Narat Grassland

Located at the important line of communications connecting Southern and Northern Xinjiang, the north part of Narat Grassland connects to Gongliu and Xinyuan County Town, and west part to Hejing County. East part comes from Aikendaban of northwest Hejing and west part reaches to Wulandaban. It is about 150 kilometers long and 3,000 - 4,500 meters above sea level. The northern slope faces the wind and yearly rainfall is 400 - 700mm. A large stretch of wild apple trees have been found in Xinyuan County at the 1500-2,000 above sea level. It was listed as a nature reserve. The No. 218 National Highway runs across the Tianshan Mountains, along the north part of Narat grassland. Furthermore, Narat Grassland boasts sub-alpine belt, and it has been a famous pasture land ever since the ancient times, and there are wide river valley, high mountains, the crisscrossed deep gores, the flourishing forest and open grassland. It is crowned as “air pasture” and “garden highway”.