Official website of Ye County People's Government

Official website entrance of Ye County People's Government: /

Ye County is located in the southwest of central Henan Province. It is the "Rock Salt Capital of China" and has jurisdiction over 3 streets, 15 towns, 553 Administrative villages, 890,000 people, with a total area of ??1,387 square kilometers.

Ye County not only has the Ming Dynasty county government with rich connotations, but also has a long history and profound cultural heritage. In ancient times, it was the territory of Yuzhou and belonged to the Yinghou State in Zhou Dynasty. In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was the capital of Xu State, a subsidiary state of Chu State. Ye County is the fiefdom of Shen Zhuliang, the ancestor of the famous politician and military strategist Ye. It is the ancestral land of 23 million descendants of the Ye family in the world.

In addition, Ye County is rich in mineral resources, with salt being the most common, covering an area of ??400 square kilometers and reserves of 330 billion tons. The quality of mine salt ranks first in the country and was named "" "The Rock Salt Capital of China".

Ye County has rich cultural and natural landscapes, and has broad prospects for developing tourism. Yexian's tourism resources are divided into 7 major categories, 17 subcategories, and 39 basic types. There are 139 tourism resource units, including 4 fifth-level units, 18 fourth-level units, 11 third-level units, and 32 second-level units. , 74 Level 1. In 1997, the county party committee and government decided to develop tourism resources. After 18 years of development, there are more than 50 tourist attractions available. A cultural tourism pattern focusing on one government office, one street, one temple, one garden, one mountain, one water and one river has been formed, as well as five distinctive tourism lines. The Yexian County Government Office, founded in the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1369), is one of the only three remaining ancient county offices in the country. It is also the only Ming Dynasty county office building among the ancient government offices in China, and it is a fifth-grade county office. The entire building covers an area of ??1,684.8 square meters and is composed of 41 units and 153 houses. It has a reasonable layout and a simple style. Its layout integrates the essence of northern and southern architecture and highlights the regulations of county-level government offices in the Ming Dynasty.

In 2016, *** received 686,000 domestic and foreign tourists, an increase of 4.3% over 2014. Total tourism revenue was 40.937 million yuan, an increase of 5.6%. ***There are 2 A-level tourist attractions, 1 star hotel and 5 service outlets.