The Hui people also have a community in the desert.
The Hui people are more concentrated in Northwestern China -LRB- Ningxia , Gansu , Qinghai , Xinjiang -RRB- , but communities exist across the country , e.g. Beijing , Inner Mongolia , Hebei , Hainan , and Yunnan.
This sparsely settled , mostly desert region lies partially on the Loess Plateau and in the vast plain of the Yellow River , and features the Great Wall of China along its northeastern boundary.
