Yishui County has a long history, and it is a famous old revolutionary area. Yishui County was established in the Qin Dynasty, and was named after the crossing of the Yi River in the 16th year of the Kaihuang reign of the Sui Dynasty (596 A.D.), and has been inhabited for more than 1,400 years. Yishui County is one of the centers of gravity in the old revolutionary base area, the hometown of "Red Sister-in-Law", the founding place of "Popular Daily", and one of the birthplaces of Yimeng Spirit. During the war years, Chen Yi, Luo Ronghuan, Xu Xiangqian and other revolutionaries of the old generation commanded battles here, and 47,000 people have joined the army and participated in the war, and more than 3,800 people have sacrificed their lives for the revolution.
Yishui County is rich in resources and has great potential for development. Rich in water resources, known as "a hundred reservoirs and thousands of ponds", the county has 816 million cubic meters of water resources, per capita possession of 742 cubic meters, the province's per capita possession of 1.12 times. Shandong Province, the first large river - Yi River for the transit of the largest river, 56 kilometers from north to south, with a watershed area of 1437.7 square kilometers. There are 151 small, medium and large reservoirs in the territory, including 2 large reservoirs, and the Treasure Hill Reservoir is the third largest reservoir in Shandong Province, with a total capacity of 508.5 million cubic meters. Rich in mineral resources, now 43 kinds of proven minerals, mainly gold, copper, iron, crystal, potassium feldspar, sodium feldspar, quartz, vermiculite, basalt, etc., the distribution of centralized, good quality, easy to mine. Basalt reserves of nearly 10 billion tons, ranking first in East China; vermiculite, potassium feldspar, sodium feldspar reserves are the first in the province. Rich in forest resources, the county's timber reserves amounted to more than 2.6 million cubic meters, the forest coverage rate of 31.2%.
Yishui is rich in tourism resources, cultural relics and monuments, natural scenery is pleasant, there are "underground wonders, landscape scenery, Yimeng style, red trip" reputation. In recent years, the county government to promote economic and social development of the tourism industry as one of the "three highlights" focus on cultivation, the establishment of a "government-led, scientific planning, market operation, cluster development" tourism development strategy, to build a "A large scenic area, three major product systems, ten major attractions," the tourism development framework. At present, five tourist areas have been built and opened for Shandong underground Grand Canyon, natural underground galleries, underground fluorescent lakes, Snowy Mountain Rainbow Valley, Lingquan Temple Forest Park (of which 2 4A-level scenic spots, 3A-level scenic spots, 2A-level scenic spots 1). The scenic spots such as Heavenly King City Scenic Spot, Yimeng Mountain Revolutionary Base, Yimeng Mountain Township Self-driving Leisure Resort are under development and construction, and the Oriental Hot Spring City, Yimeng Mother Lake, Yimeng Mountain Ancient Wine City are under planning.In August 2005, the National Tourism Association, the Provincial Tourism Bureau, and the Provincial Tourism Industry Association jointly held the "Symposium on the Tourism Phenomenon of Yishui" in Yishui, summarizing the promotion of the tourism phenomenon in Yishui. "In 2006, the county **** received 2.7 million tourists, ticket income of 100 million yuan, total tourism revenue of 1.4 billion yuan. 2007 "May Day" Golden Week, the county five scenic spots **** received 692,000 tourists, ticket income of 3447.19 million yuan. Ticket revenue of 34.4719 million yuan. Has been named "Shandong Province, the top ten (characteristics) industrial clusters", "Shandong County Tourism Brand Top Ten Counties", in China's first annual tourism marketing conference, was named "China's excellent tourist destinations ".
Yishui County has perfect infrastructure and sound carrier functions. County built-up area of 25 square kilometers, the city population of 220,000 people, the county daily water supply capacity of 50,000 tons, sewage treatment capacity of 50,000 tons, heating area of 900,000 square meters, gasification rate of 92%, the city water surface of 5,500 acres, the green area of 350 hectares, the green coverage rate of 36.9%, the hardening rate of roads up to 100%, the county's urbanization level of 33%. Has won the "National Urban Environment Comprehensive Improvement Winning County", "Provincial Health City" and other honorary titles, was listed as "the province's urbanization pilot counties". Highway traffic in the territory is well connected, Donghong, Yibo, Yankuang, Taixue, Yipi, Hanlai six provincial highways running through the whole territory, the total mileage of oil roads in the territory reaches 2,330 kilometers, and it can be directly connected to the airports of Jinan, Qingdao and Linyi; east of Qingdao, Rizhao, and Lanshan ports, the north of Jiaoji Railway, Ji-Qing Expressway, south of Yanzhou Railway and Ridong Expressway, west of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, and east of the Tongsan Expressway. Jiaozhou-Xinyi Expressway The Jiaozhou Xinyi Railway passes through Yishui and sets up a county-level station, and the Qinglai and Tianshan Expressways intersect in Yishui. The power grid is well-structured, with sufficient electricity and reliable power supply. There is one comprehensive thermal power plant and four enterprise-owned thermal power plants, and power dispatching automation has been realized. Communication is fast and convenient, with a total telephone capacity of 250,000, realizing the village telephone and seamless coverage of mobile communication. Shandong Yishui" comprehensive website has been opened, e-government network and 20 application information websites have been constructed, and there are more than 6,000 broadband Internet users. The county's health care institutions are sound, there are 13 health institutions in the county, including 1 municipal hospital, with advanced medical equipment at home and abroad. There are 10 medium and high-grade hotels in the county, including 7 star hotels.
