Beautiful Pingxiang is located in the border of the motherland, bordering Liangshan Province in Vietnam on both sides of the southwest, with a border line of 97 kilometers. The urban area is 32km away from the capital of Liangshan Prefecture, Vietnam,176km away from the capital of Vietnam and 23 1 km away from Nanning, the capital of Guangxi (after the opening of Nanyou Expressway in June 2005160km). Pingxiang city is located between east longitude10641'-10659' and north latitude 2 1 57'-22 16', with an urban area of 650 square kilometers, a width of 35 kilometers from east to west and a length of 55 kilometers from north to south. There are Zhuang, Han, Miao, Jing, Dong, Yao and Buyi ethnic groups 17. Pingxiang has four towns, namely Pingxiang, Friendship, Shi Xia and Shangshi, 33 village committees, 8 neighborhood committees and 260 natural villages with a population of150,000.

The hills in the southwest of the city, the valleys in the middle and the plains in the northeast are fertile. Pingxiang city belongs to subtropical monsoon climate, with no heat in summer, no cold in winter and abundant rainfall. The annual average temperature is 2 1-23℃, the annual rainfall is1062-1772mm, the maximum daily rainfall is 206.5mm, the annual frost-free period is 344 days, and the average sunshine is 16 14 hours. The dominant wind direction is easterly and southerly in summer and easterly in winter, with an average annual wind speed of 5- 17m e.

There are 39 rivers in Pingxiang city, including Pingxiang River and Shixia River, with a total length of 264 kilometers, all of which belong to the Pearl River system. The largest river is Pinger River, which originates from Qiong Qi River in northern Vietnam. Enter from Pinger Pass, flow to Longzhou, flow into Zuojiang River, and sail smoothly. The average width of the river is 80- 1 10 m, and the average depth is 8- 1. Friendship Pass, a national symbol of Pingxiang, Guangxi, is 2 m, with a maximum flow of 8260 cubic meters per second and an annual average flow of 182 cubic meters per second.

Mineral resources mainly include iron, manganese, coal, phosphorus, pyrite, placer gold, crystal and limestone, marble, granite and rare earth. Among them, the reserve of marble exceeds 200 million cubic meters. Nearly 10,000 laborers flow in from other places every year. Pingxiang is located in the subtropical zone, with a wide variety of plants. The most widely distributed tree species are Pinus massoniana, Cunninghamia lanceolata and bamboo. The forest belt on sloping land is about 360,000 mu, and the forest coverage rate is 23.64%. Timber forests mainly include pine and Chinese fir, economic forests mainly include star anise, tung oil tree and camellia oleifera, fruit forests include citrus, orange, longan, plum, longan and litchi, and various papermaking raw materials such as Yunxiang bamboo, yellow thatch and bamang stalk.

Pingxiang enjoys a superior geographical position. Due to historical reasons, the economy has been underdeveloped for a long time. 1992, the State Council approved Pingxiang as an open city along the border, enjoying a series of preferential policies for development and opening up, and approved the establishment of a border economic cooperation zone of 7.2 square kilometers and a public bonded warehouse. /kloc-in the past three years, Pingxiang City has given full play to its location advantages of opening ports along the border, achieved leap-forward development of foreign trade, achieved new breakthroughs in tourism, and developed various social undertakings simultaneously. During the thirteen years from 1992 to 2004, Pingxiang's border trade turnover was more than14 billion yuan, accounting for a quarter of Guangxi's trade turnover with Vietnam.

In March 2005, Pingxiang was awarded the title of "Excellent Tourism City in Guangxi". Friendship Pass, one of the nine famous passes in China, is located in Pingxiang section of the Sino-Vietnamese border, with ancient battlefield relics, Jinji Mountain, Baiyu Cave, Pinggangling Underground Great Wall, subtropical forest and other tourist attractions. Puzhai and Nonghuai border trade management zones are famous border trade points in Guangxi and even the whole country, with perfect infrastructure, and are good places for commerce, tourism and shopping.

Pingxiang City is actively building a modern international port city, a border trade city and an excellent tourist city by taking advantage of the great opportunities of the national western development, the launch of the China-ASEAN Trade Area and the China-ASEAN Expo held in Nanning.

