Is Yuqing County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province populated?
Population: about 280,000 people
Population density: 172 people/km2
Geography:
Yuqing is located in the north and south of Guizhou Border is the junction of four prefectures (cities): Zunyi, Tongren, Qiandongnan and Qiannan. It borders Meitan to the north, Shiqian and Fenggang to the east, Huangping and Shibing to the south and Weng'an to the west. The county covers an area of 1,623.7 square kilometers and has a population of 280,000 from 21 ethnic groups including Han and Miao. The northern and central parts are the Wujiang River Valley terraces. The Baini Basin where the county seat is located is one of the famous 10,000-acre dams in Guizhou Province. The lowest altitude in the county is 400 meters, the highest altitude is 1386.5 meters, and most areas are between 600 and 1000 meters above sea level.
Climate:
Yuqing County has a subtropical warm monsoon climate. There are four distinct seasons, no severe cold in winter, no scorching heat in summer, and the climate is mild. The average annual temperature is 16.4℃. The average maximum temperature is 21.3℃. The average annual minimum temperature is 12.9℃. There is not much frost and snow, and the frost-free period is as long as 300 days. Rainfall is abundant, with the average annual rainfall being 1056 mm.
The weather in spring warms up earlier. But it is unstable. Cold air activities are more frequent, low temperatures and rainy weather often occur. There are hail and strong winds in some areas, but the disasters are not serious. There is a lot of drought in midsummer, and continuous rain in autumn. After winter, the temperature is lower and the rainfall decreases. Spring starts on March 19, which lasts for 84 days, summer starts on June 11, which lasts for 92 days, and autumn starts on September 11, which lasts for 84 days. 73 days, winter begins on November 23, lasting 116 days (Note: the sliding average temperature on the 5th is 10℃~22℃ in spring, above 22℃ in summer, 22℃~10℃ in autumn, and below 10℃ in winter).
The annual average temperature in various places is between 13 and 16.4C, increasing from northwest to southeast. The low-temperature areas are distributed in Shizichang, Qipo, Wengjiao, Xinzhai and other places. The annual average is 13~14℃. The high-temperature areas are distributed in the Wujiang River Valley and Baini Dam area, with the annual average being 16~16.4℃. The average in other areas The temperature is between 14~16℃.
Resources:
Yuqing Mountain has beautiful clear waters, diverse soil types, warm climate, abundant rainfall, and a forest coverage rate of 49%. There are large reserves of water energy resources and broad development prospects. The territory is densely covered with rivers. The Wujiang River, the largest river in Guizhou, runs through the central part of the county. The developed local power has reached an installed capacity of 10,000 kilowatts. In 2003, the construction of a large national-level Hydropower station - Goupitan Hydropower Station is located in the territory, with an installed capacity of 3 million kilowatts. The first unit is expected to generate electricity in 2008. The construction of this power station will make Yuqing the central area of energy supply in Guizhou Province, Guizhou's "West-to-East Power Transmission" important power point. Mineral resources in the county include coal, clay, phosphorus, high-calcium limestone, barite, etc. Among the proven clay mines, only the Huangtupo Mine has reserves of 4 million tons, which can be used to develop and produce a series of unique green ceramic products.
Economic Development
Since the reform and opening up, Yuqing’s appearance has changed a lot. In 2003, the county’s GDP reached 1,251.3 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 2,336 yuan. , urban and rural savings deposits reached 450 million yuan, and comprehensive economic indicators ranked among the top in the city.
Yuqing has relatively developed agriculture and a high level of standardized planting and breeding. It is one of the first batch of national-level agricultural comprehensive development counties in the province. Pillar industries such as grain, oil
vegetables, flue-cured tobacco, pigs, Kuding tea, and forestry continue to maintain stable development, and a number of bases for Kuding tea, red oranges, watermelons, early-maturing vegetables, and Chinese medicinal materials are gradually forming. scale, the area of high-quality rapeseed reached 143,000 acres, and the number of pigs sold reached 300,000.
