County territory is vast, 118 kilometers long in the north and south, 98 kilometers wide in the east and west, with a total area of 6920 square kilometers, ranking third in the province. Central Baiyu Mountain across the east and west, radiating north and south, the county is divided into two major types of landforms: the southern Baiyu Mountain District hills and gullies, accounting for 52.78% of the total area; the north for the southern edge of the Mao Wusu Desert wind and sandy beach area, accounting for 47.22% of the total area. The altitude of the county is 1303-1907 meters. Long 100,000 across the county east and west.
Dingbian is a temperate semi-arid continental monsoon climate. The main features are: spring windy, summer drought, autumn rainy, winter cold, sunshine, late rainy season and rainfall inter-annual variability, the average annual temperature of 7.9 ℃, the average annual sunshine 2743.3 hours, the average annual rainfall of 316.9 mm, the average annual frost-free period of 141 days or so, the absolute frost-free period of 110 days.
The rivers in the area are Cross River, Anchuan River, Shihang River, Xin'anbian River, Hongliu River, and Bali River (inland river), which are all originated from Baiyushan Mountain area.
The county has jurisdiction over 11 towns, 14 townships, 334 village committees, 8 neighborhood committees, 2 street offices, 2010 village groups. The total population of the county is 315,000 people, of which 273,400 are in agriculture, accounting for 85.5% of the total population. There are 1,321 people of Hui, Mongolian, Manchu and Tibetan minorities in the county.
Administrative divisions
Dingbian County is located in the westernmost part of Yulin. It borders with Ertuoqqi Banner of Inner Mongolia in the north, Yanchi County of Ningxia and Huanxian County of Gansu in the west, Wuji County of Yan'an City in the south, and Jingbian County in the east. It is 118 kilometers long from north to south and 98 kilometers wide from east to west.
Under the jurisdiction of Dingbian Township, He Circle Township, Hongliugou Township, Brick Well Township, Bainaijing Township, Anbian Township, Dupuiziliang Township, Baiwanzi Township, Ji Plateau Township, Yangjing Township, Xin'anbian Township 11 townships and 14 townships of Yancangbao Township, Zhoutaizi Township, Shidonggou Township, Hao Tan Township, Yaufangzhuang Township, Jishibian Township, Wang Panshan Township, Fengdikeng Township, Wuwanshan Sub-village, Huangwan Township, Xuezhuang Township, and Zhangdianxian Township.
History
Dingbian, meaning "the bottom of the border".
Ming Chenghua six years (1470) set up Dingbian camp, Qing Yongzheng nine years (1731) set up Dingbian County. 1936 southern mountainous areas of liberation, had belonged to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, "three sides of the sub-district" jurisdiction. After the liberation of the country, Anbian County was incorporated into Dingbian County.
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Natural resources
Biological resources in the animal husbandry resources are relatively rich, is one of the important national livestock base county. Livestock, poultry cattle, donkeys, mules, horses, sheep, pigs, rabbits, chickens, etc., the base of the large livestock inventory of about 70,000 heads per year (3,000 dairy cows), the sheep inventory of about 500,000, of which valuable varieties of beach goats, the local hybrid varieties of white jersey goats 140,000, the pig annual inventory of 50,000 heads. Plant resources, grain and oil crops are mainly buckwheat, taro, millet, beans, black beans, millet, wheat, corn, caraway, mustard, sunflower and so on. Annual production of about 10,000 tons of edible oil, providing commercial oil accounted for 1/3, known as the Northwest "sea of oil," said. In recent years, the emerging chili pepper industry has become a new economic growth point in the county, the North Beach vegetable base has passed the national pollution-free vegetable base certification, the production of "certain" brand chili peppers are exported to more than a dozen provinces and municipalities.
Dingbian County, rich in land resources, is one of the largest counties in Shaanxi Province, ranking third in the province. County land resources in large quantities, the county per capita land 42 acres, than the province per capita 9.5 acres 3.4 times higher than the national per capita 12 acres 2.5 times higher. Calculated according to the existing cultivated land area, the county's per capita cultivated land area of 6.3 mu, also greatly exceeds the provincial and national per capita level. And the land layer is deep, suitable for cultivation, can meet the requirements of the crop annual ripening. The county's total land area in the planting industry accounted for 28.03% of suitable land, forest and grassland accounted for 54.39% of suitable land; and plenty of light; light, heat, water basically the same season, the temperature difference is conducive to the growth of crops and the accumulation of sugar.
Dingbian County is rich in oil, natural gas, raw salt and other mineral resources, has a unique resource advantage. Dingbian County is located in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia gas field is China's largest onshore a whole gas field, is a world-class gas field. Has been submitted to the cumulative proven reserves of 172.7 billion cubic meters, planning to this century has not been submitted to the reserves of 5000-10000 billion cubic meters. It is predicted that the prospective reserves in the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Basin are 360 billion cubic meters, accounting for about 12% of the country's total, and the gas layer is well connected, the pressure is stable, and it is a "dry gas". Hydrogen sulfide content is very small.
Oil is also a unique advantage of Dingbian County resources. The county's oil resources are widely distributed, according to forecasts, the county's eight oil areas within the storage area of 780 square kilometers, reserves of nearly 100 million tons, has been proved to have the value of the exploitation of three oil fields with a total reserve of 25 million tons. The oil-bearing layers are distributed in the form of chicken nests.
Raw salt is one of the traditional "old three treasures" of Dingbian County (the other two treasures are fur and licorice). It is the only raw salt production base in Shaanxi. Raw salt mining has been one of the important pillars of Dingbian's stable economic development, raw salt is mainly distributed in the northwestern part of the county salt field Fort, Baini wells, Zhou Taito and other townships, *** there are 14 large and small salt Hohu, a total area of 3,400 acres of salt, predicted reserves of 60 million tons, has been proved to be 32.92 million tons, and the formation of the annual production of salt capacity of 100,000 tons.
In addition, the county manganese nitrate, magnesium sulfate, sand and gravel, clay and so on are also relatively rich. Part of the area contains coal, but buried deeper, affecting the development.