Dalad Banner

Dalad Banner (Mongolian: ; ) is a banner of western Inner Mongolia, China, lying on the southern (right) bank of the Yellow River. It is under the administration of Ordos City, although it is closer to the city of Baotou, 33 km to the north-northwest.

Administrative divisions
Dalad Banner is made up of 6 subdistrict, 8 towns, and 1 sum.

Others:
 * Dalad Economic Development Zone (达拉特经济开发区)
 * Ordos City Ecological Demonstration Zone Management Committee (鄂尔多斯市生态示范区管理委员会)

Economy
The local industrial zone Dalad Economic Development Zone is home to chemical plants, aluminum smelters, and one of the world's largest bitcoin mining operations. The operator of the zone's bitcoin mine Bitmain produced in 2017 about 5% of the world's daily production of Bitcoin in a facility with 25,000 computers tended to by about 50 employees.

However, Inner Mongolia plans to ban cryptocurrency mining from April 2021.