Since the restoration of the county in 1963 to the present, the county jurisdiction of six towns and eight townships, with a total population of 111,788, of which, the non-agricultural population of 40,057; Qiang population of 29,839, accounting for 26.69% of the total population, is one of the four Qiang inhabited counties in China. Minjiang River runs through the western area of the county, up to 88 kilometers long, and there are mainly rivers such as Zaogu Brain, Yuzixi and Caopo, with a watershed area of 1,429 square kilometers. The county is rich in water resources, theoretical reserves of 3.48 million kilowatts, can be developed 1.7 million kilowatts, has been developed 1 million kilowatts, the development potential is huge.
Mineral resources, animal and plant resources, tourism resources are unique, with the Wolong Nature Reserve, the Three Rivers Eco-tourism Scenic Area and other natural landscapes, as well as Yu, Qiang culture and the Three Kingdoms cultural heritage sites and other human landscape resources. Wenchuan County is not only the "Hometown of Chinese National Folk Art - Qiang Embroidery", but also the hometown of the living fossil of animals - pandas, the world's premier panda research center Wolong in the southwest of the county. Wolong, the world's leading panda research center, is located in the southwest of the county. Wenchuan is the southern gate of Aba Prefecture and the "industrial economic corridor" of Aba Prefecture.
By the end of 2002, the gross domestic product reached 1,258,250,000 yuan, the gross agricultural output value reached 165,430,000 yuan, the total grain output reached 16,426 tons, the net income per capita of farmers 1,678 yuan. Agricultural industrial structure adjustment efforts to further increase the establishment of 1,500 acres of ecological agricultural science and technology demonstration park base and 500 acres of two pesticide pollution-free IPM demonstration park, registered and enabled the "West Qiang brand", "Minjiang brand" two trademarks and five Vegetables and fruits are marked with green symbols, and are listed as pollution-free vegetables and dried fruits production and construction bases by the National Green Food Center. The construction of the three major forestry projects has been progressing smoothly, completing 9,403.9 hectares of closed forests, 813.4 hectares of fly-seeded afforestation, and 3,723.1 hectares of artificial afforestation; completing the return of ecological forests of 32,800 acres, and the return of economic forests of 0.42 million acres; and completing the control of sand area of 14,605.54 million hectares. The industrial economy is developing rapidly, attracting investments to achieve practical results, has formed a whirlpool, Yingxiu area state, the county's industrial economic corridor and the water mill industrial economic park, is grasping the establishment of the Taoguan industrial economic park, into a large-scale, good benefits, assets of ten million yuan of investment enterprises have Pandan Dal Industrial Silicon Factory, Yuefa Smelting Ltd. and so on 6 households; electric power industry is more of a breakthrough, at present, has been put into operation at all levels of the power station 40 More than 40 power stations at all levels have been built and put into operation, with an installed capacity of more than 1 million kilowatts, and was named one of the first five "primary rural electrification counties" in early 1986. Tourism resources have been further developed, has developed three rivers ecotourism area, the first village of West Qiang, Jiangwei City ancient cultural sites, radish village folk village and other scenic spots. Transportation construction achievements are remarkable, has been built to the national highway 213, 317 line as the main, county, township, village roads for the branch line of the well-connected transportation network, realize the township through the asphalt road, the village through the mechanized road. Post and telecommunications communications business is booming, mobile, Unicom communications network coverage of more than 85%, the county and the main towns have opened a small smart communications, communications exchange program-controlled, digital transmission. Urban construction is changing rapidly, the county Weizhou urban area has reached 3.53 square kilometers, the beginning of a modern city scale, has gradually formed the Aba traffic distribution center and education and scientific research base, "surrounded by mountains on all sides, the three mountains competing for the show, the two water flow, a city across the river all the new buildings," is today's Weizhou is the depiction of the best.
