Shicheng County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province

Shicheng County, a county under the jurisdiction of Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, is located in the southeast of Jiangxi Province and the northeast of Ganzhou City, at the intersection of Ganzhou, Ji'an, Fuzhou, Sanming and Longyan in Fujian Province. It is adjacent to Ninghua County of Fujian Province in the East, Ruijin City and Changting County of Fujian Province in the south, Ningdu County in the West and Guangchang county of Fuzhou City in the north. Founded in the 11th year of Baoda in the Southern Tang Dynasty (953 AD), the county was named after "surrounded by mountains and many rocks, towering like a city". With a total area of 1581.53 square kilometers, the county governs 6 towns and 5 townships, with a total population of 333000. It is known as "three places" and "five townships" (that is, the important birthplace of Hakka people, the birthplace of Qianli Ganjiang River, the important starting point of the long march of the Central Red Army, the hometown of Bailian, tobacco, lantern, folk culture and art, and hot spring).

Since ancient times, Shicheng has always been a necessary place for Jiangxi to enter the west of Fujian and the east of Guangdong. National Highway 206 goes straight to the north and south, and Shicheng Ninghua highway converges in the territory. It has been known as "the cradle of Hakka" and "the thoroughfare of Fujian and Guangdong" since ancient times. It has the vicissitudes of the ancient post road, the simple and honest Hakka folk customs, and the ancient and beautiful Shicheng Lantern Festival. Shicheng Lantern Festival with strong Hakka customs has been listed as the national level Intangible cultural heritage. Shicheng is also the core area of the Central Soviet Area, the birthplace of the central fifth Red Army Corps, and an important starting point for the long march of the Central Red Army.

Shicheng was rated as "China's best cultural and ecological tourism destination", "China's best leisure and holiday tourism county", "China's famous cultural tourism county", "China's rural tourism maker demonstration base", "national leisure agriculture and rural tourism demonstration county" and "the first batch of national global tourism demonstration zone founding units", and was honored as "China's top 30 most beautiful nostalgic tourism cities".

In April 2019, according to the spirit of the guiding opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on winning the three-year action against poverty and the implementation opinions of the CPC Jiangxi Provincial Committee and Jiangxi Provincial People's Government on winning the three-year action against poverty, Jiangxi Provincial People's government agreed to formally withdraw Shicheng County from poverty.

Historical evolution

There is a long history of human activities in Shicheng.

As early as the Neolithic period, there were human activities.

In the book of history, Yugong divided the whole country into Kyushu and Shicheng into Yangzhou.

During the reign of King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty, he was granted land by the king of Wu.

In 473 BC, the third year of King yuan of Zhou Dynasty, Gou Jian, king of Yue, defeated Wu, and thus belonged to Yue.

In the 36th year of King Xian of Zhou Dynasty (333 BC), Chu destroyed Yue and belonged to Chu.

In the 21st year of the first emperor of Qin Dynasty (226 BC), Yangzhou was divided into three counties. Shicheng belonged to Jiujiang county.

In the fifth year of emperor Gaodi of Han Dynasty (202 BC), Xiang Yu was destroyed and Jiujiang county was changed into Huainan state, which belongs to Shicheng. In the following year, Yuzhang county was set up in Huainan, Yudu county was set up, and Yudu county was set up in Shicheng.

In 191 A.D., Emperor Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty set up Luling County, which was under the jurisdiction of Yuling.

In the fifth year of Wu Jiahe in the Three Kingdoms (236 AD), Yudu was demolished and Yangdu county was set up, which successively belonged to Luling county and Nankang county.

In the first year of Taikang in Jin Dynasty (AD 280), the capital of Yang was changed to Ningdu, and Shicheng belonged to it.

Jin Taikang five years (AD 284), renamed piyang County, belongs to Nankang county.

In the 13th year of kaihuang reign of Sui Dynasty (593 AD), shichengchang was set up. It was named shichengchang because it was surrounded by mountains and towering like a city.

