Arun-Banner

The Arun Banner (阿荣旗; Pinyin: Arong QI) is a banner in the administrative territory of the prefecture-level city of Hulun Buir of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It has an area of ​​12,063 km ² and has 331 762 inhabitants ( end of 2009). In addition to forestry ( over 5,600 sq km of forests ) and grazing livestock ( 2,000 km ² grassland ) are in Arun Banner also over 3100 sq. km of arable land, cultivated with especially soy, corn, potatoes and sunflowers. Rich deposits of copper, iron ore, lead, zinc, oil shale, marble, fluorite and quartz are exploited in numerous mines.

Administrative Divisions

At the community level, the Arun banner is made up of five large municipalities and four nationality communities. These are:

There are also two state farms and state forest.