Baijiatan Nature Reserve

　　   Baijiatan Nature Reserve is situated in Lingwu City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, with a total area of 81,800 hectares. It was approved for establishment by the former Lingwu County Government in 1985, and was upgraded to an autonomous region-level reserve in 1986. It is a nature reserve primarily dedicated to the protection of desert ecosystems.

　　   The area lies in the southwestern part of the Ordos Plateau, bordering the Loess Hilly Region to the south. Its terrain is hilly, divided into low mountain hills, gentle slope hills, and desert low mountain hills, with elevations ranging from 1,150 to 1,650 meters. The desert vegetation here is well-preserved, especially the 17,000-hectare natural desert shrub community dominated by Caragana korshinskii in the central core zone, which is the largest and most concentrated of its kind in China. The 20,000-hectare natural desert grassland community dominated by Astragalus adsurgens in the northern core zone is also the largest of its type among established reserves in China.

　　   There are 262 known species of higher plants belonging to 149 genera and 49 families in the reserve, along with 115 known species of vertebrates from 45 families and 22 orders. Among them, 22 species are listed as national key protected wildlife, including the black stork, desert cat, Pallas's cat, goitered gazelle, and kite.

　　   Address: Beside National Highway 307, Lingwu City, Yinchuan

　　   Type: Nature Reserve

　　   Recommended visiting time: 2–3 hours

　　   Phone: 0951-4030015

　　   Official Website: http://www.nxbjt.com

　　   Opening Hours:

　　   Open all day

　　   Ticket Information:

　　   No admission fee required.