The topography of Henan province is north-south, connecting east and west, with high topography in the west and low topography in the east, which is composed of plains and basins, mountains, hills and water surfaces. The land spans four major river basins: Yellow River, Huaihe River and Yangtze River. Most of them are located in the warm temperate zone, and the south is subtropical, which belongs to the continental monsoon climate of transition from the north subtropical zone to the warm temperate zone; Henan is located at the junction of coastal open areas and central and western regions, which is the middle zone of China's economic development from east to west. Henan province governs 17 prefecture-level cities, 1 county-level cities, 20 county-level cities, 82 counties and 54 municipal districts? .
Henan, located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, is one of the cradles of ancient civilization in China, where human beings lived and multiplied at the latest 500,000 years ago. Seven or eight thousand years ago, during the Peiligang cultural period, handicrafts such as agriculture, animal husbandry and pottery were already produced here; By the middle and late period of Longshan culture more than 4,000 years ago, the Central Plains had entered the era of combining stone and copper, and private ownership and class sprouted.