Administrative division of Minqin County jurisdiction over 6 towns, 12 townships: Sanlei Township, Dongba Township, Quanshan Township, West Drainage Township, East Lake Township, Hongshagang Township, Changning Township, Chongxing Township, Caiqi Township, Xuebai Township, Dam Township, Suwu Township, Clip River Township, Datan Township, Shuangzke Township, Hongshariang Township, harvesting the townships, the South Lake Township.
Long history
Minqin has a long history of outstanding people. According to historical records, there have been more than 4,000 years of human activity, is the birthplace of the famous "Shajing culture", Gansu's famous "cultural township", "the township of etiquette". In the second year of Yuanhao of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty (121 B.C.), General Huo Daizi led an expedition to stabilize the western part of Hexi. Since then, successive dynasties have built counties and set up counties here, and immigrants have developed agriculture for more than 2,100 years.
The Ming and Qing dynasties, humanities rise, the imperial examinations to take the first in Hexi, literati and writers on Monopoly, enjoying the "people outside the Great Wall, the Wenju the first of the summer" reputation. Republic of China in 17 years (1928), to "simple wind mellow, people work hard" renamed Minqin.
Minqin respect for teachers, talented people. 1978, since 1978, 1.35 million people enrolled in colleges and universities. In recent years, the college entrance examination in Gansu counties ranked first in Wuwei. Various types of scientific and technological talent, throughout the country. County attractions and cultural relics are numerous with high historical value and artistic value. Unique desert scenery and sandy plants attracted from more than Chinese and foreign tourists, Asia's largest desert reservoir jujube Hongyashan Reservoir, like a bright pearl set in the vast ocean, "Su Wu shepherds sheep" story more so that this region is full of legend
Development since the reform and opening up, the people of Minqin to the center of economic construction, hard work, and motivate the people. Agriculture for more than 10 consecutive years of bumper harvests, has initially built grain and oil, cotton, melon seeds, melons, sugar beet, fruits, vegetables, livestock, herbs, small grains and other ten major commodity bases, and supporting the improvement of the corresponding wholesale market and leading processing enterprises, the formation of agriculture, industry and trade integration of agricultural industrialized management mechanism. In 1997, the per capita net income of farmers reached 1880 yuan, more than 80% of the countryside to achieve the goal of well-off. Industrial production based on resource advantages, in order to deepen reform, strengthen management as the driving force, focusing on the development of sugar, textiles, food, building materials, coal, chemicals, agricultural machinery, agricultural and sideline product processing and other eight industrial system, developed a number of local characteristics of the famous new and special products, some of the products have entered the international market. Township and village enterprises soared, speed and efficiency of synchronous growth, the total output of plants increased by more than 40% per year. In recent years, science and technology, education, "universal nine", post and telecommunications, spiritual civilization, social security and comprehensive management and many other work has won the national and provincial advanced.
Minqin County has good potential for economic development. Vast area, soil and Ze bountiful, known as the "Sai Shang Ao District" reputation. Rich in natural resources. Long hours of sunshine, light radiation, day and night temperature difference, natural conditions are unique, very suitable for crops, especially melons and fruits of the sugar accumulation. County food production to high-quality wheat, corn and beer to raise the main, total annual output of 150 million kilograms, Gansu Province is an important commodity grain base county; agricultural and sideline products are famous, longan daban black melon seeds, cumin, yellow river honeydew melon, jade gold incense and other famous products are exported overseas; licorice, lock yang, hairy vegetables, sand rice and other valuable wild resources are very excavation potential, the development of good prospects. Industrial mineral deposits have proven reserves of 1 billion tons of West Dayao coal field, there are graphite, crystal stone, petroleum, gypsum, manganese nitrate, limestone, white mica and other high-quality resources with high development value.