Hejiang County

Hejiang (Chinese: 合江; pinyin: Héjiāng) is a county in the southeast of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Guizhou province to the south and Chongqing Municipality to the north and northeast. It is under the administration of Luzhou city.

Hejiang County

合江县

Ho-chiang, Hokiang
County
Location of Hejiang County (red) in Luzhou City (yellow) and Sichuan province
Hejiang
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Coordinates: 28°47′N 105°54′E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceSichuan
Prefecture-level cityLuzhou
Area
 • Total2,422 km2 (935 sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

History

Hejiang County has a history over 2100 years. The county was built in 115 BC during the Han Dynasty of China[1] and was one of the three oldest counties in the upper Yangtze river area. Hejiang is one of the nation's counties with more than thousand years history, it was first incorporated as Fu County (符县) 115 BC, under the prefecture of Jianwei (犍为郡).

Geography
Map including Hejiang (labeled as 合江 HO-CHIANG (HOKIANG) (walled)) (AMS, 1954)

There are many historical ruin and relics, the Shengbicheng fortress which the song dynasty army withstood the Mongol attack for 34 years; Stone cave shelter in FubaoTown; Han dynasty coffin. Ancient towns, Yaoba and Fuabo are listed as national history and culture towns in 2007 and 2009. Many historical background films and plays were filmed there.

Hejiang's fertile land produces rice and many other grains and plants, especially lychee, the most famous fruit giving from the nature. With the unique climate, weather and rainfall, outputs of lychee there one month or more later than the coastal province of Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, and Fujian.

The county bordering with Chongqing Municipality and Guizhou Province, Fubao Nation Forest Park in Hejiang, Simian Mountain in Chongqing's Jiangjin, and Chishui National Scenic Spot in Guizhou, made up the tourism gold corner, highways and tourism infrastructural facilities are under construction. It will be quickly accessible from Chongqing, Luzhou or Guiyang.

The G93 national expressway connected the small city with Chongqing without one hour's journey. Plants are built along the Changjiang river. This land is changing from traditional farming to industry. Inhabitants dwell in the town Hejiang, or the county seat nearly 200,000 already. According to the city-planning of Sichuan, it will be home to more than 300,000 people.

Population

As of 2016, the county had a population of 900,000.[2]

Adjacent county-level divisions

Climate

See also

References
  1. Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
  3. 中国地面气候标准值月值(1981-2010) (in Chinese). China Meteorological Data Service Center. Retrieved 20 October 2018.


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