Hebei Anti-Japanese War Old Area: County Overview of Linxi County, Xingtai Linxi County is located in the North China Plain and southeastern Hebei. It faces Linqing City, Shandong Province across the Wei Canal to the east and southeast. It is adjacent to Guantao County to the southwest and Yiqiu County and Wei County to the west.

, bordering Wei County and Qinghe County to the north.

Looking west to Taihang and east to Daiyue, it is located in the hinterland of the Hebei-Shandong Plain, with jurisdiction over 5 towns, 4 townships, 299 administrative villages, a population of 356,000, and an area of ??542 square kilometers.

Linxi is located in the plain area of ??southern Hebei, with flat terrain and fertile soil. It belongs to the eastern monsoon warm temperate semi-humid climate zone. It has an obvious continental climate with four distinct seasons. The annual average temperature is 13°, the annual average rainfall is 841.4 mm, and the annual frost-free period is 193 days.

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Water resources are sufficient. The channel that diverts the Yellow River to Tianjin runs through the eastern part of the county. It has complete water conservancy facilities and supporting drainage and irrigation facilities, which guarantee the development of agricultural production.

The county has 590,000 acres of cultivated land, more than 300,000 acres of high-quality wheat, and a total output of 120 million kilograms.

There are 250,000 acres of corn, with a total output of 125 million kilograms.

There are 220,000 acres of cotton, with a total output of 18 million kilograms.

In 2009, it was awarded the title of "National Advanced County in Grain Production" by the Ministry of Agriculture.

The plate in Linxi is higher in the west and lower in the east, with an average altitude of 33 meters.

The highest in the west is 36 meters above sea level; the lowest is in the east with an altitude of 27 meters.

Linxi County is the transportation throat of the four provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi and Henan. It has convenient transportation. The Beijing-Kowloon Railway passes through the county. There are passenger and cargo stations in the county. It is close to the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Beijing-Shanghai Railway, and Beijing-Shenzhen Expressway in the east and west.

, Beijing-Fuzhou Expressway, Xinglin Expressway, National Highway 106, National Highway 105, and two provincial highways, Hanlin and Xinglin, run through the county.

Linxi County is located in Linxi Town, 344 kilometers away from the capital Beijing in the north, 158 kilometers away from the provincial capital Shijiazhuang City in the northwest, 90 kilometers away from Xingtai City in the west, and 18 kilometers away from Linqing City, Shandong Province in the east.

The transportation is convenient and the coming and going is smooth.

Linxi County originally belonged to Linqing County, Shandong Province.

In 1964, with the approval of the State Council, the western border of Shandong Linqing was analyzed, and the Linxi Working Committee was established and placed under the jurisdiction of Hebei.

The county was officially established on March 27, 1965. It was named Linxi County because it lives in the west of Linqing.

Linxi is the birthplace of Guo Shoujing, a scientist in the Yuan Dynasty and the originator of bearings in the world, and the hometown of Lu Yulan, a nationally famous labor model.

Yesterday, the baptism of blood and fire, Linxi has a long history.

For thousands of years, dynasties have changed and things have gone through vicissitudes. In peacetime, the simple and wise people of Linxi have worked and lived on this land and built their homes.

During the war years, he fought hard and used his own blood to compose heroic songs of resistance to the feudal ruling class and the invasion of foreign enemies.

Linxi is a county where party activities started relatively early.

In 1926, Linxi had the first Communist Party member Zhang Qianmin.

In October 1926, Zhang Qianmin established the Linqing branch of the Communist Party of China, the first party branch, in the countryside of Xiabaosi, Linxi County.

In 1939, the Linxi Working Committee of the Communist Party of China was established. Under the leadership of the party, the people of Linxi adopted a variety of flexible strategies and tactics such as guerrilla warfare and tunnel warfare to fight bloody battles with the enemy, striking a heavy blow and annihilating the enemy.

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In 1940, the Linxi people, led by the eastward advancing column of the 129th Division, engaged in the famous "Hundred Regiments Battle", "Battle of Fighting for Stone" and other battles, regaining large tracts of land from the iron heel of the invaders and the hands of the die-hards.

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In April and May 1941, under the leadership of the Southern Hebei Military Region, Yang Hongming, Commander of the Fourth Military Division in Southern Hebei, and Sun Yimin, Director of the Political Department, launched the Linxi Campaign.

After 18 days of fierce fighting, more than 2,000 puppet troops were eliminated, and the situation in Linxi area was completely new.

On April 29, 1942, the crazy Japanese army launched the "April 29th Raid" in southern Hebei and implemented an "iron wall siege" in Linxi.

During the counter-"mopping up", Yang Hongming, Sun Yimin and hundreds of anti-Japanese soldiers died in Yao'an Town, Linxi.

To commemorate these two national heroes, part of Linxi and several nearby counties were renamed Hongyi County.

It was precisely because of the desperate fighting and sacrifice of these anti-Japanese warriors that the final victory of the Anti-Japanese War was ushered in.

During the War of Liberation, Linxi became an important supply place to support the armies going south.

Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the people of Linxi sent troops, food, and cadres to fight the enemy in an arduous struggle, writing a glorious page in the history of the Chinese revolution.

After the baptism of blood and fire, Linxi Old District has trained a large number of revolutionary cadres for the Communist Party of China, and they have made outstanding contributions to the construction of the country in different jobs.