Population density: 45 people/km2
Asbestos County is located in the southwestern part of Sichuan Province, the southernmost part of Ya'an City, connecting Hanyuan and Ganluo Counties in the east, Yuexi and Coronation Counties in the south, Jiulong and Kangding Counties in the west, and adjoining Luding County in the north. It is 365 kilometers away from the provincial capital Chengdu and 210 kilometers away from Ya'an city. The territory is characterized by high mountains and deep valleys, mountainous terrain, long rivers and valleys. There are Gongga Mountain, Daxue Mountain, Tingpin Mountain, Huangcaoshan, Jiguan Mountain, altar mountains and other major mountain ranges, the highest elevation of 5793 meters, the lowest elevation of 780 meters; the county belongs to the mid-latitude subtropical humid climate zone, with the winter and spring without the cold, summer and autumn rain without the heat of the characteristics of the wet and dry, rainfall and plenty of sunshine.
Asbestos County is a new county after the founding of the People's Republic of China (established in 1952). It is located at longitude 101°55'-102°31' east and latitude 28°51'-29°31' north. It covers an area of 2,678 square kilometers, with 1 township and 16 townships (including 10 ethnic townships), with a total population of 116,000 people, including 14 ethnic groups such as Han, Yi, and Tibetan, enjoying the treatment of minority counties. The national highway 108 line transit, is the southern line of Sichuan-Tibet, Sichuan-Yunnan western line of transportation, connecting Liangshan Prefecture and Ganzi Prefecture must pass through the place.
The People's Government of the county is located at No.9 Rainbow Road, Cotton City Street, Zip code: 625400. code: 511824. area code: 0835. pinyin: Shimian Xian.
The whole county is situated in the Hengduan Mountain Range, which is mostly in the north-south vertical column. The terrain is high in the southwest and low in the east, surrounded by high mountains of more than 3,500 meters. The terrain is predominantly mountainous, with high mountains and deep valleys, steep slopes and steep valleys. The highest point for the west and Jiulong County, Kangding County border peak (Shenshan Liangzi) elevation of 5,793 meters, the lowest point for the Fengle Township Dadu River valley at the easternmost point, elevation 790 meters. County was vertical climate, high mountains, mountains, river valley climate contrasts, dry and wet seasons distinct. The annual rainfall is 801.3 millimeters and the average annual temperature is 16.9℃.
Infrastructure conditions Good, the county has convenient transportation, abundant electricity, and very developed post and telecommunications.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP): 18.1 times higher in 1999 than in 1978. Energy, transportation, communication, municipal and other infrastructures are constantly improved, the construction of the county is rapidly changing, and the people's life is constantly improving. Science and technology, education, culture, radio and television, health, sports and other social undertakings flourish, spiritual civilization; emerged "National Top Ten Teenagers" Lai Ning, "National Secrecy Guards" Wan Jianchang and a number of heroes and exemplary figures. In advancing the development of social civilization, Asbestos County has won the honorable titles of National Sports Advanced County, Healthy County City of Sichuan Province, Model County of Sichuan Province with Double Embracing and Model County of Sichuan Province with Comprehensive Management of Social Security. Through the vicissitudes of the century, Asbestos County has developed into a pearl along the Dadu River from the original "barren land". At the turn of the century, a good opportunity for the development of spirits, the county's only high school for asbestos middle school - once the alma mater of the teenage hero Lai Ning.
Administrative divisions
Asbestos County has 1 street, 1 town, 5 townships and 10 ethnic townships under its jurisdiction: Cotton City Street, New Cotton Township, Anshun Yi Township, Pioneer Tibetan Township, Crab Snail Tibetan Township, Yonghe Township, Hui Long Yi Township, Wipro Yi Township, Liziping Yi Township, Meiluo Township, Yingzheng Township, Daiyang Township, Fungle Township, Xinmin Tibetan and Yi Township, Dugout Yi and Tibetan Township, Tianwan Yi Township, Caoke Tibetan Township.
History
Asbestos County was established in 1951. It was named after asbestos because of the property of asbestos.
