Yinchuan Plain

Yinchuan Plain (simplified Chinese: 银川平原; traditional Chinese: 銀川平原; pinyin: Yínchuān píngyuán), also called the Yinchuan–Wuzhong Plain or Xitao Plain (西套平原) or Ningxia Plain (宁夏平原), is a plain located in the north central part of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China.

Since ancient times, Yinchuan Plain has been well developed in irrigation agriculture, so it has been hailed as the "southern type of scene in the northern frontier" (塞上江南) and "the barn in the northern frontier" (塞上谷仓).

Yinchuan Plain is the largest plain in Ningxia and an important commercial grain base in Northwest China. It is a Cenozoic fault basin covered by about 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) of unconsolidated Quaternary deposits.