Jinchang City is located in central Gansu province, west of the Yellow River, north of the Qilian Mountains, and south of the Alashan Plateau. The southwest of the city borders Qinghai Province and the northwest borders Inner Mongolia. The area is 8,896 km2. It has important archaeological sites from the stone age, a Western Han site, and sections of the Great Wall from the Han and Qing dynasties. It has one urban district and one county with a total population of 458,500; half of which is urban.

Jinchang city, founded in 1981, is a provincially administered industrial city. It is honorably named as the "China Nickel City" for it is rich in nickel. Our former national leader, Deng Xiaoping once called it "a city of gold" when he visited Jinchuan in 1960s. Then in 1992, the former President Jiang Zemin also paid a visit to Jinchang and dedicated it "the soaring nickel city". This vast, mineral-rich, especially nickel reserves ranked second in the world, in Asia, copper and diamond reserves ranked second, reserves of platinum group metals ranks first in the country. Industry has developed non-ferrous metallurgy, chemical industry, building materials, energy, light five pillar industries, agriculture and livestock development foundation of good. Urban and rural transportation is very convenient, the infrastructure is complete, the urban environment is very beautiful, hospitable, has become the development of Western investment.

Ever since 1994, Jinchang has been awarded titles of the State Model City for Supporting Army by the Bureau of Civil Affairs and the PLA (People's Liberation Army) General Political Department, the Provincial Civilized City and the State Hygiene City by provincial committee and provincial government.

The city bears a dry continental climate in temperate zone. It is rich in sunshine. Spring is windy and the temperature is unstable. Summer is the rainy season, and the cold air usually attacks the city in mid-September. In the dry and chilly winter, its average temperature will drops between -14.6C and -9.5C (14.9F -5.7F). On the whole, the temperature of Jinchang varies greatly both during a day and the whole year.

Jinchang is a temperate continental climate zone, 1500-1600 m, average annual air temperature 10.7 ° c, 110 mm of annual precipitation. Domestic travel resources are mainly in Le Jian, Han, Ming great wall ruins of the ancient city, city in badain jaran desert devil, Han tombs, yongchang North Hazel Tower, West River, North of Haizi's ancient architecture Luan bird city.