Hulun Buir Grassland, located in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is found to the west of Great Khingan and famous for the Hulun Nur and Buir Nur areas. The terrain is high in the east and lower in the west, the elevation is 650-700 meters and total area is about 93,000 square meters. The annual average temperature is about 0℃, frost-free period is 85-155 days, and annual precipitation is about 250-350 millimeters. Here the locals grow spring wheat, potatoes, and a small quantity of vegetables. The floodlands grow meadows with plump grass yielding 200-300 kg per acre. This traditional grazing land, which is suited for raising cattle, sheep and horses is famous for Sanhe cattle and horses. Since 1958, a number of large mechanized state farms have been continuously established to engage in agricultural reclamation. Some of the naturally occurring phenomena include: large sandlots in the central and south of Hulun Buir Grassland, precious forest resources due to unique steppification and the Mongolian pine forests. To meet transportation needs, the Binzhou Railway goes across the grassland.

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Situated near Hulun Buir City, this land is one of the world's three top grasslands - experts all tend to agree that there is none better than it though. It is the lifeblood of Mongolia and is the primary cattle-producing area in ae country famous for its livestock quality. There are also thousands of large and small lakes within the border of Inner Mongolia. The grassland itself is a boundless prairie full of vast green waves. When a gentle breeze stirs the grassland, sheep flocks interspersed as the passing cloud and flying catkins venture on their way... The landscape is so beautiful and the carefree feeling that accompanies you as you visit here is like nothing else in China. 

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Hulun Buir Grassland is famous for the following three reasons: first is the legend surrounding former mogul Genghis Khan. Secondly is the fact that grass yielded from the high-quality meadow always fetches a good price in Southeast Asia and thirdly, the Sanhe Horses and Sanhe Cattle are famous world-wide.

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Hulun Buir Grassland is the most beautiful landscape of all the Inner Mongolia Grassland, possessing a meadow of more than 100,000,000 acres and a forest of over 200,000,000 acres, upwards of 500 lakes and some 3,000 rivers. The vast stretch of prairie seems to be a vast green blanket woven by Mother Nature as far as the eye can see. Stepping on it, the feeling of the soft and bouncy quality is breath-taking. Its title is well-deserved as one of the most beautiful, largest and unpolluted grasslands in the world.

When you travel to Hulun Buir Grassland, you can enjoy a day-tour on horseback or "camelback", take “leileiche” (bullock cart Mongolia style), go fishing close to the lake or hunt in the forests to enjoy the scenery of the grasslands.

For more than 2,000 years, Hulun Buir Grassland has been home to a number of nomads from northern China due to its surplus of natural resources. It is praised as “the cradle which brings up nomads in the northern China”.

When you pass through Hulun Buir Grassland, you must marvel at the sight of “boundless grassland covered in greens”. Here is China’s best-preserved grassland, home to over 120 enriched pastures, with grasses such as Elymus, Stipa and Chiendent. The total number of plants species is no less than 1300, forming different features of the vegetation scenery. Whenever midsummer approaches, the grassland is full of flowers perfume and birds singing, complete with the pure and fresh air. Smoke rises continuously from the scattered Mongolian Yurts and when a gentle breeze stirs the grass, the cattle and sheep sing with joy.

Best time to go:
From the middle of May to the middle of October.

Travel tips:
Hulun Buir Grassland is easy to access from Hailar City of Inner Mongolian. There are trains heading to Hailar City from Beijing, Harbin, Hohhot and Baotou.
There are frequent buses heading to Hulun Buir Grassland from Hailar Coach Station and it takes about one hour to get there. A taxi will take about 100 RMB from Hailar city to the grassland.

Source: ifeng.com

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