Islamic Street

Islamic Street

It is located in Huimin District of Hohhot City, with a total area of 175 square kilometers, including an urban area of 19.47 square kilometers and a total population of 300000. There are 23 ethnic groups living here, of which the Hui population is 19800, accounting for about 70% of the city's Hui population.

Basic introduction

The silver coins of the Sassanian Dynasty, discovered by archaeologists in bakouzi village, Hohhot, are the currency that Persian and Arab merchants brought to China at that time. In addition, due to the relative concentration of Hui people living here, a certain scale of Hui economy, culture and historical atmosphere has been formed, so the Hui District also gets its name. In 1950, with the approval of the Central People's government, Guisui Hui Autonomous Region was officially established. It is the first Hui Autonomous Region in China's municipal area. In 1956, it was renamed Huimin District of Hohhot. On May 14, 2000, the State Council (guohan No. 42) approved and agreed to adjust the administrative division of Hohhot City, and determined the administrative scope of 7 streets and 1 town in Huimin District of Hohhot city. Huimin district has become one of the important economic and cultural centers in Hohhot.

Qingcheng commercial center

In Hohhot, when Hui people's district is mentioned, the first thing people think of is the first street in Qingcheng, Zhongshan West Road. In this only 1.5 km long street, the commercial building area has reached more than 600000 square meters, the business area has reached more than 200000 square meters, and there are more than a dozen large and medium-sized commercial enterprises.

The atmosphere of the times is surging here. People in fashionable clothes are shuttling between colorful neon advertisements. Rolling cars are popular on wide roads. Famous domestic and foreign commercial brands such as Beijing Wangfujing Department store, McDonald's, KFC, pizza hut, Holiday Inn, Gome, Suning, Huaxia Bank gather here. Inner Mongolia Weiduoli shopping center, Inner Mongolia Tianyuan commercial building, National Bank of China, etc Shopping malls and other local businesses are all over the place, and the citizens of leisure shopping linger among the buildings, forming a comprehensive business circle dominated by supermarkets, shopping malls, hotels and business centers.

Niujie is also one of the most unforgettable places in Huimin district. It is a catering Street specially built for halal catering. The more characteristic catering stores in Hohhot are concentrated in Niujie, forming a situation of "closing the market in stores", such as youbulang'er, mimaye, yousumo, dry pad'er, fried noodles, ramen, mixed soup, roasted mutton kebabs and other ethnic food, flavor food and special drinks Food here to form a professional market, promote the Inner Mongolia national catering culture, so that domestic and foreign guests linger back and forth, eat.

Characteristic landscape Street

Walking out of Zhongshan West Road to the west, this is the landscape street with Islamic architecture characteristics in Hui people's district. Located in Tongdao South Road, Huimin District, the Islamic architectural landscape street is 1150 meters long with a total investment of 65 million yuan. It is planned and designed by Long'an group of the United States. The construction started in May 2006 and completed in July. It is an important traffic thoroughfare running through the north and south of the capital. The Hui people live together here, Islamic style buildings are concentrated, Muslim business is prosperous, especially because of thousands of years of strong Islamic culture accumulation, so that here formed a strong Islamic atmosphere.

In the afternoon after the rain, walk on the new Islamic architectural landscape street. On both sides of the street, the tall buildings decorated with folded arch, dome and colored glazed bricks are magnificent. The thick green or yellow dome, towering column tower and desert yellow color make people appreciate the strong Islamic style.

Great Mosque

The mosque in Hohhot is located in the east of Tongdao South Street in Huimin district. It is the oldest and largest mosque in the original 8 mosques in Hohhot, so it is named as the mosque.

It is understood that the mosque was built in the 32nd year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1693 AD). A large number of Hui people moved to Hohhot from Xinjiang and built this large-scale worship temple. The initial temples were simple and crude. It was rebuilt in 1789. In 1923, the Hui people raised money and rebuilt it again. In 1979, the government allocated money to renovate the mosque to give it a new look.

