Anciently named Ganzhou, Zhangye was a famous commercial port on the Silk Road and one of the biggest international trade markets in the country. Merchants from the west kept coming here for trading. Irrigation from the Black and Shandan rivers makes agriculture here quite developed. It gains the reputation of “lush southern-type fields in the desert”.
Nationalities: Han, Yugu, Tibetan, Hui, Mongolian, Zhuang, Uygur