Pingyuan county is located in the middle of Dezhou city. It governs 8 towns, 1 township and 3 streets, with a total area of 1047 square kilometers. Pingyuan County has successively won the honorary titles of national advanced grain production county, national advanced ecological civilization county and national best city management people's satisfaction award, and successfully created a provincial garden city, civilized city and sanitary city.

Pingyuan County is located in four strategic overlapping areas: the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development zone, the Bohai Economic Circle, the economic circle of the provincial capital city group and the "one area, two circles and one belt" in the western economic uplift zone of the province. It has the geographical advantage of "connecting the east with the west and connecting the south with the north", with "six vertical and three horizontal" backbone rivers and 1 100 km water transmission and distribution backbone network with a total storage capacity of 36.99 million cubic meters.

Climate characteristics of Pingyuan county;

Pingyuan county belongs to the continental monsoon climate zone of warm temperate zone and semi-warm temperate zone, and has obvious continental climate characteristics. There are four distinct seasons in the territory, with obvious dry and wet seasons, dry and windy in spring, hot and humid and rainy in summer, cool in autumn and dry and cold in winter with little rain and snow. In the growing season of crops, sufficient sunshine and heat are beneficial to the development of agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry.

However, severe weather such as drought, waterlogging, hail, dry hot wind, continuous rain and frost occur from time to time, which has a certain impact on agricultural production. The average annual precipitation is 535mm, and it is dry, windy and rainy in spring (March-May). Summer (June to August) is characterized by hot and humid weather. Autumn (September ~165438+1October) is the transitional season of atmospheric circulation; Winter (12 ~ February) is dry and cold with little rain and snow.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Pingyuan County