0307 - Small Transit Town At The Foot Of Mount Tianshan. Dabancheng at the ...Front

Small Transit Town At The Foot Of Mount Tianshan. Dabancheng at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains is an important small transit town with a population of over 2,000 in Xinjiang where travellers like to stop over for its stewed mutton and big, sweet melons. Before the 1930s, the ancient town of Dabancheng was a desolate place with only a few inns and peasant houses to put up the passing camel caravans. Now the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway runs through it and it is linked by highways with the important cities of Hami, Urumqi and Ili in the autonomous region. Now it has become a communication center.