Cultural and educational undertakings to move forward rapidly. The county has Aba Normal College, Aba State Finance and Trade School, Aba State University of Electricity and other 6 colleges and universities, the state water and electricity, agricultural machinery, transportation, animal husbandry and other 4 state-level technical schools, agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry research institutes, as well as 3 junior and senior high school 9. Listed as a provincial key high school in Weizhou middle school, teaching methods continue to innovate, rapid improvement in the quality of education, walk in the forefront of education in the state, for the province and outside of colleges and universities to cultivate and transport a large number of outstanding talents.
Natural Geography
Wenchuan County is located in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, named after the Wen Shui, is one of the four Qiang-populated counties in China. The map coordinates are between 30°45′~31°43′ north latitude and 102°51′~103°44′ east longitude, 84 kilometers wide from east to west and 105 kilometers long from north to south. The county covers an area of 8,820 square kilometers, with a population of 110,118 (2000), and the main ethnic groups are Han, Qiang, Tibetan and Hui. Surrounding neighboring counties and political districts, east of Pengzhou, Dujiangyan City, south of Chongzhou, Dayi County, the western boundary of Baoxing County and Xiaojin County, northwest to northeast respectively, and Li County, Mao County connected. There is Wolong Nature Reserve in the county, which is the research and main breeding place of giant pandas, and Siguniangshan Mountain is the main tourist attraction. County seat Weizhou town.
Wenchuan is located in the northwest edge of the Sichuan Basin, Longmen Mountains and Qionglai Mountains are located in the northeast and southwest of the county; Minjiang River and its tributaries, Miscellaneous Brain River, Caobo River, Shoujiang for the territory of the main rivers.
Wenchuan County, because of the county's West Wenshui (now Minjiang River) named, the Western Han Dynasty for Mianwu Amphibious County, the Western Jin Dynasty changed to Wenshan County, and for the Wenshan County, the Northern Zhou Dynasty began to be called Wencheon County, more than 1,400 years ago. 1952, the county seat from Mianwu Amphibious County to move to Weizhou; in 1958, Maocheng County, Wencheon County, Li County, the merger of the establishment of "Maowen Qiang Autonomous Prefecture "
In 1962, Wenchuan County was restored to the present.
December 5, 2007, Wenchuan County won the Chinese people *** and the State Ministry of Culture, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage awarded the 2007 National Heritage work in advanced counties honorable title.
Botanical resources
Wenchuan County, the mountains are macro-humid and tall, the relative height difference is huge, the light and precipitation conditions change with the increase in altitude, which also affects the distribution of forest and vegetation community types and the formation of plant band spectrum. The plant resources here are very rich, with a wide variety of species, a full range of families, a **** 4,000 species. There exists a nationally unique, patchy distribution of wild dove forests, with its accompanying water green tree, Lianxiang tree, Bole tree and other rare trees belonging to the national protection of more than 20 kinds. There are also many famous ancient trees and "national fragrance" orchids, which make people get a rich mood and a variety of beauty in many aspects of rare beauty, style beauty and ancient beauty. In terms of forest vegetation, which special forests and shrubs have accounted for 82.85% of the area of forest vegetation, sparse woodlands, unforested woodlands, traces of renewed land *** only 17.15%, which can be seen in the richness of its forest resources. Tourism, natural and cultural landscape resources are abundant, and now the development of the "Three Rivers Ecological Tourism Zone" is taking shape. In the advocate of "science and education" today, for improving people's spiritual civilization, enhance the knowledge of science and education, research on the impact of environmental change on human beings, grasp the future, Wenchuan County, no cohesion to provide the most extensive "natural teaching laboratory".
