This is a small and "quiet" town with just 450 000 people, in the middle of the coal- and metal district in Inner Mongolia.
Before this was a poor part of China but now with all the coal, minerals and metals found in the hills and mountains it is one of the richest provinces in China.
You see coalmines everywhere and I never have seen so many trucks on the road before - all loaded (overloaded) with coal. Since the load was not so well covered a lot of coaldust is coming from the trucks and the ground beside the roads is totally black of the dust.
Before not too long this will be a great environmental problem together with all the power plants burning coal. You see the chimneys everywhere and can smell the coal. This is another example to how short time economy will destroy for the future. Nobody is today thinking about this - just quick make money and get out.....(of the country with the money...)
