Inner Mongolia. In 2016, Inner Mongolia was approved to become a comprehensive pilot zone for the overall development of big data infrastructure. Ulan Qab seized this opportunity to convert the disadvantages of natural cold wind into resource advantages.

　　If the annual average temperature in Ulanqab is 4.3 ° C, and a data storage center with high heat dissipation and cooling requirements is built here, natural cold sources can be used for 10 months of the year for cooling, which can save 30% of energy consumption. As a city located on basalt, Ulan Qab City, although the land is barren, but the geological structure is stable, it is an ideal area for building a data disaster recovery center. At the same time, strong winds make it an excellent natural wind farm and an important national wind energy production base. This also makes it possible for big data companies to enjoy the lowest electricity price in the country.

　　Gale brings more than preferential local electricity prices. The 6 million-kilowatt wind power base that has recently started construction will be able to deliver 20 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region each year after being connected to the grid for power generation at the end of this year. It is understood that by the end of the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan", the installed capacity of wind power in Ulanqab will reach 27 million kilowatts, and the "Three Gorges in the Air" will be built.

The cold vegetables are flourishing

　　65-year-old Zhang Xiaoling is busy in the vegetable nursery greenhouse, and the rows of green pepper seedlings are growing happily. This farmer living in Chahar Youyiqianqi, Ulanqab City, when he was young, did not believe that the frost-free period of his homeland could grow more economically efficient crops besides potatoes and wheat. Nowadays, growing cold vegetables in the field is the main way for her and the villagers to get rid of poverty and get rich. It was cold and cold. In the past, it was a shortcoming that restricted the agricultural development of Ulan Qab, but now it is a high-quality resource for the development of the vegetable industry.

　　Every year from July to September, Zhang Xiaoling and the villagers harvest cold vegetables such as carrots, Chinese cabbage, broccoli, cabbage, celery, and peppers whose optimal growth temperature is below 30 ° C from the field and send them to all parts of the country And Russia, Japan, South Korea. It is not suitable to grow these vegetables in the summer in the south, and Ulan Qab city with an average temperature of only 18.8 ℃ in summer is an ideal planting place. These vegetables listed in the wrong season have a good market and price.

　　Wulanchabu City has become one of the country's three major cold vegetable production bases. The city's vegetable growing area is stable at 800,000 mu, and the income from planting vegetables accounts for 40% of the local poor's total income.

　　In order to provide scientific and technological support for the cultivation of cold vegetables, with the support of Fang Zhiyuan, an expert in vegetable genetics and breeding and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Ulan Qab City established the Work Station of Cold Vegetables in 2012. This cold vegetable vegetable academician workstation, while developing new varieties of cold vegetables, develops special machinery for cold vegetables to increase the labor efficiency of growers by 10 to 20 times.

　　"In the past, the yield of 1,000 kg of wheat per mu only earned three or four hundred yuan. After changing to cold vegetables, the average income per acre of land was 5,000 yuan. The scarce vegetables like sharp pepper and onion can earn ten thousand yuan per acre." Zhang Xiaoling said.

The cool weather makes the grassland summer capital

　　Although the snow season has long passed, the Dahewan Ski Resort in Ulanqab is busy. A company in Beijing invested 200 million yuan to build a summer tourism project here, rafting, grass skating, outdoor music festival ... After the project is completed, it will become a four-season tourist attraction integrating summer vacation, vacation and skiing.

　　The city of Ulanqab, which has been awarded the title of "China's Grassland Summer Capital" by the Chinese Meteorological Society, is just over an hour's drive from Beijing by high-speed rail, but the summer temperature differs by 10 ° C. High altitude and high latitude create a cool climate here, and midsummer is as cool and comfortable as autumn.

　　"The cool climate has become an important tourism resource in Ulan Qab City, and summer recuperation, summer study and summer real estate are becoming new growth points for summer tourism." Cai Guifang, director of the Ulan Qab City Culture, Tourism and Sports Bureau, said in 2019 The number of tourist receptionists and tourist income both increased by more than 10% over the previous year.

　　Rolling hills, endless green grass, towering windmills, laid-back cattle and sheep, fresh air ... Ulan Qab City, which is committed to creating a summer resort, continues to improve the tourism infrastructure while retaining the original ecological beauty. More than 3 billion yuan has been invested in the construction of scenic spot infrastructure and service projects. The tourism industry has become a green engine for high-quality development in Ulan Qab, and the climate advantages and location advantages are gradually being converted into tourism development advantages.