Is Shiquan County, Ankang City, Shaanxi Province densely populated?

Population: about 182,000 people

Population density: 119 people/km2

Shiquan County is located in southern Shaanxi, bordering the Qinling Mountains to the north, Bashan Mountain to the south, and the Han River from Passing through the border from west to east, the terrain outline is like "two mountains sandwiching a river". The county has a total area of ??1,525 square kilometers, jurisdiction over 15 towns, 219 administrative villages, a total population of 182,000, a county population of 50,000, and a planned area of ??15 square kilometers. It is named because there are many springs in the rock gaps in the south of the city, and it has the charm of "clear springs flowing up the rocks".

Shiquan is rich in resources, of which biological, hydraulic and mineral resources are the richest. It is a sericulture base county in Shaanxi Province. The natural and cultural landscape of Shiquan County combines the beauty of the north and south scenery and the essence of Qin and Chu culture. In the north is Yunwu Mountain, known as "Xiao Zhongnan Mountain", which still has a large area of ??virgin forest. Its main peak, Tiantai Mountain, was once the secluded residence of "Gui Guzi" The Tiantai Temple relics have been listed as a "Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit" by the provincial government, Yunwu Mountain Guiguling has been approved as a "National Forest Park", and there is the largest karst cave in the northwest, Yanzi Cave, to the south, and its construction is accelerating. The Xihe Hydropower Station will form a lake area of ??14 square kilometers after completion. Together with the Shiquan Hydropower Station that has been completed, it will form a unique landscape of "one river and two lakes" in the county. The rich tourism resources have very broad development prospects.

Shiquan has convenient transportation. The Yang'an Railway runs from east to west, National Highways 210 and 316 intersect in the county seat, and the Anshi-Shiquan secondary highway is fully open to traffic. The Shiliang secondary highway connecting the Xihan Expressway has been completed. Postal communication services such as broadband network, mobile phones, fax, wireless paging, and express delivery cover the entire territory.

The county is bordered by the Han River in the south and Beichen Forest Park in the north. It is surrounded by beautiful mountains like a green screen. The ancient city has complete architectural features, the old streets are simple and quiet, the new city is prosperous and beautiful, the county has a daily water supply capacity of 6,000 tons, and the infrastructure is improving day by day. The city's appearance is changing with each passing day. In 2002, it won the title of provincial "Healthy County". Currently, Shiquan County has been listed by the Ankang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government as the first county in the city to remove a county and establish a city.

Shiquan, this treasure land, is an ideal place for merchants to invest. In 2010, Shiquan County will further expand eastward and westward, and the urban skeleton will be further enlarged. The scale area will reach 15 square kilometers, and the county population will reach 80,000. After the Xihan Expressway is completed in 2005, the county will form a "half-day economic circle" from Shiquan to Xi'an and from Shiquan to Hanzhong. By then, Shiquan's location advantages will be further highlighted, and its resource advantages will be fully utilized. By fully implementing the "two districts and two belts" strategy, Shiquan will be built into an economically powerful county in southern Shaanxi and become the "back garden" of Xi'an.

Geographical location

Shiquan County is located in the central part of southern Shaanxi (10°80′18″～108°28′42″ east longitude, 32°45′57″～33°19 north latitude between '56"), bordering the Qinling Mountains to the north and Bashan Mountain to the south. The Hanjiang River, the largest tributary of the Yangtze River, passes through the county from west to east. The county has a total length of 58.5 kilometers and a drainage area of ??1,051.8 square kilometers. The terrain is like "two mountains sandwiching a river" potential. The county has a total area of ??1,525 square kilometers, with a direct distance of 42.75 kilometers from east to west and 63.05 kilometers from north to south.

Natural conditions

Topography The terrain in the county is complex, with mountains and mountains, high in the north and low in the south, and there is a huge difference in altitude. The highest altitude is 2008.9 meters in Yunwu Mountain in the north, and the lowest altitude is 332.8 meters in Shiquanzui in the south.