Animal resources
Wenchuan County has a large number of animal resources. From the specimens collected: insects have more than 20 orders, more than 700 kinds of insects, of which only Coleoptera have 33 families, 482 kinds. There are 6 species of fishes, 9 species of amphibians, 208 species of birds and 96 species of animals. Among these animals, there are not only warm and wet-loving southern animals such as rhesus monkeys, clouded leopards, water deer and ling cats, but also cold-resistant plateau and northern animals such as bull antelopes, lynxes, equine bears, white-lipped deer and blesbian chickens. Among the rare animals belonging to the national level of protection are giant pandas, golden monkeys and other 4 kinds; the second category of protection of the lesser panda, snow leopard, red-bellied hornbill and other 17 kinds; the third category of protection of forest musk, golden eagle and other 8 kinds; a total of 29 kinds. Pheasants are one of the major features of Wolong animals, and Wolong accounts for 11 of the 56 species in the country, most of which are nationally protected species.
Mineral resources
Wenchuan County, complex geological structure, complete stratigraphic development, the distribution of magmatic rocks, rich in mineral resources, especially non-metallic minerals species more.
Tourism
Wenchuan County, Aba Prefecture, geography and location advantages are very obvious, only 70 kilometers from Chengdu, known as the southern gate of Aba Prefecture. It is not only one of the only four Qiang-populated counties in the country, but also the hometown of Qiang embroidery, the hometown of Chinese national folk art, and the hometown of giant pandas, the living fossil of animals. There is also the world's premier giant panda research center --- Wolong. The county has 3.48 million kilowatts of hydroelectric resources, which is an important energy supply in the western Sichuan plains.
In recent years, the county party committee, the county government to grasp the province's central city near, DuWen high-speed highway construction, ZipingPu water conservancy hub project construction, the creation of the nine-ring road thousands of miles of civilization corridor and other opportunities to adjust the development of ideas in a timely manner, and strive to promote Wencheuan leapfrog development, and strive to Wencheuan construction to become the first national Tibetan area state model counties and the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, "the Pearl City". The city's name is "City".
Went into Wenchuan, showing in front of the world is a piece of ecological paradise! A "natural oxygen bar" closest to the city! One of the most suitable for the city people to relax the holy land of tourism! Here the climate is mild, winter without severe cold, summer without heat; here travel comfort period is very long, the daily comfort time in summer for 23 ~ 24 hours; here the survival of the environment quality is very high, the quality of the atmospheric environment for the country a class of first-class, the air pollution index of 25, is the city of 1/5; surface water environmental quality for the national level, and rich in minerals and vitamins. Only three rivers, grass slope, Wolong and other ecological scenic areas, for example, the daily release of oxygen amount of 1,500 tons, the air anion content of 150 per cubic centimeter, 1,000 times higher than some metropolitan areas, the air contains bacteria than some metropolitan areas lower than 100 ~ 1,000 times.
When you go into Wenchuan, you will enjoy a unique collection of nature, ecology, Tibetan and Qiang folk customs as one of the short-range characteristics of tourism and city vacation and leisure tourism. You can go to trace the world's oldest Qiang culture, the gorgeous Qiang embroidery; appreciate the thousands of years of Qiang cottage, watchtower and Qiong cage still towering under the snowy mountains, known as the world's bridge pioneers of the hanging tube and zip line is still in the canyon over the fragrance.
Into Wenchuan, rock climbing, rafting, gliding, scientific adventure, camping, survival challenges, orienteering, and track sliding, Qiang zip line, sunbathing, Tibetan and Qiang evening party, West Qiang medicine steam, etc., both physical and mental, but also to strengthen the body.
Into the Wenchuan, read all the human spring: that countless meters in diameter of the giant trees constitute a piece of the unique forest, azalea, heather, dove, Lianxiang, osmanthus, orchids form a fragrant sea, fragrant road, fragrant mountain, especially that dozens of azalea from spring to winter sequentially open, beautiful and incomparable. Summer is the best season to see dove flowers, and this is the only place in the world where you can see such spectacular beauty. From April, the flowers from light green and creamy white and brown, mountain wind blowing, ten thousand flowers move, like pairs of white pigeons spreading their wings want to fly; in the fall, when you look around, ten thousand mountains are red, layers of forests; in winter, the freezing fog, ice hangings, ice waterfalls are the elves of the snow, the snow lotus, the waxberry is the angel of the snow.
