Xinfeng County, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province

Xinfeng County, a county under the jurisdiction of Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province, is located in the north of the central part of Guangdong Province, the south end of Shaoguan City, and the intersection of the five cities (Guangzhou, Shaoguan, Qingyuan, Huizhou and Heyuan). It has a long history, superior location, beautiful ecology and rich resources. It is the strategic frontier of Shaoguan integrating into the Pearl River Delta and serving Dawan district.

Xinfeng County was established in 483, the first year of Yongming reign of Emperor Wu of the Southern Qi Dynasty, which means "rich in products" and belongs to Nanhai County of Guangzhou. Since then, the name of the county has been Xiuji, Changning, etc., which has been under the jurisdiction of Xunzhou, Longchuan, Huizhou, Guangzhou, etc. since January 1988, it has been transferred back to Shaoguan City. The county has a total area of 2015.2 square kilometers, forestry land area of 2.551 million mu and a total population of 268700. It has jurisdiction over 6 towns, 1 Street, 141 administrative villages and 16 community neighborhood committees.

Xinfeng County has superior location and convenient transportation. Shaoguan is the only county bordering on the Pearl River Delta, only 150 kilometers away from Guangzhou and 180 kilometers away from Shenzhen. Daguang Expressway, an important passageway out of Guangdong Province, has been completed and opened to traffic. It can reach Guangzhou in 1.5 hours through Daguang Expressway, which is the golden suburb of Guangzhou.

Xinfeng County is known as "nine mountains, half water, half farmland". The East is Jiulian Mountain range, and the west is Qingyun Mountain range. It is northeast southwest trend. It is a national key ecological function area, a national ecological demonstration area construction pilot county, an important ecological barrier in Guangdong Province, and a key forestry county in Guangdong Province. Xinfeng is the source of Xinfengjiang, an important tributary of Dongjiang River Basin in Guangdong Province. It is the main water source of Xinfengjiang reservoir (Wanlv Lake). High quality water directly benefits millions of people in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and so on. It has lush trees and lush vegetation, with a forest coverage rate of 80.80%, ranking fourth at the county level in the province. The excellent and good rate of air quality is 100%, and the water quality of drinking water source reaches the national class II water standard.

Historical evolution

Before the establishment of Xinfeng County, it belonged to Longchuan County of Nanhai county.

In 483, the first year of Yongming reign of Emperor Wu of the Southern Qi Dynasty, Longchuan County was located in Xinfeng County, which means "rich in products", so it is called "Xinfeng" and belongs to Nanhai county.

Liang Tianjian six years (507), changed to Dongguan county.

In the second year of Chen Zhenming's reign (588), Dongguan county was changed to Dongguan County, and Xinfeng's membership was also changed.

Sui kaihuang ten years (590), Dongguan County waste, Xinfeng is along the state. Kaihuang eighteen years (598), the new Fengxian Xiuji county. In the third year of Daye (607), Yangdi changed Xuzhou into Longchuan County, and abandoned Xiuji County into Heyuan County, which belongs to Longchuan County.

In the third year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty (1569), Heyuan county was analyzed, and Changning County was set up in the southeast corner of Yingde and Wengyuan counties. When the county was first established, Zhao Yue, the county magistrate, was in charge of the affairs at zhuzhuba (now Lianping county) on the Mu River in Changji capital. In 1572, he moved to hongyanzhou (now xianglingping Daying area in the east of Fengcheng town) to build the Earth City. In the first year of Wanli (1573), the government moved to build a brick city under Junzi Zhang (now Xinfeng County).

In the Qing Dynasty, Changning County belonged to Huizhou Prefecture.

At the beginning of the Republic of China, the government system was abolished. In 1914, it was renamed Xinfeng County because it avoided the name of Changning County in Jiangxi and Fujian provinces. From 3 to 9 of the Republic of China, it belonged to chaoxun district; from 10 to 38 of the Republic of China, it belonged to the fourth administrative supervision district of Guangdong Province.

On June 13, 1949, Xinfeng was liberated. In January 1951, the office of Dongjiang people's administrative inspector (Dongjiang special office) of Guangdong Province was established, and Xinfeng was subordinate to Dongjiang special office.

On November 9, 1952, Xinfeng was transferred to the North Guangdong administrative office. On March 1, 1956, the North Guangdong administrative office was changed to Shaoguan Commissioner's office, and Xinfeng was subordinate to Shaoguan Commissioner's office. After the establishment of Shaoguan special area, Xinfeng was subordinate to Shaoguan special area.

In January 1975, Xinfeng County was under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou city.

In January 1988, Xinfeng County was returned to Shaoguan City.

administrative division

As of 2016, Xinfeng County has jurisdiction over 6 towns, 1 sub District Office (Fengcheng sub district, Huangyi Town, Matou Town, Meikeng Town, Shatian Town, Yaotian town and Huilong town), 141 administrative villages, 16 neighborhood committees and Fengcheng sub district office of the county government.