Climate Characteristics The climate is the humid monsoon zone on the edge of the northern subtropical zone. It has four distinct seasons, abundant rainfall, sufficient heat, mild and humid conditions, and frequent disastrous weather. In terms of time allocation, seasonal differences are large and the ratio is uncoordinated. In spring, the temperature rises rapidly and is unstable, with great changes in temperature and temperature. Cold waves, frost, strong winds and dusty weather often occur. In winter, affected by the Mongolian high pressure and the polar morphing continental air mass, the weather is colder, with less rainfall and more droughts; in spring, the warm air mass gradually strengthens, the temperature becomes higher, and it is rainy in late spring; in summer, affected by the Mongolian low pressure and the Pacific subtropical oceanic air mass, precipitation is concentrated, Local floods, latent droughts and summer droughts often occur; in autumn, cold and warm air masses occur alternately, with continuous rain, often accompanied by low temperatures. After October, the temperature drops rapidly and the precipitation decreases. The average annual temperature is 14.6 C, the average annual precipitation is 888 mm, the average annual sunshine hours are 18 hours, and the frost-free period is 240 days.

Organization History

Shiquan has a long history. As early as the Neolithic Age, ancestors worked, lived, and multiplied on this land. Their main activities were along the Han River, which was classified as the "Yangshao Culture" area by historians. Xia belonged to Liangzhou, Shang and Zhou Dynasties belonged to Yong State, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it successively belonged to Chu State, Ba State and Qin State. County, Yongle County, in the first year of the Western Wei Dynasty (AD 552), because there were many springs in the rocks in the county, the water was clear and the runoff continued, so it was renamed Shiquan to this day. In 1958, the three counties of Shiquan, Hanyin, and Ningshan were merged into Shiquan County. In 1962, the three counties were separated to this day.

Administrative divisions

The county governs Chengguan Town, Chihe Town, Yingfeng Town, Lianghe Town, Raofeng Town, Houliu Town, Xihe Town, Tietie Town, and Zhongchi There are 8 towns and 7 townships including Yinlong Township, Yinqiao Township, Hongwei Township, Zhongba Township, Changyang Township, and Zengxi Township, 202 administrative villages, 4 community neighborhood committees, and 6 street neighborhood committees.

Old revolutionary areas

During the Second Civil Revolutionary War, the 25th Red Army, the 74th Red Division, the First Shaanxi People’s Anti-Japanese Army, the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army, and the Red Army The Bashan guerrillas persisted in a four-year guerrilla war in Shiquan from the spring of 1933 to the spring of 1937, and established the Shiquan Soviet Area, the revolutionary base area of ??Hubei, Henan, and Shaanxi, and Sichuan and Shaanxi. This ancient and magical land became the center of Hubei, Henan, and Shaanxi. An important part of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area.

1

In October 1934, the Central Red Army set out on the Long March from the Jiangxi Revolutionary Base. In November, the 25th Red Army withdrew from the Hubei, Henan, and Anhui base areas and implemented strategic shifts. On December 8, the 25th Red Army successfully arrived in the Shangluo area of ??Shaanxi and opened up the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi revolutionary base area. In February 1935, the 25th Red Army entered Yingfeng, Yunchuan, and Yinqiao in Shiquan, carried out propaganda, punished local tyrants, attacked militia, and helped the poor, creating a revolutionary base in the northern part of Shiquan. In July 1935, the 25th Red Army withdrew from southern Shaanxi and marched westward to the north. In October, he successfully joined forces with the Central Red Army in northern Shaanxi.

