Jiuquan City, anciently known as Suzhou, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Gansu Province, an important node city of the Gansu section of the Silk Road Economic Belt, and a provincial sub-center city as determined by the People's Government of Gansu Province. As of January 2023, Jiuquan City has 1 district, 2 county-level cities and 4 counties under its jurisdiction, with a total area of 192,000 square kilometers, accounting for 42% of the area of Gansu Province, of which the total land area is 168,100 square kilometers, the wetland area is 48,000 square kilometers, and the arable land area is 4.604 million mu. As of the end of 2022, Jiuquan had a resident population of 1,053,100 people. Jiuquan City is located in northwest China, northwest Gansu Province, and the western end of the Hexi Corridor, bordering Zhangye City in Gansu Province and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the east, Qinghai Province in the south, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the west, and Mongolia in the north, and has been a major transportation hub to Xinjiang and the western regions since ancient times. Jiuquan City was one of the four counties of Heshi in the Han Dynasty, a major town on the Silk Road, named for the "spring under the city" and "its water is like wine". Jiuquan is the hometown of Dunhuang art, the cradle of modern aerospace, the birthplace of new China's petroleum and nuclear industries, and the birthplace of the "Iron Man Spirit". Jiuquan has been awarded the honorary titles of China's Famous City of Culture and Tourism that Influences the World and China's Most Influential International Tourism Destination. Jiuquan City has Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Anxi Luoyang City, Jiuquan Park, Dunhuang Yadan National Geological Park and other tourist attractions. In 2023, the gross regional product of Jiuquan City will be 90.87 billion yuan, an increase of 8.9% over the previous year at constant prices