Is Shangji Town, Xichuan County, Nanyang City the poorest place in Nanyang City?

Shangji Town, Xichuan County, Nanyang City is not the poorest place in Nanyang City.

Shangji Town is affiliated to Xichuan County, Nanyang City, Henan Province. It is located on the outskirts of Xichuan County, bordering Taoxi Town in Neixiang County to the east, Madeng Town to the south, and Xixia County to the north. The administrative area is 187 square kilometers. As of the end of 2019, the registered population of Shangji Town was 71,127.

In 2019, there were 22 industrial enterprises in Shangji Town, including 12 above designated size, and 150 general stores or supermarkets with a business area of ??more than 50 square meters.

Shangji Town has provincial highways 52 and 325 running through the entire territory, 16 kilometers away from the Ningxia-Ningxia Railway and 20 kilometers away from the 312 Expressway. At the end of 2011, the main roads of Xixi Road, Neixi Road and Shangjiu Road were built in the township.

Climate

Shangji Town has a subtropical monsoon continental climate, with obvious monsoon influence, four distinct seasons, and a mild climate. The multi-year average temperature is 15.8℃, the extreme maximum temperature is 42.6℃, and the extreme minimum temperature is -13.2℃.

The annual frost-free period is 228 days, the total solar radiation is 11.8 kcal/cm2, the active accumulated temperature equal to or greater than 10℃ is 5123.2℃, and the average annual sunshine hours is 2047 hours.

The number of days with temperatures above or equal to 10℃ during the forest production season is 235.3, and the average annual rainfall is 804.3 mm. However, the spatial and temporal distribution is uneven, with most of the rainfall concentrated in the three months from July to September. The annual rainfall is unevenly distributed in space and time and the evaporation is nearly twice the rainfall.