What is the basic situation of Hengdong County?

Hengdong County is located in the southeast of Hunan, between Hengyang Basin and Youyou Basin in the middle reaches of Xiangjiang River. It is adjacent to Youxian County in the east, Anren County and Hengnan County in the south, Xiangjiang River and Hengshan County across the water in the west, and Xiangtan and Zhuzhou in the north. The county covers an area of 1926 square kilometers, accounting for about 0.9% of the total area of Hunan Province. 1March, 966, the new residence was separated from Hengshan County, named after being located in the east of Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue. It is the hometown of Marshal Luo Ronghuan and the old revolutionary base area. By the end of 2007, the county's total population was 700,000, including Han, Hui, Miao, Uygur, Manchu, Zhuang, Dong, Yao, Bai, Yi, Tibetan, Buyi and Tujia, among which the Han population accounted for 99.9%. It has jurisdiction over 24 townships, 56 1 administrative village and 20 neighborhood committees. It is a famous "land of plenty", "land of shadow play", "land of flower drum play", "land of paper cutting" and "land of seals", and it is also the only "famous county of local dishes" in Hunan Province at present.

Hengdong has a unique geographical location and obvious traffic advantages. It is adjacent to Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan in the north and not far from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Economic Zone in the south. The Beijing-Guangzhou Railway runs through the west, with a total length of 59.7 kilometers in China. Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway runs through the north and south, and there are two interchanges in Dapu and Xintang. Hengda Expressway and Hengyan Expressway run through the east and west, and are connected with three provincial highways S2 1 1, S3 14 and S3 15, forming a dense road traffic network. The Wuhan-Guangzhou express passenger railway under construction passes near Tai Po Industrial Park.

Hengdong has outstanding people and talented people. Yuan Dynasty champion He Keming, Qing Dynasty champion Tan Xinzhen, imperial doctor Li, Republic marshal Luo Ronghuan, Red Army commander Wang Guangze, famous anti-Japanese writers Luo and Chen Hengzhe, famous landscape painter Shan Jianfeng, world famous photographer Chen Changfen, gas car founder Li Daichen, new China "Zhan Tianyou" Liu Tieyan and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Hengdong has beautiful mountains and rivers and rich tourism resources. The county's forest coverage rate reached 5 1%, making it a "top 100 afforestation counties in China". The Weihe River, which flows through 9 towns, has excellent water quality, reaching the national second-class water quality standard. Famous scenic spots include Luo Ronghuan's former residence and Xiyan Fairy Cave. Among them, Luo Ronghuan's former residence is the first patriotic education base in China, the top ten scenic spots in China red tourism market and the national defense education base in Hunan Province. The scenery of Xiyan Fairy Cave is wonderful, and the stalactites in the cave are dazzling and varied, which is wonderful and enjoys the reputation of "the first scene in southern Chu". Famous cultural sites include Longshan Cultural Site, Chajiling Fossil in Dabu Town, the former site of Farmers Bank in Chaishan Special Zone, and the first memorial archway in Peng Jun, the champion of the Qing Dynasty.

Hengdong is rich in products, and its economic and social undertakings have developed in an all-round way. The reserve of hydropower reaches 6.5438+500,000 kilowatts, and the total installed capacity of hydropower generation is 43.3 million kilowatts. At present, there are more than 30 kinds of proven mineral deposits, such as gold, silver, copper, iron, lead and zinc, tungsten, manganese, uranium, cobalt, nickel, coal, porcelain clay, fluorite, limestone and heavy iron stone. There are more than 900 kinds of wild plants in China, including Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Ginkgo biloba and Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. And other valuable tree species. There are more than 20 kinds of rare wild animals such as roe deer, muntjac, immunity, monkey-faced eagle and clouded leopard. The main agricultural and sideline products are grain, pigs, eggs, oranges, tea, camellia oleifera, pine, bamboo and Chinese herbal medicines, and the larger industrial products are tungsten chemicals, oil pumps, copper anode plates and household porcelain. In recent years, according to the development strategy of "private county, private rich county and private strong county", the people of the county have vigorously attracted investment and highlighted the development of private industries. The county's economy and society have developed rapidly and healthily, and several pillar industries such as tungsten industry, pump industry, copper industry, zinc industry and duck egg processing industry have basically formed. Among them, the processing capacity of tungsten sand accounts for about14 of the whole country, and it is the largest processing and export base of tungsten chemicals among township enterprises in China; Hunan Oil Pump Company is the largest oil pump manufacturer in China. The annual processing capacity of duck eggs ranks first in Central and South China. Hengdong is also a national commodity grain base county, a national rice production mechanization demonstration county, a national advanced county in scientific and technological work, a national advanced county in cultural work, a national advanced county in mass sports work, a national advanced county in rural primary electrification and a national advanced county in water conservancy construction.