Qingshui County is located in southeastern Gansu Province, northeast of Tianshui City, south of Longshan Mountain, the south foothill of the Wei River, a tributary of the north bank of the Niutou River basin. The eastern border of Shaanxi Province, Long County, Baoji City, south of the G310, Lianhuo Expressway, west of Qin'an County, north of Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County adjacent. That is, between 34°32′ and 34°56′ north latitude, 105°45′106°30′ east diameter. East and West 66 kilometers long, North and South 47 kilometers wide, an area of 2012 square kilometers.
Qingshui County in the history of the Silk Road in the South Road, from Longxian County, Shaanxi over the Longshan Mountains, out of the Dazhen pass (now Panlong store) to Tianshui (ancient Qinzhou), Heshi, Qingshui for the must-pass place, known as the "right of Longzhu key, Guanzhong Barrier," the name. Southwest through the Qingmai Highway to Tianshui Railway Station 44 kilometers, west through the town of Yunshan to Qin'an County 77 kilometers, north through the Qing Zhang Highway to Zhangjiachuan Huizu Autonomous County 47 kilometers, southwest along the Qingmai Highway through the Beidao port to the Tianshui Municipal People's Government, Qin Cheng District 63 kilometers, 395 kilometers from the provincial capital, Lanzhou City, east of Long County, Shaanxi Province to the city of Xi'an, 380 kilometers. Qingshui County is located in the southwestern Ordos Plateau and the eastern end of the North Qilian Trough Fold Belt, Qingshui County, the eastern part of the territory of the remnants of the Longshan Mountains north-south Panlong Mountain, south of the southern section of the Panlong Mountain east-west Penjie Peak, the western part of the Bow-type peaks of the Keshanliang, north of the north-south Hualing Mountain and Fengshan; in the mountains inside and outside of the mountain beams, the formation of the Tangtanhe River, the Fenhe River, after the Chuanhe River, the four major waterways, with the Niuotou River as the center. Surrounded by mountains, the formation of Niutou River in the middle of the mountain basin, Clearwater City in the south-central part of the basin, 1360 meters above sea level.
The evolution of the landforms in the territory of Qingshui can be traced back as far as hundreds of millions of years ago. It was only from the Ordovician period, about 500 million years ago, that the territory was exposed to the sea and became part of the ancient landmass of North China. More than 100 million years later, after several brief vicissitudes in the Middle and Late Carboniferous, the area was basically free from seawater inundation in the early Permian period, about 280 million years ago. In the subsequent long geological years, after many large-scale orogenic movement, especially from the early Tertiary period of 70 million years ago, along with the county east of Longshan again uplift and later external forces for a long time shaping, mainly ancient Niutou River and its tributaries with the ground uplift and undercutting, to the Pleistocene, the ground undulation has been very large, the Qingshui geomorphology of the large framework is basically formed. Later, although after millions of years of loess accumulation and flowing water, human activities and other external forces for a long time, the formation of today's gullies and gullies of the geomorphological form, but the basic framework of the landforms of Qingshui County has not changed a lot. Qingshui has a wide variety of crops and rich agricultural resources. Qingshui County's economy is based on agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry and fruit, such as the agricultural pillar industry is beginning to take shape, agricultural by-products are very rich in resources. Grain crops are mainly wheat, corn, taro, broad beans, etc., the normal annual output of 100 million kilograms. Cash crops are mainly Chinese herbs, hemp, sunflower, marijuana, vegetables, flowers and so on. Among them, more than 600 kinds of artificial planting and wild herbs, annual output of more than 6,000 tons, known as the "millennium medicine township" said.
Qingshui County has ten thousand acres of woodland, growing poplar, hazelnut, birch, oak, pine, rowan and other 250 kinds of woody plants. Sea buckthorn, mountain pear, strawberries, mountain grapes, schizandra and other wild fruits are rich in resources, of which sea buckthorn covers an area of 300,000 acres, with an annual output of 50,000 tons of sea buckthorn fresh fruits, which is one of the four major sea buckthorn bases in China.
There are many kinds of wild animals in the forest area, including leopard, gazelle, hyena, clouded leopard, musk, capybara, otter, lynx, mandarin ducks, red-bellied woodcock and other rare and exotic animals of more than 60 kinds, among which more than 10 kinds of them belong to the national second- and third-grade protected animals.
There are many varieties of Chinese medicinal herbs in the territory, there are 70 families and 165 species, mainly half-summer, Salvia divinorum, rhubarb, Duhuo, asparagus, licorice, poria, chaihu, schizandra, Yuanhu and other plant medicines, as well as antler velvet, musk, leopard bone and other valuable medicinal herbs, with an annual output of more than 2,000 tons, known as the "millennium of the medicine township" said.
