Lechang City, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province

Lechang, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is managed by Shaoguan City. Located at the southern foot of Nanling Mountains, the border of northern Guangdong and adjacent to Hunan, it is the "bridgehead" of Pearl River Delta radiating inland and inland provinces into Guangdong, known as the "northern gate of Guangdong". With a total area of 2419 square kilometers, the municipal government is located in Lecheng street, with 16 towns, 1 street and 2 offices under its jurisdiction.

Lechang county has a history of more than 1500 years, known as the "Millennium Tuocheng". In the early years of the Southern Qi Dynasty, Qujiang County was set up as Lingxi County; in the Southern Dynasty, Lianghua county was officially established in the seventh year of liangtianjian (508 AD); in the 18th year of kaihuang of Sui Dynasty (598 AD), it was renamed Lechang county because of the presence of Leshi and Changshan mountains; in 1994, the county was withdrawn to establish a city (county level). Lechang Huagu opera, Yugu rap, Jiufeng folk song and Sanxi frog lion are listed in the provincial intangible cultural heritage protection projects.

Lechang is known as "Chu Yue Confucius road". The ancient Xijing road passes through the territory. It used to be the distribution center of Guangdong Salt and other commodities. Beijing Guangzhou railway, Beijing Guangzhou high speed railway, Beijing Zhuhai Expressway, leguang expressway, 107 National Highway and 248 provincial highway run through the territory. On December 6, 2019, it was selected as the pilot unit of promoting the quality improvement of farmers' cooperatives in the whole county.

Historical evolution

Lechang City is located in Yangzhou in the Xia and Shang Dynasties. It belonged to Baiyue in the spring and Autumn period, Chu in the Warring States period, and Nanhai Prefecture in the Qin Dynasty. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Nanhai county magistrate Ren Xiao was critically ill and appointed Longchuan County Magistrate Zhao Tuo. After Ren Xiao's death, Zhao Tuo set up his troops to isolate the Wuling from the Central Plains. At the time of Qin's death, Zhao Tuo conquered Guilin and Xiangjun by force and established Nanyue state, calling himself "King Wu of Nanyue". At that time, Guangdong was under the jurisdiction of South Vietnam, except for the present-day Lianzhou and the northern part of Lechang.

In 111, the sixth year of Yuanding reign of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, southern Guangdong was pinged. Qujiang County, HanZhen county and Zhenyang County belonged to Guiyang County, and Lechang County belonged to Qujiang County.

In the later Han Dynasty, the capital of Shixing was set up. In the Southern Dynasty, the Song Dynasty governed Qujiang. In the first year of Taiyu, Shixing was changed to Guangxing. Qi is still Shixing.

Lianghua county was established in the northwest of Qujiang County in 508.

In the 17th year, it was divided into Lianghua county and Pingshi county.

In the first year of Chen Tianjia's reign, he returned to East Hengzhou.

In the ninth year of kaihuang reign of Sui Dynasty, the county was abandoned and changed into Shaozhou in the east of Hengzhou. In the eleventh year, it was abandoned and entered Guangzhou.

In the 12th year, Pingshi county was abandoned to Lianghua County, and in the 18th year (598), Lianghua county was changed to Lechang county (named after Leshi and Changshan), directly under Shaozhou. In the fifth year of Kaibao in the Song Dynasty, Renhua county was abolished into Lechang County, and Renhua county was restored in the third year of Xianping.

In the second year of Qiandao, Ruyuan County was set up in the southwest of the county.

It was subordinate to Shaozhou road in Yuan Dynasty, Shaozhou capital in Ming Dynasty and Lingnan road in Republic of China.

In 1920 ad, the system of abolishing Taoism was established as the government office.

The Chinese people's Liberation Army liberated Lechang on October 20, 1949. In the same year, Lechang County People's government and other administrative organs were established.

After December 1958, shaobian Autonomous County and meihua, Yunyan, Xiushui, shaping and other places under the jurisdiction of Ruyuan County were under the jurisdiction of Lechang county.

After 1962, shaobian county and the Yao commune, guitou commune and Daqiao commune under the jurisdiction of Lechang belonged to Ruyuan.

In 1994, the county was removed and the city was established.

administrative division

In 1996, it has jurisdiction over 20 towns: Lecheng Town, Laopingshi Town, Dayuan Town, Pingshi Town, Wushan Town, luojiadu Town, Jiufeng Town, Liangjiang Town, BEIXIANG Town, Henan town, langtian Town, changlai Town, Baishi Town, Yunyan Town, Qingyun Town, Xiushui Town, shaping Town, Huangpu town, Sanxi town and meihua town. The municipal government is located in Lecheng town.

In April 2002, luojiadu town was abolished, five administrative villages were merged into Pingshi Town, and five administrative villages were merged into Meihua town.

In July 2003, Lecheng town and Henan town were abolished, Lecheng street was merged, and its office was located in Henan Street (the former Henan town government); Laopingshi town was abolished and merged into Pingshi town.