Mosque covers an area of about 4000 square meters, block east to west, facing the gate is a solemn temple. Stepping into the gate of the temple, you can see a stele Pavilion on the south side of the main hall. There are seven steles here. Among them, the most famous are the "Qing Dynasty stele of huihuijiao made by Hongwu" and the "restoration stele of Suiyuan mosque". The gate of the hall faces east, with three arched doors. The lintel is engraved with fine Arabic. The staff here said that these words are translated as "Allah is the glory of heaven and earth.". There are scriptures on the inner wall of the hall, the Koran on the pillars, and 30 volumes of the Koran in the temple, which are important documents for the study of Islam.

Ulanf Memorial

WuLanfu is an outstanding communist fighter, outstanding leader of the party and country, outstanding proletarian revolutionist, and outstanding leader of national work. The WuLanfu Memorial, which collects historical materials of his glorious life, is located in Guangming Street, Huimin district. The memorial was completed on December 23, 1992. In August 2006, the National People's Commission named Ulanf Memorial Hall as one of the first batch of 27 national education bases for national unity and progress.

WuLanfu Memorial, covering an area of about 3000 square meters, is a towering building with unique national style. Entering the museum area, a large number of lush trees and flowers are planted in the courtyard, which is matched with the solemn and solemn architectural style, forming a red tourist resort with humanistic landscape as its connotation and garden landscape as its carrier. In 2002, WuLanfu memorial hall was rated as AAA scenic spot by the National Tourism Administration. The commentator of the memorial hall introduced to the reporter that a large number of revolutionary cultural relics and historical materials about Ulan Fu collected in the museum were divided into six parts, which introduced in detail Ulan Fu's early involvement in the anti imperialist patriotic movement, the establishment of the first Mongolian revolutionary journal, the leadership of the bailing Temple uprising, the organization of the Mongolian Anti Japanese armed forces, the establishment of the first national autonomous region, the revitalization of border construction and other deeds, showing Ulan Fu My glorious life.

Jinhai Industrial Park

In addition to the promotion of business to economic development, industry is also a driving force to promote the economic development of Hui people's district. Jinhai Industrial Park in Hohhot is an industrial economy oriented Park reconstructed and constructed by the Hui people's district government on the basis of the former site of Hohhot iron and steel plant. It is located in the west of the urban area of Hohhot, with a built-up area of about 1.532 million square meters. Jinhai Industrial Park was established in 2002. After nearly five years of construction and transformation, it has 38 enterprises, and another 30 enterprises have started construction.

When the reporter entered Jinhai Industrial Park, the workshops of Sinopec Inner Mongolia Hangyu Petrochemical Co., Ltd., Inner Mongolia Keda Aluminum Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd. and other large enterprises came into view, and the vehicles of different sizes shuttled through the park in an orderly manner. Zhang Xiaohua told reporters that so far, Jinhai Industrial Park has completed a total investment of 220 million yuan in fixed assets. After all the projects are completed and put into operation, a production scale with an annual output value of 1 billion yuan can be formed. The total industrial output value has reached more than 400 million yuan, which is expected to reach more than 300 million yuan this year. It has initially formed a comprehensive park with many categories, such as building materials, textile, clothing, machinery, chemical industry, food, storage, etc.

The first commercial zone

With the first street of Qingcheng, commerce has undoubtedly become the main impetus for the economic development of Hui people's district. It will vigorously enhance the level of service industry, give full play to the resource advantages of the capital city, and build a 1 square kilometer area with Zhongshan West Road, Xinhua Street and Xilin North South road as the main trunk roads, integrating the functions of Commerce, catering, leisure and entertainment, hotel and apartment, business office, securities and insurance, etc It's the capital business district of Beijing. After the completion of the international hotel and the complex building of workers' Cultural Palace, the Huimin district will also build Qingcheng Huafu, Chengfa building and Shangri La Hotel, complete the capping project of Hailiang square, start the construction of gaolunte international center with a total investment of 3 billion yuan, start the big sugE project, add new highlights to the business core area, and realize the transformation of Huimin district from a business center to a business center, Strive to build the first business district of the autonomous region.

Address: Huimin District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia

Longitude: 111.65506361341

Latitude: 40.808543978567

Tour time: 2 hours

Ticket information: Free

Opening hours: all day

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