If anyone has historical and geographical information about Tengcheng Town, Teng County, Guangxi, please give it to me.
1. Overview of Teng County:
Teng County is located in the southeast of Guangxi, bordering Cangwu County to the east, Rong County and Cenxi City to the south, Pingnan County to the west, and Zhaoping to the north. County and Mengshan County, the maximum distance from east to west is 86 kilometers, and the maximum distance from north to south is 112 kilometers. It has jurisdiction over 16 towns, 266 villages and 13 neighborhood (community) committees, with a total population of 965,000. The regional area is 3945.62 square kilometers, with an area of 480,600 acres of cultivated land, including 392,400 acres of paddy fields, 88,000 acres of dry land, and 4.292 million acres of forest land. It is an agricultural county with "eight mountains, one water, and one farmland".
Teng County is rich in natural resources, with more than 20 proven mineral deposits including titanium, gold, barite, granite, lead, zinc, and silicon. Among them, titanium ore reserves are large and of high grade, with total reserves of approximately 21.5 million tons; kaolin reserves total approximately more than 10 million tons. The county's forest coverage rate reaches 70.3%, and the forest stock volume reaches 7.398 million cubic meters; the main agricultural and sideline products include rice, seedless watermelon, taro, kudzu, cassava, tea, silkworms, longan, Shatian pomelo, etc., among which seedless The watermelon planting area reaches 100,000 acres, with an annual output of 250,000 tons; the taro planting area is 15,000 acres, with a total output of about 25,000 tons; the kudzu planting area is 16,000 acres, with an annual kudzu output of about 30,000 tons.
Teng County is one of the top 100 counties for comprehensive agricultural development in the country, an advanced county for forestry ecological construction in the country, and one of the top 100 greening counties in the country. It is a national commodity grain base county, one of the top ten rosin production base counties in the country, and a national late-ripening Jiangkou lychee county. Production base county. Livestock products mainly include pigs, three-yellow chickens, etc. The aquatic products mainly include the "four major fishes" of grass carp, silver carp, bighead carp and carp, as well as freshwater white pomfret, Xijiang catfish, local yellow sand turtle, etc.
The industry is a resource processing industry. Its main products include titanium dioxide series, forest chemical product series, lead-zinc ore, kaolin, brick making, aluminum village, plywood, etc. Among them, titanium products and rosin are the county's pillar industries, with an annual output of 50,000 tons of titanium dioxide, 20,000 tons of rosin, and 3,900 tons of turpentine.
There are many rivers and abundant water resources in the county. The county’s total annual water resources reach 3.382 billion cubic meters, and the theoretical reserve of hydraulic resources reaches 149,300 kilowatts. The county has convenient water and land transportation. The Luozhan Railway is under construction, the Nanning-Guangzhou intercity high-speed railway is under testing and construction, and the Pingguo-Wuzhou Expressway passes through the south. National Highway 321, Nanning to Wuzhou, Teng County (Tandong) to Cangzhou Five secondary roads from Wu (Xindi), Tengxian (Taiping) to Mengshan (Chentang), as well as Tengxian to Rongxian under construction and Taiping to Tandong that is about to be started, run through the county. The Xijiang River runs along the north loop line from the county. It flows through the central part of the border, dividing the county into two large areas: Tengnan and Tengbei. The maximum navigation capacity of Xijiang River is 2,000-ton ships. Passenger and cargo ships can reach Nanning and Liuzhou, and downstream can reach Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau and other places.
Teng County has outstanding people and is the hometown of Qin Longmu. It was also the hometown of Yuan Chonghuan, Minister of War during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom loyal king Li Xiucheng, the British king Chen Yucheng, the visiting king Lu Shunde, and the servant king Li Shixian. It is the hometown of martyr Li Zhenya, deputy commander of the Qiongya Column of the People's Liberation Army, and the late Mo Naiqun, vice chairman of the Guangxi CPPCC.