Want to fully understand Zuoyun County, Datong, Shanxi.

Zuoyun was called the land of Aries in the Spring and Autumn Period. In the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty (137 1), a surname was established in Datong, and in the third year of the Qing Dynasty (1725), a county was established, with its current name. It now governs 263 administrative villages in 3 towns and 6 townships with a population of 65,438+630,000. 、

Zuoyun borders Liangcheng County of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region across the Great Wall in the north, Xinrong District in the east, Huairen County and Yin Shan County in the south and Youyu County in the west, with a total area of 1, 306.7 square kilometers. The territory is a typical loess hilly area, with undulating hills and ravines, with an average elevation of1.200m or more. The highest point is Wulushan in the north, and the main peak is 20 13.3 meters above sea level. The main rivers are Shili River, Zi Yuan River, Dayu River and Chenjiayao River.

Zuoyun County has a typical continental climate, which is attacked by sandstorms all the year round. The climate is cold and uneven, with an average annual temperature of 6. It is about 2 C, and the average annual precipitation is 380mm. The main crops are Maling potato, naked oats, millet, beans and flax. Animal husbandry mainly focuses on raising sheep, pigs and large livestock, and is known as the "Three Treasures of Zuoyun, Yam, Naked Wheat and Big Fur".

Zuoyun County is rich in mineral resources, especially coal, which is mainly distributed in the east and south, with a reserve of 650 square kilometers and a geological reserve of about 654.38+000 billion tons. Most of the coal seams are medium-thick coal seams and thick coal seams, which are shallow buried and easy to mine. The coal is high-quality power coal with low sulfur, low ash and high calorific value. Besides coal, there are kaolin, limestone, basalt, pumice and mica. Zuoyun was the place where Huns lived and grazed in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was called Aries Land. Two thousand years of civilization have left many cultural relics here. Yao Jiajia Village is a Paleolithic site, Jiugaoshan and Xiaohekou Village are Neolithic sites, and there are ancient buildings such as Lengyan Temple.

In recent years, the Zuoyun county party committee and government have carefully analyzed and studied the situation of the county, and formulated the overall development idea of "giving full play to the two advantages of rich coal resources and vast land, accelerating three innovations in system, environment and management, and vigorously implementing four strategies of stabilizing the county with beneficial agriculture, revitalizing the county with coal processing, revitalizing the county with private economy and revitalizing the county with science and technology education". Cultivate new advantages, promote economic development by leaps and bounds, closely follow the main line of industrial structure adjustment, and fully promote the county economy. In 2003, the county's GDP reached1184 million yuan, the total fiscal revenue was 2174 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers reached 2595 yuan, maintaining a rapid growth momentum.