Industry and township enterprises have gradually formed an industrial system focusing on the production of building materials, electric power, chemicals, printing, metallurgy, grain processing, agricultural and sideline products processing, Kuding tea, Chinese medicinal materials, and chemical fertilizers. , special and new products are becoming increasingly mature and entering the market. "Shida brand" and "Yuzhen brand" Kuding tea is known as "green gold" because of its fragrant taste, first bitter and then sweet, and long aftertaste. The supply of products exceeds demand; a number of famous and high-quality products are gradually forming a scale. Going to the market, the market prospects of products such as "Daliangshan" brand rice and "Yuqinghong Kumquat" are promising. At present, projects such as Jiulong Oleochemical Plant, Kuding Tea Processing, and Longxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Processing Plant are accelerating investment and transformation (restructuring). At the same time, Longxi 100,000-ton calcium carbide plant and Dawujiang 200,000-ton cement grinding station have been completed and put into operation. .
Yuqing has achieved fruitful results in the construction of "two civilizations" and has been rated as the national advanced county for high-quality tobacco leaf production and acquisition, the national advanced family planning county, the national advanced county for comprehensive social security management, and the national advanced county for village and town construction. County, National Greening Model County, National Advanced County for Villager Self-Government, National Hometown of Kuding Tea, National Kuding Tea Base County, National Advanced County for Universal Access to Primary Health Care in 2000, Open Counties, and Old Revolutionary Area Counties In addition to the province's "two basic" education standards counties, commodity grain and oil base counties, advanced counties for disabled people, and provincial health counties, 7 towns and 80% of villages including Goupitan, Songyan, and Longxi have achieved the goal of moderate prosperity. .
Administrative divisions
Yuqing County governs 9 towns and 1 ethnic township: Baini Town, Xiaoji Town, Longxi Town, Goupitan Town, Dawujiang Town, Aoxi Town, Longjia Town, Songyan Town, Guanxing Town, Huashan Miao Township.
Historical evolution
In 2000, Yuqing County governed 9 towns and 1 ethnic township.
According to the fifth census data: the total population of the county is 252,965, including the population of each township (person):
Baini Town 49028 Xiaoji Town 14483 Longxi Town 28277 Pitan Town 30840 Dawujiang Town 31102 Aoxi Town 19770 Longjia Town 18085 Songyan Town 28200 Guanxing Town 19770 Huashan Miao Township 13410.
In 2003, Yuqing County governed 9 towns, 1 ethnic township, 66 village committees, and 7 neighborhood committees. The total population at the end of the year was 293,600, including 20,000 minority population and 28,100 non-agricultural population.
Places of interest
Dawujiang Scenic Area
Yuqing Dawujiang Scenic Area is located in the middle of Yuqing County, Zunyi City, in the north, south and southeast of Guizhou. , the center of Qiandong tourist area, moderately located. The scenic spot is mainly based on the Dawu River that runs through the central part of Yuqing County, and is divided into the Jinchengxia section of the Dawu River, the Silongchang section, the Shawan section, the Niuweitan section, the Laocunhe area, the Huashan ethnic scenic area and other mountains. There are two independent scenic spots including Moya and Wanzhangkeng Red Army Martyrs Tomb. There are 39 natural landscapes and 12 cultural landscapes. The total area of the scenic spot is 100 square kilometers.
The natural ecology of this scenic spot is good, the environmental quality is high, the air and water are not polluted, the scenic spots are relatively concentrated, and have a certain scale. It is a collection of deep canyons, rapids, cliffs, and strange peaks. It is a scenic spot with majestic, strange, dangerous and beautiful features integrating rocks, primeval forests, rare animals and caves. The scenic area still retains ancient bridges, ancient tombs, cliff carvings and other cultural relics. Natural wonders such as the Laohukou Rapids of the Dawu River and the magical Mawei Waterfall are breathtaking. The famous Red Army battle site for forcibly crossing the Wu River is also here.
Yuqing Dawujiang Scenic Area has high taste and ornamental, cultural and scientific value.
