The three poorest counties in Zhaoqing

The three poorest counties in Zhaoqing are Fengkai County, Guangning County and Deqing County.

1. Fengkai County

Fengkai County is located in the western border of Guangdong, in the middle of the Xijiang Economic Corridor. It borders Deqing County to the east, Yunan County to the south, Huaiji County to the northeast, and Cangwu, Wuzhou City and Hezhou City of Guangxi to the northwest. Fengkai County is known as the "Gateway to Guangdong and Guangxi" and the "throat" leading to the "Pearl River Delta" and the Southwest.

2. Guangning County

A county under the jurisdiction of Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province. It is about 122.7 kilometers away from Guangzhou. The Erguang Expressway and Guiyang-Guangzhou High-speed Railway run through the territory, and it only takes 48 minutes to get to Guangzhou city. Located within the one-hour living circle of the Pearl River Delta, it is the mountainous county closest to the core area of ??the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong Province and one of the main routes to and from the Pearl River Delta region by land in Guangxi, Hunan and other provinces.

3. Deqing County

Deqing County is located on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Xijiang River in the west of central Guangdong Province. Deqing has convenient water and land transportation. National Highway 321, Provincial Highway Yuhuai Line, Xijiang Bridge and other road networks are spread throughout the county. The Xijiang River, the "golden waterway" of South China, runs through the entire county. It has the navigation capacity of 2,000-ton cargo ships and has a national second-tier railway with an annual throughput of more than 1 million tons. It is a port-like container terminal and connects Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao by water.

Geomorphological characteristics of Fengkai County:

Fengkai County is a mountainous and hilly area, with high terrain on the east and west sides and lower terrain in the middle and south. In the east, there are mostly peaks with an altitude of more than 300 meters. There are many low hills and mountains of 300-700 meters in the west. The Xijiang River passes through the county from the southwest, and the Hejiang River runs diagonally through the middle part of the county and flows into the Xijiang River at Jiangkou Street. Most of the rivers are river valleys and alluvial plains.

The landforms in Fengkai County include mountains with steep slopes and hills with gentle slopes (including the gourd-shaped basin in the north, which is a low-hill hilly area). Chang'an, Jinzhuang and Nanfeng in the north are low mountainous and hilly areas; some villages along the Hejiang River in the west such as Dutou, Dayukou, Duping, Dazhou, Baizuo and Fengchuan are high and high hilly areas.

The central areas of Yulao and Liandu are high hills and low mountainous areas; the southern areas of Xinghua and Luodong are hilly areas; Pingfeng, Jiangchuan, Changgang along the Xijiang River, and Xinjin and Fengchuan are Shengli, the dawn of Jiangkou Street, is a low mountain and hilly area. The terrain is high on the east and west sides, concave in the middle, and low on the north and south. Its main characteristics are: hills are widely distributed, with mountainous areas to the east and high hills to the west, distributed in a strip shape.

The mountainous area in Fengkai County is the southwest mountain system of Nanling Mountains and is the eastern extension of the Yunkai Mountains. Stretching from the northeast to the south of the county, the main mountains are distributed in the east and northeast. The 15 peaks with an altitude of more than 800 meters are concentrated on the eastern border.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Fengkai County