Mentougou

Mentougou District is a locate in western Beijing. Crossing 1,321 square kilometers 510 sq mi, with 266,591 occupants 2000 Census, it is subdivided into 4 subdistricts of the city appropriate of Beijing and 9 towns 1 of which is a suburb of the city legitimate of Beijing. It fringes the Beijing locale of Changping toward the upper east, Haidian and Shijingshan toward the east, Fengtai toward the southeast, and Fangshan toward the south, and in addition Hebei territory toward the west and northwest.

It lies in the Western Hills of Beijing and is hilly in landscape. Actually, the uneven territory—including a hundred or more pinnacles—possess a shocking 93% of the whole region. It is a fortune trove of normal assets, including coal, limestone, and rock. Mentougou likewise supplies Beijing with horticultural create, for example, roses, wild jujubes, mushrooms, and Beijing white pears. The locale was absolutely a provincial territory well into the mid 1990s and was not considered as a major aspect of Beijing by the urban populace, and starting today, numerous parts of Mentougou remain very rustic.

The sixth Ring Road slices through the eastern, more urbanized area of Mentougou Precinct. Mining is one of the key mechanical exercises. Around 10 medium and extensive mining organizations once worked in Mentougou, however some of them have stopped tasks as mineral stores have been exhausted. The main known mining action in Mentougou was recorded amid the Ming Dynasty.