The development of history

In 22 1 year BC, Qin Shihuang established Guilin County, Nanhai County and Xiang Jun County in Lingnan, and Pingxiang belonged to Xiang Jun County. In the winter of the sixth year of Ding Yuan (1 1 1), Pingxiang became the land of Yongji County in Yulin County after Hanping went to South Vietnam. From the Three Kingdoms to the Western Jin Dynasty, Pingxiang belongs to Linpu County, Yulin. From the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it belonged to Jincheng County, Yulin County. Sui belongs to Xuanhua County. In the Tang Dynasty, Xishi House was established to administer Jinshi Town. After suppressing the agricultural uprising, Pingxiang Cave was established in the Song Dynasty, where the chiefs were hereditary. This is the origin of Pingxiang's name. At that time, it was ruled by Tori Sanhua (now Sanlian Village). Yuan belongs to the jurisdiction of Siming Road. In the 18th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1385), Pingxiang was renamed as a town, which belonged to Taiping Prefecture. In May of the second year of Yongle (A.D. 1404), Pingxiang Town was promoted to Pingxiang County and transferred to Siming Prefecture. In the eighteenth year of Chenghua (AD 1432), as Zhenyiguan (now Right Yiguan) was an important place in the Zuojiang River Basin, he was promoted to Tuzhou and became the Chief Secretary of Zhili Guangxi.

In the early Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was attacked, and in the eleventh year of Shunzhi (A.D. 1654), Pingxiang Tuzhou was placed under the Taiping government. In the 28th year of Guangxu (A.D. 1902), Pingxiang Tuzhou was reduced to elastic pressure and was also managed by Mingjiang Temple. In the second year of Xuantong (AD 19 10), Pingxiang Tuzhou was changed into Pingxiang Hall, and Shangshi District was also used to crush Xiashi Tuzhou. In the second year of the Republic of China (A.D. 19 12), Pingxiang was changed to a county. 19 13 Xiashi Tuzhou changed the soil to flow and merge. 19 12- 1932 Pingxiang county has four districts, 19 regiment. 1933, the waste area is set up as a township, and 1234 area is changed to Chengxiang Township, Shangshi Township, Shixia Township and Aikou Township respectively.

After the founding of New China, in May of 195 1, Ningming, Mingjiang and Pingxiang were merged into Zhennan County, and the county seat was located in Chengzhong Town of Ningming. 1952 Zhennan County and Lesi County merged into Ningming County. 1July, 955, Pingxiang was designated as a county-level town, separated from Ningming County. 1956 165438+1October16. Pingxiang Town was changed to a county-level city. 1958 65438+In February, Ningming County, Jinlong County and Pingxiang City merged into Munan County, and the county government was located in Pingxiang Town. On May 1959 and 10, Munan County was divided into Ningming County and Jinlong County. When Pingxiang was reduced to Ningming County, it belonged to Munan Commune and was still called Pingxiang City. 1961on may 27th, Ningming county was re-established as a county-level Pingxiang city, with three people's communes: Pass, Munan and Zhushan. 1966 10, Pinger Brigade of Longzhou County was placed under Pingxiang City. 198 1 year, Shi Xia commune in Ningming county was placed under Pingxiang city. 1984 people's communes were abolished and changed to villages and towns. Pingxiang has jurisdiction over four towns, namely Pingxiang, Friendship, Shangshi and Shixia, 33 village committees and 5 neighborhood committees (communities).