In the 11th year of Baoda (953), shichengchang was promoted to a county and subordinate to the Zhaoxin army of Jiangnan West Road.

In the eighth year of Kaibao in Song Dynasty (975), Zhaoxin army was renamed Junzhou and still governed Shicheng.

In 976, Taizong of Song Dynasty divided Jiangnan into two roads. Junzhou was changed into Qianzhou, which belonged to Jiangxi West Road and Shicheng to Qianzhou.

In 1153, Qianzhou changed its name to Ganzhou, and Shicheng belonged to Ganzhou.

In 1277, Ganzhou Prefecture was changed into Ganzhou road general office, and Shicheng was subordinate to Ganzhou.

In the second year of Yuanzhen (1296), Ganzhou was changed into a road, and Shicheng belonged to Ganzhou road.

In 1365 (the 25th year of the reign of emperor Zhizheng of the Yuan Dynasty), Ganzhou was rebuilt as a mansion, and Shicheng was subordinate to Ganzhou mansion until the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.

In the 19th year of Qianlong (1754), Ningdu was promoted to Zhili Prefecture, and Shicheng was changed to Ningdu Prefecture until the third year of Xuantong (1911).

In 1912, when the Republic of China was founded, Shicheng was subordinate to Jiangxi Province and later to Gannan road.

On June 27, 1930, the Red Army of Chinese workers and peasants liberated Shicheng for the first time. Shicheng was subordinate to the Soviet government of Jiangxi Province.

Since September 1932, it has been under the Soviet government of Fujian Province. In February of the next year, it returned to the Soviet government of Jiangxi Province. In August, Hengjiang, Dayou, Longgang, Zhujiang, Yangdi in Shicheng, Ridong and Hupi in Ruijin county and Huaiyang in Ninghua County in Fujian Province were separated out, and Tailei county was established. The county Soviet government was stationed in Hengjiang, which was directly under the central government.

From 1935 to August 1949, Shicheng was subordinate to the eighth administrative region of Jiangxi Province.

On September 30, 1949, the people's Liberation Army liberated Shicheng, which is subordinate to Ningdu district.

In August 1952, Ningdu district was merged into Ganzhou District, and Shicheng was subordinate to Ganzhou district.

Since June 1954, it belongs to Gannan administrative region, since June 1964 it belongs to Ganzhou special region, and after 1970 it belongs to Ganzhou region (city).

Ganzhou Songcheng ancient charm

administrative division

In 2019, Shicheng County governs 6 towns and 5 townships (Qinjiang Town, Xiaosong Town, Pingshan Town, Hengjiang Town, Gaotian Town, Ganjiangyuan Town, Mulan Town, Fengshan Town, Dayou Town, Longgang Town and Zhukeng town). The county government is located in Qinjiang town.

geographical environment

Location context

Located in the southeast of Jiangxi Province and the northeast of Ganzhou City, Shicheng County is 71.8 km long in North-South longitude and 53.7 km wide in east-west latitude, with a total area of 1581.53 square kilometers. Among them, the mountainous area is 2111347 mu, the cultivated area is 192646 mu, and the water surface area is 57794 mu, accounting for 89%, 10% and 3% of the total area respectively. In addition, there are 237230 mu of roads, towns, villages, factories and mines, accounting for about 10% of the total area.

terrain

Shicheng County is a typical southeast hilly and low mountain area. There are mountains in the northeast, hills in the southwest and flat terrain in the middle.

natural resources

Forest resources

The forest coverage rate of the whole county is 75.1%, and the excellent and good rate of air quality is more than 90%. Ganjiangyuan National Nature Reserve has been established, and Shicheng has become a pilot county of Ganjiangyuan National Wetland Park.

water resource

Shicheng is a mountainous county with developed water system and dense river network. The average river network density is 0.6 km per square kilometer. The average annual runoff of surface water is 1.736 billion cubic meters, the annual water consumption per capita is 7290 cubic meters, and the water consumption per mu of cultivated land is 7295 cubic meters, which is slightly higher than the average level of the whole country, the whole province and the whole city. The groundwater in the area belongs to shallow groundwater, with the characteristics of small buried depth, good recharge conditions, fast renewal and easy exploitation. There is a direct hydraulic relationship between shallow groundwater resources and natural precipitation and surface water resources. Due to abundant precipitation, surface water resources are relatively rich, and groundwater resources are relatively rich.