Into Wenchuan, ecological support for a variety of bases into the eyes: the county has been built in the town of Shuimo more than 3,000 acres of high-quality tea bases, in the township of Sanjiang built more than 1,000 acres of kiwifruit bases and swirling Ying area of more than 2,000 acres of "Bittering Tea" bases; in the town of Weizhou Buhuashan built covering 1,500 acres of the "Agricultural Ecological Science and Technology Demonstration Park", "the agricultural ecological science and technology demonstration park. The base of "Agricultural Ecological Science and Technology Demonstration Park" was built in Buwashan of Weizhou Township, and the base of "Economic and Ecological Demonstration Park" was built in Sanguanmiao of Mian Township, which covers an area of 3,000 mu, as well as a number of high-standard characteristic agricultural bases such as loquat garden of Qipan Gou and pear and date garden of Keku Township. And registered and enabled the "West Qiang brand", "Minjiang brand" two trademarks and five vegetables, fruits, green mark, was listed as the National Green Food Center pollution-free vegetables, water and dried fruit production and construction bases; the county has developed more than 30 varieties of commercial vegetables, planting area of more than 30,000 acres. Up to more than 30,000 acres, more than 7,000 acres of high-quality tea, sweet cherry 8,000 acres, loquat 3,000 acres, 4,000 acres of small fruits of the ecological agriculture base; another three years, the county will be built respectively 10,000 acres of high-quality sweet cherries, 10,000 acres of high-quality loquat, 10,000 acres of kiwi fruit and sweet tomatoes and other high-quality small fruits, 10,000 acres of high-quality tea four bases.
Very Lan Tower is located in Wenchuan County, whirlpool township after the township government of the Minjiang River and Shouxi River confluence on the bank of the terrace. The tower is a nine-stage dense eaves type brick tower, sitting southeast to northwest. Pagoda base and body plan is square, white mortar plaster. Tower base from top to bottom slightly inward, the bottom edge of the length of 2.6 meters, 6.5 meters high, the southwest side of the arch open a door, 2.4 meters high, 0.80 meters wide.
The tower is a dense eaves of nine levels, from the bottom up by level inward. The eaves of each layer of the tower with brick stacked Shibashi to the outside, each layer of height from the bottom to the top in descending order, each layer of each side of the center are open arched window, the top of the top of the hexagonal save the tip of the roof. Tower height of 21 meters. In the tower body of the first floor of the inner wall has "Yao Chui Dian desert training edict loss of manufacturing, Kanshing Gou Hanzhang, manufacturing Xie Yinchang. Qing dynasty dao guang twenty-four years (1844) established" the inscription. The irrigation county record" also contains a very Lan tower "Qing priest Yao Qinglan built also". A very Lan Tower system of wind and water tower, for the whirlpool town one of the eight scenic spots. State-level cultural relics protection units.
Seven pan ditch is located in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Wenchuan County, south of the county about 7 kilometers from the county. The ditch is about 30 kilometers long, the ditch mouth elevation of 1500 meters, the ditch top of the white dragon pool 4020 meters, ditch width of more than 300 meters, the narrow place is only about 1 meter. With abundant rainfall and dense vegetation, the ditch is a mountainous scenic area dominated by natural beauty.
The whole ditch landscape can be divided into two sections. The upper section is about 6 kilometers long from Bailongchi to Xuehuaping, with a large slope drop from 4020 meters to 3418 meters. This section is a typical "Peng irrigation miscellaneous valleys" fracture zone, the mountain steep as a knife chopping axe, peak shape of thousands of forms. White Dragon Pond is a shape such as gourd alpine weir lake, deep pools of blue water, from the outlet down to form a multi-level waterfalls, including more than 50 meters above the waterfalls there are more than 10. The lower section from the snowflake ping to the ditch mouth of the town of ditch stone, the water is slow and varied, in the thick forest between the bamboo running, the whole length of about 15 kilometers. The terrain is flat and open and both sides of the mountain peaks towering, wildflowers everywhere, green grass. The most spectacular waterfall is the Snowflake Ping Waterfall.