Qiandao Lake Scenic Area
After the Goupitan Hydropower Station is completed, the water storage level will be increased by 100 meters, and the backwater will be 137 kilometers to the Wujiangdu Hydropower Station. There will be "high gorges out of Pinghu and strange peaks" There are many isolated islands and middle islands in the reservoir area, as well as harbors and river branches. This place best embodies the tourism characteristics of viewing the gorge in the water, viewing in the gorge, viewing the island in the lake, and enjoying the lake in the island. It has high tourism value and is an ideal place for tourism, leisure, vacation, and business exhibitions.
Relics of the Huilongchang Red Army's battle to cross the Wujiang River
Huilongchang Red Army's battle to cross the Wujiang River remains: Huilongchang Ferry, originally a transportation artery from Yuqing to Meitan, after the liberation of Mekong The highway was built and the ferry was abandoned, but the remains of the Red Army's battle to cross the Wujiang River still remain. The remains of the trenches are faintly visible. The bamboo poles of the pontoon are now in the Chinese Revolutionary Military Museum.
In February 1982, the Provincial People's Government named your site one of the first batch of cultural relics protection units. On May 1, 1985, a cultural relic protection sign was erected.
The Tomb of the Red Army Martyrs in Wanzhangkeng
It is located next to a cave in Guanghui Village, Longjia Town, 82 kilometers away from the county seat. Built in August 1956, the tomb is located northwest and southeast. It is made of finely chiselled bluestone. It is 4.7 meters long, 3.2 meters wide and 2.1 meters high. In the center of the top of the front tomb wall, a five-pointed star emblem is carved, protruding and painted in red, below the star emblem. A rectangular bluestone tombstone is framed, engraved with 6 large red characters "Tomb of the Red Army Martyrs"; there are 2 stone steps in front of the tomb. There are Cement fence. In addition, there are five commemorative stone tablets on the left, right and front of the tomb, recording the sacrifices and number of Red Army soldiers. On December 10, 1982, it was listed as a county-level cultural relic protection unit. On May 1, 1985, a cultural relic protection sign was erected at the tomb.
Tashan Cliff
It is located in Pucun, about 2 kilometers southwest of Songyan Town, 84 kilometers away from the county seat. In the seventh year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1650), Qian Bangqi, the governor of Sichuan and a famous scholar in the Ming Dynasty, cut off his hair and became a monk and lived in seclusion in Pucun for seven years to avoid "Sun Kewang's Rebellion".
When the Qian family lived in seclusion in Pucun, they took the meaning of "stones from other mountains can attack Cuo (Jade)" and named the mountain next to Liuhu Lake "Taishan". The two characters "Tashan" were engraved on it. On the steep stone wall, there is a straight calligraphy in regular script with vigorous writing, each word is about 0.4 square meters. There is a cliff on the right corner, about 0.9 meters long and 0.6 meters wide. The vertical script is inscribed with "Qian Kai Shao Singing Place". , the inscription is "Inscribed by Yongli Ding Xichun" in 6 words.
In the 14th year of Shunzhi (1657), Qian examined the rocks and named them according to their shapes. Engraved on the stone wall, there are "Shifan Peak", "Cuiping", "Dongtian", "Yunfang", "Nine-faced Peak", "Meibao", "Mei_", "Meizhou", "Collection of Books" There are 17 places including "Xia", "Pili Cliff", "Liuyun Gorge", "Mizhang", "Duanyan", "Huilan Cave", "Liuyun", "Yingjianshishi" etc. In addition, Qian once visited the cliffs. A hexagonal thatched pavilion is built in the middle, which is called "Stone Worship Pavilion". People sit in the pavilion and look around, with a panoramic view of strange rocks and cliffs.
As time goes by and the stars change, there is a "poetry of peeling rock cliffs". "Remnant", but the cliffs of other mountains with "stiff rocks lying in the cold smoke" stand out. On December 10, 1982, it was listed as a county-level cultural relics protection unit. On November 2, 1985, it was listed as a provincial cultural relics protection unit. /p>
In addition, there are Yuqing County Riverside Park, Tuanjie Reservoir, Pingtiao Primeval Forest Scenic Area, Goupitan Canyon Scenic Area, Shawan Scenic Area, Laolin River Scenic Area, and other tourist attractions.
