As long as you have visited Keketuohai, you must not be unfamiliar with the first village of Irtysh River-Talat Village, where there are Kazakh specialties, Kazakh special songs and dances, and where you can experience a lot of Kazakh specialities and folklore activities. But did you know? The first geological and cultural village in Xinjiang will be built here soon.

Recently, Talat Village has been listed as one of the ten geological and cultural villages to be built in 2020 by China Geological Survey of the Ministry of Natural Resources. At present, Talat Village has started the preliminary construction, and the construction of the first geological cultural village in Xinjiang has been officially kicked off since then!

Talat Village, located in the upper reaches of the Irtysh River, has been the host of the "Fuyun Ice and Snow Tour" series of activities for many times in a row, and has set up a winter tourism service reception station so that tourists can experience and feel the rich ethnic characteristics of the service. Talat Village has also been identified by the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China as a "Model Village of One Village and One Product" and by the People's Committee of the Autonomous Region as a characteristic village and town.

Talat Village relies on the geoheritage, geomorphological landscapes and red education bases of Keketuohai UNESCO Global Geopark, which is known as the Natural Mineral Museum No. 3 Mine, a world-class granite pegmatite deposit, 84 kinds of minerals have been found, and unique high-quality characteristics of the resources for the construction of the geological and cultural village has laid a good foundation.

In the future, Talat Village will take the construction of "the first village of the Irtysh River", focusing on the unique geological culture, integrating the natural and human resources, promoting the adjustment of the rural industrial structure, helping poverty alleviation, carrying out science popularisation, study and education, and special tourism activities, and creating the first geological and geocultural village in Xinjiang. Let's look forward to the completion of the first geological and geocultural village in Xinjiang!