The remains of the old county town seen here in the foreground, the new town can be seen in the distance.
The town was abandoned and moved 30 years ago because flood waters from the Yellow river regularly flooded the town. Ironically, with the rapid increase in global warming in the past 30 years the site today is dry and degraded. In a cruel twist of fate the new site for the county town a few kilometers away might have to be moved yet again because of encroaching desertification.