In ancient times, Mengzhou was in the northwest of Henan Province.

Mengzhou City is affiliated to Jiaozuo City, Henan Province and serves as a county-level city for Jiaozuo City. Located in the northwest of Henan Province, bordering Taihang to the north and the Yellow River to the south, Mengzhou was a fiefdom of the Mengtu clan in the Xia Dynasty and was called the Mengtu Kingdom.

During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, it was the hinterland of Ji. King Wu Ji of Zhou attacked Zhou and gathered eight hundred princes at the ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River, so it was called Mengjin, also known as Fupingjin. At the beginning of Zhou Dynasty, it was called alliance and direction.

Qin belongs to the northern part of Sanchuan County and is part of Heyong County. In the fifth year of Emperor Yuanfeng's reign, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty divided the country into thirteen tribes, which were first called Heyang County and subordinated to Hanoi County. Afterwards, it changed its name several times in the past thousand years, and was called Heting County, Daji County, Gudan County, Mengzhou, etc.

In the third year of Huichang reign of Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty, Heyang was promoted to Mengzhou, and the five counties of Heyang, Jiyuan, Wen, Sishui and Heyin were subordinated to Hebei Province. In the early Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, it was still Mengzhou and led two counties: Wen and Jiyuan.

In the tenth year of Hongwu, the prefecture was changed into a county, and it was first called Meng County. Meng County was liberated for the first time on September 4, 1945, and for the last time on July 7, 1947. On May 20, 1996, with the approval of the State Council, Meng County was removed from the county and established as a city, and Mengzhou City was established, with the area under its jurisdiction remaining unchanged.

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Mengzhou City has 376,000 acres of cultivated land. It closely adheres to the guiding ideology of overall coordination, recycling and comprehensive utilization, and actively implements ecological agriculture and green agriculture construction. Adjust industrial structure and promote agricultural science and technology.

The city's year-round summer grain area is about 250,000 acres, of which high-quality wheat has grown from scratch to 81,900 acres in the past two years. The autumn grain area is 160,000 acres, of which 120,000 acres are high-quality corn. The year-round planting area of ??peanuts is 8 Thousands of acres.

The annual cotton planting area is more than 30,000 acres, the grain-to-economic ratio reaches 5.5:4.5, and the coverage rate of improved varieties reaches 100%. It has become an advanced city in agricultural production, a science and technology demonstration city, a grain ton county, and a wheat ton county in Henan Province. City, etc., forming a plain area dominated by high-quality special grains.

The Yellow River Beach District mainly exports cash crops such as vegetables to earn foreign exchange, while the Ling District focuses on famous and high-quality fruits. The existing fruit area in Mengzhou City is nearly 100,000 acres. In recent years, the structure of the fruit industry has Adjustments will be gradually made to optimize early- to mid-ripening apples and famous and high-quality small fruits.

Introduced more than 10 medium-early ripening apple varieties such as American No. 8, Shanxia, ??Anglin, and Aohong, and introduced more than 20 new varieties of small mixed fruits such as greenhouse grapes, plums, large cherries, pear dates, and winter dates. Three major bases have been built successively.

It is the 30,000-acre high-quality fruit production base of the Quality Inspection Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, the 10,000-acre green food production base and the Henan Province Export and Foreign Exchange Demonstration Base. Apple has registered the Heyang Pearl trademark, and the main cultivars are New Red Star and Red Star. Fuji and Huaguan were rated as high-quality products by the Quality Inspection Center of the Ministry of Agriculture.

New Red Star and Red Fuji were designated as green foods by the China Green Food Development Center, and were issued high-quality product certificates and green food certificates. At the Kunming World Horticultural Exposition in 1999, the two apple varieties Wanglin and New Red Star selected by Mengzhou were awarded the World Expo Bronze Medal respectively.

Baidu Encyclopedia—Mengzhou