#inner mongolia

"Ssuyungpatu, a fourth-grade primary school pupil in the Olunchun Autonomous Banner in Inner Mongolia, answers his teacher."

Hungarian-made Ikarus 60 city buses arrive at Huangpu Port, Guangzhou.

"Opening ceremony of the All-China Athletic Meeting in the People's Stadium, Peking, in 1953."

"An automatic grinding machine processes steel ball-bearing to exact specifications. Our ball-bearing industry started production in 1949."

"Cooling towers at the Fuhsin Automatic Power Plant, Liaoxi Province. This plant was completed within forty weeks."

"Apples gathered by the Wang Hung-yuan Fruit Producers' Co-operative in the Port Arthur-Dairen area."

"Textile designers of the State-owned Tientsin Dyeing and Printing Plant draw inspiration from various examples of folk art."

Result from the Irdin Manha Formation #paleostream. While you might never heard it's name you most likely have heard of some of the fauna from here. First and foremost Andrewsarchus. The fossils were so far largely excavated by the @amnhnyc in northern China (Inner Mongolia) during...

...the early 20th century. That means finding ANY good information on the environment is rather... complicated. So take the interpretation here with some grain of salt. Irdin Manha is a place preserving (probably) the remains of an open, semiarid steppe with rivers...

depositing sediments with fossils of brontothers, dinoceratans and whippomorphs galore. What we witness here is a transition from the typical Eocene forest faunas to the megafauna dominated open ecosystems. The animals in this scene are clumping up around the banks of a river...

Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)

The Tanguts were a Sino-Tibetan people who founded the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227), which at its peak covered over 800,000 km², encompassing modern-day Ningxia, parts of Gansu, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang.

Their early homeland lay in the steppes and mountains of modern Qinghai and western Sichuan, corresponding to the Amdo and Kham regions of the Tibetan Plateau. In the early 8th century, pressure from the expanding Tibetan Empire pushed the Tanguts northward into the eastern Ordos region. By that time, they had become the dominant local power in northwest China.

Western Xia controlled the Hexi Corridor, a crucial section of the Silk Road linking northern China with Central Asia. The state achieved notable cultural accomplishments in literature, art, music, and architecture, often described as “shining and sparkling.” In 1227, the dynasty was destroyed by the Mongols, and much of its architecture and written records were lost. As a result, Western Xia history remained poorly understood until renewed research in the 20th century.

The Tanguts created a unique Tangut script to write their language. Although Tangut characters resemble Chinese characters in stroke form, their structural principles are fundamentally different and largely unintelligible to Chinese readers. Today, the Tangut language and script are extinct, surviving only in fragmentary texts.

A modern mural in Inner Mongolia depicts the inauguration of Genghis Khan.

On the first day, we visited Yinken Tala Desert, one of the most famous deserts in Inner Mongolia. We bought a cable car ticket and an activity package for 380 yuan, which included 10 different activities.

There were so many fun things to try: riding camels, sand sliding, driving an off-road vehicle through the desert, the rainbow slide, taking a dune climbing car, ziplining, riding a desert adventure vehicle, driving a desert motorcycle, and even paragliding.