Editing Gansu (section)

==Natural resources==
[[File:甘肃 荒山与沃土 - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Fertile fields near [[Wuwei, Gansu|Wuwei]]]]

===Land===
*{{convert|166400|km2}} grassland
*{{convert|46700|km2}} mountain slopes suitable for livestock breeding
*{{convert|46200|km2}} forests (standing timber reserves of {{convert|0.2|km3}})
*{{convert|35300|km2}} cultivated land ({{convert|1400|m2}} per capita)
*{{convert|66600|km2}} wasteland suitable for forestation
*{{convert|10000|km2}} wasteland suitable for farming

===Minerals===
Three thousand deposits of 145 different minerals. Ninety-four minerals have been found and ascertained, including nickel, cobalt, platinum, [[selenium]], casting clay, finishing serpentine, whose reserves are the largest in China.{{citation needed|date=May 2009}} Gansu has advantages in getting{{clarify|date=January 2020}} nickel, zinc, cobalt, platinum, iridium, copper, [[barite]], and [[magnesite|baudisserite]].

===Energy===
Among Gansu's most important sources of energy are its water resources: the Yellow River and other inland river drainage basins. Gansu is placed ninth among China's provinces in annual hydropower potential and water discharge. Gansu produces 17.24 gigawatts of hydropower a year. Twenty-nine hydropower stations have been constructed in Gansu, capable of generating 30 gigawatts in total. Gansu has an estimated coal reserve of 8.92&nbsp;billion tons and [[Oil reserves|petroleum reserve]] of 700&nbsp;million tons.

There is also good potential for wind and solar power development. The [[Gansu Wind Farm]] project – already producing 7.965GW in 2015<ref name="busitza">{{cite web|title=South Africa's biggest wind farms vs the world|url=https://businesstech.co.za/news/energy/93743/south-africas-biggest-wind-farms-vs-the-world/|publisher=BusinessTech|access-date=22 November 2016|date=22 July 2015}}</ref> – is expected to achieve 20GW by 2020, at which time it will likely become the world's biggest collective windfarm.

In November 2017 an agreement between the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]] and Gansu government was announced, to site and begin operations of a [[molten salt reactor]] pilot project in the province by 2020.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cas.cn/yw/201711/t20171110_4621454.shtml |script-title=zh:中科院与甘肃省签署钍基熔盐堆核能系统项目战略合作框架协议----中国科学院 |publisher=[[Chinese Academy of Sciences]] |date=10 November 2017 |language=zh |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113083737/http://www.cas.cn/yw/201711/t20171110_4621454.shtml |archive-date=13 November 2017 |access-date=13 September 2021}}</ref>

===Flora and fauna===
Gansu has 659 species of wild animals.<ref>[http://www.gansu.gov.cn/en/BasicDetail.asp?CID=50 Gansu.gov.cn] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091115095308/http://www.gansu.gov.cn/en/BasicDetail.asp?CID=50 |date=15 November 2009 }}</ref> It has twenty-four rare animals which are under a state protection.

Gansu's mammals include some of the world's most charismatic: the [[giant panda]], [[golden monkey]]s, [[lynx]], [[snow leopard]]s, [[sika deer]], [[musk deer]], and the [[Bactrian camel]].

Among zoologists who study [[Mole (animal)|mole]]s, the [[Gansu mole]] is of great interest.  For a reason that can only be speculated, it is taxologically a [[Scalopini|New World mole]] living among [[Talpinae|Old World moles]]: that is to say, an American mole living in a sea of Euro-Asians.

Gansu is home to 441 [[species]] of [[bird]]s; it is a center of [[endemism]] and home to many species and [[subspecies]] which occur nowhere else in the world.

Gansu is China's second-largest producer of medicinal plants and herbs, including some produced nowhere else, such as the [[hairy asiabell]] root, [[Fritillaria|fritillary]] bulb, and [[Chinese caterpillar fungus]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}

{{wide image|Daxia-River-Valley-panorama-5902+5903+5904+5905+5906.jpg|900px|Panorama of the lower [[Daxia River]] valley in the northeast of the [[Linxia County]], and the [[loess plateau]] flanking it, cut by a [[canyon]]||none}}