Helan Mountains

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Alashan semi-desert plateau in wider context of South, Southeast and East Asia.
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Ethnolinguistic map 1967, centered on Helan mountains - which listed as falling within region where Oirat spoken (but see also Alasha dialect).

The Helan Mountains, frequently called Alashan Mountains in older sources, are an isolated desert mountain range forming the border of Inner Mongolia's Alxa League and Ningxia. They run north-south parallel to the north-flowing Yellow River in the Ordos Loop section. The river is mostly east of the mountains, but in the north it crosses without making a significant gorge and flows on the west side. To the west lies the extremely arid Tengger Desert, while to the east is an irrigated area beside the Yellow River, in which lie the cities of Yinchuan and Shizuishan - a little further east of which lies the Mu Us portion of the Ordos Desert. To the north lies the Inner Mongolian city of Wuhai.

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Emerging wine industry

With the increasing popularity of Ningxia wines, the Chinese authorities have given approval to the development of the eastern base of the Helan Mountains as an area suitable for wine production. Several large Chinese wine companies including Changyu and Dynasty Wine have begun development in the western region of the province. Together they now own Script error: No such module "convert". of land for planting vineyards and Dynasty has ploughed 100 million yuan into Ningxia. In addition, the major oil company China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation has founded a vineyard near the Helan Mountains. The household appliance company Midea has also begun participating in Ningxia's wine industry.[1]

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  1. ↑ "Grape expansion: Chinese wine companies move west" Template:Webarchive, Want China Times, 15 December 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.

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