Xunwu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province

Xunwu County is a county under the jurisdiction of Ganzhou City in Jiangxi Province. It was founded in 1576 and named Changning County. It was changed to Xunwu County in 1914 and was approved by the State Council in 1957. Xunwu County is located in the southeast of Jiangxi Province, at the junction of Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong provinces. It is adjacent to Wuping County in Fujian Province and Pingyuan County in Guangdong Province in the East, Xingning City and Longchuan County in Guangdong Province in the south, Anyuan County and Dingnan County in the west, and Huichang County in the north. As of 2017, Xunwu County has a total area of 2351 square kilometers, 15 townships (towns), 173 administrative villages, 11 neighborhood committees and a total population of 330000.

Xunwu is a Hakka settlement and the cradle of Hakka. In 2013, Xunwu was officially included in the Hakka culture (Gannan) ecological protection experimental area by the Ministry of culture of the people's Republic of China. Xunwu is a red homeland with glorious revolutionary tradition. Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation once engaged in great revolutionary practice here. Comrade Mao Zedong wrote such chapters as "investigation of searching for the black army" and "opposing Ben Ben Ben ism" in searching for the black army. On April 28, 2019, the people's Government of Jiangxi Province decided to withdraw Xunwu County from poverty-stricken county. On October 9, 2020, it was awarded the title of the fourth batch of national ecological civilization construction demonstration cities and counties by the Ministry of ecological environment.

Historical evolution

Before 1576, Xunwu belonged to Anyuan County. In the fourth year of Wanli, the county was built in Huangxiang, Shuangqiao, Nanqiao, bafu, Yaogu, Xiangshan, Laotian, Zixi, Shichen, Xunwu, Dadun, Guiling, Shuiyuan, sanbiao and Shixi. Changning County was named after Jiuan of Changning. Matigang of shixibao was chosen as the county seat, which was under the jurisdiction of Ganzhou Prefecture. In the Qing Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of Ganzhou Prefecture.

In the winter of 1914, the state capital was abandoned as Dao, which was under the jurisdiction of Gannan Dao. In the same year, Changning County changed its name to Xunwu because it avoided Changning County with the same name in Sichuan Province.

On March 25, 1928, the Communist Party of Xunwu County launched a peasant uprising and announced the establishment of Xunwu Revolutionary Committee, which is one of the revolutionary bases in Jiangxi and Guangdong.

In May 1929, the workers' and peasants' red army occupied the county and established the county Soviet government, which was under the jurisdiction of Jiangxi Soviet government.

In the 20th year of the Republic of China, it was merged into jiao (Jiaoling County, Guangdong Province), Ping (Pingyuan County, Guangdong Province) and Xun (Xunwu County, Guangdong Province), belonging to the Northwest Branch of Dongjiang River, a special branch of Fujian Guangdong Jiangxi Soviet area.

In the 21st year of the Republic of China, it was renamed Xunwu County, under the jurisdiction of Jiangxi Province.

In September 1933, it belonged to Guangdong and Jiangxi Province of the Soviet Republic of China.

In February 1934, Xunwu and Anyuan merged into Xuan County, which still belonged to Guangdong and Jiangxi Province. In September 1934, Xunwu, Huichang and Anyuan merged into Huixuan County, which was directly under the Central Soviet government office. At the end of the same year, the county was occupied by the national government and returned to Xunwu County.

In 1932, the national government divided Jiangxi into 13 administrative regions, and Xunwu was the 13th administrative region.

In 1935, Xunwu belonged to the fourth administrative region. In winter, yanmenbao (now Luoshan township), originally belonging to Anyuan, was under the jurisdiction of Xunwu County.

On August 27, 1949, Xunwu was liberated and the people's Government of Xunwu County was established, which belongs to Ningdu district.

On September 6, 1952, Ningdu district was abolished and incorporated into Ganzhou special office.

On May 25, 1954, Ganzhou Commissioner's office was abolished and Gannan administrative office was established.

In 1957, with the approval of the State Council, the name of Xunwu was changed to Xunwu. On May 15, 1964, Gannan administrative office was abolished and Ganzhou Commissioner's office was restored.

In January 1971, it was renamed Ganzhou area, Xunwu Lizhi.

On July 1, 1999, Ganzhou was set up as a city and Xunwu was subordinate to Ganzhou City.

On March 6, 2019, the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of finance, the Ministry of culture and tourism, and the State Administration of cultural relics announced the list of counties for the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics (the first batch), in which Xunwu County was included.

Ganzhou Songcheng ancient charm

administrative division

As of March 2018, Xunwu County has jurisdiction over 7 towns including Changning Town, Jitan Town, Chengjiang Town, Nanqiao Town, liuche Town, Chengguang town and guizhumao Town, and 8 townships including Wenfeng Township, sanbiao Township, Shuiyuan Township, Luoshan Township, Xiangshan Township, Danxi Township, Longting Township and Changpu township.