In 2000, Asbestos County had 1 township, 6 townships and 10 ethnic townships under its jurisdiction: New Cotton Township, Anshun Yi Township, Pioneer Tibetan Township, Crab Snail Tibetan Township, Yonghe Township, Farm Township, Hualong Yi Township, Wuluo Yi Township, Liziping Yi Township, Meiluoh Township, Yingzheng Township, Zaiyang Township, Fungle Township, Xinmin Tibetan and Yi Townships, Dugjiao Yi and Tibetan Townships, Tianwan Yi Townships, and Caoke Tibetan Township. According to the fifth census data: the county's total population of 123,261 people, of which the population of the townships (people): new cotton township 26,068 Anshun Yi Township 6542 Pioneer Tibetan Township 5568 Crab snail Tibetan Township 3711 Yonghe Township 5561 Farm Township 13243 Hui Long Yi Township 12738 Wuluo Yi Township 3655 Chestnut Ping Yi Township 3876 Meiluo Township 8106 Yingzheng Township 7026 Zaiyang Township 5516 Fengle Township 5353 Xinmin Tibetan Yi Township 7713 Dujiao Yi Tibetan Township 3133 Tianwan Yi Township 3la Caoke Tibetan Township 2370
In 2004, Asbestos County had 1 township (Xinmu), 5 townships (Yonghe, Meiluo, Yingzheng, Zaiyang, and Fengle), and 10 ethnic townships (Anshun Yi, Pioneer, Crab Loaf, Huilong, and Tianwan Yi), Caoke Tibetan, Wuluo Yi, Liziping Yi, Xinmin Tibetan Yi, and Dugiao Yi Tibetan).
In 2005, Asbestos County had 1 township, 5 townships and 10 ethnic townships under its jurisdiction: Xinmu Township, Anshun Yi Township, Pioneer Tibetan Township, Crab Snail Tibetan Township, Yonghe Township, Huilong Yi Township, Weruo Yi Township, Liziping Yi Township, Meiluo Township, Yingzheng Township, Zaiyang Township, Fengle Township, Xinmin Tibetan-Yi Township, Dugjiao Yi-Tibetan Township, Tianwan Yi Township, Caoke Tibetan Township.
On September 4, 2006, the People's Government of Sichuan Province approved the relocation of the people's governments of Fengle and other 4 townships in Asbestos County (Chuanfu Civil Affairs [2006] No. 46). The specific approval is as follows: the people's government of Fengle Township will be relocated from Honggang Village to Samsung Village. Moving the People's Government of Zaiyang Township from Pingyang Village to Mizi Village. Relocating the People's Government of Yingzheng Township from Bapai Village (below 851 meters above sea level) to Miaozi, Bapai Village (above 851 meters above sea level). Moved the People's Government of Yonghe Township from Yulong Village to Baima Village.
On September 30, 2006, the People's Government of Sichuan Province (Sichuan Provincial Civil Affairs [2006] No. 50) approved: agreeing to the adjustment of some administrative divisions of Asbestos County. The specific approval is as follows:
I. New Cotton Town Street Office. Jurisdiction of the original new cotton town of New Street, Old Street, West, rock four communities and the original Sichuan asbestos mine in Sichuan cotton, Guangyuan Fort, Sichuan heart store, grass eight rows of four communities belonging to the administrative area. Cotton City Street Office in Sichuan cotton community.
Second, the new cotton town jurisdiction of the city north, east, Li about, Shunhe, Xiangyang, Anjing 6 villages belonging to the administrative area. New cotton town people's government resident from the old street community committee moved to the north of the village.
Third, the asbestos county people's government resident name from the new cotton town rainbow road No. 9 change to cotton city street office rainbow road No. 9.
Industrial Agriculture
Industrial The county has built a national economic system with energy, raw materials, building materials as the main body, the county, townships, villages, three levels of industrial development in tandem with the formation of hydropower and electro-metallurgical industry, mineral processing industry, construction and building materials industry, tourism, silk and other economic advantages and development prospects of the pillar industries. The main industrial products are silk products, industrial silicon, ferromanganese carbon, silicon carbide, zinc ingots, electrofusion magnesium sand and so on. The most representative "Yuxing" brand zinc ingot is recognized by the Provincial Science and Technology Department as "export high-tech products", selling well at home and abroad. 2003 social investment in fixed assets of 1.054 billion yuan, the annual output value of more than 5 million yuan of 24 companies, township enterprises The total output value of township enterprises was 1.5 billion yuan.
Agriculture By the end of 2003, the county had 60,432 acres of arable land, per capita arable land area of 0.7 acres, of which 21,233 acres of paddy fields, accounting for 35.1% of the total grain output of 34,068 tons, the main grain crops are rice, wheat, corn, potatoes, oilseed rape, peanuts and so on. Cash crops are walnuts, chestnuts and other dried fruits and good seed tangerines, oranges, peaches, plums, grapes and other fruits.
There is also a large amount of fritillary and lotus root cultivation in Sanming Village, Zaiyang Township.
