Baokang County, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province

Baokang County is subordinate to Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, located in the northwest of Hubei Province, in the southwest of Xiangyang City. Xiangfan in the East, Yichang in the south, Shennongjia in the West and Wudang Mountain in the north. It is the only county in Xiangyang City. The main vein of Jingshan runs from east to west. To the north and south of Jingshan, the river system flows into Hanjiang River, and to the south of Jingshan, the JuShui river system flows into Yangtze River. The name of Baokang County, which means "protecting people's health and happiness", was established in the 11th year of Hongzhi of Ming Dynasty (1498 A.D.) for more than 500 years. It is the source of Chu state and the birthplace of Jingchu culture. The county covers an area of 3225 square kilometers, with jurisdiction over 11 towns, 257 villages and 19 communities, with a total population of 350000 in 2016. The county government is located in Chengguan town.

Baokang County is rich in natural resources and tourism resources, mainly including phosphate rock, hydropower, tourism and forest resources. Famous scenic spots include Tangchi gorge hot spring, Wudaoxia scenery, etc. In August 2011, it was included in the poverty alleviation and development key county of Qinba Mountain in China. In December 2018, it won the title of the second batch of national ecological civilization construction demonstration cities and counties. On April 29, 2019, the people's Government of Hubei Province decided to withdraw Baokang County from poverty-stricken counties. The third batch of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains" practice and innovation bases.

Evolution of organizational system

During the spring and Autumn period and Warring States period, it belonged to Chu, and Xiong Yi, the first monarch of Chu, once established his business in Jingshan; during the Qin and Han Dynasties, the county was under the jurisdiction of Linju County in the South and Fangling County in the Northeast; Qixiang county was set up in the Wei of the Three Kingdoms; JuYang county was set up in the Western Jin Dynasty; Tongyang county was set up in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Dahong county and Chongyang County were set up in the Western Wei Dynasty; Yongqing county was set up in the Northern Zhou Dynasty; Shouyang County, Jingshan County, Tumen County and Guiyi county were set up in the Tang Dynasty In the first year of Kaibao in Song Dynasty (968 AD), the county was abandoned and entered Fangling.

Baokang was founded in 1498, and has a history of more than 500 years. In view of the vast territory of Fangxian County, it is difficult to administer it. In the east of Fangxian County, Yiyang and Xiuwen Erli are located in Baokang County, and the county governs tantouping (now Chengguan town).

In the third year of Yongxi reign of the Northern Song Dynasty, Baokang army was set up in Fangxian County (the name of Baokang army in Song Dynasty, the same level as the state capital), which implied the meaning of "protecting people's happiness". It first belonged to the Yunyang Office of Huguang political envoy, and followed the system of Ming Dynasty in the early Qing Dynasty.

In the third year of Kangxi (1664), Baokang was transferred to Yunyang Prefecture, Jingnan Road, Hubei Province. At the beginning of the Republic of China, it belonged to Daoyin Office of Xiangyang, and in 1932, it belonged to the eighth Office of the Commissioner of administrative supervision (Xiangyang),

In 1936, it became the fifth Office of the Commissioner of administrative supervision (Xiangyang). During this period, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the patriotic and democratic governments of Baokang County and nanbaoxingyi county were established in October 1948, belonging to the Hannan Office of Tongbai administrative office of the Central Plains provisional people's government.

In April 1949, nanbaoxingyi county was abolished and Chongyang, MALIANG and Dianya in Nanzhang were assigned to Baokang. Since the founding of the people's Republic of China, Baokang County has been under the special administration of Xiangyang.

In August 1983, Xiangyang District and Xiangfan City merged to establish the system of city leading County, and Baokang was under the jurisdiction of Xiangfan City.

administrative division

Baokang County governs 10 towns of Chengguan, Huangbao, Houping, Longping, MALIANG, Dianya, Xiema, Maqiao, Siping, transitional Bay and one Liangyu Township, totaling 257 administrative villages.

geographical environment

position

Baokang is located in the northwest of Hubei Province, in the southwest of Xiangyang City. It spans between 110 ° 45 '- 111 ° 31' e and 31 ° 21 '- 32 ° 06' n, with Nanzhang in the East, Gucheng in the north, Fangxian and Shennongjia in the west, and Yuan'an, Yichang and Xingshan in the south. The county is 82.5 km long from north to South and 68.5 km wide from east to west.

terrain

In the territory of overlapping mountains, ravines, undulating terrain, known as "eight mountains, one water, one field.". Jingshan mountains run through the central part of the county from west to East, and Baokang is naturally divided into two parts: Baonan has gentle mountains and wide valleys; Baobei has high mountains and narrow valleys. There are more than 3100 mountain tops and 3300 gullies with an average altitude of 910 meters.

The highest point in the territory is oudianguanshan, with an altitude of 2000 meters; the lowest point is transition Bay Fengqiao, with an altitude of 194 meters. According to the altitude, the county can be divided into five types: Pingfan below 500 meters accounts for 11.3%, Banshan below 500-800 meters accounts for 34.3%, high mountain between 800-1200 meters accounts for 35.3%, high mountain between 1200-1500 meters accounts for 14.6%, and high mountain above 1500 meters accounts for 4.5%.

