The agrohusbandryinterlocked areas, the transitions between agricultural and husbandry areas, roughly runs along the 400mm isohyetal line. Historically, as the border areas between the dynasties in Central China and ethnic regimes of the minorities, the Inner Mongolian agrohusbandryinterlocked areas were where ethnic conflicts and wars frequently broke out, which exercised significant impacts on the society and economic development of the areas. With the founding of the Qing Dynasty when the unified polyethnic state was established, these areas lost their military importance. The changes in political arrangement brought about changes in transportation and economic locations, as a result of which the agrohusbandryinterlocked areas became new areas of convergence, exchange and blending between people in Central China and nomadic people. Between the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, great changes took place in these areas: increase of the population, economic growth and steady enhancement of economic ties at home and abroad.

the agrohusbandryinterlocked areas; changes in political location; urban development; industrial structure