Pingliang City is located at the intersection of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia provinces (districts). It governs Kongtong District and 6 counties: Jingchuan, Lingtai, Chongxin, Huating, Zhuanglang and Jingning, with a total area of ??1.1 10,000 square kilometers, with a total population of 2.2683 million and 18 ethnic groups including Han, Hui, Mongolian and Manchu. It is an important birthplace of the Chinese nation and Chinese civilization. The territory has unique location, convenient transportation, long history, splendid culture, good ecology, rich resources, beautiful scenery, simple folk customs, and has regional cultural characteristics of diversity, richness, tolerance and openness. National Highway 312 runs through the entire territory, the Baozhong Railway runs from north to south, the construction of Pingding Expressway and Xichangfeng Expressway has been accelerated, the Tianping Railway and Xiping Railway have started construction, and the Tianping Expressway and Baoping Expressway are about to start construction. The Taoist culture of Kongtong Mountain, the root-seeking culture of the Queen Mother of the West, the Buddhist culture of Dayun Temple, and the medical culture of Huangfu Mi are uniquely charming. Cultural relics such as the gold and silver coffins of Buddha relics unearthed in Jingchuan County, the bronzes of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the currency of the Southern Song Dynasty in Lingtai County are well-known. It is "the best in China". It is the largest coal power industry base in Gansu, an important agricultural and forestry product production base, an important animal husbandry base in the northwest, a cultural and ecological tourism base, and one of the best apple growing areas in the country. It is Gansu's undertaking of industrial transfer and open development in central and eastern provinces. "East Gate". Since the reform and opening up, especially since the beginning of the new century, the people of all ethnic groups in Pingliang, under the strong leadership of the Pingliang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, have based on the actual market conditions, given full play to their comparative advantages, concentrated on construction, worked hard to make breakthroughs, and promoted the city's economic and social progress. development, the urban and rural appearance and infrastructure conditions have been greatly improved, and people's production and living standards have been significantly improved. Last year, the city's GDP reached 17 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12%; the fixed asset investment of the whole society reached 13.05 billion yuan, an increase of 42.1%; large-scale fiscal revenue and local fiscal revenue completed 2.01 billion yuan and 824 million yuan respectively, an increase of 24.6% and 18.4%. ; Fiscal expenditure reached 5.53 billion yuan, an increase of 48%. The per capita net income of farmers is 2,414 yuan, an increase of 15.2; the per capita disposable income of urban residents is 9,700 yuan, an increase of 10.4. The major economic indicators have all reached double-digit growth rates, and the four major characteristics of coal and electricity, grass and livestock, fruits and vegetables, and tourism have been cultivated. With its advantageous industries, it has created and launched four distinctive economic brands: "Pingliang Coal and Electricity", "Pingliang Red Bull", "Pingliang Golden Fruit" and "Pingliang Tourism". Ten major projects exceeding 1 billion yuan have been implemented successively, including Pingliang Power Plant, Huating Power Plant, Chongxin Power Plant, coalfield development, coal-to-methanol and 750KV ultra-high voltage transmission power supply, etc., and have successively introduced Huaneng, China Water, Xukuang, Conch, and Yurun 5 A Fortune 500 company in the country. Pingliang has been rated as "China's Excellent Tourism City", "China's Top Ten Pollution-free Fruit and Vegetable Cities", "Zhejiang Province's Best City for Foreign Investment" and "China's Top 200 Charming Cities in 2007". Standing at a new historical starting point, Pingliang has entered a period of strategic opportunities with increased opportunities, highlighted advantages and enhanced vitality. The whole city will fully implement the spirit of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee, guided by the Scientific Outlook on Development, and conscientiously implement the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 11th Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Economic Work Conference , adhere to the overall idea of ??"focusing on three major goals, building four major bases, and promoting six leaps" determined by the Municipal Second Party Congress, and actively seize the opportunity to maintain growth, expand domestic demand, strengthen foundation, adjust structure, and promote harmony as the main line. Seize opportunities, proactively respond to challenges, strengthen investment promotion, highlight industrial development, strengthen infrastructure construction, focus on improving people's livelihood, and strive to develop in coal power and coal chemical industry, major infrastructure construction, modern agricultural development, urban planning and construction management, strengthen the tourism industry, and improve Concentrated breakthroughs have been made in six aspects of people's livelihood and livelihood, maintaining steady and rapid economic development and social harmony and stability. Tourism Industry——Building a cultural and ecological tourism base in the western region ▲Pingliang has a long history, a gathering of humanities, and a profound tourism culture. It is an important town at the eastern end of the northern line of the ancient Silk Road. 465 ancient cultural sites from various periods including Qijia and Yangshao have been found in the territory, 64 key cultural relics protection units at or above the provincial level, and more than 30,000 cultural relics in the collection. Cultural relics such as the gold and silver Buddhist relic coffins unearthed in Jingchuan County, the Western Zhou bronzes and the Southern Song Dynasty currency Yinhezi in Lingtai County are known as "the best cultural relics in China".
