In which province and city is Xiatang Village located?

Xiatang Village, Tangnaihai Township, Xinghai County is located on the south bank of the Daheba Valley, in the Xiatangtai Grassland of Xinghai County; 30 kilometers away from the county seat, it is a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral area, with an altitude of 3,295 meters and an average annual precipitation of 252.2-325.2 mm, the annual average temperature is 2.9℃. Xiatang Village in Tang Naihai Township is a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral village. There are 773 people in 180 households in the village, including 351 males and 343 females, 692 Tibetan people and 2 Han people. There are 38 party members, including 33 men and 51 women; the labor force is 342 people. The cultivated land area is 5,320 acres, the natural grassland area is 79,104 acres, the barren hills and slopes are 0 acres, the woods are 271.9 acres, and the farmland is converted into forests 0 acres. In 2008, there were 7,196 livestock in the village.

1. Advantages of Xiatang Village: natural conditions. Judging from the distribution of total annual solar radiation, the average altitude is above 4000m, the atmosphere is thin and clean, the transparency is good, the latitude is low, and the sunshine hours are long, with the average annual sunshine hours reaching 2861.9 hours. Human advantage. Xiatang Village is a county-designated poverty-stricken village with abundant labor force. Farmers and herdsmen are eager to get rid of poverty as soon as possible and embark on the road to wealth.

2. Disadvantages of Xiatang Village In the past, the valley surrounding Xiatang Village was densely forested and the environment was beautiful. In order to survive, farmers and herdsmen cut down and cut down the forest indiscriminately. The forest was cut down and the ecological environment was severely damaged. The lush green valleys in the past have turned into ravines with flowing muddy water. Soil and water erosion has been serious, and large amounts of sediment have flowed directly into the Yellow River.

The future development direction and needs of Xiatang Village

(1) Ecological immigrant settlement and semi-housed housing construction project. According to the residential semi-feeding construction project, each household will build a new livestock greenhouse with 5 rooms of 100 square meters. The total investment in project construction is 440,000 yuan, of which: each household will purchase 10 fattening sheep for 5,000 yuan; and purchase 1,000 kilograms of feed for 1,200 yuan. .

(2) Popularize concentrated solar energy product projects. Xiatang Village has a thin and clean atmosphere, good transparency, low latitude, and long sunshine hours. The average annual sunshine hours are 2861.9 hours, making it an ideal place to promote solar energy. Distributing solar lighting equipment and solar cookers to 180 poor women and farmers and herdsmen families in the village. The people can use them to boil water and pancakes. This can curb the phenomenon of farmers and herdsmen digging for firewood and destroying vegetation, and end the herdsmen’s use of firewood for cooking. history, reduce environmental pollution, promote ecological environment protection and construction, and improve people's living standards. The purchase of a solar cooker costs 500 yuan, totaling 900,000 yuan, and the actual project required funds is 90,000 yuan.

Near Xiatang Village there are tourist attractions such as Jishi Mountain, Sai Zong Temple, and Sai Zong Mountain, as well as specialties such as Xinghai yak meat, grassland hand-caught mutton, Hainan tsampa, and Qinghai Cinchun'er.