Desert brings fun and fortune in Ordos
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AS Li Dongwei skied down a snowy slope, he gazed far away over the vast desert.
“It’s unbelievable that the place where I used to enjoy sand sledding has become a ski slope,” he said while visiting the desert ski resort for the first time.
Xiangshawan Ski Resort is in Dalad Banner of Ordos City in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The ski resort is part of Xiangshanwan Resort, which opened 18 years ago and has thrived in recent years.
Xiangshawan, literally translated as “Whistling Dune Bay,” is in China’s seventh-largest desert, the Kubuqi, which covers 18,000 square kilometers.
Nearly 100 people came to the resort for the opening day of the ski season yesterday.
It has two slopes for beginners and one slope for intermediate-level skiers, as well as an area for people to play in the snow, Wang said.
Summer is the busiest season, and it is necessary to book in advance for a hotel. In summer, tourists enjoy sand sledding, camel rides, and riding motorcycles in the desert. Some tourists also stay overnight to watch the stars.
Last year, tourists made 810,000 trips to the resort, 770,000 of which were in the summer.
The desert has also brought fortune and a better life to locals.
“My family used to grow corn in the village, but now we are managing a beverage store at the resort,” said Li Zhengwei, 29, from a local village.
His family only made about 20,000 to 30,000 yuan (US$3,000 to US$4,500) annually previously, but now, their annual income can hit 100,000 yuan, he said.
Li’s family is one of the 100 local households to benefit from desert tourism at Xiangshawan.
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