geographical environment

Location context

Xinfeng County is located in the north of central Guangdong, the south end of Shaoguan City, the diversion of Dongjiang River, Beijiang River and Liuxi River, and the upper reaches of Xinfeng River. The county is bounded by Conghua and Longmen in the south, Wengyuan in the north, Lianping in the East and Fogang in the West; the East-West boundary of the county is from 113 ° 42 ′ e to 114 ° 36 ′ e, 98.4 km from east to west; the North-South boundary is from 23 ° 53 ′ n to 24 ° 17 ′ n, 45 km from south to north, with a total area of 2015 square kilometers. It is 150 km from Guangzhou, 180 km from Shenzhen and 160 km from Shaoguan. The xinfengjing section of Daguang Expressway will be completed by the end of 2015; the xinfengjing section of Wushen expressway will be completed and opened to traffic in December 2018; Shaoguan Xinfeng expressway is under intensive construction and is planned to be completed and opened to traffic by the end of 2021; the first-class reconstruction of national highway 105 and provincial highway s347 from Hengjiang to Meikeng will be completed; the section of Western exit highway x262 from lakeng (Conghua junction) to Shatian will be completed and opened to traffic, x852 will be completed The reconstruction project of Yaotian banpi to Dapu (at the junction of Fogang) section of the line is under intense construction. By the end of 2019, the western export road will be fully opened; a large number of county and township roads will be upgraded and reconstructed, and the natural villages with more than 200 people will basically realize the hard bottom of the road; a number of tourist roads such as yunjishan, key industrial parks and important economic node roads are being implemented. National Highway 105 runs through the county. Provincial highway s347 and S244 connect National Highway 106, Huishen Expressway and Beijing Zhuhai expressway. It has initially formed a highway network with expressways, national roads and provincial roads as main roads radiating inside and outside the county and the province.

At the same time, it is actively planning to build the South rail express to Xinfeng.

topographic features

Xinfeng County is a typical mountainous county. The territory of high mountains, steep terrain, mountains, crisscross. Jiulian Mountain range is in the East and Qingyun Mountain range is in the West. The terrain is higher in the middle and North and lower in the East and West, forming long and narrow valleys and small basins. There are 1109 large and small mountains in the territory, of which 65 are more than 1000 meters. Yunji mountain, also known as apoji, is 8 kilometers north of the county, with an altitude of 1438.8 meters. It is the highest peak in the county. It has a wide range of hills and basins, narrow river valleys and plains, mountainous area of 1698.9 square kilometers, arable land area of 173.2 square kilometers, water area of 42.9 square kilometers, and other land area of 100.2 square kilometers. It is known as "nine mountains, half water, half farmland".

water resource

The water system in Xinfeng County is influenced by the strike of mountain range and fault structure, forming the lattice water system in Xinfeng County. The whole water system is bounded by Qingyun mountains. To the East, it belongs to Dongjiang River system. The main stream of Xinfeng River originates from the foot of Yunji mountain. To the west, it belongs to Beijiang River system. Its tributaries flow into Wengjiang River in parallel to the northwest and into Beijiang River in the South of Yingde City. There are 568 large and small rivers in the county, with a total length of 293.2 km, including one main stream and eight tributaries with a rainfall collection area of more than 100 square kilometers.

climate

Xinfeng County has mild climate, abundant rainfall, sufficient light, long frost free period and four distinct seasons, belonging to the south subtropical monsoon climate. The average annual temperature is 19.3 ℃, the frost free period is 286-307 days, the average annual rainfall is 1923 mm, and the average annual sunshine is 1575 hours; the north of the central part belongs to the alpine mountainous area, the average annual temperature is 7-8 ℃ lower than that of the county, and the temperature difference between day and night is large, so it is suitable for planting off-season vegetables and alpine flowers.

Resources and products

Animal resources

Up to 2016, Xinfeng County is suitable for all kinds of animal breeding. South China tiger, leopard, golden cat, pangolin, deer, ape, musk deer, monkey, otter, beaver, owl, mountain ox, mang snake, giant salamander, thrush, Rhododendron, Harrier, magpie, long tail Phoenix, white crane, swallow, woodpecker, Silver Pheasant, etc. are included in the first and second categories of national protection.

Forestry resources

As of 2016, Xinfeng County is rich in forest resources, with a forest land area of 2.523 million mu. It is a national key ecological construction demonstration area and one of the key forestry counties in Guangdong Province, with a forest area of 157410.7 hectares, a forest coverage rate of 80.79% and a standing stock of 10.493 million cubic meters. The county has 74855.4 hectares of ecological public welfare forest, 19257 hectares of bamboo base, 5222 hectares of fruit base and 29365.5 hectares of fast-growing and high-yield forest base.

mineral resources

As of 2016, it is rich in mineral resources. There are 14 kinds of proven mineral resources, including porcelain clay and rare earth ore, of which iron ore reserves are more than 8.564 million tons, rare earth ore reserves are 63.496 million tons, and porcelain clay reserves are 6.583 million tons.

Water resources

As of 2016, Xinfeng is one of the birthplaces of Dongjiang River. 21.4% of the water source of the famous Xinfengjiang reservoir comes from Xinfeng. It is one of the first 100 pilot counties of electrification in China with abundant hydropower resources, 149000 kilowatts of reserves and sufficient power and water supply.

Population nationality

By the end of 2019, the permanent resident population of Xinfeng County was 218600, a decrease of 0500 over the previous year; the proportion of urban population was 53.35%, an increase of 0.97 percentage point over the previous year. At the end of the year, the registered residence population in the county was 269 thousand, an increase of 300 over the previous year, of which 98 thousand were urban, 200 less than last year, and 171 thousand rural residents, an increase of 500 over the previous year.

The main composition of the registered residence population at the end of the year was 140 thousand and 300 men, 52.2%, and 128 thousand and 700 women, accounting for 47.8%. In 2019, 3545 people were born in the county, 791 less than the previous year,

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