climate

Baokang has a subtropical continental monsoon climate with cold winter and hot summer, four distinct seasons and concentrated precipitation. Because of the complexity of the territory's landforms, high and low disparity, the climate varies greatly from place to place. Yin Yang slope is much worse. In the low mountain valley, the sunshine is still enough, the heat is abundant, the rainfall is abundant, and the seasonal change is obvious; in the high mountain area, it is rainy, the temperature is low, the humidity is high, the frost falls early, and the snow cover period is long. The annual average temperature is 15 ℃ in low mountain, 12 ℃ in semi high mountain and 7 ℃ in high mountain. The extreme maximum temperature is 42 ℃, and the extreme minimum temperature is 16.5 ℃. The average annual rainfall is 934.6 mm, and the average annual frost free period is 240 days.

natural resources

mineral products

Baokang is rich in mineral resources. There are 24 kinds of proven minerals and 12 kinds of proven reserves. Metallic minerals include iron, manganese, vanadium, copper, lead and zinc, bauxite, etc.; non-metallic minerals include phosphorus, coal, pyrite, calcite, crystal, barite, fluorite, etc., most of which are in the state of development. Among them, the reserves of phosphate rock are 337 million tons, the prospective reserves are 1 billion tons, the highest grade is 40%, and the average grade is 23.5%. The rich ore rate ranks first in the country. It is one of the three major phosphate rocks in Hubei, ranking fourth among the eight major phosphate rocks in the country, known as the "phosphorus capital of central China"; the prospective reserves of pyrite are more than 19.54 million tons, accounting for 25% of the whole province, and the grade is 12-20%; the coal reserves are 2.19 million tons, containing 60-80% fixed carbon.

waterpower

Baokang has 248 rivers, including Nanhe, Juhe and manhe. Among them, there are 84 rivers with a rainfall bearing area of more than 100000 square kilometers, with a total length of 950 kilometers, 1.52 billion cubic meters of passenger water, a total runoff of 2.7 billion cubic meters, and a runoff depth of 430 mm. The water level drop is large, the water resources are rich, and the water energy reserve is 190000 kwh. All rivers belong to Juhe River, Nanhe River and manhe River, with a drainage area of 3039 square kilometers. There are 71 large springs with daily water output of 300000 cubic meters. The total recharge of groundwater is 115 million cubic meters, and the exploitable amount is 2.793 billion cubic meters. 47 of them have been cited. There are three geothermal hot springs with annual water temperature of 39.5 ℃ and daily water yield of more than 8000 cubic meters.

Botany

By the end of 2009, Baokang's forest area had increased to 3.1302 million mu, with a forest coverage rate of 66.8%. There are 1698 species of vascular plants, belonging to 189 families and 828 genera. Among them, there are 93 species of pteridophytes, belonging to 50 species of 27 families; 1605 species of seed plants, which are rich in endangered wild plants. There are 39 species of national endangered wild plants, including 23 species of national key protected wild plants (5 species of grade I, 18 species of grade II); 16 species of national precious tree species (5 species of grade I, 11 species of grade II); 31 species of national rare and endangered plants (1 species of grade I, 11 species of grade II, 19 species of grade III); 14 species of national key protected wild plants (5 species of grade I, 11 species of grade II) There are 16 kinds of precious tree species in the family, including Ginkgo biloba, Taxus chinensis, jatropha glabra, Taxus mairei, etc. in grade I, and 11 kinds of precious tree species in grade II, including Cephalotaxus fortunei, Elaeagnus angustifolia, Magnolia officinalis, Phoebe bournei, Ilex aquatica, Liquidambar chinensis, red bean, Eucommia ulmoides, Zelkova, etc. The timber forest is dominated by pine, oak and Cunninghamia lanceolata; the economic forest is dominated by walnut, tung oil tree, Camellia oleifera, Eucommia ulmoides, Ginkgo biloba, chestnut and auricular forest; the wild Chimonanthus praecox, peony, Lagerstroemia indica and other rare flowers and precious Chinese medicinal materials such as Jinchai, Tianma and Bupleurum are all over the county.

There are 258 species of wild flowers belonging to 117 genera and 69 families in Baokang. With the discovery of rare wild flowers in Baokang, such as wild Chimonanthus praecox, wild Paeonia suffruticosa, Lagerstroemia indica and Rhododendron Yunjin, flower appreciation has become a major feature of Baokang ecological tourism.

population

population

In late 2016, the total registered residence of Baokang County was 269 thousand, of which 98962 were non-agricultural, 56745 were elderly people aged 60 and over, accounting for 21.09% of the total population of the county. There are 2 877 new born and 2 259 dead. The sex ratio at birth is 114.22. The permanent resident population of the county is 254800, and the urbanization rate is 42.71%.

nation

In addition to the Han nationality, there are she, Hui and other ethnic minorities in Baokang.

Economics

overview

In 2016, Baokang County completed a GDP of 10.957 billion yuan, an increase of 8.4% at comparable prices. Among them, the added value of the primary industry was 2.108 billion yuan, an increase of 4%; the added value of the secondary industry was 4.697 billion yuan, an increase of 5.6%; the added value of the industrial industry was 5.067 billion yuan, an increase of 8%; the added value of the tertiary industry was 3.782 billion yuan, an increase of 11.4%; the added value of the for-profit service industry was 243 million yuan, an increase of 34.2%; the added value of the non-profit service industry was 834 million yuan, an increase of 20.7%. The ratio of three industrial structures is 19.24:46.24:34.51.

In 2017, the GDP was 11.7 billion yuan, an increase of 7.5%; the total investment in fixed assets was 18.5 billion yuan, an increase of 14.9%; the total retail sales of social consumer goods was 5.54 billion yuan, an increase of 12.5%; the export of foreign trade was 76 million US dollars, an increase of 12%; the direct utilization of foreign capital was 22.04 million US dollars, an increase of 10%; and the total retail sales of urban and rural residents was 5.54 billion yuan, an increase of 12.5%

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