Qilian Mountain has 2,683 glaciers, which is a "solid reservoir" in the northern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The glacier melt water irrigated more than 70,000 hectares of farmland in the Hexi Corridor and Ejina Banner, Inner Mongolia. In addition, Qilian Mountain is also a habitat and distribution area for rare and endangered wildlife species such as wild yak, white-lipped deer, winter worm, summer grass, snow lotus, and is also a habitat for animal stars snow leopards.