After the 25th Red Army marched westward and marched north, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Special Committee (also known as the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Special Committee for Southern Shaanxi) will stay in the base area and continue to fight the Red Army and the multi-route The guerrilla armed forces were organized into the Red Seventy-Fourth Division, which continued to carry out armed struggles in Xunyang, Ningshan, Shiquan, Foping, Zhen'an, and Zhashui areas, and established four acres of land in Ningshan, Dongjiangkou, and Xunyang Dam. In the base area of ??the center, the Ningfo Working Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Ningshan County Land Committee were established. From December 1935 to the spring of 1937, the Seventy-fourth Red Division carried out activities in the northern areas of Shiquan such as Xingping, Lianghe, Raofeng, Puyao, Yinqiao, Yunchuan, and Yingfeng, mobilizing the masses to join the Red Army and fighting against local tyrants and evil gentry , eliminate the reactionary militia, confiscate the land and property of the landlords, and distribute them to the poor people, so that the newly established base areas can be continuously consolidated and developed. In August 1937, the 74th Red Division withdrew from southern Shaanxi and was incorporated into the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army to participate in the Anti-Japanese War.

The First People's Anti-Japanese Army of Southern Shaanxi was a people's army led by the Northwest Special Branch of the Communist Party of China in the late period of the Second Civil Revolutionary War. Most of the Red Army soldiers were Hanyin and Shiquan people. From December 1935 to February 1937, the First Army of the Southern Shaanxi People's Anti-Japanese Army galloped across the northern and southern mountainous areas of Shiquan and on both sides of the Han River, fighting bloody battles with the enemy in all directions. It successively launched attacks on Chihe Town, Taiping Village, and Maoba. These battles effectively attacked the reactionary local forces of the Kuomintang, consolidated and developed the Shiquan revolutionary base, and made great sacrifices and contributions to the liberation of the Shiquan people.

The Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area was established by the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army. Houliu, Zhongba, Xihe, Changyang, and Tietun in the southern area of ??Shiquan are part of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area. In January 1933, more than 120 people from a reconnaissance company of the Fourth Red Army entered Shiquan Flatiron from Xixiang, eliminated the town security team, occupied the town, and distributed the confiscated property of the local tyrants and evil gentry to the poor people. After completing the reconnaissance mission in Weixi, Hanyin, the Red Army reconnaissance company entered Fengyang in Shiquan to carry out activities. They fought with the Fengyang security team in Kuixing Village, annihilating more than 50 enemies and seizing more than 30 guns. Afterwards, the Red Army reconnaissance company crossed the Han River and returned to the Xixiang Soviet Area from Flatiron.

In March 1935, the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army withdrew from southern Shaanxi and left the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area for the Long March. Before the Fourth Red Army withdrew, some of the remaining Red Army and local guerrilla forces were organized into the Red Army Bashan Guerrilla Force, which continued to carry out armed struggle in the border areas of Sichuan and Shaanxi. In May 1935, the Bashan guerrillas of the Red Army sent Hu Nanyun and Meng Mayu to lead the guerrillas to Xihe, Ouyang, Flatiron and other places in Shiquan to attack local tyrants, evil gentry and local reactionary forces, and won the trust and support of the poor people. Many young people signed up to join the Red Army guerrillas. In the spring of 1936, the Red Army guerrillas organized and mobilized farmers to carry out struggles against taxes, donations, grain, ding, and husbands in the Dawang Mountain area of ????Tiirui and the Zhangshu River area of ????Xihe River. During the vigorous "Five Resistance" struggle, the Kuomintang local government could not collect taxes, collect grain, arrest young men, or attract husbands. In July 1936, the Bashan guerrillas of the Red Army joined the First Army of the Southern Shaanxi People's Anti-Japanese Army. From the spring of 1933 to July 1936, the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army and its guerrillas annihilated three militia groups and security teams in the southern area of ??Shiquan, annihilated more than 200 enemies, and punished 15 local tyrants, evil gentry and reactionaries in the grassroots regime of the Kuomintang. , destroyed two township and town offices, confiscated the property of more than 20 landlords, and distributed it to nearly a thousand households of farmers. The revolutionary seeds sown by the Red Army in this land laid the foundation for the peasant uprising in the Phoenix Mountain area in 1945.

