Hohhot, Mongolian for green city, the capital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is located in central Inner Mongolia and being the center of political, economic, cultural and business.
It's an important industrial city of Inner Mongolia also the major wool textile industry center of china, and now it has become a comprehensive industrial city. Besides of the traditional national products industry, light textile, sugar, cigarettes, dairy, pharmaceutical, chemical, metallurgy, electric power and building materials industries have come into the large scale. A series of large enterprises such as Shi Qi Group, Yili Dairy, Mengniu Dairy, Hohhot cigarette factory and Yahua cement factory emerged out. In recent years, taking use of the unique natural resources and conditions, the dairy industry got the rapid development and make the Hohhot rewarded the name of ''dairy city''.
Hohhot is a famous outside city with 400 years history. The history relics and spots include Dazhao temple, Five pagoda temple, White tower and Zhaojun Tomb. Local foods are mainly base on north diet, and sbsorbe the Mongolian and Hui ethnic's cuisine. The most representative is Mongolian meal, such as the food in Mongolian resturant named Gozsy Lea mother. Hui ethnic snacks are also very popular, the roast lamb shashlik, steamed dumpling and sheep offal of Hui Ethnic Street will make you impressed.??