Ningyang County, Taian City, Shandong Province

Ningyang County is located in the west of central Shandong Province and the south of Tai 'an City. It borders Mount Tai, the statue of the Five Mountains in the north, Qufu, the hometown of Confucius in the south, and Liangshan, Shui Bo in the west, with a total area of 1 125 square kilometers, and governs 567 administrative villages in 2 townships, 9 towns and 2 streets. The territory is high in the east and low in the west, with low mountains and hills in the east and plains in the west. The main landform types are low mountains, hills, plains and water surfaces. The highest peak in the territory is Fengxian Mountain in the east, with an altitude of 608 meters; The lowest point is Hu Mao Nanwa in Shudong Town, with an altitude of 46 meters. There are 146 peaks with an area of 138 square kilometers; Hills are mostly distributed around low mountains, with an altitude of 70-200 meters and an area of 432 square kilometers; Dahe 15, with a total length of 204.6 kilometers and a drainage area of10210.3 square kilometers, belongs to the Yellow River, Huaihe River and Wenhe River systems. Total area 1 125 square kilometers. The county seat is 56 kilometers away from Taishan, 25 kilometers away from Qufu and 40 kilometers away from Liangshan, Shui Bo. It is located in the tourist triangle center of Taishan, Qufu and Liangshan in Shui Bo. With a population of 804,000, the territory is high in the east and low in the west, with low mountains and hills in the east and plains in the west. The main landform types are low mountains, hills, plains and water surfaces. Ningyang county belongs to a warm temperate humid seasonal climate zone, with four distinct seasons throughout the year.

The transportation in Ningyang County is developed, and the Beijing-Shanghai and Lai Ci railways pass through the territory. The Beijing-Fuzhou Expressway, the National Highway 104 and the Jiwei Highway run through the north and south, the Mengguan Highway runs through the east and west, and the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway passes through the territory. County and township highways extend in all directions, with a highway mileage of 6 14.5 km. All counties and townships have opened optical fiber communication, and the installed capacity of program-controlled telephones has reached 1 17500. There are 1 power plant, 2 thermal power plants and 2 urban water supply companies in the county. The complete transformation task of power grid can meet the needs of rapid economic and social development.

Ningyang County, with a cultivated land area of 60,300 hectares, is the main grain, cotton and oil producing area in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain. More than 30 kinds of metallic and nonmetallic minerals have been preliminarily proved in the county, including 500 million tons of high-quality coal, 50 million cubic meters of granite and 8.6 million tons of potash feldspar, which has high development value. There is a famous Dawenkou cultural site in magnetic kiln town. In order to open wider to the outside world and speed up development, Ningyang County has planned and built two economic and technological development zones, namely, Baxian Bridge, which covers an area of 10 square kilometers, and the magnetic kiln, which covers an area of 20 square kilometers. Baxianqiao Economic and Technological Development Zone is located in the county seat, and Ciyao Economic and Technological Development Zone is located on both sides of Beijing, Fuzhou and expressway. Convenient transportation, water, electricity and other infrastructure and commercial, medical, educational, entertainment and other service facilities provide convenient conditions for Chinese and foreign businessmen to invest, produce and live.

Ningyang county has initially formed an industrial system with complete categories and reasonable structure, with chemicals, coal, machinery, textiles, building materials and agricultural and sideline products processing as the pillars. There are 57 industrial enterprises above designated size in the county. Shandong Huayang Pesticide Chemical Group has a production facility of 20,000 tons/year of Shennongdan (aldicarb), which is the second in the world and the only one in Asia. Shandong Haihua Kuixing Chemical Company has an annual production scale of 32,000 tons of melamine, which is the largest production base in China and its products are exported to more than 20 countries and regions. Ningyang County is a major grain-producing county, an oil-producing county and an advanced county in plain greening in China. It is listed as the eight major commodity production bases of grain, cotton, peanuts, vegetables, improved varieties, sericulture, red dates and Luxi yellow cattle by the state, provinces and cities. The total output of vegetables is 500,000 tons, and there are more than 50 varieties of vegetable seed production, of which cucumber seed production accounts for 70% of the national total demand; Ningyang jujube has a long history and is well-known at home and abroad, with an annual output of 10 million kilograms, which has been designated as "health jujube" by the Ministry of Health.