As a county-level city in Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, Helen City is like a bright pearl embedded in the middle of Heilongjiang Province, with a continental climate of cold temperate zone, distinct seasons and concentrated precipitation. It covers an area of 4,667 square kilometers and has a population of 800,000, of which the urban population is 65,438+300,000, ranking second in both population and area in cities and counties in Heilongjiang Province. Helen City was developed during the Jin and Liao Dynasties. In 19 12, Helen County was established. In 1989, it was approved by the State Council to withdraw from the county and set up a city. Now it is divided into 7 towns 16 townships, with 4 million mu of cultivated land, 5 rivers, 5 large and medium-sized reservoirs and 6 state-owned forest farms, which are rich in resources. In recent years, Helen's spiritual civilization construction has developed in step with other undertakings. With the rapid development of science and technology, education, culture and health, people's ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural level have been greatly improved. Helen has a good public security situation, and is a city and county with a low criminal incidence rate in northern Heilongjiang Province.
resources
Helen is rich in resources and is one of the three black lands in the world. It is called "granary". Five rivers, such as Tongken River, Yinke River and Hailun River, cross the east and west, and five large and medium-sized reservoirs, such as Dongfanghong and Lianfeng, and more than 30 small reservoirs are dotted around. The western plain is rich in soybean, corn, rice and other food crops and cash crops such as flax and flue-cured tobacco. The northern mountainous area is rich in timber such as Korean pine and poplar, Chinese herbal medicines such as licorice and codonopsis pilosula, and mountain products such as Hericium erinaceus and bracken. There are abundant mineral resources such as coal, placer gold and mineral water underground.
economy
In order to strengthen the opening up, promote the in-depth development of resources and improve the product and industrial structure, the Helen Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government designated 1999 as the "year of promoting ideological emancipation and attracting investment", further improved the preferential policies for attracting investment based on the principle of mutual benefit, put forward the slogan that "investors are gods, investors are heroes, and government officials are public servants", and promised that all procedures involving merchants to invest in our city would be "one window open to the outside world". Helen is a famous production base of commodity grain, forest and livestock products in China, and one of the three bases of comprehensive scientific experiment of agricultural modernization in China. From 65438 to 0958, Helen obtained the certificate issued by Premier Zhou Enlai and became an advanced agricultural socialist unit. Its rich high-protein soybeans are exported to more than ten countries and regions in the world, and it is known as the "hometown of soybeans". It ranked 84th among 100 counties with the highest agricultural added value, and 1995 was rated as the national advanced city in grain production. 197, the total grain output was 2.67 billion Jin, ranking 13 among the 100 major grain-producing counties in China.
Since the Eighth Five-Year Plan, Helen has adjusted its industrial structure and increased its capital investment. It has formed an industrial layout with complete categories and reasonable structure, such as sugar making, deep processing of agricultural and sideline products, plastic packaging, chemical industry, medicine, agricultural machinery, building materials, food, brewing, flax, flue-cured tobacco, machinery and electronics, dairy products, etc. There are more than 100 kinds of high-quality industrial products. Industrial products and series of agricultural machinery products such as vibration aging machine, baby sugar, plastic products, Helen milk powder, salad oil and Fengshan Laocun wine sell well in domestic and foreign markets. 1997 the total industrial output value reached 106 billion yuan.
There are more than a dozen large shopping malls in the city, among which Polaris Market, Commercial Building and Helen 100 are the larger comprehensive shopping malls in the north of Suihua. The first phase of Polaris Market, Grain Wholesale Market and Northern Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Market developed by 1998 has been put into use. Rural areas have achieved a large collection of villages and towns. In terms of foreign trade and economic cooperation, the export supply to Russia from 65438 to 0998 reached more than 70 million yuan. Helen was identified as one of the cities and counties with 14 strong economic strength and the greatest radiation by the provincial party committee and government.
traffic
Helen has convenient transportation, Wang Hai Highway runs through the east and west, and Harbin-Heilongjiang Highway and Binbei Railway run through the north and south of the city. The telecommunications industry is developed, with 10,000 program-controlled telephones reaching the international advanced level, long-distance telephones entering the international live broadcast network, mobile phones and paging systems covering the whole city, and "127" automatic paging has realized ten-digit dialing, with voice credit function, forming a modern communication system and integrated information transmission system; The power supply is sufficient, and the capacity of the main transformer is 63 thousand KVA, which provides sufficient power for industrial and agricultural production and people's life in the city; Good heating and water supply conditions. The existing heating plants No.1, No.2 and No.3 provide reliable guarantee for the city's winter heating and industrial heat use. At the same time, it also has 3000 cubic meters of daily treatment water purification system equipment, which ensures the city's production and living water. The city is clean and tidy, and there are many tall buildings in the city. The main streets are all white, and the city meets the requirements of greening, beautification, fragrance and purification.
Special purpose
Helen's paper-cutting is well-known at home and abroad, and is known as the "hometown of paper-cutting". There are the famous Catholic Church in Haibei Town, Sansheng Palace in Hehe Town and Longhai Temple in Nanxing Township. Xijiao Park covers an area of 20 hectares, with complete facilities and pleasant scenery for tourists to visit. The scenic Dongfanghong Reservoir tourist area is a good place to enjoy a paradise. Helen's catering service industry is developed, and the post and telecommunications training center hotel integrates guest rooms, catering, bathing and entertainment, and has reached the star standard.
administrative division
1989 county-level Helen city was established with the approval of the State Council.
Helen now has jurisdiction over 23 towns and villages, namely: Helen, Qianjin,,, Lindong, Dongfeng, Hainan, * * Rong, Xiangfu, Haixing, Fumin, Fengshan, Yongfu, Lunhe, Baixiang, Lianfa, * * He Town and Lianfa.
202 1, 1, in 2020, the ranking of influential counties in rural revitalization communication was released, and Helen ranked 54th.
In August, 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs selected Helen as the pilot county of "internet plus" agricultural products leaving the village and entering the city.
In June 2020, Helen City was included in the second batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization counties (Northeast Anti-Japanese Joint Forces Area).
In April 2020, Helen was included in the list of counties (cities, districts) with basically balanced development of compulsory education in China in 20 19.
20 19,110/0, the Ministry of Water Resources announced the second batch of counties (districts) that reached the standard for the construction of water-saving society, and Helen was on the list.
From 2065438+2009 10, Helen was named as the national "Four Good Rural Roads" demonstration county.
20 19, 19 In June, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recognized Helen as the third batch of demonstration counties (cities, districts) in China that took the lead in basically realizing the whole mechanization of major crop production.
2065438+In August 2008, Helen won the honor of the fourth batch of advanced units in legal counties and cities in China.
In 2004, Helen ranked 32nd among the top 100 counties of grain production in China.