wenquanxianIntroduction:Hot Spring Profile: Hot Spring County belongs to the Bortala Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in the northwestern part of the autonomous region, the upper valley of the Bortala River, the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and the western margin of the Junggar Basin. It is connected to Bole City in the east, and opposite to Huocheng County in the south. The west and the north are bordered by Kazakhstan with the empty Guoluobo Mountain and the Alatau Mountain. The county is 139.4 kilometers long from east to west and 64.8 kilometers wide from north to south. The arable land is 490,000 mu, the grassland is 6.19 million mu, and the forest is 551,000 mu. The climate here is warm in winter and cool in summer. It is a continental arid climate with an average annual temperature of 3.6 degrees Celsius. The total annual surface water volume is 800 million cubic meters, the groundwater reserves are 310 million cubic meters, and the theoretical water energy reserves are 279,000 kilowatts. In 2012, the population was 74,600.