Zizhong County is located in the middle of Sichuan Basin, bordering Dongxing District and Anyue County in the east, Weiyuan County in the south, Renshou County in the west and Yanjiang District in Ziyang in the north. Zizhong is located in the middle reaches of Tuojiang River, 40 kilometers away from Chengdu/Kloc-0. Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway, National Highway 32 1, chengdu-chongqing railway and Tuojiang River run through the whole territory. 199 1 was approved by the provincial government as the only provincial-level historical and cultural city along Chengdu-Chongqing. Zizhong is located at104 27 ′ to105 07 ′ east longitude and 29 34 ′ to 30 02 ′ north latitude. It is located in the "heart" of Sichuan Basin, in the southeast of Chengdu and in the middle of Tuojiang River. It is under the jurisdiction of Neijiang City. It is adjacent to Dongxing District and Shizhong District of Neijiang City in the east, Weiyuan County in the south, Renshou County of Meishan City in the west, Yanjiang District and Anyue County of ziyang City in the north. The county covers an area of 1734 square kilometers, including 68 1000 hectares of cultivated land. Mineral resources are rich in natural resources. The known mineral resources in the county mainly include coal, natural gas, brine, placer gold, limestone, quartz sand, refractory clay, mineral water, building sand and river sand. These resources, except mineral water (which has been identified as "high-quality natural mineral water for drinking lithium, strontium and bromine" by the provincial mines), have been developed and utilized due to lack of funds. Among them, the coal production capacity is nearly 6.5438 million tons, and the limestone production capacity is nearly 3 million tons. The development and utilization of natural gas is still in the primary stage. Zizhong County is a timber-producing county in key forest areas in central Sichuan, with a forest area of 620,000 mu, including 345,000 mu of shelterbelts and timber forests dominated by Pinus massoniana, Pinus elliottii, Cupressus mexicana and Oriental cypress, 654.38+0.05 million mu of bamboo forests, and 654 mu of economic forests dominated by ponkan, navel orange, ponkan, loquat, chestnut, pomelo peach and Huang Huali. The county's forest coverage rate is 25.8%. There are more than 80 rivers in Zizhong County, 7 of which have a basin area exceeding 100km 2, and the Tuojiang River reaches 86km. General situation of colleges ① Normal schools in secondary schools. The school was founded in 19 15 years, and has trained more than 1 10,000 educators and other construction talents in the past 85 years. In recent years, the school has resolutely turned to general education, running junior high school classes, senior high school classes and junior college classes. ② Zizhong County Teacher Training School. Founded in 1956, it has 74 faculty members, including 3 senior lecturers/kloc-0 and 23 lecturers, with complete teaching facilities. There are specialized training courses in Chinese, mathematics, politics, electronics, computer and other specialties, secondary normal schools and vocational high schools, as well as continuing education training courses for cadres and teachers in primary and secondary schools. Perennial registered students 1500 people. Economic Development Zone Zizhong County Economic Development Zone in Sichuan Province is located in the south of Zizhong County, and was approved by the provincial government as a provincial development zone in June 1998+00. The controlled planning area of the development zone is 10 square kilometer, and 500 million yuan has been invested to build 2.5 square kilometers. In the built-up area, roads and pipelines have formed a network, water, electricity, gas, postal services and other infrastructure are basically complete, and more than 300 enterprises of various types have settled in. With the shift of the county center of gravity to the south, this district will become the political, economic, cultural and commercial center of the county before 2005. Tarocco tarocco, a local specialty, is the largest strain of blood orange with large fruit and single fruit weight of 200-250g g. Its fruit has a smooth surface and a thin skin. The pulp juice is thick, tender and residue. There are few or no seeds. The soluble solids reached 12.8%, and the quality was excellent. Tulloch is an excellent variety of blood orange. When the fruit is ripe, the fruit surface is purple with purple spots, which is very beautiful. The pulp also has purple spots, and it tastes excellent and has a rose fragrance. Tarouco has a strong tree potential. Although it entered the fruiting period late, it is easy to enter the fruiting period if measures such as flower promotion, thinning and girdling are supplemented in the young tree period. Once the fruit began to bear fruit, the tree was relaxed and showed high stability. Generally, sweet oranges are listed in 10~ 1 1 month, but fresh fruits cannot be listed during the Spring Festival. Tarouco is approaching the maturity of the Spring Festival. As a fresh fruit, it will be deeply loved by consumers. Catfish catfish is commonly known as catfish beard, probably because its two long beards are so distinctive. Catfish mainly inhabit tropical and subtropical rivers, lakes, ponds, ditches and other places where aquatic plants flourish. Catfish are distributed in all major water systems in eastern China. Qiuxi lies between Chengdu and Chongqing. There is a local river called Qiuxi River, which is a tributary of Tuojiang River. It was originally rich in catfish. Now it has basically disappeared, because the upstream paper mills have polluted rivers, only in reservoirs, rivers and streams. Most local markets are farmed. The difference between wild catfish and cultured catfish is that wild catfish is green and cultured catfish is black. The planting area of loquat in Zizhong County is about 30,000 mu, with an annual output of about 20,000 tons. Zizhong Ganlu Loquat is golden in color, small in kernel and fleshy, tender and sweet, and has the function of clearing heart and moistening lung. Products are exported to all parts of the country, with an output value of 56 million yuan. Dong Jian Zizhong Dong Jian is made of loquat leaf vegetables (also called winter vegetables) unique to Zizhong. As early as the Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, it was a household name in China and exported to Beijing and Shanghai. In the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu, (190 1), after Luo Zhong won the first prize, the trustee brought two winter shoots to Beijing in his hometown and gave them to his colleagues. Sun Jiading, a great scholar, was full of praise after eating it, and praised it in a poem: "Loquat vegetables are picked from their tips, and there is a secret story of skillfully making fine pickles." Seasoned with a crown kitchen meal, Zizhou's winter tip is deserved. " So his reputation rose even more, and even Li came to ask for it and said, "Lafayette smells the fragrance." The winter tip in Zizhong is really fragrant. If you take two bags in your travel bag by train, it's not obvious to the south of Qinling, but it smells good when you get out of Qinling, and the carriages are full of incense. Some people are surprised when they come out of the outer compartment: "What smells so good!" Winter tip has a wide range of uses. It can be chopped with a knife and used as stuffing for jiaozi, steamed stuffed buns and wonton. Can be used as steamed meat, salted boiled white bottom dish; Can adjust soup; You can also chop the pork into pieces and stir-fry it with some distiller's yeast. It's delicious, and northerners who are afraid of spicy food like it best. 1957, Zizhong Dong Jian won the second place in the national pickles academic conference. 50 tons are exported by Guangzhou Import and Export Corporation 1958 and sold to Hong Kong and Southeast Asian countries; 1983 won the high-quality product award jointly issued by Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce and Provincial Economic Commission, and won the gold medal of Bashu Food Festival. The next dish at the tip of winter vegetables is called "Er Bao", which can be sliced and pickled into "vegetable skin" for seasoning. It is also a delicious snack.