Dongkou County is located in the east 110 ° 8′ ~ 111 ° 57′, north latitude 26 ° 51′ ~ 27 ° 22′. Located in the southwest of Hunan Province, the eastern foot of Xuefeng Mountain, the upper reaches of Zijiang River. It is bordered by Longhui in the east, Wugang in the south, Shupu County in the north, Suining County in the southwest and Qianyang County in the northwest. It is 328 kilometers east to Changsha City through Shaoyang. Dongkou County was originally part of Wugang County. on February 24, 1952, approved by the State Council of the Central People's Government, the original Wugang County, the seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven districts and a part of the three districts were set aside, and the county was established on April 1 of the same year. Out of the county along the Pingxi Jiangxi line 4 kilometers, the river chopped off the snowy mountain east to go, the two sides of the peaks face each other, forming a canyon. Legend has it that the canyon is covered with cliffs, the river water through the hole and out, to the formation of deep pools, the name is "Dongkou Pool", later evolved into "Dongkou Tang", "Dongkou" due to the lake, mountains and beautiful scenery of the Dongkou" was named after the beautiful scenery of the lake and mountains.
Dongkou County has superior natural conditions, convenient transportation and economic prosperity, and has been the production base of grain, timber, tea and hogs in Hunan Province, and is known as "the hometown of tea and fruits". 1985, it was listed as one of the five "commercial grain, snowy peak mandarin, good tea, lean export hogs, and fast-growing cedar forests" in Hunan Province. Fir forest" five major production bases.
The territory of the northwestern mountains and steep, the central terrain is low and flat, southeast of the hill and dotted. Subtropical monsoon humid climate, the county northwest of the three mountain ranges, blocking the invasion of the northwest wind, so that the central valley plains to form a microclimate zone; especially the leeward slopes of higher temperatures, with warm winters and cool summers, a long frost-free period, sunny, rainy days more than the characteristics. The average annual temperature is 16.6°C. The average annual precipitation is 1468.6 millimeters. The frost-free period is about 290 days, with 1569 hours of sunshine.
There are more than 130 large and small streams and rivers in the territory***, which belong to Zi and Yuan water systems. Theoretical hydro energy reserves of 225,000 kilowatts, can be developed 184,000 kilowatts. The water quality is excellent, and the mineral water resources are all over the county, including warm and cold mineral water from Tongshan Mountain and Hexian mineral water from Hanjiang River. There are more than 20 kinds of minerals in the county, such as coal, stone coal, oil, oil shale, iron, manganese, nickel and so on. Among them, there are more coal, iron and manganese deposits. The total savings of 50 million tons of bituminous coal, stone coal 82,000 tons, manganese more than 7.8 million tons, more than 1 billion tons of clay.
The county is rich in forest resources, the county's live wood reserves of 4.3 million cubic meters, is one of the key forest areas in Hunan Province. There are 105 species of woody plants, 102 species of herbaceous plants, and more than 50 species of wildfowl, including owls, acacia birds, tiger parakeets and golden pheasants. There are more than 20 kinds of snakes, including five-step snake, golden cup snake and cobra. Common natural disasters in the territory are drought, flooding, cold waves, freezing and hail that occurs in localized areas.
Agricultural production in Dongkou County has traditionally been more developed. Grain, tea, citrus, hogs and timber have long been famous. The county's main production of rice, livestock pigs, Coix lacryma, mandarin oranges, tea, timber, nanzhu, special medicinal herbs, lilies, Cortex Eucommiae, asparagus and tung oil, cangzhi. Xuefeng tangerine, Gulou Yunwu tea and other local specialty products are famous in China and abroad. Since the founding of the country, grain production has increased substantially, the total output from 722,000 tons in 1949 to 310,300 tons in 1990. In 1989 and 1990, the summer grain and oil production was awarded by the State Council twice. Animal husbandry is dominated by pig raising, which ranks first in Shaoyang City with high rate of lean meat. The county has built the agricultural production bases of Hunan Province, such as commercial grain, Xuefeng mandarin orange, good tea, fast-growing cedar forests, lean export pigs, rural energy development, etc. The county has also built the agricultural production bases of Hunan Province, which are located at the center of the city.
Dongkou County has always been the key to Hunan-Guizhou. After the founding of the country, the successive construction of the hole sui (hole county town to suining city) and other highway 64, a total length of 568.25 kilometers, 100% of the townships, towns and 95% of the villages through the highway. 1996 total revenue of 93.88 million yuan in the county.
The county's specialties include snowy peak tangerines, and other high mountain cloud tea, Job's tears, cedar, lacquer, and lean pigs in large quantities.