There is a mild climate, lush vegetation, from the foot of the mountain to the top, can be roughly divided into mountain subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest belt, mountain warm temperate zone coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest belt, mountain frigid temperate zone shaded coniferous forest belt, subalpine subalpine zone scrub meadows, alpine frigid meadows belt of five vertically distributed plant belts, a wide range of plant species, and animal resources are also very rich.
Wolong Nature Reserve is located in the southwestern part of Wenchuan County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, on the southeastern slope of Qionglai Mountains, 130 kilometers away from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, with convenient transportation. The reserve was founded in 1963, covers an area of 200,000 hectares, is one of the earliest comprehensive national protected areas in China, is the national and Sichuan Province named "science education base", "patriotism education base". The current population of the reserve is 5,343, of which 4,550 are farmers.
In 1980, the reserve joined the UNESCO "Man and the Biosphere" network of protected areas, and with the World Wildlife Fund to establish the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. 1983 March by the State Council approved the Wolong Reserve in Wenchuan County, Wolong, Gengda, two communes designated as Wenchuan County, Wolong Special Administrative Region, the implementation of the Department of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Science and Technology. Wolong Special Administrative Region, the implementation of the Ministry, the provincial dual leadership system, by the Forestry Department on behalf of the administration. In July of the same year, the provincial government, the former Ministry of Forestry jointly made the decision to change the Wolong Special Administrative Region of Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province into the Wolong Special Administrative Region of Wenchuan, Sichuan Province, and Wolong Nature Reserve Management Bureau co-located in the integrated management system.
The Wolong Nature Reserve is known as the "home of the panda", "a valuable biological gene pool" and "a natural flora and fauna garden", and is rich in animal and plant resources as well as mineral resources. It is rich in animal and plant resources and mineral resources. There are more than 100 giant pandas in the area, accounting for about 10% of the national total. There are 56 kinds of other rare and endangered animals, such as golden monkeys and antelopes, which are classified as national key protection, among which there are 12 kinds of national key protection wild animals*** and 44 kinds of second-class protection animals. According to the statistics of other animal species in the area, there are 450 kinds of vertebrates, including 103 kinds of beasts, 283 kinds of birds, 21 kinds of amphibians, 25 kinds of reptiles and 18 kinds of fishes, and about 1,700 kinds of insects. According to the statistics of collected plant specimens, there are nearly 4,000 species of plants in the area. There are 1,989 species of higher plants, and among the seed plants, 20 species of gymnosperms and 1,604 species of angiosperms. The precious and endangered plants listed as state-level protection amount to 24 species, among which there are dove trees, Lianxiang trees and water-clearing trees in the first level of protection, 9 species in the second level of protection, and 13 species in the third level of protection. There are also rich water energy reserves in the protected area.
Wolong Nature Reserve has unique geographic conditions, complex geomorphology, beautiful scenery, scenic diversity, pleasant climate, set of mountains, water, forests, caves, dangerous, precipitous, strange, beautiful in one, and rich Tibetan and Qiang ethnic culture. Area built a considerable scale of giant pandas, red pandas, golden monkeys and other state-protected animal breeding grounds; there is a world-famous "Wuyi Hut" giant panda field observatory; there is a domestic so far to a single species of living organisms based on the establishment of the museum of the giant panda museum.
