Abstract:In recent years,herdsmen along the Qilian Mountains in Zhangye city have actively explored new models of borrowing and grazing in agricultural areas while fully utilizing house feeding for animal husbandry,achieving good progress and results.These efforts have played a positive role in building a new pattern of integrated planting and breeding,agricultural animal husbandry cycle,and sustainable development,promoting ecological value transformation and ethnic unity and progress,and have embarked on a new path of ecological protection,green transformation,animal husbandry growth,farmers’ income increase,ethnic unity,and mutual benefit and win-win.In order to promote the healthy development of the pastoral borrowing model in agricultural areas,the Zhangye Municipal Government organized personnel to conduct on-site investigations on the relevant situation of pastoral borrowing in agricultural areas.Based on the investigation results,this article analyzes the development of the pastoral borrowing model in the Qilian Mountains pastoral agricultural area of Zhangye city and puts forward development suggestions.