Lichuan City is located in the westernmost part of Hubei Province, with Xiaoxiang in the south, Sichuan and Chongqing in the west and the Three Gorges in the north. Qingjiang River runs across the territory from west to east, with Pingchuan dam and hills embedded on both sides. It is a favorable river, hence the name "Lichuan". The average elevation of the city is 1 100 meters, with a total population of 840,000. There are 18 ethnic groups, mainly Tujia and Miao, who live and multiply on 4,602 square kilometers of land. It is the largest and most populous county-level city in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. Lichuan has a unique climate and rich resources, including tobacco leaves, grasslands, hydropower, wind energy, natural gas, minerals and tourism resources. Known as the hometown of dam paint, Huanglian, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, pure vegetables, yam and song and dance. There are 43 kinds of proven mineral resources, including 9.867 billion cubic meters of natural gas, 65.438+0.44 billion tons of gypsum, 2 million cubic meters of reefs, 3.65438+0.3 million kilowatts of hydropower resources and 800,000 kilowatts of wind energy resources. There is a cave in the territory-Tenglong Cave, the largest cave in the world; Village A-Yumu Village, the most intact Tujia ancient village in the world; A tree-the "Metasequoia King" known as the living fossil of plants; A well-the national key cultural relics protection unit ancient buildings fell in Dashuijing Ancient Buildings ancient buildings; A song, one of the world's 25 outstanding folk songs, sings the Dragon Boat Song, which is mounted in the Vienna Hall of the World Art Hall. There are many mountains here-vast, beautiful ecology, no heat in summer and no cold in winter, which is most suitable for human survival and makes people linger. It is a unique treasure and a hot land to be developed urgently!
Since the reform and opening up, especially since the city was founded 20 years ago, the people of Lichuan have changed the world with diligence and wisdom. The economy has advanced by leaps and bounds, social undertakings have flourished, people's lives have improved steadily, and industrial systems such as tobacco leaves, energy, medicine, building materials and food have been formed, and they have won the honor of "My favorite famous city in western China". Now, on the road of building a well-off society in an all-round way, we are seizing the opportunity of the construction of Yiwan Railway, Lifu Railway and Shanghai-Chengdu-West Expressway, the strategy of developing the western region of China and the rise of the central region, and implementing the catch-up development strategy of revitalizing the city by industry, establishing the city by projects and strengthening the city by tourism, so as to build a strong, energetic and charming Sichuan and build a strong, rich and beautiful western city of China.
geographical position
Lichuan City is located in the southwest corner of Hubei, bordering Enshi City in the east, Xianfeng County in the south, Qianjiang and Pengshui County in Chongqing in the southwest, and Shizhu County, Wanzhou, Yunyang and Fengjie in Chongqing in the west to the north. The ground span is from east longitude 108 2 1' to north latitude 109 18' to 29 42' 30 39'. It is 92km wide from east to west and105km long from north to south, with a total area of 4,602km.
administrative division
Lichuan City has jurisdiction over 14 townships, towns, offices and development zones (with ethnic and religious affairs offices), 575 villages, 6,830 villagers' groups, 234 100 households and 823,340 people. There are Tujia, Miao, Dong, Zhuang, Tibetan, She, Bai, Mongolian, Yi and Manchu1/kloc-0 ethnic groups with a population of 376,853, accounting for 46% of the city's total population. Among them: Tujia 3 1 1558, accounting for 38% of the total population of the city, Miao 60906, accounting for 7% of the total population of the city, and other ethnic minorities 4389, accounting for 0.5% of the total population of the city. There are 54 national trading enterprises and 2 national special products manufacturing enterprises (National Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and National Foundry) in the city. There are 14 ethnic primary and secondary schools (1/ethnic middle schools and 3 ethnic primary schools), with students 17090 and 94/kloc-0 staff. Among them, Wendu Township is mostly Tujia and Miao, which is very distinctive.
Climatic conditions
Lichuan City has a subtropical continental monsoon climate. Because of the ups and downs of mountains, deep gullies, different altitudes and obvious climate differences, it is a typical mountain climate. In summer, there is no heat, cloudy and foggy, less sunshine, abundant rainfall and humid air. The low mountain area below 800 meters above sea level has four distinct seasons, warm in winter and hot in summer. Annual average temperature 1 6.7℃, annual precipitation 1300 ~ 1600 mm, sunshine hours 1409.2 hours. The second alpine zone at an altitude of 800- 1200m is characterized by wet and rainy days in late spring and early autumn, less sunshine, annual average temperature 12.3℃, frost-free period of 232 days, annual precipitation 1200- 1400mm and sunshine hours/. The alpine region above the altitude of 1200m has a cold climate, long winter and short summer, heavy snowstorm, easy waterlogging and less drought, annual average temperature of1.1℃, frost-free period of 2 10 days, and annual precipitation of 1378mm. The main disastrous climate includes: low temperature, continuous rain, drought, rainstorm and flood, gale and hail, etc. The main characteristics of Lichuan climate are: insufficient light, low heat, abundant precipitation and obvious climate difference.
202 1, 1, in 2020, the ranking of influential counties in rural revitalization communication was released, and Lichuan City ranked 457th.
On February 2, 2020, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the second batch of national tourism demonstration zones, and Lichuan City was on the list.
On June165438+1October 12, 2020, the list of the top 100 counties and cities with county tourism development potential in China was announced, and Lichuan City was on the list.
On May 8, 2020, the second batch of agricultural products quality and safety counties in Hubei Province were released, and Lichuan City was on the list.
From 2065438 to March 2009, Lichuan City was included in the list of the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization counties (Xiangxi, western Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou).
On February 22nd, 20 18, Lichuan City was included in the list of counties (cities, districts) with basically balanced development of compulsory education in China in 20 17.
20 17 February 24th, 17 The first batch of food safety demonstration counties in Hubei Province were announced, and Lichuan City was shortlisted.
20 17, 17127 October, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development named Lichuan as 20 17 National Garden City.