金昌是我国新兴的一座工业城市。它位于祖国的大西北,河西走廊中部腾格里沙漠西南缘,绵延二百多里的龙首山下。一个以产镍为主的有色冶金的联合企业金川公司就诞生在这里。二十多年前,这里是茫茫的戈壁荒滩,渺无人烟,只有十来户人家的不毛之地。自从1958年发现矿藏以来,第二年就开始了建设,如今已有一万多人口,成为我国第 Jinchang is an emerging industrial city in China. It is located in the great northwest of the motherland, the western edge of the Tengger Desert in the central Hexi Corridor, stretches more than 200 miles under the Dragon Mountain. Jinchuan, a conglomerate of non-ferrous metallurgy mainly of nickel, was born here. Twenty years ago, here is the vast Gobi wasteland, desolate, only a dozen families of barren. Since the mineral deposits were discovered in 1958, construction began the following year, and now it has more than 10,000 inhabitants, becoming China’s first