Specialized agriculture
Green gold - Yuqing Kuding tea
Yuqing County, located in the south of Zunyi City, is rich in small-leaf Kuding tea and has natural wild Kuding tea. There are 70,000 acres of Dingcha resources and 37,000 acres of artificially cultivated densely planted demonstration tea. Yuqing's small-leaf Kuding tea belongs to the Ligustrum lucidum of the family Aoliaceae. It grows along the Wujiang River and in the Miaoling Mountains. It is completely different from the large-leaf Kuding tea varieties of the Ilex family in Yunnan, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan and other places. It is A rare plant unique to Guizhou, it has the characteristics of "three greens": dry tea green, soup green, and bottom green leaves. Kuding tea leaves are picked delicately. High-end tea and famous tea are mainly processed by hand, while low-end and popular tea are mainly processed by machine.
The best time for picking is around Qingming Festival. The picked fresh tea leaves are carefully made through three processes of fixing, rolling and baking. The product has a tight strip shape, bright green color and pure aroma. The tea brewed with clear water has a bright green color, a mellow taste, a slightly bitter taste and a sweet aftertaste. After the leaves expand in the water, the bottoms of the buds will be green and the leaves will be fresh.
According to the "Chinese Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine", "Kuding tea has the functions of clearing away heat and detoxification, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antidiarrheal, producing body fluids and quenching thirst, and regulating body functions... It is cool in nature and slightly It is bitter and sweet, refreshing after drinking, and has a long-lasting aftertaste. "Yuqing Kuding Tea has been tested by authoritative units such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Key Laboratory of Natural Products Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It contains 17 essential nutrients for the human body. A variety of amino acids, and contains sun, zinc, magnesium, tea polyphenols, reducing sugar and other substances. There are more than 70 compounds found in volatile oil that are beneficial to human health. They have the effects of lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, anti-aging, anti-ultraviolet radiation, clearing away heat and detoxification, strengthening the stomach and eliminating accumulation, diuretic and weight loss, and have the effects of preventing and suppressing cancer and regulating physiology. The function of the product forms the unique characteristics of the product: "three greens, slightly bitter, sweet, fragrant, and refreshing".
Yuqing County is 188 kilometers away from the famous city of Zunyi. Here, the annual average temperature is 14°C -16°C, the altitude of most areas is between 600-1000 meters, the annual rainfall is 1173mm, and the frost-free period is 280-300 days. It has abundant rainfall and good sunlight. It has a humid subtropical monsoon climate with clouds and mist all year round. Fresh air, beautiful environment, beautiful mountains and rivers, crisscrossing rivers, dense forests, and no environmental pollution are the unique natural conditions for the growth of small-leaf Kuding tea. Therefore, whether it is natural wild or artificially cultivated Kuding tea, the quality is superior.
"Shida Brand" small-leaf Kuding tea won the "Quality Agricultural Products of Guizhou Province", "China Economic Forest Famous Products", "Gold Medal of the 5th Shanghai Science and Technology Expo", and "Chinese Tea Cup" of the 5th China Tea Society "First prize: "Shanludan" brand small-leaf Kuding tea won the title of Guizhou Province Famous Tea. In 2003, the output value of Kuding tea in the county reached 11 million yuan, and it was hailed as "green gold" by Professor Tan Jiajian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, honorary president of the Shanghai Tea Association, and a famous scientist.
In March 2019, Yuqing County was included in the first batch of counties for the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics (Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou Areas).
In June 2020, Yuqing County was included in the second batch of counties for the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics (Long March Area (First Red Army), Long March Area (Second Red Army)).
On July 29, 2020, the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee reaffirmed Yuqing County as a national health town (county) in 2020.
In October 2020, Yuqing County was selected into the first batch of national digital rural pilot areas.
On November 18, 2020, the ranking of the top 100 counties in China's tea industry in 2020 was released, with Yuqing County ranking 72nd.