Everyone may be curious, what is the difference between Mongolia and Inner Mongolia? In fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Mongolian people gradually became three parts, namely Mobei, Monan and Moxi Mongolia, and these parts were divided by the Gobi Desert in northern Inner Mongolia.
Mobei Mongolia declared independence with the support of Tsarist Russia, while Monan Mongolia developed into Inner Mongolia.
1.Geographical area comparison: Outer Mongolia covers an area of 1.56 million square kilometers, second only to Kazakhstan, and is the second largest landlocked country in the world. Inner Mongolia is slightly smaller at 1.18 million square kilometers and has 12 second-level administrative regions.
It spans 2,400 kilometers from east to west, with a time difference of nearly two hours between the easternmost and westernmost points. 2.Population comparison: Outer Mongolia has a population of 3.3 million, with an average annual population growth rate of 2 since 20102%。
Inner Mongolia has a population of about 24 million, which is more than the population of the entire territory of Outer Mongolia and even more than the population of Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia. 3.Economic development: Mongolia's GDP in 2021 was 9534.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14%, with a per capita GDP of 28,84068 RMB.
During the same period, Inner Mongolia's GDP exceeded 2 trillion yuan, reaching 20,514200 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 63%, with a per capita GDP of 85,422 yuan.
4.Development potential: Outer Mongolia is rich in natural resources, with more than 80 kinds of minerals discovered, coal reserves of about 173.3 billion tons, rare earth reserves accounting for about one-fifth of the world, and systematic reserves ranking second in the world.
Outer Mongolia is rich in mineral resources, but due to the lack of industrial technology, it can only be mined and exported, and cannot be further processed. In order to protect the country's mineral resources, they have enacted relevant laws, which have led to the withdrawal of many foreign-funded enterprises, including those in our country.
Due to the lack of capital and technology, Outer Mongolia has watched its own economy decline, coupled with the decline of global commodities**, Outer Mongolia, whose economy is heavily dependent on mineral exports, has suffered a huge blow and has been burdened with foreign debts that exceed several times its GDP.
In the most difficult times, they had to use the belongings of the people of the whole country to pay off their debts.
Although most of the territory of Outer Mongolia is covered by grasslands, there is relatively little arable land. The terrain is rugged to the north and west, while the vast Gobi Desert is to the south. About 30 per cent of the population still lives on nomadic or semi-nomadic herding conditions.
At present, the country's traditional pillar industry, animal husbandry, is facing unprecedented challenges. As the number of livestock continues to grow, grass pastures have been overwhelmed and now have a whopping 76Eight per cent of the land is subject to desertification to varying degrees.
In addition, the transportation situation is also extremely backward, and the country is extremely lacking in railways and roads, which has caused great constraints on the country's economic development.
Economic growth in Inner Mongolia: The economic structure of Inner Mongolia is mainly composed of.
I. Second, the composition of the tertiary industry, the proportions are respectively. 5%, of which industry is the cornerstone.
Baotou Steel Group's operating income in 2021 reached 128 billion yuan, and Mengniu and Yili's revenue in the first half of 2021 reached 45.9 billion yuan and 56.5 billion yuan, respectively0.6 billion yuan.
These three enterprises have fully tapped the rich mineral resources and developed animal husbandry industry in Inner Mongolia.
It is not difficult to find that there is a clear gap between the current development level of Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. Despite the abundance of natural resources in both, Inner Mongolia has grown far faster than Outer Mongolia, and this difference makes us wonder what is the reason for such a huge disparity.
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