Ordos (city)

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Location of Ordos in Inner Mongolia
Sculpture in Ordos which the hordes of Genghis Khan shows

Ordos ( Chinese  鄂尔多斯 市 , Pinyin È'ěrduōsī Shì ; Mongolian :ᠣᠷᠳᠣᠰ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ Ôrdôs Hôta ) is a district-free city in the southwest of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regionin the north-central part of the People's Republic of China .

The administrative area of ​​the city extends from 37 ° 35'24 "to 40 ° 51'40" north latitude and from 106 ° 42'40 "to 111 ° 27'20" east longitude. The city emerged on February 26, 2001 from the Ih-Ju-Bund (o Yikezhao Meng ). The former was independent city of Dongsheng in the District Dongsheng converted.

Administrative area

The administrative area of ​​the city of Ordos has an area of ​​86,752 km² and takes up most of the Ordos Plateau . It is bordered on the east by the city of Hohhot , in the northeast of the city of Baotou , north to the city of Bayan Nur , in the northwest of the Alxa waistband, on the west by the city of Wuhai , in the southwest of the Autonomous Region Ningxia the Hui and South to Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces . The largest east-west extension is about 400 km, the largest north-south extension about 340 km. By the end of 2004 Ordos had a population of around 1.36 million people.

The administrative area of ​​the city of Ordos can be roughly divided into a hilly area in the east, plateaus in the west and center, sandy deserts in the north and south and the plain on the south bank of the Yellow River in the north. It has its greatest height in the west at 2149 m, its lowest point in the east at 850 m above sea level . In the east there is an average of 300–400 mm precipitation per year, in the west it is 190–350 mm. The precipitation is largely concentrated in the months of July to September.

Kangbashi planned city

With the discovery of large coal and gas reserves south of the city of Dongsheng in 2000 and the restructuring and name change from Dongsheng to Ordos in 2001, the city boundaries were redefined. The planned town of Kangbashi was built 25–30 km from Dongsheng (Mongolian:ᠬᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ ᠪᠠᠭᠰᠢ Kiy-a Baγsi ; Chinese: 康巴什 新区; Pinyin: Kāngbāshí Xīnqū), a fully functional city. It can accommodate 300,000 people, but in March 2012 it was only inhabited by less than 5,000 people. The settlement is therefore commonly referred to as a ghost town .

In September 2015, the ORF reported that the city was expanded to 1 million people despite the low influx. The city government is trying to lure residents from surrounding villages to the planned city. All told, around 100,000 people are now believed to live in Kangbashi. Other estimates assume a population of 20,000 for November 2015.

The filming for the film The Land of Many Palaces (《宫殿 之 城》) by Adam James Smith and Song Ting, which was released in 2015, took place between December 2012 and February 2014 .

In June 2017, 153,000 residents are expected to be living in the city.

Administrative structure

The city of Ordos is made up of two districts and seven banners . These are:

  • Dongsheng District (东胜 区), 2,137 km², 230,000 inhabitants (2004), seat of the city government, administrative center;
  • Kangbashi District (康巴什 区; 2004 still part of Dongsheng and Ejinhoro)
  • Dalat -Banner (达拉特旗), 8,192 km², 330,000 inhabitants (2004), main town: Shulinzhao municipality (树林 召 镇);
  • Jung-Gar -Banner (准格尔 旗), 7,535 km², 270,000 inhabitants (2004), main town: Xuejiawan municipality (薛家 湾镇);
  • Vorderes Otog-Banner (鄂托克前旗), 12,318 km², 70,000 inhabitants (2004), capital: Oljoqi municipality (敖 勒 召 其 镇);
  • Otog-Banner (鄂托克旗), 20,064 km², 90,000 inhabitants (2004), main town: Ulan municipality (乌兰 镇);
  • Hanggin banner (杭锦旗), 18,903 km², 130,000 inhabitants (2004), capital: Xin municipality (锡 尼 镇);
  • Uxin-Banner (乌审旗), 11,645 km², 100,000 inhabitants (2004), main town: Galut (嘎鲁 图 镇);
  • Ejinhoro-Banner (伊金霍洛 旗), 5,958 km², 140,000 inhabitants (2004), main town: Altan Xire municipality (阿勒 腾 席 热 镇).

Ethnic breakdown of the population of Ordos (2000)

The 2000 census counted 1,369,766 inhabitants.

Name of the people Residents proportion of
Han 1,207,971 88.19%
Mongols 155.845 11.38%
Manchurians 2,905 0.21%
Hui 1,861 0.14%
Others 1,184 0.08%

Web links

Commons : Ordos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Test- tube city New Ordos: China's booming ghost town. Spiegel ONLINE, January 9, 2011, accessed February 24, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Nobody wants to live in China's huge ghost town. Die Welt, April 15, 2012, accessed February 24, 2016 .
  3. ↑ The dark side of China's building rush: Risky over-expansion. ORF, September 13, 2015, accessed on February 24, 2016 .
  4. ↑ 'Re-education' campaigns teach China's new ghost city-dwellers how to behave. The Guardian, November 6, 2014, accessed July 28, 2018 .
  5. ^ Surveying the Ghost Cities of China. Priceonomics, November 19, 2015, accessed February 24, 2016 .
  6. ^ The Land of Many Palaces. Adam James Smith (Producer), September 13, 2015, accessed February 24, 2016 .
  7. ↑ IMDb: The Land of Many Palaces (2015) Release Info, accessed on April 29, 2017 (English)
  8. ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/06/30/ordos-chinas-most-infamous-ex-ghost-city-continues-rising

Coordinates: 39 ° 38 '  N , 109 ° 50'  E