Over the years, Wolong Nature Reserve has been focusing on the goal of building a first-class national nature reserve, adhering to the policy of protection and rational utilization, and actively carrying out protection, scientific research and community building, so that the wildlife resources and alpine ecosystems, mainly pandas, have been effectively protected. Since the establishment of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, through unremitting efforts, it has successfully overcome the three major difficulties in artificial breeding of captive giant pandas, namely, "difficulty in estrus, difficulty in conception and difficulty in cub survival", and has artificially bred 48 litters of giant pandas, 72 cubs and 59 cubs, and the cub survival rate has been 100% for five consecutive years. The total number of captive pandas has reached more than 80, accounting for 60% of the world's captive population. At the same time, it has also cultivated and trained one of the most energetic giant panda scientific research teams in the world. Eight academic monographs have been published, and more than 200 scientific research papers have been published, four of which have won the Ministry and Provincial Scientific and Technological Achievement Award, and five of which have won the Outstanding Scientific and Technological Paper Award. It has also carried out giant panda adoption activities in the world, and the reserve actively seeks foreign cooperation and establishes cooperative development mechanism. At present, the economy of the area has been effectively developed, and the living standard of the people has been significantly improved. In 2004, the per capita income of the whole area reached 2074.39 yuan, which was 234.21 yuan higher than that of 2003. Infrastructure construction has been fundamentally improved, and the construction and development of the protected area has developed in the direction of a virtuous cycle in line with China's national conditions.
Wolong Nature Reserve was founded in 1963, with an area of 200,000 hectares, and is a nature reserve focusing on the protection of rare wild animals and plants, such as giant pandas, and the ecosystems of alpine forests. The reserve joined UNESCO's "Man and the Biosphere" network of protected areas in 1980, and was listed on the World Natural Heritage List in 2006. 1983, approved by the State Council, the establishment of the Wolong Special Administrative Region of Wenchuan, Sichuan Province, with one township and one town under its jurisdiction, and more than 4,500 farmers. Protected areas directly under the State Forestry Administration, special areas under the Sichuan Provincial Government, the Ministry, the province are entrusted to the provincial forestry department. Special area and the protected area to implement "two plates, a set of team, co-location" management system.
Wolong is located in the Sichuan Basin to the Tibetan Plateau transition of the high mountains and valleys, the region's natural conditions are unique, complex geomorphological types, beautiful scenery, pleasant climate, wildlife and animal resources are exceptionally rich, enjoying the "home of the panda", "a valuable biological gene pool of a wide spectrum Wolong is known as "the home of panda", "the gene pool of valuable biological broad-spectrum gene pool", "natural zoo", with 81 kinds of rare and endangered animals and plants under national protection, and 143 wild pandas, accounting for nearly 10% of the existing wild panda resources in China. Wolong is a "National Science Education Base" and a "Patriotic Education Base" named by the Sichuan Provincial Government; it is a "National Nature Reserve Demonstration Unit" of the State Forestry Administration. In October, it was honored as "National Advanced Collective for Nature Reserve Management" by seven ministries and commissions, including State Environmental Protection Administration, State Forestry Administration and Ministry of Agriculture, and "China's Most Desirable Tourist Attractions" by China Tourism and Television Association, and awarded the "China's Most Desirable Tourist Attractions". It was also honored as "China's Most Desirable Tourist Attraction" by the China Tourism Television Association and awarded the "Gold Medal of China's Most Desirable Hometown of Giant Pandas".
The main attractions include Giant Panda Garden, China Wolong Giant Panda Museum, Panda Gully, Zhenghe River, Dengsheng Primitive Forest, and alpine meadows of Barangshan Mountain.
A strong earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale struck Wenchuan on May 12, 2008, causing major casualties. At the same time, the Wolong Nature Reserve in the southwestern part of Wenchuan County was also hit hard, with more than 60 giant pandas losing their beautiful homes. Due to the destruction of their homes and the lack of food (mainly bamboo), the pandas were forced to move to safer areas. In the process of rescuing the pandas, the staff of the Wolong Nature Reserve disregarded their personal safety and rescued the pandas as quickly as possible. Sadly, two of the pandas are still missing.