Population density: 175 people/km2
Babu District is an urban area of Hezhou City, located in the eastern part of Guangxi Province, between longitude 111°12'-112°03' and latitude 23°49'-24°48', neighboring Lianshan, Huaji, and Fengkai Counties of Guangdong Province in the east, Cangwu County of Wuzhou City in the south, and Zhongshan of Guangxi Province in the west, Zhaoping County, Guangxi, bordering on the north and Hunan Jianghua County, is located in Hunan, Guangdong, Gui provinces (regions) at the junction of the three provinces border is an important transportation hub and industrial and commercial towns and materials and commodities distribution, but also one of the important export corridors in Southwest China, location advantages are very obvious.
Administrative Area
Babu District jurisdiction of seventeen towns, two Yao townships (Huangdong, Daping), two street offices (Babu, Xiban), with a total area of 5,147 square kilometers, ranking second in Guangxi, with a total population of 900,000 people, mainly Han, Zhuang, Yao and other ethnic groups, of which the Zhuang, Yao and other ethnic groups accounted for 9% of the total population.
Natural Climate
Babu District is located in the subtropical, mild climate, abundant light, abundant rainfall, long frost-free period. The average annual temperature of 19.9 ℃, sunshine 1587.3 hours, rainfall 1550.3 mm, frost-free period of 299 days. Babu District is a hilly area of the Nanling Mountains, in the total area, the mountains (800 meters above) accounted for 41.67%; low mountains (400-800 meters) accounted for 31.76%; hills accounted for 5.2%; Terrace accounted for 5.2%; rocky mountainous land accounted for 1.47%; flatland accounted for 15.16%; the river area accounted for 1.78%. The region **** has more than 620,000 acres of cultivated land, of which 420,000 acres of paddy fields and 200,000 acres of dry land.
Natural resources
Forest resources: the region has an area of 330,000 hectares of forests, forest coverage of 70.3%, standing wood reserves of 14 million cubic meters, mainly pine, fir, the annual provision of specifications for more than 100,000 cubic meters of timber, turpentine more than 20,000 tons. The main economic forest fruits are moso bamboo, hedge bamboo, anise, yugui, chestnut, oil tea, oleander, tea, Shatian pomelo, green plum, citrus orange, longan, plum and so on more than 30 kinds of, is one of the main forest areas and timber production bases in Guangxi.
Mineral resources:Babu District is located in a favorable section of mineralization, rich in mineral resources, there are ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, rare metals and non-metals in four major categories **** 34 kinds. Tin, tungsten. Gold is one of the three major minerals, preliminary prospecting, tin reserves of 150,000 tons, tungsten reserves of 31,000 tons, 17 tons of gold, lead 92,000 tons, rare earths 198,110,000 cubic meters, 500 million cubic meters of marble, 1 billion cubic meters of granite, 1,200,000 cubic meters of kaolinite, 170 million tons of limestone, dolomite 140 million tons.
Hydraulic energy resources: the region's hydro energy reserves of 28 million kilowatts, can be developed 22 million kilowatts, has been developed 13.63 million kilowatts of annual power generation of more than 900 million kilowatt-hours, is the national intermediate rural electrification standard county.
Agricultural resources: the region **** there are 40,102 hectares of arable land, of which 26,912 hectares of paddy fields, hills, rivers, mild climate, to agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries production provides a unique natural conditions. At present, the city has formed a special agriculture mainly based on grain, forest, fruit, vegetable, tobacco, sugar cane, pig and poultry. Famous specialty products such as Babu Red Melon Seeds, Xindu Sanhuang Chicken, Fanglin Horseshoe, Li Mu Lotus Root, Hejie Green Plum, Sanhua Plum, Xindu Longan, Guiling Meat Ginger and Hezhou Taro are famous for a long time. Every year, a large number of hogs, poultry and vegetables are sold to the Pearl River Delta market in Guangdong Province, and in 1996, it was awarded the title of "National Advanced City in Vegetable Basket Production".
