Liangzhou District, anciently known as Guzang, is a district under the city of Wuwei in Gansu Province, a national historical and cultural city named by the State Council and a city open to the outside world. As of May 2022, the district has a total area of 4,907.96 square kilometers, with 37 towns, 2 ecological construction commands and 9 street offices under the jurisdiction of the district, inhabited by 42 nationalities such as Han, Tibetan, Hui, and Mongolian, with a household population of 1,039,700 people and a resident population of 885,300 people.
Liangzhou District is located in northwest China, the eastern end of the Hexi Corridor and the center of Wuwei City. It has been honored as the National Advanced County (District) for Science and Technology Progress, the County and District of the Ministry of Water Resources with the Standard of Water-saving Society Construction, the National Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism Demonstration Area of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the National Agricultural Products Quality Safety County.
Liangzhou has a long history, humanities, since ancient times is "through a line in the desert, control the throat of the five counties" of the military strategy and "car and horse interlaced, song blowing the day across the town" of the commercial port, since the Han emperor opened up four counties in the west of the river, the successive dynasties have set up counties here to set up a government. The Eastern Jin Dynasty and the sixteen kingdoms of the period of the former Liang, after Liang, South Liang, North Liang and Sui end of the big Liang are here to build the capital, history of the "five Liang ancient capital, the capital of the West River," the name.
Liangzhou District has Gansu (Wuwei) International Dry Port and a number of industrial parks, has formed a food processing, equipment manufacturing, new energy, high-tech, deep processing of agricultural products, specialty chemicals, e-commerce, modern logistics, mainly the characteristics of the leading industries. And agricultural resources are unique, is the national pig transfer county, the province's beef cattle industry county, meat sheep industry county, is one of the country's northern winter and spring facilities of one of the large-scale production base of vegetables, the largest facility in the northwest region of the vegetable production base.
In 2022, the gross regional product of Liangzhou District will be 40.35 billion yuan, an increase of 4.6% over 2021 at constant prices.