Republic of Mongolia, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region covers an area of 1.1183 million square kilometers, accounted for 12 percent of total area of China. The region is mainly, dominated by the Mongolians, mostly inhabited by Hans, with other 49 ethnic minority groups.
Inner Mongolia was the first minority autonomous region in China founded on May 1st,1947. It has nine cities and three leagues, including Hohhut as its capital, Baotou, Wuhai, Chifeng, Tongliao, Erdos, Hulunbeir, Wulanchabu, Bayannor cities and Xingan, Alashan leagues, with two cities directly under the region including Manzhouli, Erlanhaote, which totally covers 16 county level cities, 17 counties and 52 banners, within them Eluncun, Elunke, Molidawa as ethnic minority autonomous banners. It has a population of 23 million.

Inner Mongolia is richly abundant with natural resources. It has 880,000 square kilometers of pasturelands, making up 10 percent of the nation's total; There are approximately 1,000 rivers and 10 lakes; It has over 1,000 species of plants, 93 species of fish, 362 species of birds, and 114 species of animals, 49 species of which are under State and the autonomous region's protection.

In recent years, the region has achieved a big progress with annual GDP keeping 6 years’ consecutive two digital growth. In spite of the prosperous development, it has also few crucial bottlenecks to be addressed, including the resources-driving growth model, the low efficiency on resources comprehensive processing, low rate of modern industry, the relatively slowly resident income grow, etc.