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The stock raising productivity ofthe Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ranks the first of the five biggest pastoral areasin China. The production volume ofwool， cashmere， camel's hair ranks firstin the country with a share of 1/4， 1/3 and l/2 respectively.

The Baiyunebo Mine in Baotou， In-ner Mongolia is the largest rare earthmine in the world. By 1997， the detectedrare earth accounted for 76% of theworld's total. The Baotou First RareEarth Plant， as the biggest producer ofrare earth ferroalloy in the world， ranksfirst in terms of both quality and quan-tity in China with 300 specifications of 170 categories. The Baotou Steel OreDressing Plant is regarded as the largestrare earth sampling in the world.

The Inner Mongolia AutonomousRegion is regarded as the biggest open-air mine in the world. Four of the fivebiggest open-cut coal mines of China arein Inner Mongolia， i.e. Yimin open-airmine， Huolinhe open-air mine，Yuanbaoshan open-air mine and Jungaropen-air mine.

The Hulunbuir Grass is the largestarea of natural grass in the world andthe biggest production base of unpol-luted animal food.

The Inner Mongolia AutonomousRegion is the world's largest cashmere-processing base. There are many cash-mere giants such as Inner Mongolia Re-gion Ordos Group， King Deer Group，Viction Group， Pangu Cashmere Groupand Chifeng Cashmere Group. Thesecompanies mainly produce non-woolcashmere clothing and cashmereclothing. The \"white goat\" cashmere ofInner Mongolia is been regarded as thebest cashmere in the world for its fineness， brightness and whiteness.KVSS non-wool cashmere made of theAlpas \"white goat\"cashmere of Ordosis internationally acceptedas the \"No.1Non-wool Cashmere in China\" and re-garded as \"Soft Gold\".

InnerMongolia is the province thathas the most inland ports with 18 bor-der ports in China. The Manzhouli Rail-way Port and the Highway Port， whichrun across Russia to Eastern Europe andWestern Europe， are named as the bridgehead of the No.1 the Euro-AsiaLand Bridge.

Presently， the growth extent of power installation volume， per capitapower generation and power deliveredto other provinces of Inner Mongoliacurrently ranks first in thecountry.

The Inner Mongolia AutonomousRegion has wind power storage of270million kw per hour and ranks firstin wind power storage with one fifth ofthe total .The average wind speed in theregion is3.7 m per hour and in mostplaces the annual wind power efficiencydensity is up to 150-200 w/sq.m.

Inner Mongolia ranks first in Asiaand fourth in the world in terms of fluo-rite resources.

Inner Mongolia is the largest pro-duction base of potatoes with a plant areaof 6.2 million mu， 18% of thetotalamount of China.

Inner Mongolia also has abundanttourist resources. The A'er Mountain Fountain Group in Hinggan League con-sists of 48 springs， including warmsprings， hot springs and cold springswhicharemade of mineral water from thelava split belt 2800m to 3500muunderground. The silicic acid mineralwater with niton， lithiumand stronitiumare the most famous in China.