Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau and the Loess Plateau, bordering Mongolia (Govi-Altai Province) to the northwest, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia to the north, Shaanxi to the east, Sichuan to the south, and Xinjiang to the west. The Yellow River passes through the southern part of the province. The province contains the geographical centre of China, marked by the Center of the Country Monument at . Part of the Gobi Desert is located in Gansu, as well as small parts of the Badain Jaran Desert and the Tengger Desert. The Yellow River gets most of its water from Gansu, flowing straight
Gobi Cashmere wool processing machineries and completed its adjustments in 1981. Within UNIDO project implementation action cashmere and camel wool processing experimental factory was opened. For 3 months, 78 engineers were being trained in Japan to learn how to process cashmere and camel wool, to operate factory machineries. State owned Gobi Company was privatized to "FCI" LLC in July 2007. Gobi Cashmere Gobi Corporation is a Mongolian cashmere manufacturer, established in 1981. Gobi was opened officially after installing cashmere and camel wool processing machineries and completed its adjustments in 1981. Since it started operating, Gobi became one of the five biggest vertically