Ordos (Chinese: 鄂尔多斯, pinyin: È’ěrduōsī, Mong. Ordus.svg Ordos) is an urban district in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (PRC).
The city, built in the middle of a desert plateau, is designed for a million inhabitants, but the number of its inhabitants does not reach fifty thousand.

History
Throughout its history, Ordos has been an arena of confrontation between the Chinese and the steppes.
With the beginning of the Manchurian conquest of China, Ordos was divided in 1649 into 6 khoshuns (Ordos left and right “wings”, each of which in turn was divided into front, middle and rear “banners”); the exact boundaries between them were fixed in 1740. It was established that the Chinese should not settle in the territories of the Mongols, and the Mongols can travel to China only with permits. Nevertheless, from the beginning of the 18th century, Chinese migration took place. In connection with the Qing course of the “new policy”, at the beginning of the 20th century, the Dongsheng Commissariat was created to administer the settled inhabitants. After the Yihetuan uprising, the Chinese were allowed to colonize the Mongols’ lands in Inner Mongolia and Manchuria.
After the Xinhai Revolution, the Dongsheng Commissariat was transformed into Dongsheng County; however, he managed only the affairs of the Chinese population, the Mongolian population was still subject to the structures of the Khoshuns. In 1914, the Suiyuan Special Administrative Region (绥远特别行政区) was separated from Shanxi Province, and these places became part of it. In 1928, the Suiyuan Special Administrative Region became Suiyuan Province. In the 1940s, the region became the scene of confrontation between the CCP and the Kuomintang.

In the system of Mongolian administrative division, these places were united in Ikh-Zuu aimag (Chinese: 伊克昭盟, Pall.: Ikezhao meng) of Suiyuan Province. In 1954, Suiyuan province was disbanded, and the aimag became part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. On April 30, 2001, the Ikh-Zuu aimag was transformed into the Ordos urban district.
In 2016, Kangbashi District was separated from Dongsheng District.