During the Global geopark conference on application and reassessment held at Fuyun county,Xinjiang Province Oct 11, 2018,a sister geopark agreement was signed by the representatives of Zhijindong Cave UNESCO Global Geopark (UGGp) and Keketuohai UNESCO Global Geopark (UGGp). This marked the start of the official cooperation between the two UNESCO Global Geoparks.

Keketuohai is located in the south of Altay Mountains and the source of Irtysh River. As the cold air flows from the nick of river valley in Irtysh, there is much rain and snow with the dense forest and luxuriant prairie. There are 260,000 hectare forest with 22．44％ of forest acreage and 10,530,000 hectare of prairie, which is the huge"wild desert and wet island" of arid region in northwest. There are 8 beryl producing areas, the world's unique ultra large rare metallic ore named "No.3 Mine Crater" and more than 84 rare metal mineral elements, which is one of the largest and representative granite pegmatite rocks with rare metals known in the world. For a more detailed introduction of Keketuohai UGGp, please visit:http://www.keketuohai.com.cn/