Transportation and communication
The territory has convenient transportation, crisscrossed by highways, National Highway 108, Sichuan-Tibet Highway South crosses the whole territory, with a total mileage of 937.66 kilometers of county roads (88 kilometers of Chinese highways, 45 kilometers of provincial highways, 41 kilometers of county roads, 61 kilometers of township roads, and 702.66 kilometers of village roads), with 0.26 kilometers of highways per hundred square kilometers on average and 92% of the villages have roads. More than 92% of the villages are connected to highways. The county program-controlled telephone installed 16,256 doors, mobile users have reached 7850 households. The urban and rural telephone penetration rate has reached 13.6%. (2003 data)
Now the new National Highway 108 is under construction, and the highway from Ya'an to Luding is also under construction!
Education and Science and Technology
The county has 9 middle schools, 89 elementary schools, 16,337 students (of which 10,814 elementary school, junior high school 3,963, high school 1,561), the 2003 college entrance examination admitted 301 people, the admission rate of 68.4%; the existing scientific and technological personnel of all types of 1,611 people, of which 52 people with high-level titles, intermediate titles of 593 people to the In 2003, the implementation of county-level science and technology projects 25, municipal science and technology projects 2.
Culture and Health
Existing libraries, cultural centers and other cultural institutions. The townships are connected to closed-circuit television, and there is one county-level television station. The county has 141 medical institutions of all kinds, 286 professional health technicians on duty, with 325 beds of all kinds and advanced medical equipment.
Natural resources
Asbestos territory has fertile soil, suitable climate and good vegetation. It is an ideal base for the development of fruits, vegetables, sericulture and forestry. The grassy hills and slopes are extremely rich in resources, suitable for the development of animal husbandry. Mineral resources are very rich, now mining asbestos, coal, lead, zinc, copper, gold, marble, granite, quartzite, bismuth phyllotelluride ore and more than 10 kinds, especially the marble texture is beautiful, rich reserves, the county's geologic reserves of marble minerals amounted to 148,803,900 cubic meters, comparable to the Yunnan marble. Red granite has been mined for 25 years, and "asbestos red" granite has been selected for large-scale buildings such as Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Beijing, China World Trade Center in Beijing, Chengdu Railway Station, etc. The production of asbestos also occupies an important position in the country. Asbestos production also occupies an important position in the country, and the 2.19-meter-long "Asbestos King" displayed in Beijing Geological Museum is produced in the county.
The county is rich in natural resources, with four advantages: hydropower, forests, minerals and tourism. There is a large amount of water resources. Dadu River through the county 84 kilometers long, catchment area of 30 square kilometers above the Nanshi River, Xiaoshui River, Songlin River, Tianwan River and other 27 tributaries, the natural runoff 27.3 billion cubic meters, the development of hydroelectric resources 4.5 million kilowatts. Forest resources cover a wide area. There is a forest area of 118,000 hectares, live wood forest reserves of more than 12.62 million cubic meters, the main species of spruce, fir, birch, etc., and dozens of rare animals such as large and small pandas, deer, leopards, pheasants, etc., and is rich in more than ten kinds of valuable medicinal herbs such as tianmu, bei mou, cormorant, etc.. There are many varieties of mineral resources. There are gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, zinc, uranium, asbestos, granite, marble, black slate, mica, crystals, silica, coal, serpentine, limestone, gypsum and so on more than 20 kinds, and in recent years, the world's rare bismuth telluride ore was newly discovered. Forest resources are relatively rich, the county's forest coverage rate of 34.2%, with a forest area of 1,038 square kilometers, standing wood reserves of 14 million cubic meters, can be used in grassy hills, grassy slopes area of 630 square kilometers.
Tourism resources
Tourism resources are unique. There are famous for the Red Army crossing the Dadu River Victory Memorial Anshun field and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Wing King Shi Dakai all the army destroyed site; with the Hailuogou Glacier Park adjacent to the south slope of the Gongga Mountains of the provincial scenic area of the Tianwan River Natural Scenic Area, where the mountains and rivers are majestic and precipitous, waterfalls and rapids are connected to the Snake Plate Rock, Dragon Plate Rock, the rare double brown, mysterious fairy brown, the world's apes waterfalls, the Lotus Mountain, the clean white ice rock, people in the Sea Tail etc., which make the traveler's mind drift and forget to linger.
On July 29, 2020, the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee reconfirmed Asbestos County as the 2020 National Health Township (County).
In June 2020, Asbestos County was included in the list of counties in the second batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization piece area (Long March piece area (Red First Front Army)).
On February 21, 2017, Asbestos County was on the list of 2016 National Basic Balanced Counties (Cities and Districts) for Compulsory Education Development.
On December 20, 2011, Asbestos County was on the list of the Third National Civilized Villages and Towns.