On June 23, 2000, the State Council approved the revocation of Heze area and county-level Heze city and the establishment of prefecture-level Heze city. Heze City has established Peony District, with the county-level administrative area of Heze City as the administrative area of Peony District. Heze City governs Juancheng County, Shan County, Yuncheng County, Cao County, Dingtao County, Juye County, Dongming County, Chengwu and the newly established Peony District (1 8 counties in the district) in the former Heze area. 200 1 1 8 Heze city was formally established.
In 2000, according to the data of the fifth national census, the total population of Heze City was 8,097,973. In which: Mudan District 128003 1 Caoxian County 1335422 Shan County 105070 1 Chengwu 596339 Juye County 839438 Yuncheng County10250. Unit: person)
As of June 65438+February 3, 20021,there were 8 streets in the city, 108 towns and 42 townships.
Heze historical and cultural legends and allusions
Heze, the famous hometown of peony in China, is known as the hometown of peony, calligraphy and painting, drama and martial arts. The historical and cultural landscape here is splendid. Up to now, there are still more than 0/00 places of interest such as Tomb, Chiyou Tomb, Chenwangtai, Lake, Sun Bin's hometown and Summer Resort.
Heze culture has a long history, and there are Neolithic Longshan cultural sites in all counties (districts) of China. Tang Yao, Yu Shun and Dayu, famous in history, have left many relics here. The evolution of architecture in history can be traced back to BC17th century. Shang dynasty (about BC 16-BC 1 1 century) had three kingdoms (in the middle of today's territory), Xin kingdom (between today's Dingtao and Cao county), Gu kingdom and Li kingdom (between today's Juancheng and Yuncheng). The Western Zhou Dynasty (about BC1/century-BC 77 1 year) was under the jurisdiction of Cao (Tao Dou), Gao, Xu, Lu, Wei and Song.