Lingbao is located in the west of Henan Province, at the junction of Henan and Qin Jin provinces, and borders on seven counties including Luonan and Tongguan in Shaanxi Province, Ruicheng and Pinglu in Shanxi Province, Shanxian, Luoning and Lushi in Henan Province. The planting area of fruit trees is 600,000 mu. Among them, there are 500,000 mu of apples with an annual output of 550 million kilograms. In the national appraisal, Red Fuji, New Red Star and other varieties 10 have won the championship for many times, which is the production base and export base of high-quality apples determined by the state. Fruit production is the pillar industrial mineral deposits in this city, and there are as many as 38 proven species, especially gold, silver, copper, lead, pyrite, marble, granite and graphite. The annual output of gold is more than 202,000 yuan, ranking second at the county level in the country year after year, and it is a gold production base determined by the state; Pyrite is abundant and of high quality, with proven reserves of 4892 1 10,000 tons and sulfur content of over 37%. Lingbao is known as "City of Gold" and "Kingdom of Sulfur and Iron".