Yishui County has a complete range of industrial economic sectors and obvious advantages in agricultural economic characteristics. The advantages of the industrial structure is obvious, has formed a food, textile and clothing, machinery, minerals and building materials, light industry, electronics, packaging and printing of the seven leading industries and tobacco, chemicals, wood processing, arts and crafts, tanning, footwear, deep processing of agricultural and sideline products and other industries based on the industrial system. Especially food, shoes, machinery, "three cities," the advantages of characteristics and scale advantage is obvious, by the China Regional Development Association named "China Food City", "China Cloth Shoes City", "China Oil Top City". At present, the county's industrial enterprises above the size of 195, 19 annual sales income of more than 100 million yuan, 8 high-tech enterprises above the provincial level, 11 provincial brand-name products, 15 famous trademarks. The county's individual business households accumulated 10,572, private enterprises 1423.
Yishui County is one of the important grain, cotton and oil producing areas in Shandong Province, producing wheat, corn, groundnuts, cocoons, baking tobacco, apples, hawthorn, chestnuts, walnuts, persimmons, peaches, apricots, snow jujubes, large cherries, peppercorns, ginger, Chinese herbs, etc., is a hundred counties in the country's fruit and oilseed production, the national base county of commercial grain, the province's high-quality tobacco production base county. Yellow cigarettes, cocoons, oil production in the province's forefront, scorpions, cherries, snow dates, etc., famous nationwide, there are "Mengshan Longwu" tea, "Huiquan" grapes and other green food and pollution-free agricultural products brand development to 46, the annual production of pollution-free agricultural products, green food, 600 million kilograms. The annual production of pollution-free agricultural products, green food 6 billion kilograms.
Yishui County, the economic strength of the increasing, comprehensive development of various undertakings. 2006, the county's GDP of 13.96 billion yuan, an increase of 17.8%, of which one, two and three industries grew by 12.3%, 19.6% and 17.3%; local financial revenue of 440 million yuan, according to the comparable caliber growth of 13.2%; financial institutions, the deposit balance of 7.65 billion yuan, loan balance of 3.75 billion yuan, the balance of 3.7 billion yuan, the loan balance, the balance of the financial institutions and the financial institutions. 7.65 billion yuan, loan balance of 3.72 billion yuan, an increase of 12% and 12.8%; social fixed asset investment completed 5.75 billion yuan, an increase of 34.3%. The net income per capita of farmers is 4112 yuan, an increase of 15.8%. In the first half of this year, the gross domestic product (GDP) realized 8.125 billion yuan, an increase of 16.3%. Local financial income of 351 million yuan, an increase of 21.1%. The whole society fixed asset investment of 3.927 billion yuan, an increase of 39.1%. Total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 2.503 billion yuan, an increase of 17.3%. Farmers' per capita cash income of 2,549 yuan, an increase of 20.7%. Has been named "national advanced county of rural grass-roots organization construction", "national advanced county of sports", "national advanced county of family planning quality service", Advanced City in Creating Civilized Cities in the Province", "Advanced County in Comprehensive Management of Social Security in the Province", "Advanced County in Social Culture in the Province", "Advanced County in Popularizing Law in the Province". The province's advanced county of universal law", "the province's advanced county of spiritual civilization construction", "the province's advanced county of production safety", "the province's model county of double embrace." Advanced County in Rural Education", "Advanced County in Employment and Re-employment", "Advanced County in Family Planning", "Top Ten County in Shandong Tourism Brand", "Advanced County in Family Planning", "Advanced County in Family Planning", "Advanced County in Family Planning", "Advanced County in Family Planning", "Advanced County in Family Planning". Shandong county tourism brand ten counties" and other honorary titles.