Economic forestry to walnuts, apples, apricots, pears, peppercorns, with an annual output of more than 800,000 tons of fresh and dry fruits. Among them, there are more than 40 varieties of apples, 120,000 acres, with an annual output of 70,000 tons, especially red star, red crown, super red, first red, red Fuji and other high-quality quantity, is one of the key producing areas of the famous Tianshui flower cattle apple; walnuts with an annual output of 30,000 tons, was awarded the gold medal of the 1997 Gansu Province, the first Forestry Products Fair, and a large number of exports to Southeast Asia, Western Europe, North America; black fungus with an annual output of more than 2,000 kilograms; honey, mushrooms, peppers, persimmon, etc. , peppers, persimmons and so on in the local economy occupies an important position.
There are 456,000 acres of natural grassland and 183 species of wild forage grasses of 25 families, with Gramineae, Salicaceae, Leguminosae and Asteraceae as the main ones. Fava beans, peas, especially alfalfa planting area is more extensive. Yellow cattle-based herbivorous livestock and poultry farming has developed rapidly, and now has built Tangtanhe, Niutou River, Liulin River and the southeastern mountainous areas, such as four yellow cattle farming district, the annual output of 23,000 head of yellow cattle, Tianshui City, become a yellow cattle breeding base. At the end of 2005, the total number of households in Qingshui County was 66,846, with a total population of 312,552, of which 291,628 were agricultural, accounting for 93.3% of the total population.
At the end of 2012, Qingshui County had a total population of 330,000, of which 250,000 were agricultural, accounting for 92% of the total population. Qingshui "Tianhe" brand advantage is obvious, industrial production has begun to take shape. Qingshui County industry to wine and food industry as the main body, to building materials and machinery manufacturing for the two wings. Products are mainly "Tianhe", "Xihuang hometown", "full of country", "Maiji smoke and rain" series of white wine, Fruit wine, beverage, fruit juice, sea buckthorn total flavonoids and granite slabs, rock wool products, hemp textiles, flour machine, flour machine, vermicelli machine, vermicelli machine, noodle press, guillotine, and so on more than 30 categories of more than 360 varieties. Tianhe Liquor Group Company has been among one of the three major enterprise groups in Tianshui City, has been awarded the Gold Medal of the International Expo, the National Excellent and the provincial and ministerial level quality product awards more than 20.
The rapid development of industrial and commercial tourism, the completion of the 61 state-owned collective enterprise property rights system reform, circular economy industrial park was listed as one of the first batch of provincial pilot parks in Gansu Province, the industrial agglomeration function continues to strengthen. Regulus paper, Xin Ye chemical industry, Tianzhi industry was put into operation, Xin Ye chemical industry into Tianshui City, "10 strong 50" enterprises, Lvsheng Hall export foreign exchange of 300,000 U.S. dollars, the backbone of the total industrial output value of enterprises accounted for the proportion of industrial output value of Qingshui County, amounted to 93.8 percent. "Home appliances to the countryside", "back to the road", "Ten Thousand Villages and Thousands of Villages" farm store and Yangjialin vegetable market and other projects are successfully implemented, the completion of various types of markets 19, the development of commercial outlets 1934 households. Completed the planning of six key scenic spots, invested nearly 200 million yuan of hot springs ecotourism scenic spots to implement the new renovation, in 2010 to achieve a comprehensive income of 154 million yuan of tourism, compared with the end of the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" increased 8.1 times. In 2011, there are 539 health institutions in Qingshui County, including 9 township central health centers and 14 township health centers, with 1,077 medical personnel of various types, including 458 professional and technical personnel, and a total of 815 hospital beds.
In 2011, the people's hospital in Qingshui County was identified by the province and city of Gansu Province, the pilot hospital for public hospital reform, has established and improved the basic drug priority rational use system, basic drugs **** 438 kinds of basic medicines, the utilization rate of 90%, the outpatient cost by the original 86.03 yuan to 81.36 yuan / (person), a reduction of 5%, the average cost of hospitalization by the original 3,100 yuan to 2814.5 yuan, a reduction of 5%, the average hospitalization cost by the original 3100 yuan to 2,814.5 yuan, a decrease of 9%. In Qingshui County, the number of urban workers enrolled in pension, unemployment, work injury, maternity, resident and employee medical insurance reached 4,119, 7,351, 4,415, 1,400, 10,968 and 11,632 respectively. The urban low income standard was raised from 125 yuan per person per month in 2006 to 167 yuan, the rural low income standard was raised from 600 yuan per person per year in 2006 to 850 yuan, the standard of protection for five-guaranteed households was raised to 2,046 yuan per person per year, and the medical aid system for the needy was fully implemented.
Qingshui County has convenient transportation, communications, electricity, water supply and other infrastructure. Qingshui County, electricity, telephone, radio and television, agricultural machinery road to realize the "village through". Cell phone base station covering 80% of the county; county water supply capacity of 7500 tons per day.