It is connected to Qingcheng County and Xifeng District in the east, Pengyang County in Ningxia Autonomous Region in the west, Jingchuan County and Kongtong District in Pingliang City in the south, Huanxian County in the north, 60 kilometers away from Qingyang Airport and 70 kilometers away from Pingliang Railway Station.
There are four rivers, namely Puhe River, Jiaokou River, Ruhe River and Honghe River, and five long oblique sources.
The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with a length of 9 1.2 km from north to south and a width of 78.3 km from east to west.
The national average elevation 1500m, the highest elevation 1767m, the lowest elevation1kloc-0/m, and the relative height difference is 756m.
It belongs to the continental climate of north temperate zone, with fertile land, abundant sunshine and moderate rainfall.
Located in the gully region of the Loess Plateau in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, it is the main part of Longdong Loess Plateau.
There are mountains and waters in the territory, with a total land area of 3,500 square kilometers, of which the cultivated land area is10.69 million mu, with a per capita of 3.5 mu.
The county * * * governs 19 townships, 2 15 village committees, 5 community neighborhood committees and 199 1 villagers' groups, with a total population of 53 1300 and an agricultural population of 493,800.
There are 7 ethnic minorities, including * * *, Uygur, Mongolian, Salar and Tibetan, with about 240 people.
It has a long history.
This town was originally the hometown of China with a long history. Since ancient times, there have been ancestors' livelihood and reproduction. Tang Yu belongs to Yongzhou, and the business is Kun Rong. Zhou belongs to Dayuanzhou, Han belongs to Anding County, and Tang belongs to Yuanzhou. Yuan changed the town to Yuanzhou, and Ming reduced the state to county, which has been inherited to this day.
Zhenyuan was originally a part of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region. 1940 March, zhenyuan county established anti-Japanese democracy.
1949 After liberation, the county people moved to the present county seat.
The culture and art are profound.
There are many historical and cultural sites in China, such as Zhou Tongjian, Qin Ban Zhao and clay pipe, which are rare in China. There are 25 ancient city and village sites, 69 ancestral temple sites, 36 historical and cultural sites and more than 500 unearthed cultural relics with long-standing reputation and textual research value.
Wang Fu, one of the "Three Sages of the Later Han Dynasty", and Wang Chong's Lun Heng are well-known at home and abroad.
Civil service military commanders in the past dynasties emerged in an endless stream, such as Li Xun, Huang, Hu Guozhen,,, Huang Fuyong, Box, Hu Shunzhi, Zheng Yang, Qu Duan, Zhang Zhongfu, Zhang Zhongyan and Qiuyue. Protect the country and guard the post; Huangfu Mi, Mu and other famous doctors are models of Xinglin. Literati Hu and Mu Shouqi led a generation of good writers; Hu Chonghua, the Queen Mother of Spirit, listened to politics twice, and hundreds of officials prostrated themselves. A poem "Huayang Ci" can be called a wonderful work in the northern Wei Dynasty.
Zhenyuan county is also a famous "cultural county" in Longdong. Modern and contemporary painters, Zhang, Deng and Duan Sikan are well-known both inside and outside the province. 20 10 was praised as "the hometown of calligraphy in China" by China Calligraphy Association. Folk art is simple and elegant, and its creation is prosperous and popular throughout the county, especially paper-cutting and embroidery.
Qi Xiumei, a famous master of paper-cutting art at home and abroad, has been collected by France, Japan, Italy and other countries. Taking Zhang Xuecheng, a disabled teacher in Yinjiacheng Township who won the title of "National Excellent Model Teacher", as the prototype, the film "Paul in the Deep Mountain" and the dragon dance opera "Green Leaves and Red Flowers" were staged in China successively, and achieved great success.
Industrial and agricultural products are abundant.
The industry has initially formed an industrial pattern with green food and beverage processing as the main body and building materials, electromechanical, printing, medicine and other industries as the supplement. The development of private non-public economy is relatively active, with small and medium-sized enterprises 137.
The county has vast and fertile land and abundant sunshine, which is suitable for the growth of wheat, corn, sorghum and other food crops and cash crops such as melons, vegetables and medicinal materials.
