(1)外文名称: Lanzhou City
    (2)中文名称: 兰州市
    (3)内容:
                          Lanzhou City
   Lanzhou is the capital city of Gansu Province. Its area totals
13,085.6 sq km, including an urban area of 1,631.6 sq km. Its
population stands at 2.76 million, including an urban population of 1.476 million. Lanzhou is an old city with a history of over 2,000 years. Its long history has resulted in lots of cultural and historical relics.
   Since 1978, Lanzhou has taken urban infrastructure construction as a key measure to improve its investment environment and open itself wider to the outside world. Marked achievements have been made in this aspect. In building a hard environment, the city has focused its efforts on urban transportation, gas and water supply, telecommunications and environmental protection. It has undertaken key projects such as a gasworks with a daily output of 540,000 million cu m,
the second heat and power plant with a heat supply area of 5.4 million sq m, and the Yan'erwan Sewage Treatment Plant.
   The city has become a communications and telecommunications hub in Gansu Province and also connecting Gansu Province with other parts of the world. Its urban vegetation coverage amounted to 2,141.4 ha, with a coverage rate of 16.3%. The "blue-sky program" aimed to treat air pollution was effectively carried out, helping improve the environment substantially. Lanzhou was chosen as a national sanitary city several time in the 1990s.
   In building a soft environment, the city has launched
"one-stop" service to improve the quality of its services to overseas investors. It has established the state-level Lanzhou New and High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, the Lanzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, and the Lianhai Economic Development Zone.