According to the sampling monitoring results of Ganzhou water environment monitoring center over the years, the average amount of shallow groundwater resources in Ganzhou County for many years is 2.84 billion cubic meters, the water quality is grade II and III, and the salinity is 0.19 g / m2. The water quality is good, which meets the national drinking water standard, and the standard rate of drinking water quality is 98%, which belongs to good groundwater.

Wild animals and plants

Shicheng is rich in animal and plant resources, with more than 260 families and 550 species of various tree species. Among them, there are more than 10 rare species.

*The rare and precious tree species are Taxus chinensis var. mairei, Ailanthus altissima, Cephalotaxus fortunei, Ginkgo biloba, Cyclocarya paliurus, Torreya grandis, Photinia serrulata, Juniperus Bambusa, Quercus alba, Cryptomeria fortunei, Podocarpus arvensis, Konan, Lysimachia fortunei, etc.

*The famous ancient trees with more than 200 years old in ancient trees include Ginkgo biloba in Xiaogu chatou, Hengjiang Town, luohansong in liaojiashan, Yifu village, Qinjiang Town, Cunninghamia lanceolata in gaoyikeng, Dayu village, Qinjiang Town, Tilia amurensis in jigongdong Valley, Yangdi, Hengjiang Town, and Cyclocarya paliurus and xiangguoshu in Qiling village.

*Common tree species such as Pinus massoniana, Cunninghamia lanceolata, Cryptomeria fortunei, Schima superba, lingnanke, Fokienia hodginsii, Liquidambar formosana, Photinia bournei, Photinia serrulata, Photinia glabrata, Cinnamomum camphora, Cinnamomum camphora, Dalbergia, Cyclobalanopsis glauca and Robinia pseudoacacia are distributed all over the county. Gaotian, Fengshan, Komatsu, Hengjiang, Dayou and Yangdi are the main producing areas.

*Ornamental tree species include Platycladus orientalis, juniper, juniper, juniper, hibiscus mutabilis, weeping willow, Salix, Hibiscus syriacus, Euonymus japonicus, etc.

mineral resources

Shicheng County is located in the west of the central and southern section of Wuyishan metallogenic belt, one of the 19 important metallogenic belts in China, with good metallogenic conditions. 26 kinds of minerals have been found, including tantalum, niobium, tungsten, tin, molybdenum, copper, lead, zinc, lithium, zirconium, rubidium, rare earth, coal, iron, phosphorus, fluorite, kaolin, feldspar, silica, granite, inkstone, volcanic rock, geothermal, mineral water, mica, tourmaline, etc. Among them, niobium and tantalum, fluorite, silica, geothermal and other mineral resources are in the forefront of Jiangxi Province.

Shicheng County is rich in hot spring resources. It has been proved that there are seven hot spring spots in the county, including Jiuzhai, tongtianzhai (DA she), zhashanli, mulanshaoshui lake, fengshanyansha and Gaotian shangwenliao, with a exploitable capacity of 10000 cubic meters per day.

Most of the hot spring water in Shicheng County belongs to ascending spring, its pH value is generally higher than 7.0, and its water quality is transparent. Rich in metasilicic acid, sulfur, fluorine, radon and other minerals and trace elements, it has a high medical and health care effect, especially the content of fluorine and metasilicic acid reaches the medical value standard, which is a rare hot spring with fitness and physical therapy effect.

On December 10, 2016, the China Federation of mining industry held a review meeting in Beijing, and the experts unanimously approved Shicheng County as "the hometown of hot springs in China". Jiuzhai natural canyon hot spring resort, the first spring at the source of Ganjiang River, integrating leisure and health preservation, is now integrating Danxia

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