There are more than 100 tourist attractions of various types in the city, including 12 national 2A-level scenic spots or above. Kongtong Mountain, the number one Taoist mountain in the world, is one of the first batch of 5A-level tourist attractions in the country, a national key scenic spot and a national geological park. "50 Places People Visit" and one of the first 30 "Chinese Tourism Culture Demonstration Bases" in the country. The Jingchuan Huishan Queen Mother Palace, the first palace in the world, is the birthplace of the Queen Mother of the West culture and a national key folk culture scenic spot. Jingning Chengji Cultural City, the first Kaiyuan city of mankind, is majestic, simple and elegant; Jieshipu Red Army Long March Memorial Hall is listed as an important attraction on the national "Red Tourism" boutique route. The first platform for worshiping spirits in China, the Ancient Spirit Platform, contains the mysterious charm of Western Zhou culture. The Huating Lotus Terrace, the first altar of Emperor Qin to worship heaven, has long been famous as "the Longmen Cave built by man, the natural Lotus Terrace". Zhuanglang County is the first national model county for terraced fields. Millions of acres of terraced fields have become a unique ecological landscape on the Loess Plateau. The 4A-level scenic spot Longquan Temple, thousand-year-old Bodhi tree, and "Chinese Ancient Sophora King" in Chongxin County are attractive attractions of their own. Forest canyons such as Kongtong Shiwangou and Jingning Immortal Gorge are steep, deep, and beautiful. The water landscapes such as Jingchuan Hot Spring, Zhuanglang Tianchi Chao Naqiu, and Longshang famous spring Guanzhu Spring are unique in their charm. After more than 20 years of continuous development, the establishment of a national garden city, a sanitary city, a famous cultural city, a national ecological demonstration zone and the functional supporting construction of scenic spots have been carried out, and the basic tourism conditions have been greatly improved. There are 18 star-rated hotels (restaurants) and 15 travel agencies in the city. It has established a tourism economic regional alliance with 14 surrounding cities and jointly built five quality routes: Silk Road Heritage Tour, Root-Seeking Pilgrimage Tour, Red Education Tour, Leisure Vacation Tour, and Northwest Customs Tour, becoming Gansu It is a key tourism area and an important node for the coordinated development of tourism in the three provinces (regions) of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. Hundreds of tourist products have been developed in five categories, and the “Chinese paper weaving paintings” discovered and restored are very popular among tourists at home and abroad. Pingliang is a rich and beautiful place with preferential tourism development policies, making it a hot spot for investment and business development. In terms of tourism industry development, we offer year-round discounts on tickets to all tourist attractions in the city, reward foreign travel agencies for organizing groups to visit Pinghai, and implement comprehensive discounts on land development, tax collection, etc. for tourism investment projects. We warmly welcome domestic and foreign merchants and all walks of life to come for tourism, development and construction, and jointly create a better future! Coal power industry - building the largest energy and coal chemical industry base in Gansu Pingliang belongs to the thickest coal seam in the Ordos coal basin and is a key city for comprehensive energy utilization in the Ordos basin. The Huating Coalfield in the city is the largest coalfield in Gansu and one of the 13 large coal bases in the country. Its proven reserves are 3.575 billion tons, accounting for 54% of the province’s proven reserves. It is not only high-quality thermal coal, but also the best in the country. Coal for gasification. The city currently has 18 coal production enterprises above designated size, 31 pairs of mines, and an annual designed production capacity of more than 22 million tons; there are 3 power generation companies with a total installed capacity of 1.54 million kilowatts. In 2008, the city's raw coal output was 20.14 million tons and power generation was 9.3 billion kilowatt-hours, accounting for more than one-half and nearly one-sixth of the province's total respectively. An industrial-led economic pattern supported by the coal power industry has initially taken shape. . Fruit and vegetable industry - to build China's high-quality fruit base Pingliang is the dominant apple production area and the best growing