Chunhua County Survey
Named after the Songtaizong Chunhua reign title of the Northern Song Dynasty,Chunhua County is locted in the cehter of Shanxi and northern shore of the Wei River . It has the fine reputation. Of the Loess Highlands’ “the Green Pearl”, 75 kilometers away from the provincial capital Xi'an the Xianyang 65 kilometers. County-wide governs 5 towns and 10 townships and has a total population of 190,900,total area 983.8 square kilometers.
Long-drawn-out history During the Neolithic Age6,000-7,000 years ago, the China ancients dwelled here, hunting reclamation. Chunhua County was once the Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang Dynasties’national capital area of jurisdiction and “Three AuxiliaryCounty”, which has the Qin Linguang Palace, the Qin Straight Road and the Han Fresh-tasting Spring Palace. During the Liberation War, it once was the front to defend the Shanxi and Gansu Border Area ,where Yetai Mountain Campaign shocking China and the world occurred in here.
Superior Natural conditions Chunhua County is situated at the northern edge of the Loess Highlands , belonging to the warm tropics continental monsoon climate, which has such fertile soil , deep soil layer, good plowing nature that it is suitable in the development agriculture, the forest, the animal husbandry.Tthe yearly precipitationis about 600 millimeters, the rain and the heat matches in the same season, the temperature difference between day and night temperature is great to grow industrial crops like apples to make it one of three big apple eugenics areas all over the world.
Abundant natural resources The county-wide land area is 1,475,700 Chinese acres, the cultivated area 535,000 Chinese acres, the forest land area 445,000 Chinese acres, the natural pasture 326,000 Chinese acres, the forest and grass coverage fraction 43.9%, the potential wild mountain wilderness slope area 115,000 Chinese acres , plain terrace 20,000 Chinese acres. The main mineral resources include: more than 100,000,000 tons of limestone ,more than 23,000,000 tons of coal ,over5,000,000 tons of pottery clay, as well as the Hangaozu palace water source dating from more than 2000 years ago - imperial spring, which is the sodium bicarbonate magnesium mineral water, whose discharge is 150 cubic meters every day. It contains 27 kinds of beneficial human body's trace elements, including the strontium, the lithium, the zinc, the iodine, the phosphorusand has the high economical development value.
Quite developed Agricultural production Chunhua County is a productive base of apples, flue-cured tobacco, raising livestock,in which the apple is the first leading industry. The total area amounts to 400,000 Chinese acres, the ultimate output 450,000 tons to make Chunhua County advance into “the national one hudred major fruit productive Counties” and “ten Shanxi main fruit productive counties” the ranks. “Chunhua”brand red Fuji apple is evaluated “the Chinese famous fruit”.
Quite reasonable industry layout After several dozens of years of development,Chunhua County has formed the main body industry industrial structure of coal, electric power, building materials,machinery, agricultural and subsidiary products. .
Quite perfect infrastructure The road network has already formed, 211 federal highways passes through the throughout, the oil duct passes every town, the granulated substance rock road passes every village. The posts and telecommunications communication facility is so perfectthat it has already realized the domestic intercommunication interconne passes ction. The energy is sufficient and the County has a hydroelectric power station whose installed capacity is 7500 kilowatts , a 110- kilovolt transformering substation,5 35- kilovolt transformering substations .It has financial, insurance, commercial, trade, cultural entertainment, guesthouses, hotels, the broadcast television, the medical care service organizations.
The Chunhua county party committee and the County government will defer to the overall request of “the 11th five-year plan summary of the national economy and social development ”to unite and lead the county-wide people, depending on the geographical superiority, regarding the general construction goals “Green Chunhua and Harmonious Chunhua”and continue to insist on the principle of “by opens presses the development, develops strives for the development” , providing the omni-directional serviceto invite everywhere men of insight from all walks of life to come the Chunhua sightseeing trip, investment promoting education zealously, conspires the development.