The domestic climate belongs to the continental monsoon climate zone, which is a transitional climate zone from tropical East Asia to subtropical North. Average temperature 16.8℃, annual accumulated temperature 6 185.3℃, 1 monthly average temperature 4.9℃, July average temperature 28.6℃, and annual average precipitation 1450.8 mm.
Pingjiang has a long history. As early as the Qin Dynasty, a county was established, which was called Luoxian at that time and Hanchang at the end of the Han Dynasty. It was renamed Wuchang County in the Three Kingdoms and Pingjiang County in the later Tang Dynasty. After Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Republic of China, it has a history of 1800 years.
Pingjiang is outstanding. Here were born 67 military and political dignitaries of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, 54 generals of the Republic, and more than 60 leading cadres at or above the corps level. During the first and second revolutionary civil wars, it was the seat of the CPC Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Provincial Committee and the provincial Soviet government. There have been major historical events such as the autumn harvest riots, the siege in February, the Pingjiang Uprising and the Pingjiang Massacre. It is the birthplace of the fifth, sixteenth and first regiments of the New Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army. During the hard revolutionary war years, more than 200,000 sons and daughters in the county died for their country, and now more than 2 1000 revolutionary martyrs are registered, accounting for one fifth of the total number of martyrs in Hunan Province.
In Pingjiang, things are beautiful and treasures are abundant. In this beautiful and rich land, there are abundant surface and underground resources. There are more than 50 kinds of proven mineral deposits, of which more than 20 kinds are of industrial mining value. Albite, mica, gypsum and gold are well-known at home and abroad. Here is rich in rice, cotton, watermelon, out-of-season vegetables, peppers, chestnuts and so on.
Pingjiang has beautiful mountains and rivers. Shogunate (Mountain) is in the north and Li Anyun (Mountain) is in the south. The flowing water runs across the east and west, with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate. There are "Shogunate Ya Dan, Li Anyun Cuibi, Bitan Autumn Moon, Wu Tong Sunset Rain" and other scenic spots. There are also red cultural attractions such as "Pingjiang Massacre Memorial Hall", "Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Revolution Memorial Hall" and "Du Fu Tomb". It is one of the key counties of small hydropower construction in China, with many mountains, deep canyons and rich hydropower resources, which can be developed to more than 90 thousand kilowatts. Pingjiang is also a key forestry base county in southern China, with more than 3 million cubic meters of standing trees and more than 40 million bamboo plants.
Since the reform and opening up, electromechanical, bamboo and wood, food and beverage, chemical industry and minerals have become the pillar industries of Pingjiang industry, and an industrial system with strong market competitiveness has initially formed. The county has developed more than 40 new products, such as heavy oil pump, high and low voltage electrical switchgear, white jade paper fan, feldspar powder, mineral water, gypsum board and other products sell well at home and abroad. Agriculture is changing from traditional agriculture with single structure to efficient agriculture. 200,000 mu of Phyllostachys pubescens, 200,000 mu of fruit trees, 200,000 mu of camellia oleifera and 6,543,800 mu of timber forest have basically taken shape, and the goal of "building another Pingjiang River on the mountain" is taking shape.
Pingjiang border trade is active and the urban and rural markets are prosperous. This is a distribution center for agricultural and sideline products such as fruits, Chinese herbal medicines, ginger, peppers and wood. The county has built a new market of 654.38 million square meters, of which the market area invested by farmers has reached more than 40,000 square meters. Pingwu market will be built into the largest commodity distribution center in Central and South China. At present, more than 30,000 farmers in the county have joined the circulation army, which has effectively promoted the development of rural economy.
Pingjiang county attaches great importance to infrastructure construction in order to seek a larger folk exhibition. The county has invested more than 800 million yuan to build and transform hundreds of infrastructure projects such as transportation, communication, energy and towns. Twenty thousand program-controlled telephone projects and optical cable communication projects in the county have been completed and put into use. The county's installed capacity has reached 50,000 kilowatts. The waterworks with a daily output of 30,000 tons and the Pingjiang bus station with more than 400 trains a day have been delivered. The new bus station in the development zone is under construction. Pingwu Highway with an investment of 300 million yuan is a high-grade highway connecting Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, which organically integrates Pingjiang into the Central South Economic Circle.
The increasingly perfect infrastructure, unique resources and location advantages make Pingjiang a hot spot for foreign investment. At present, 34 foreign-funded enterprises have been established in the county, and the actual utilization of foreign capital exceeds 20 million US dollars. In 2005, foreign-funded enterprises achieved an output value of nearly 65.438+0.8 billion yuan and realized profits and taxes of 20 million yuan. Wushi Industrial Park, a provincial industrial park, has been completed, and we sincerely welcome customers at home and abroad.
With the great historical ship of reform and opening up, Pingjiang, a land with rich resources, outstanding people and unique advantages, will surely usher in the upsurge of joint development of the old revolutionary base areas by merchants from all over the world, making Pingjiang prosperous and strong.