How are the geographical conditions of Huili?

Huili County is located in the southwest of Sichuan Province, at the southern end of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in the heart of the Panxi Resource Development Zone, connected to Panzhihua to the west, and adjacent to Kunming City and Chuxiong Prefecture of Yunnan Province to the south, straddling the Sichuan-Yunnan hub. Since ancient times, it has been an important center for trade between southwest Sichuan and western Yunnan and South Asia. It is a must-pass fortress for the ancient Silk Road and is known as the "Key to Sichuan and Yunnan." The county governs 50 towns and 304 administrative villages, with an area of ??4,522 square kilometers and a total population of 433,000.

Huili is located at the heart of Panxi’s resource development and is blessed with unique natural resources. Rich in land and resources, the county has 626,800 acres of cultivated land, including 382,000 acres of medium- and low-yield farmland, and another 300,000 acres of non-arable land suitable for agriculture. It is very rich in light and heat resources, with strong sunlight (average annual sunshine of 2388 hours), abundant heat, small annual temperature difference, long frost-free period (241 days), and obvious three-dimensional climate characteristics. The main food crops are rice, corn, wheat, and potatoes; the main cash crops are flue-cured tobacco, pomegranates, silkworm cocoons, sugar cane, and morning market vegetables. Among the livestock products, black goats, silky chickens, lean pigs, cattle, etc. have great development value. In addition, it is rich in mineral resources, agricultural resources, water energy resources, biological resources and tourism resources, and is known as the "Treasure Basin" and "Pearl of Panxi".

Land resources: The county’s usable land area is 440,000 hectares, of which 3,000 hectares are planned for industrial use, 2,000 hectares of commercial land, 5,000 hectares of residential land, 33,000 hectares of agricultural land, forest land and other lands. 148,000 hectares.

Mineral resources: Mineral resources are abundant, with many varieties, large reserves, shallow burial, and easy to mine. There are more than 60 kinds of proven mineral deposits in more than 300 places. These mines are mainly iron, copper, lead and zinc, with 350 million tons of iron ore reserves; 280 million tons of vanadium-titanium magnetite; 1.17 million tons of copper metal; 1.12 million tons of lead-zinc metal; and 60,000 tons of tin metal. ; The amount of nickel metal is 30,000 tons; the amount of gold metal is 6,560 kilograms. In addition, coal, high-phosphate soil, quartzite and other non-metallic mineral reserves are also very abundant.

Forest resources: Huili belongs to the dry evergreen pine and oak subregion on the southwest edge of the subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest area. The county is rich in forest resources. The county has a forest area of ??2.577 million acres and a forest coverage rate of 37.4%. There are 105 families and more than 450 species of woody, herbaceous, vine and cultivated plants in the territory, including 81 families and 372 species of woody plants.

Water conservancy resources: The water system in the county is developed. There are 42 rivers with a water area of ??more than 20 square kilometers, a total water area of ??4244 square kilometers, a length of 999 kilometers, an outbound flow of 75 cubic meters/second, and a river network density 22 kilometers/100 square kilometers. The average annual precipitation is 1212 mm, the runoff depth is 518 mm, the total annual runoff is 2.3 billion cubic meters, and the groundwater is 600 million cubic meters. The river flow within the territory is stable and the natural gap is large. The development and construction has the characteristics of less inundation, low investment and good kinetic energy indicators. The county's theoretical water energy reserves reach 554,000 kilowatts, with an average of 13,800 kilowatts per capita, which is 3.5 times the world's per capita and four times the national per capita. There is extremely broad space for water energy development.

Tourism resources: Huili has very rich tourism resources, including not only the ten thousand acres of rhododendrons in Longzu Mountain, the Hongqi Reservoir, the national kayaking plateau training base, and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee meeting held during the Red Army’s Long March. Site, Jiaopingdu Red Army River Crossing Site, "Dongyan Waterfall, West Rock Dripping Water, South Rock Shining Light, Beiyan Trip Rice" and other natural and cultural landscapes, as well as colorful ethnic customs, coupled with the pleasant climate, there is no summer It is a cool place with no severe cold in winter and spring-like weather all year round. It has great tourism development value.