Pingdingshan Grassland 平顶山

About Pingdingshan Grassland

The village's dry farmland is known as the "dryland granary" (旱地粮仓) and is planted with crops that include winter wheat, spring wheat, white peas, chickpeas, flax and rapeseed. Dryland farming in the hilly country of southern Mori County has a long history, mainly growing chickpeas, peas and wheat, and has produced a distinctive mountain dry-field farming culture.

From 2017 the county built a mountain road that links 13 villages in four townships of the southern hills into a tourism network about a hundred kilometres long, with 34 stopping points and 8 viewing platforms, built around the Pingdingshan dry fields as its core. Beside the Yunduan viewing platform (云端观景台) in the village, farmhouses have been converted into guesthouses and restaurants that look out over the fields; the village has nine guesthouses and nine farm restaurants.

This Pingdingshan is a village in Mori County, Xinjiang; it is not the city of the same name in Henan.

What to look for

• The dry farmland itself, the core of the county's mountain dry-field landscape and known as the dryland granary
• The Yunduan viewing platform (云端观景台) beside the village, with guesthouses looking out over the fields
• The crops in the fields — winter wheat, spring wheat, white peas, chickpeas, flax and rapeseed among them
• The mountain road and its 34 stopping points and 8 viewing platforms, which the county built around the dry fields

Location & getting there

Getting to Pingdingshan Grassland

Confirm the road and activity operator, weather and return transport. Stay on permitted routes and do not treat open land as unrestricted access.

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