area in the country. There are 1.58 million acres of fruit tree economic forests, 852,700 acres of high-quality fruits, mainly Red Fuji, and an annual output of 650,000 tons. , formed 3 fruit industry concentration areas and 12 advantageous fruit industry belts, five counties (districts) were included in the "Famous and Excellent Special Economic Forest Demonstration Counties" by the country, and two counties were awarded "China Apple Hometown", "China Red Fuji" It has been awarded the title of "Hometown of China" and has obtained the country's first apple certification trademark and geographical indication product protection, green food, green food raw material standardized production base, and China Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) demonstration base certification, specially supplied to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The vegetable planting area is 629,000 acres. There are more than 20 large-scale fruit processing enterprises with a processing capacity of 350,000 tons. "Pingliang Golden Fruit" is exported to more than 20 large and medium-sized cities across the country and Southeast Asia, Russia, Hong Kong and Macao.
Transportation network - extending in all directions. The total mileage of roads in Pingliang City is 9,075.3 kilometers, and the area density of the road network reaches 82.5 kilometers/100 square kilometers, ranking first in the central and eastern parts of the city, including 4,278.3 kilometers of highways above grade. There are currently 1 national highway of 161.7 kilometers, 5 provincial highways of 436.3 kilometers, and 1,689 rural roads of 8,477.3 kilometers. There are 100 towns and villages with asphalt roads, accounting for 96. The mileage and station construction projects of asphalt roads to townships rank first in the province. The city has initially formed a city-wide road network with trunk roads as the skeleton and rural roads as the supplement, effectively playing the supporting and driving role of roads in urban and rural economic and social development. Focusing on highway construction, the Pingliang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government proposed the concept of building a "three-hour economic circle from Pingliang to Xilanyin and a two-hour traffic circle in the city" and the idea of ??"asphalt roads connecting every township, highways every village, and comprehensive information stations in counties". , the township has a bus service station, and the village has a stopping point” goal. This year, the construction of Tianping and Xiping railways has started, the Pingding Expressway has been opened to traffic, and the construction of Xichangfeng Expressway has started. The transportation network extending in all directions has given wings to the economic construction of Pingliang. Urban and rural construction - rapid changes. In 2008, Pingliang City implemented the "Thirty Projects" for the central city, and completed key projects such as Nanshan Ecological Park, Jinghe River Water Surface, and the main body of Jinghe River Bridge. Urban centralized heating, pipeline gas, and sewage pipe networks were built. Construction progress accelerated. The construction of the "Thirty Project" has made Pingliang's urban construction progress with each passing day, and the level of urbanization has continued to improve. At present, the total amount of garden green space in Pingliang cities and towns has reached 2,303 hectares, and the green coverage rate has reached 27.17. The comprehensive functions of 6 counties have been continuously enhanced, the radiation and driving effect of small towns has been obvious, and the urbanization level has increased to 29.8. Grass and livestock industry - building a green livestock base in Gansu Pingliang is an important livestock industry base and fur distribution center in northwest China. The annual beef cattle breeding volume is 974,000, and 335,000 are slaughtered, ranking first in Gansu's agricultural areas. It has built a number of leading processing enterprises such as Jingxing 100,000-head beef cattle fine processing plant, Xikai Animal Husbandry 50,000-head slaughtering line, Baixing Group Welfare Tannery, Kaifeng Export Beef Canning Processing Plant, and Xukang Beef Food Production Plant. , with a processing capacity of 1 million pieces of cowhide and 100,000 tons of grass products. Successfully registered the country's first live cattle certification trademark - "Pingliang Red Bull". Beef, leather, cooked meat products, bone products, etc. are sold in the national market, and live cattle and beef are exported to foreign regions.