Zitong Town is located in the west of Chun 'an County, Zhejiang Province, 3 1 km away from the county seat, bordering Qiandao Lake in the east, Dongting and Jiangjia towns in the south, Guocun Township in the west and Fu Nan and Jiukeng towns in the north. Agriculture is mainly based on grain production, and also engaged in agricultural economy such as tea, sericulture and dried fruit. Silk reeling, textile, cement, mining and food processing are the main industries. From 65438 to 0998, the comprehensive economic strength of villages and towns ranked seventh in the county.

Zitong Town covers an area of 153.6 square kilometers, forest area of1850,000 mu, cultivated land of 8775 mu, and forest coverage rate of 85%. Zitong River is the mainstream in China, which originates from Shimentang and Yinshan Mountain at the source of Zitong, flows through 30 administrative villages in China, with a total length of 26 kilometers, and flows into Qiandao Lake from west to east. Hengyuan River is the main tributary of Zitong River, with a total length of 7 kilometers. In addition, there is Longyuanxi, which originates from Tongling Corner and flows into Jiangjia Town through Longchuan Village. The mountains in the town are mainly distributed in the west and north, and the terrain is inclined from west to east. The mountains are continuous and the peaks are undulating. The top of the ocean is the highest mountain in China, 935 meters above sea level. There are Yinshan Temple, Stone Man and Horse, Fairy Cave, Wenjialing and other natural and cultural landscapes in the territory, which have tourism development value.

Zitong Town is a strong town with beneficial agriculture. By adjusting and optimizing the agricultural structure and vigorously developing the benefit agriculture, a new pattern of benefit agriculture of "sericulture scale, tea intensification, sweet potato industrialization and hickory base" has been formed, and four massive economies with strong development momentum and distinctive regional characteristics have been formed. By 2003, mulberry fields in the town covered an area of 5,353 mu, producing famous tea1310.2 tons, with an output value of1/kloc-0.035 million yuan and sweet potato area of/kloc-0.000 mu. The annual output of starch is 3500 tons, with an output value of 8.4 million yuan; The planting area of Carya cathayensis is 20,000 mu, which has become a new leading agricultural industry in Zitong. In 2003, the total agricultural output value was 73.55 million yuan, an increase of 6% over the previous year.

Zitong Town is also one of the nine key industrial towns in the county. There are 93 industrial enterprises, including 3 town-run enterprises, 70 village-run enterprises and 20 private enterprises. 450 individual industrial and commercial households. The main industrial enterprises are Zitong Silk Factory, Jindanlai Weaving Factory, Qiandao Lake Tianying Green Food Co., Ltd., Zitongyuan Food Factory, Chun Er Cement Factory and Zitong Concentrator. In 2003, the industrial investment was 2 1 10,000 yuan, and three new industrial enterprises were established, achieving an industrial output value of 330 million yuan, an increase of 28% over the previous year, a sales tax of 2.246 million yuan, an increase of 1. 1%, and an industrial profit of 5 million yuan, an increase of 66.6%.

Zitong Town has developed economy and rich products. The main industrial products are white factory silk, silk products, cement and prefabricated parts, mineral products, vermicelli and so on. Zitong is rich in mineral resources, and there are nonferrous metals such as gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc in the territory, with high grade and great mining value. Zitong is an advanced town of benefit agriculture in the county, with cocoon, famous tea, sweet potato vermicelli and pecan as its main specialties.

Zitong enjoys convenient land and water transportation, and the highway reaches Qiandaohu Town, Hangzhou and Shexian County in Anhui Province in the east and Quzhou and Huangshan City in Anhui Province in the west. Land and water can reach Qiandao Lake and Shexian County, Anhui Province. Zitong has a long history and culture, and is known as "a country with beautiful scenery and famous literature". Zitong is the hometown of Chen Shuozhen, the female leader of peasant uprising in Tang Dynasty and the first female emperor of China. There is Chen Shuozhen's former residence in Grange and the ancient battlefield "Wenjialing". Zitong Cixi Cunhu was a scholar in the orthodox period of Ming Dynasty, and once served as an official in Shangshu, Ministry of Industry. The source of Zitong Mountain is Wansuiling, where Zhu Yuanzhang stationed troops at the end of Yuan Dynasty, and there are sites such as "strike while the iron is hot", "training ground" and "stone array". Zitong is also an old revolutionary base area. During World War II, Meng Jie Village was once the seat of Zitong District Committee. These humanistic histories are of great value to the development of humanistic landscape tourism, and they are unique historical resources for Zitong to develop tourism projects that are compatible with Qiandao Lake tourism.