Hello, I would like to ask about the environment in Hotan area and whether people from Henan area can adapt to it.
1. Hotan, Xinjiang
Hotan Prefecture, affiliated to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is located in the southern corner of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with a total area of 247,800 square kilometers.
The Hotan area is a typical inland arid area with an arid desert climate. It is an area rich in light energy resources in China. It is famous for its abundance of Hotan jade. It is a famous hometown of jade, silk, The capital of carpets and the land of melons and fruits.
The Hotan Prefecture is a multi-ethnic area dominated by the Uyghurs, with 22 main ethnic groups including Uyghurs, Hans, Hui, Kazakhs, and Kirgiz. As of 2015, Hotan Prefecture governs 1 county-level city and 7 counties. At the end of 2016, the total registered population in the region was 2.4498 million, and the urban population was 545,300.
Climate. The main characteristics are: four distinct seasons, hot summers, cold but not cold winters, rapid but unstable temperature rise in spring, often late spring cold, windy and sandy weather, rapid cooling in autumn; sparse precipitation throughout the year, sufficient sunlight, abundant heat, and a long frost-free period. The temperature difference between day and night is large. The climate characteristics are: sandstorms and dusty weather in spring, hot and dry summers, average annual precipitation of 35 mm, and annual evaporation of 2,480 mm. It is windy and sandy all year round. There are more than 220 days of sand and dust weather every year, of which about 60 days are heavy floating dust (sandstorm) weather. The number of dust weather days in Hotan increases by an average of 2.5 days every year. There is no Category I or II weather throughout the year, and there are 28 days of Category III or IV weather. , there are about 300 days of Category 5 weather, and the average monthly dustfall is 124 tons/square kilometer. ?
Diet. Hotan diet is mostly mutton. Beef, chicken, pork, etc. are supplemented. The main staple foods are noodles, pilaf, naan, stewed meat, baked buns, etc.
2. Henan
Henan is named Henan because most of it was located south of the Yellow River in history. Henan is located in central and eastern China, in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.
As of the end of 2017, Henan *** has jurisdiction over 17 prefecture-level cities, 1 provincial-level county-level administrative unit, 52 municipal districts, 20 county-level cities, and 85 counties, with the provincial capital Zhengzhou City , with a permanent population of 95.5913 million, ranking third in China.
Henan is an important economic province in China. In 2017, its GDP ranked fifth in China and first in the central and western regions. China (Henan) Pilot Free Trade Zone is a newly established free trade zone in China. ?[15-18]?In December 2016, the state approved Zhengzhou as a national central city. The Central Plains urban agglomeration, with Henan as the main body, is the fourth growth pole of China's economy.
Henan has a warm temperate to subtropical, humid to semi-humid monsoon climate. The province's general climate characteristics are dry and windy in spring, hot and rainy in summer, sunny and sunny in autumn, and cold and cold in winter with little rain and snow. The province's multi-year average temperature is 15.7°C. Generally, the temperature in January is -3°C to 3°C, and the temperature in July is 24°C to 29°C. The temperature in the province is generally higher in the east and lower in the west, higher in the south and lower in the north, with differences between the mountains and the plains. It is obvious that the annual and daily temperature ranges are both large. The extreme minimum temperature is -21.7℃ (January 12, 1951, Anyang); the extreme maximum temperature is 44.2℃ (June 20, 1966, Luoyang). The annual frost-free period is about 180-240 days from north to south. The average annual precipitation is about 500-900 mm, with more precipitation in the southern and western mountainous areas, and more than 1,100 mm in the Dabie Mountains in the southeast. About 50% of the province's annual precipitation is concentrated in summer.
Diet. Henan's food is mainly pasta, such as braised noodles, pimple soup, batter, fried buns, etc. Hu spicy soup, Luoyang Dongguan beef soup, Xinyang cuisine, etc. are also popular.