Shexian Pronunciation: shè xiàn.

Shexian Brief Introduction:

She (Shè) County, belonging to the city of Huangshan, Anhui Province, is located in the southernmost part of Anhui Province, relying on the Huangshan Mountains in the north, neighboring Hangzhou in the east, and Thousand Island Lake in the south, covering an area of 2122 square kilometers, with 28 towns and cities under the jurisdiction of the city and a population of 490,000 people. One of the six counties of Huizhou, Shexian is the seat of the ancient Huizhou Prefecture, the birthplace of Huizhou culture and the national essence of Peking Opera, as well as the main birthplace of Huizhou merchants and Huizhou cuisine.

Shexian County was awarded the title of National Historical and Cultural City in 1986. Shexian ancient city and Yunnan Lijiang, Shanxi Pingyao, Sichuan Langzhong and known as China's best-preserved four ancient cities.

Shexian since the Qin system, has been the county, state, road, the seat of the government, is the ancient Huizhou political, economic and cultural center. Beautiful landscape and simple ancient buildings blend together, so that people step into the Shexian County, both as if stepping into the beautiful landscape painting gallery, but also as if into the museum of classical architectural art.

Geographic location:

Shexian is located in the south of Anhui Province, is located in the longitude 118 ° 15 ′ ~ 118 ° 53 ′, latitude 29 ° 30 ′ ~ 30 ° 7 ′, belongs to the Middle Subtropical and Northern Subtropical Transitional Zone. It borders Jixi County and Lin'an City of Zhejiang Province in the northeast, Chun'an County and Kaihua County of Zhejiang Province in the southeast, Tunxi District and Xiuning County in the southwest, and Huizhou District and Huangshan District in the northwest.

Shexian regional economy:

Comprehensive overview:

Ancient Shexian's economy has always been based on agriculture. Because of the many mountains and little land, income from forest and tea became the main source of farmers' livelihood. Food could not be self-sufficient and had to be transferred in from outside.

In the narrow and densely populated, living in poverty, the people of Shexian, in order to get rid of the situation and the sale of forest tea and other specialties, had to leave the countryside, far away from the other country, engaged in commercial trading activities. As early as in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, North and South Dynasties, Shexian merchants that trade in the southern towns.

Primary industry:

Shexian economy is based on agriculture, which is dominated by tea, food can not be self-sufficient. During the Republic of China, agricultural production developed slowly. After the founding of the country, after the land reform, agricultural production development faster.

In 1957, the total value of agricultural output of 72.447 million yuan (at constant prices in 1980, the same below), an increase of 89.8% over 1949, 1958-1961 due to the "*** production wind" and the impact of natural disasters, a substantial decline in agricultural production. In 1962, the total value of agricultural output fell to 42.931 million yuan.