The county's agricultural population accounts for 94%, which is a typical agricultural county, and it is also one of the 592 poverty-stricken counties supported by the state and one of the drought counties in central and eastern Gansu 18.
Crops mainly include winter wheat, lentils, soybeans, corn, sorghum, millet, millet, potatoes, barley, daylily, flue-cured tobacco, flax, rape, medicinal materials, melons and so on. It is one of the main grain, oil, melon and fruit production bases in Longdong, and has the reputation of "granary in Longdong".
It was once named as "National Day Lily Base County", "National Key County of High Quality Melon Production Base" and "National Advanced County of Grain Production".
At present, it has formed a characteristic agricultural industry with apricot fruit, melons and vegetables, grass and livestock as the main products.
Apricot production ranks second in the country, and its production and processing capacity ranks first in the country. It was named "China Xingxiang" by the State Forestry Administration. Apricot products are exported at home and abroad, and high-quality apples sell well in the north and south of the country. Daylily was named "Zhenyuan Daylily" by the Ministry of Foreign Trade. "Wu Zhiyuan Lubao" brand watermelons are exported to the north and south of the country. Animal husbandry mainly focuses on sheep and livestock breeding, meat and fur processing. Leather, wool, cashmere and other livestock products are well-known, and cashmere has achieved foreign exchange through export.
There are abundant wild plant resources, about a thousand species, of which 130 species can be used as medicine.
Oil and coal are abundant.
There are 16 proven mineral resources such as oil, coal and quartz sand, with abundant reserves.
Among them, the oil reserves can reach 250 million tons, which are developed by Changqing Oilfield and North China Branch, with an annual output of 400,000 tons of crude oil.
Red tourism has great potential.
Scenic spots and historical sites have been colorful for thousands of years, and the cave temples, Qin Changcheng and the Great Wall of Han Dynasty trace back to thousands of years of wind and frost; The natural landscape is beautiful and charming, and the three natural pools in the territory, namely Sun Pool, Zhai Pool and Baima Pool, reflect the blue waves, which is called the "Pearl of the Loess Plateau".
Zhenyuan used to be an important part of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region, and the red tourism resources such as Sancha Red Army Long March Memorial Hall and Tunzi "April 8" Battle Martyrs Cemetery attracted attention.
At present, a tourist circle has been formed, with Qianfo Mountain Forest Park and other scenic spots as the center, and other places of interest are dotted around, adjacent to the North Cave Temple in the east and Pingliang Kongtong Mountain in the west.
Social undertakings are thriving.
Since the resumption of the college entrance examination, the county has sent 3,405 students1person to colleges and universities across the country, including 40 students from Tsinghua and Peking University, reappearing the glorious image of "a big education county".
The medical and health undertakings have developed rapidly, and the disease prevention and control network is sound.
Rural bookstores, cultural squares, national fitness and sports undertakings have flourished.
Zhang Dehong, a frontier native, 1990 represented China in the World Middle School Track and Field Games held in Belgium and won the fourth place in the men's discus. Chen, a long-distance runner from Taiping, won the third place in the national track and field championship and the Sixth National Games in 2007, reaching the international athlete standard, and was qualified for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, becoming the first person in Qingyang history.
Snacks and banquets are the representatives of Zhenyuan's food culture, forming a unique local cuisine, which combines folk etiquette, food science and a stove, and is famous for its alternation of meat and vegetables, different tastes and colorful colors.
There are many kinds of flavor snacks, mainly mutton, bones, sago balls, roast chicken, sugar cakes, minced meat noodles, buckwheat noodles and so on. Banquets have such names as "Jiukui", "Shiquan", "One out of Ten", "Twelfth Floor" and "Thirteen Flowers", and tea wine mainly includes canned tea and Sancha yellow wine.
Zhenyuan snacks and banquets have experienced a long development process, with a wide variety and different flavors. This is the crystallization of the wisdom of cooking workers in past dynasties, and it is an integral part of splendid Chinese civilization, adding luster to the catering culture of the motherland.
Zhenyuan, which is opening up and developing, warmly welcomes people from all walks of life, new and old friends to invest and visit Zhenyuan with its rich historical civilization accumulation, unique plateau charm, long history and culture, simple folk customs, rich characteristic resources, good investment environment and preferential investment policies!