By 2019, Lechang has one street, 16 towns and two offices: Lecheng street, BEIXIANG Town, Jiufeng Town, langtian Town, changlai Town, Meihua Town, Sanxi Town, Pingshi Town, Huangpu town, Wushan Town, Liangjiang Town, shaping Town, Yunyan Town, Xiushui Town, Dayuan Town, Qingyun Town, Baishi town, Pingshi town and Meitian town. The municipal government is in Lecheng street.

geographical environment

Location context

Lechang City is located in the north of Guangdong Province, the middle and upper reaches of Wujiang River. It is located between 24 ° 57 ′ n to 25 ° 31 ′ N and 112 ° 51 ′ e to 113 ° 34 ′ E. It is 73.68 km from east to west and 64.25 km from north to south, with a total area of 2421 square kilometers. It is adjacent to Renhua county in the East, Zhenjiang District in the south, Ruyuan County in the southwest, Yizhang County in Hunan Province in the north and West, and Rucheng County in Hunan Province in the northeast. The highway mileage from the urban area to Shaoguan City is 52 km, and to Guangzhou city is 265 km.

topographic features

The landforms in the territory are mainly divided into two categories: flowing water landforms and karst landforms. The terrain is higher in the middle and North, decreasing to the East and West. There are Dadong mountain in the west, Dayao Mountain in the middle and Jiufeng Mountain in the northeast. The mountainous area accounts for 72%, the hilly area accounts for 13.5%, and the basin plain area accounts for 14.5%.

Climatic characteristics

Lechang is located in the southern foot of Nanling Mountains. Most of the mountains are north-south oriented, and the terrain is inclined from north to south, forming a landform of high in the north and low in the south. Affected by the subtropical monsoon climate, Lechang belongs to the mid subtropical monsoon climate. Due to the geographical location and terrain factors, Lechang has warm climate, short winter and long summer, fast transition between spring and autumn, four distinct seasons, hot and rainy seasons, abundant rainfall and relatively abundant climate resources It is rich in natural resources, and the climate varies greatly from place to place. Northeast, central and southwest belong to middle and low mountain areas, with obvious mountain climate characteristics. Winter is greatly affected by the cold air in the north. Frost and snow are common, and the frost free period is about 300 days in the whole year. In spring, there are often heavy fog, little sunshine, humidity and cold. In summer and autumn, the temperature difference between day and night is large. In the hilly area of southeast basin, it is muggy in summer and autumn, and the temperature in white weather is 4 ~ 6 ℃ higher than that in mountainous area. The variation of temperature not only has the difference between the north and the south, but also has obvious vertical variation with the increase of altitude, and there are more disastrous weather.

natural resources

water resource

The territory is hilly, medium and low mountains, basin crisscross mountainous area, River vertical and horizontal and regional climate, vegetation and other differences, affect the change of water resources, the runoff is rainfall, forming the characteristics of rainfall and flood supply. From 1988 to 2000, according to the hydrological data, the runoff of surface water in the territory was 1.983 billion cubic meters, and that of passenger water in transit was 2.732 billion cubic meters. The total annual average river runoff was 4.715 billion cubic meters. The annual average total amount of shallow groundwater resources was 408 million cubic meters, accounting for 20.57% of the total water resources.

plant resources

According to the joint investigation of South China Institute of Botany and Forestry Bureau of Lechang county (1985), there are 237 families, 1025 genera and 2509 species of wild vascular spines in the county. Among them, there are 202 species of ferns, 89 genera, 45 families; 29 species of gymnosperms, 19 genera, 10 families; 2278 species of angiosperms, 917 genera, 182 families.

Wood resources

The volume of live wood is 5 million cubic meters, rich in fir, pine, miscellaneous and bamboo, etc. in 1998, the annual output of wood is 45000 cubic meters. It is mainly produced in Jiufeng, Dayuan, Wushan and Liangjiang towns and three state-owned forest farms in Lechang Longshan and Dayaoshan.

mineral resources

The geological structure in Lechang is favorable for mineralization and rich in endogenetic mineral resources. By 2000, according to geological exploration, 35 kinds of minerals have been identified, including ferrous metal minerals, non-ferrous metal and precious metal minerals, radioactive and rare dispersed elements, fuel minerals, metallurgical auxiliary raw materials, chemical raw materials, building materials and other non-metal, underground hot water, etc. Mainly antimony, tungsten, lead and zinc, iron, pyrite, fluorite, coal and limestone. There are 201 known deposits and occurrences (mineralization points) in the city, including 3 large deposits, 11 medium deposits, 45 small deposits, and others.

population

According to the records of Lechang county annals (the 20th edition of the Republic of China), there were 3899 households and 16588 people in the first year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1368). Wanli ten years (1582), the county 2888 households, 15199 people, including 8106 men, 7093 women. In 1657, there were 3302 households with 14624 people, including 7939 males and 6685 females. In the 289 years from 1368 to 1657, the population did not increase, but decreased by 1964.

According to the data of the fifth population census, Lechang had jurisdiction over 20 towns in 2000. The total population of the city is 423444, including 85467 in Lecheng Town, 32764 in Henan town, 13686 in BEIXIANG Town, 16631 in Jiufeng Town, 26178 in langtian Town, 17649 in changlai Town, 32411 in Meihua Town, 8661 in Sanxi Town, 29030 in Pingshi Town, 18839 in Laopingshi Town, 14214 in Huangpu town, 13909 in Wushan Town, 9780 in Liangjiang Town, 17590 in shaping Town, 11255 in Yunyan town and 132 in Xiushui town 26, luojiadu town 15071, Dayuan town 7554, Qingyun town 9694, Baishi town 11763, Meitian Mining Bureau virtual town 10425, Pingshi Mining Bureau virtual town 7647.

By the end of 2018, the registered residence population was 529 thousand and 900, with a permanent population of 419 thousand and 500.

At the end of 2019, 529 thousand and 600 registered residence households, 340 fewer than the end of last year, 422 thousand of the permanent population, and 51.92% of urbanization rate, 0.28 percentage points higher than the previous year. 6587 people were born in the whole year,

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