Tourism resources
Babu District, Hezhou City, beautiful landscape scenery, rich ethnic flavor, humanities, natural landscapes, within the territory of the Daguishan Mountain, Gubashan National Forest Park, high forests, fresh air, beautiful scenery, tourists sightseeing tourism, recreation and vacation is a good place to go. The main attractions also include: Huangtian Field Scenery, Dazhongshan Park, Lingfeng Square, Hezhou Hot Spring, Liantang Hakka Houses, Hejie Fushan, Linhe Ancient City, Pumen Stone City and the Millennium Fenghuangwei Grass. With rich ethnic characteristics of the Huangdong Yao Ethnic Style Village, Goitang Zhuang Ethnic Style Walled City, Yao Panwang Festival, Fushan Song Festival and Xindu Dragon Boat Race, etc., people can enjoy the unique ethnic culture.
Specialty Products
The main products are Baibu Red Melon Seeds, Xindu Sanhuang Chicken, Kaishan White Hair Tea, Daning Sun Tobacco, Fanglin Horseshoe, Chestnut Lotus Roots, Hezhou Taro, Dried Bamboo Shoots, Dried Flesh Ginger, and Plums, Longan, Plums, Shatian Pomelo, and so on.
History
Babu District set up in the Qin Dynasty, belonging to Guilin County: Han Yuan Ding six years (111 BC) Department of Linhe County; Sui Kaihuang nine years (AD 589) abolished the county set up Hezhou l; Ming Hongwu ten years (AD 1377) to change the state for the county: September 1952, the county seat from the He Street moved to the Eight Steps, belonging to the Pingle Prefecture; in 1958, belonging to the Wuchou Prefecture in Guangxi: 1997, the withdrawal of He County to establish Hezhou City, belonging to the Pingle Prefecture. Hexian County was withdrawn to establish Hezhou City, belonging to Hezhou Area; in 2002, Hezhou Area was withdrawn and renamed Hezhou City, and the former Hezhou City was changed to Babu District.
Transportation
Babu District has convenient transportation, known as "the thoroughfare of three provinces", with National Highway 323, National Highway 207, and the provincial highway from Xindu to Pumun passing through the city, and six main highways in the territory, with a total mileage of 801 kilometers, which can directly connect to Wuzhou, Nanning, Guilin, and Liuzhou in the district; Guangzhou, Zhanjiang, Zhuhai, Maoming, Shenzhen, and Huizhou in Guangdong Province; and Hengyang, Yongzhou, Chenzhou, Ziling and other places in Hunan Province, Hunan's Hengyang, Yongzhou, Chenzhou, Zuoling and other places. Through the city of Guiwu Expressway, Luo Zhan Railway has begun construction, Guanghe Expressway will soon start construction. 14,500 tons of tugboats can be directly through the trade state to Guangdong Zhaoqing, Jiangmen and Hong Kong and Macao.
There are 372 operating buses, passenger turnover of 177,288,000 people kilometers; operating trucks 1,554, freight turnover of 618,530,000 tons kilometers; transport ships 98, 5,156 deadweight tonnage.
Science, Education, Culture and Health
Traditional folk cultural and sports programs include the "Pan Wang Festival" and the "Fushan Song Festival", etc. Folk dances such as the Yao's long drum dance and the Zhuang's Fire Cat Dance are the most distinctive. There are a number of literary and artistic creation and performance teams in Babu District, with rich works and many awards from the autonomous region and the national level.
There are more than 15,000 professional and technical personnel of various types in the district, including 505 people with senior titles and more than 5,000 people with intermediate titles. There is a higher education institutions, high (complete) 8, ordinary high school students more than 3200, vocational high school (including junior colleges, technical schools) more than 4300 students. There are 45 junior high schools with more than 49,000 students, and the enrollment rate of school-age children has reached 99.6%.
The region has 606 medical institutions, 1,168 beds, 1,180 health professionals, including 29 senior titles, 464 intermediate titles. On average, there are 1.8 doctors and 1.3 hospital beds per 1,000 people.
April 2020, Babu District was named the first batch of Guangxi private economic demonstration counties (cities and districts).
In March 2020, Babu District was named one of the first batch of "green prevention and control demonstration counties" of national crop pests and diseases.
In March 2019, Babu District was listed on the 2018 National List of Basic Balanced Counties (Cities and Districts) for Compulsory Education Development.
In March 2019, the Ministry of Water Resources announced the list of the first batch of counties (districts) that have reached the standard of water-saving society construction, and Babu District was on the list.