Nicknamed the Phoenix City, Yinchuan is a rising northwest Chinese industrial city and the capital of Ningxia Autonomous Region. Being one of a very few parts of China where an ethnic minority (Hui people) hold the power of governance, it is a treasure of Chinese-Muslim culture.Yinchuan has two parts - the new city, with all of the industry, universities and colleges, is huddled around the main train station while the old city, the more livable of the two, lies 8 km to the east. Rapid growth over recent years has been quickly drawing these two distinct centers together as foreign investment grows.Yinchuan historically served as a trade rout town made large for it's convenient location between Western Chinese cities such as Urumqi and the Eastern ones such as Beijing and Harbin. http://wikitravel.org/en/Yinchuan