Fan Shi is located in the northeast of Shaanxi Province. Hengshan Mountain, one of the "Five Mountains" in the north, borders Yingxian County and Hunyuan, Wutai Mountain, one of the "Four Famous Buddhist Mountains" in the south, Lingqiu County and Fuping County in Hebei Province in the east and Daixian County in the west. Fan Shi is high in the northeast and low in the southwest, surrounded by mountains in the east, south and north, and the Hutuo River Basin in the middle is the marginal part of the Ding Xin Basin. Fan Shi has a semi-arid continental climate in the north temperate zone, with an average annual temperature of 6.5℃, a frost-free period of about 130 days, a precipitation of about 400 mm, and a total area of 2,368 square kilometers, which governs 3 towns 10 townships. Fan Shi has many mountains, wide slopes and large beaches, and is rich in land resources, plant resources and mineral resources. 769,000 mu of cultivated land, with 3.3 mu of cultivated land per capita; The forest area is 210.7 million mu, and the natural grazing slope is10.3 million mu. Copper and gold reserves rank first in the province. It now governs 3 towns, 18 townships, 40 1 administrative villages, and 1998 has a total population of 235,000, including 32,000 non-agricultural population, 203,000 agricultural population and 69,000 labor force.