Shan County has a long history and was inhabited by human beings as early as the Neolithic Age. It is one of the birthplaces of the Yellow River civilization in northern China. During the Three Kingdoms period, Shan County was subordinate to Cao Wei and was an important military fortress. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Shan County was a gathering place for local chieftains, a county under the jurisdiction of Kyushu, and was later placed in Hebei Province.

During the Qing Dynasty, Shanxian became an influential commercial city, which developed as rapidly as Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai at that time. 20 1 1 Shan County became the first county-level economic county in China. Its traditional industries are agriculture and mining, but with the development of modernization, other fields are gradually emerging, such as chemical industry, machinery and food processing.

Shan county is rich in natural resources, rich in coal, gypsum, marble and other mineral deposits, as well as fertile soil along the Yellow River, so agricultural development is very active. It is rich in corn, wheat, soybeans, peanuts, apples and other crops, and animal husbandry is also the main source of livelihood for farmers.

Terrain of single county

Shan county belongs to the alluvial plain of the Yellow River, and the south of the county borders on the old course of the Yellow River. Historically, due to the influence of flood and alluvial of the Yellow River, six types of micro-landforms have been formed: rivers, beaches, hills, slopes and depressions. The county is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, with the highest elevation of 59 meters and the lowest elevation of 39.5 meters. The southern edge of the county is the bottom of the old Yellow River, with low terrain.

In flood years, banded or hoofed swamps with different lengths are often formed, with a total area of 24.5 square kilometers. Along the north of the old river bottom and south of the Yellow River levee, it is a beach area deposited by the Yellow River floodplain, with a higher terrain, which is about 58 meters higher than the back channel depression in the north of the beach area, with a total area of 139.84 square kilometers. Back channel depression 48 square kilometers.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Shan County