II

During the Second Civil Revolutionary War, the people of Shiquan Soviet Area and the Red Army shared the same boat through thick and thin, worked hard and supported the Red Army, and made great contributions to the revolution. 1. Actively participate in the Red Army. The people in the base area regard joining the Red Army as a glorious task. According to incomplete statistics, more than 200 people from Shiquan joined the Red Army. In the difficult years, they were selfless and fearless, fought bravely, and made huge sacrifices for the liberation of the poor people. Among them, some died on the battlefield, some were killed by the enemy, some fell behind and disappeared, and some are still missing and have become unknown revolutionary heroes. Second, take the initiative to cooperate in the war. The people in the Soviet area took the initiative to provide the Red Army with social and enemy information, enthusiastically led the way, delivered letters, acted as guides, covered and treated the Red Army's sick and wounded; cooperated with the Red Army in fighting local tyrants and conquering corruption; boiled water and delivered meals to the Red Army during the battle, and rescued the wounded from the front line of fire . Third, fully support the Red Army materially.

The people of Shiquan Soviet Area regard the Red Army as their own team. They would rather endure hunger and cold than make room for the Red Army, send food, and donate food to ensure that the Red Army has housing, food, and clothing in the base area. Fu Zhong, then deputy director of the General Political Department of the Fourth Red Army and member of the Standing Committee of the Central Advisory Committee, said: "The people of Bashan have supported us. They are not afraid of hardship or sacrifice. They support the Red Army in all aspects and have made great contributions to the revolution." He Zhenya, commander of the First Anti-Japanese Army and deputy chief of staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force, said: "Our activities in southern Shaanxi are mainly based on the Qinling Mountains at the junction of Zhen'an, Zhashui, Ningshan, Shiquan, Ankang, Hanyin and other counties. The base areas also went to Foping, Huayang, Huanghuangxia, Ankang, Xunyang, and Nanshan in Hanyin, and carried out activities in some areas of Ziyang. The vast number of working people were deeply influenced by the Red Army, and they had a high level of consciousness and revolutionary will. We are determined, so wherever we go, many farmers ask to participate, and some even risk their lives to run for us and deliver letters, which is a great support for us."

三

The Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi and Sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base areas, Shiquan Soviet Area, founded by the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, are clearly recorded in the documents of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. On January 22, 1937, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai pointed out in a telegram discussing the Red Army garrison matters: "The eight counties mentioned above are Zhashui, Zhen'an, Xunyang, Ankang, Hanyin, Ziyang, Shiquan, and Zhenba. Originally, most of them were Soviet areas. "According to the party's historical documents and the publicly published historical materials of the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi and Sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base areas, as well as the party history materials collected by the county, the area north of the Han River in Shiquan belongs to the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi revolutionary base area. , the area south of the Han River in Shiquan belongs to the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area. The total area of ??Shiquan Soviet Area is 1,295 square kilometers. On December 30, 2001, with the approval of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government, Yingfeng Town, Zhongchi Township, Chihe Town, Yinlong Township, Yinqiao Township, Raofeng Town, Lianghe Town, Xihe Town, Houliu Town, Zhong Ba Township, Changyang Township, and Tailitou Town, a total of 12 townships and 177 villages are old revolutionary areas.

On February 18, 2021, the list of advanced counties in the 2020 National Village Cleaning Action was released, and Shiquan County was on the list.

On December 2, 2020, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the second batch of national all-region tourism demonstration areas, and Shiquan County was on the list.

On November 4, 2020, the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism determined Shiquan County to be the first batch of Shaanxi Province full-region tourism demonstration areas.

On August 18, 2020, Shiquan County was listed as a demonstration county for rural domestic waste classification and resource utilization in 2020.

On July 29, 2020, the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee reaffirmed Shiquan County as a national health town (county) in 2020.

On November 1, 2019, Shiquan County was named a national demonstration county of “Four Good Rural Roads”.

On January 15, 2016, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development named Shiquan County as the 2015 National Garden County.