The town is 67 kilometers long from north to south and 50 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total land area of 528 square kilometers and a population density of 24 people per square kilometer. The cultivated land area of the whole town is 17 1079 mu, and the cultivated land per capita is 13.8 mu.
Topographic town has a vast territory, all covered by mountains, including mountains, terraces, rivers and ditches. It is one of the last areas of the loess layer on the Loess Plateau, with a cross river source in the north, a mixed zone of terraces, mountains, ditches and ditches in the middle, beams, terraces and streams in the south and mountains and rivers in the east.
Climate and hydrology belong to temperate semi-arid continental monsoon climate. Its main characteristics are: windy in spring, dry in summer, rainy in autumn, cold in winter, abundant sunshine and frequent sandstorms; The diurnal range of climate is large, the distribution of precipitation in four seasons is uneven, the rainy season is late, and the rainfall varies greatly during the year. The annual average rainfall is 3 16mm, the annual average frost-free period is about 140 days, and the absolute frost-free period is 1 10 days. The surface runoff in the territory is poor, and the four rivers are tributaries of Jinghe River, with small water quantity, poor water quality, large seasonal variation, high salt content and insufficient available water.
Resource advantages, petroleum, natural gas and other mineral resources have unique advantages. It has been confirmed that there is a world-class gas field in the town. And oil resources are widely distributed, with 14 oil-related administrative villages, accounting for 47% of the total number of administrative villages. Now it has formed an oil production base with an annual output of 654.38+10,000 tons, which has become one of the main sources of county financial revenue.
Biological resources are another advantageous resource in Jiyuan town. Grain and oil crops mainly include wheat, buckwheat, beans, millet, corn, potato, flax, mustard and sunflower, among which buckwheat, potato, miscellaneous beans and sunflower have developed into a production base of 10,000 mu, with an annual planting area of about 70,000 mu. The town has developed animal husbandry, and its main products are livestock, sheep, pigs and poultry. At the end of 2003, there were 4,733 livestock, 28,900 sheep and 3,896 live pigs. The output of cashmere, wool and fur is high, which is one of the towns with the largest output of cashmere goats and mutton in the county. Fruits include apples, pears, apricots and peaches. Chinese herbal medicines mainly include licorice, dandelion and ephedra.
In addition, light energy, heat energy, wind energy and other green energy sources are abundant.
With the healthy development of non-public economy, there are 274 individual industrial and commercial households and 5 small and medium-sized machine brick factories in the town, which are the main production bases of machine bricks in southwest mountainous areas. Agricultural and sideline products processing industry has begun to take shape, among which refined buckwheat noodles, sesame oil, goat meat and other products are exported to various places and are well received by consumers.
Radio, television and communication are relatively developed. 82% of the villages in the town have realized the "three links" of radio, television and telephone, of which 7 administrative villages have program-controlled telephones. According to statistics, there are 1563 fixed telephones, wireless telephones and mobile telephones, and the telephone penetration rate is over 64%.
Infrastructure construction has developed rapidly, and the construction of small towns has begun to take shape.
According to the spirit of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the overall plan of "three steps" to build a well-off society in an all-round way, the town party committee and government unite and lead the broad masses of cadres and people, emancipate their minds, invigorate their spirits, seize opportunities, seize major events, pay close attention to implementation, and take the road of enriching the people through agriculture, strengthening the town through oil and rejuvenating the town through science and education. Implement small town construction, project-driven and sustainable development strategies. Do a good job in infrastructure construction focusing on "five links and three constructions", take industrial structure adjustment as the main line, do everything possible to increase farmers' income, promote the leap-forward development of the town's economic and social undertakings, and fully realize the construction of a well-off society in Jiyuan Town.