Editing Gansu (section)

===Republican China===
As a result of frequent earthquakes, droughts and famines, the economic progress of Gansu was significantly slower than that of other provinces of China until recently. Based on the area's abundant mineral resources it has begun developing into a vital industrial center. An [[1920 Haiyuan earthquake|earthquake in Gansu]] at 8.6 on the [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]] killed around 180,000 people mostly in the present-day area of [[Ningxia]] in 1920, and [[1932 Changma earthquake|another with a magnitude of 7.6]] killed 275 in 1932.<ref name="NGDC">{{cite web|url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/3507|title=Significant Earthquake Information|last=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information|year=1972 |publisher=NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information|doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K}}</ref>

The [[Muslim Conflict in Gansu (1927–1930)]] was a conflict against the [[Guominjun]].

While the Muslim General [[Ma Hongbin]] was acting chairman of the province, Muslim General [[Ma Buqing]] was in virtual control of Gansu in 1940. Liangzhou District in [[Wuwei, Gansu|Wuwei]] was previously his headquarters in Gansu, where he controlled 15&nbsp;million Muslims.<ref>{{cite news |title=Moslem War Lord Isolated by China; Ma Pu-ching Sent to Swamps of Tibet With the Title of Reclamation Commissioner Member of a Noted Clan Vital Route to Russia Passes Through Area With 15,000,000 Believers in the Koran|author=Harrison Forman|newspaper=The New York Times|date=19 July 1942|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05E5DF1E3EE531A1575AC1A9619C946393D6CF}}</ref> [[Xinjiang]] came under [[Kuomintang]] (Nationalist) control after their soldiers entered via Gansu.<ref name="Lin2010">{{cite book|author=Hsiao-ting Lin|title=Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers: A Journey to the West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N8YtCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA76|date=13 September 2010|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=978-1-136-92393-7|pages=76–}}</ref> Gansu's [[Tianshui|Tienshui]] was the site of a Japanese-Chinese warplane fight.<ref name="Armstrong2006">{{cite book|author=Alan Armstrong|title=Preemptive Strike: The Secret Plan that Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor|url=https://archive.org/details/preemptivestrike00alan|url-access=registration|quote=airfield kansu.|year=2006|publisher=Lyons Press|isbn=978-1-59228-913-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/preemptivestrike00alan/page/122 122]–}}</ref>

Gansu was vulnerable to Soviet penetration via Xinjiang.<ref name="Fleming2014">{{cite book|author=Peter Fleming|title=News from Tartary: An Epic Journey Across Central Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dg-9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA264|date=19 August 2014|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-0-85773-495-2|pages=264–}}</ref> Gansu was a passageway for [[Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact|Soviet war supplies for the Republic of China]] during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]].<ref name="Forbes1986">{{cite book|author=Andrew D. W. Forbes|title=Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: A Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&q=airfield+kansu&pg=PA146|date=9 October 1986|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-25514-1|pages=146–}}</ref> Lanzhou was a destination point via a road coming from [[Dihua]] (Ürümqi).<ref name="Kataoka1974">{{cite book|author=Tetsuya Kataoka|title=Resistance and Revolution in China: The Communists and the Second United Front|url=https://archive.org/details/resistancerevolu00kata|url-access=registration|quote=airfield kansu.|year=1974|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-02553-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/resistancerevolu00kata/page/170 170]–}}</ref> The [[Gongxingdun Airport|Gonxingdun Aerodrome]] was one of several air bases where the [[Development of Chinese Nationalist air force (1937–1945)|Chinese Air Force]] operated in defense of Gansu. Gansu provided wartime China with most of the locally [[Petroleum industry|sourced petrol]] from the [[Yumen City#Economy|Yumen Laojunmiao oil wells]] beginning in the summer of 1939, producing 250,000 tons of [[Petroleum|crude oil]] in those war years.<ref>{{cite web |last1=地球知识局 |first1=行业观察 |title=新中国第一座石油工业城市已落幕?|url=http://www.oilsns.com/article/303845|website=OILSNS|access-date=2021-02-13|location=China|date=2018-04-09 |quote=With the exploration efforts of Sun Jianchu, Yan Shuang and other patriotic scholars, on August 11, 1939, the Laojunmiao oil well blew out the first oil. This moment has also become the starting point of China's petroleum industry. During the Anti-Fascist War against the Imperial Japanese forces, the Yumen oil wells produced a total of 250,000 tons of crude oil, accounting for more than 90% of the country's crude oil output during the same period, making an important contribution to the victory toward the Anti-Fascist War.}}</ref> Lanzhou and [[Lhasa]] were designated to be recipients of a new railway.{{when|date=July 2017}}<ref name="Ginsburgs2013">{{cite book|author=Ginsburgs|title=Communist China and Tibet: The First Dozen Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-yjBwAAQBAJ&q=airfield+kansu&pg=PA100|date=11 November 2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-017-5057-8|pages=100–}}</ref>

The [[Kuomintang Islamic insurgency in China (1950–1958)]] was a prolongation of the [[Chinese Civil War]] in several provinces including Gansu.