geographical environment

position

Xunwu County is located at the intersection of Wuyishan and Jiulianshan in the southeastern border of Jiangxi Province. It is a triangle connecting Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces. It is adjacent to Wuping County in Fujian Province and Pingyuan County in Guangdong Province in the East, Longchuan County in Guangdong Province in the south, Anyuan County and Dingnan County in the west, and Huichang County in the north. The geographical coordinates are between 24 ° 30 ′ 40 ″ - 25 ° 12 ′ 10 ″ N and 115 ° 21 ′ 22 ″ - 115 ° 54 ′ 25 ″ E. The territory is 78 kilometers long from north to South and 61 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of 2351 square kilometers. Xunwu has convenient transportation, 492.6km away from Nanchang, the provincial capital, and 213km away from Ganzhou. Location advantage: it is the closest place between the whole central region and the Pearl River Delta, and can be reached in a few hours. Xunwu is dominated by mountains and hills, of which mountains account for 75.6% of the total area. The main peak of Xiangshan steamer is 1529.8 meters above sea level, which is the first peak in Xunwu County. There are many rivers in the territory. Xunwu River and Chenguang river flow into Dongjiang River from north to south, which is the source of Dongjiang River. Luotang river flows into Gongjiang River from the south, which is the source of Gongjiang river. There are many mountains, few fields, warm and humid climate, fertile land and rich water resources, which is the birthplace of Dongjiang River.

geology

stratum

The strata in Xunwu are outcropped but undeveloped and scattered except for pre Sinian, Ordovician, Silurian, Permian, Triassic and Upper Tertiary. The Sinian and Cambrian strata are a set of extremely thick shallow marine clastic rock formations, which are exposed in the county, lanbei, north of Heling, Jitan, zhuoshuitang, laomu, etc. The middle and Upper Devonian is a littoral clastic rock formation, exposed in the liucheshibei generation. The Carboniferous strata are dominated by shallow beach facies carbonate formations, which are sporadically exposed in laomu and baishitan Intermountain basins. The lower Jurassic lacustrine facies clastic rock formation is only exposed in the South and Huanglong. Upper Jurassic clastic rock formation in the first belt of Shangjia and dingtianyuan. Late Jurassic sandy shale is distributed in Changpu Township, which is a considerable uranium bearing horizon. In gukenggang, Chetou and liuche area, the Cretaceous strata of clastic rock formation of inland lake are widely distributed. The lower Tertiary is only found in liucheqiufang. The quaternary system is mainly distributed on both sides of Xunwu river.

structure

Xunwu is located in the East-West complex structural belt of Nanling, with strong magmatic activity. The dominant latitudinal structures are Shima, Reshui gukenggang, Ehu Shipai, Heling lanbei faults and Xinhua xiaian faults, such as Chengcheng Ehu Hudong and Jitan Qiufang faults.

igneous rock

Magma and migmatite are widely developed in Xunwu, accounting for 80% of the total area of the county. There are three diagenetic periods from Caledonian to Yanshan. It is mainly distributed in Datong, Changpu, Baimianshi, liuche, Nanqiao, Shangjia, Xiaping, lanbei, Jitan, Tongkengzhang, etc.

landforms

Xunwu is connected with Wuyi Mountain in the southeast and Jiulian Mountain in the northwest. The terrain is high in the northeast, northwest and Southeast, inclined to the southwest, like a dustpan. The distribution of middle mountain, low mountain, hill and hillock is ladder like.

The elevation of the territory is 500-1000 meters, and the relative elevation is 200-500 meters. The lowest elevation is the West Valley of Douyan village in the south, 180 meters above sea level. The highest elevation is xiangshanzhen in the East, and the main peak is 1529.8 meters above sea level. The river bed elevation of the county is 272m.

In the county, the valley area accounts for 2.38% of the total area, the hill area accounts for 7.68%, the hill area accounts for 14.3%, and the mountain area accounts for 75.62%.

The county is dominated by mountains and hills, with only narrow valleys along both sides of the river, of which mountains account for 75.6% of the total area. From the east to the west, it can be divided into Wuyishan and jilongzhang uplift belts and the subsidence belt of the southern red bed basin.

According to statistics, there are as many as 908 peaks above 400 meters above sea level, including 30 peaks above 1000 meters above sea level. The main peaks in the county are xiangshanzhen, laoyashi and Bijiashan in the East, yangtianzhang, luanluozhang in the south, Guilong Zhang in the west, jilongzhang and taiyangguan in the north, and the main peak of xiangshanzhen is 1529.8 meters above sea level, which is the first peak in Xunwu County.

mountain range

There are 908 peaks above 400 meters above sea level and 30 peaks above 1000 meters above sea level in Xunwu County.

soil

Xunwu is located in the south of subtropical red soil region, with good soil fertility and generally acidic soil. According to the altitude and geographical classification, Xunwu mainly has six kinds of soil types, including paddy soil, fluvo aquic soil, purple soil, red soil, mountain yellow soil and mountain meadow soil, among which the red soil area is the largest, with more than 2.7 million mu, accounting for 86% of the total soil area. Red soil is widely distributed in low mountain and hilly areas. It is mainly composed of iron oxide, aluminum oxide and quartz. It is viscous and strongly acidic. It is suitable for growing citrus, navel orange and other crops.

rivers

Xunwu has a dense river network and abundant water resources. According to statistics, there are 547 rivers and rivers in the county, with a total length of 1900 kilometers, including 73 rivers with a rainfall collection area of more than 10 square kilometers. The larger rivers are Xunwu River, Chenguang River (Shuijin River) and Luotang river. Among them, Xunwu River and Chenguang River belong to Dongjiang River system, while Luotang river flows northward to Huichang, Hunan River belongs to Ganjiang River system. Xunwu river originates from yajibo mountain in Santong village of sanbiao township. The river is about 120 km long and runs through the whole county from north to south. It flows through nine townships including sanbiao, Shuiyuan, Chengjiang, Jitan, Changning, Wenfeng, Nanqiao, liuche and Longting. It crosses Douyan village of Longting township

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