In June 2002, the State Council approved Pingxiang as a municipality directly under the Central Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. June 5438 +2003 10, the autonomous region approved Chongzuo City to take charge of Pingxiang City.

frontier trade

1April 1988 Pingxiang gradually restored and developed border trade. There are four border trade points in the city: Nonghuai, Puzhai, Pinger and Youai. Among them, five companies in the city have the right to operate small-scale border trade and foreign economic and technological cooperation, and more than 600 companies and enterprises across the country participate in border trade. The main trading methods are barter and RMB barter. Among the traded commodities, the main commodities exported through border trade are cloth, bicycles, hardware and electrical machinery, agricultural machinery, ceramics, food, fruits, daily necessities, etc. 150. Export commodities come from all over the country, including Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi and inland economically developed areas. The main imported commodities are agricultural and sideline products and aquatic products such as wood, Chinese herbal medicines, bananas, octagonal mangoes, longan, squid, crabs, cashews, and about 60 kinds of non-ferrous metal minerals such as zinc, manganese and chromium. Generally speaking, the recovery and development of Pingxiang's border trade has gone through two stages: 1988-199 1 year is the primary stage, and the border trade in this stage has four main characteristics:

Friendship is the spontaneous participation of border people, and the scope of trade is limited to the mutual market points on the border between the two countries.

Second, barter trade is the main transaction form.

Third, the trade scale is small and the business entities are scattered.

Fourth, the management system is not perfect.

The second stage is the promotion stage, which lasted from 1992 to the present. At this stage, the central and local governments have successively issued a series of preferential policies to develop border trade, and the local management of border trade has gradually been brought into the track of standardization and institutionalization, and the border trade has gradually formed a new pattern of large scale, wide radiation and diversification, which is mainly reflected in five aspects:

(a) the scale of trade has developed from simple trade to relatively standardized border trade with a certain scale and quality;

(two) the main body of trade has developed from the spontaneous and primitive folk barter trade of border people to the diversified trade involving state-owned, collective individuals, foreign capital and joint ventures;

(3) The trade area has changed from the initial simple border trade panic between the two countries to transnational trade and transnational entrepot trade that radiates many countries;

(4) The form of trade has developed from a single border trade to a comprehensive trade system combining agriculture, industry, technology and trade;

(5) Since 1995, border trade and international trade have developed simultaneously. From 1988 to 1999, Pingxiang border trade.

It has created great wealth for the country and the place. 1988, the city's border trade turnover was 20 million yuan, and in 2005 it was11500,000 yuan. 1999, Pingxiang Port * * * completed the total value of import and export commodities of 210.50 billion yuan, an increase of 4% over the previous year, and the turnover of border trade was10.30 billion yuan, an increase of10.2% over the previous year.

economic construction

agricultural production

In 2006, Pingxiang's grain planting area was 3,584 hectares, a decrease of 1.307 hectares compared with the previous year. The sugarcane planting area is 3,340 hectares, increasing by 1.222 hectares; Vegetable planting area 1898 hectares, a decrease of 59 hectares; Oil planting area 194 hectares, down by 3 hectares; Bean planting area 162 hectares, a decrease of 39 hectares.

Industry and construction industry

In 2006, Pingxiang's total industrial output value was 4100300 yuan, an increase of 58.8% over the previous year, of which the total industrial output value above designated size was 262,654.38+0900 yuan, an increase of 94.3% over the previous year. Industrial added value130.82 million yuan, up 47.7% over the previous year, of which the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size was 82.67 million yuan, up 80.8%; The product sales rate is 87.6%.

fixed-asset investment

In 2006, the total investment in fixed assets in Pingxiang was 92,265.438 billion yuan, an increase of 62.4% over the previous year. Among them, urban fixed assets investment was 850.47 million yuan, an increase of 59.3%; Investment in rural fixed assets was 7 1, 0 1, 000 yuan, an increase of 1.23.7%. Among urban fixed assets investment, capital construction investment was 606.67 million yuan, an increase of 29.9%; Investment in renovation149.82 million yuan, an increase of 467 times; Other investment was 2.68 million yuan, an increase of 32%; Investment in real estate development was 85.99 million yuan, an increase of 33%.

Science education, culture and health

Culture, health and sports

By the end of 2006, there were 1 professional art performance groups, 1 public libraries, 1 cultural centers and 1 museums in Pingxiang.

There are five health institutions in the city (excluding village clinics), 1 Maternal and Child Health Hospital (institutes and stations). The total number of beds in medical institutions in the city is 157.

Education and science and technology

In 2006, Pingxiang senior high school enrolled 483 students, with students 1259 and 273 graduates. Ordinary junior middle school students 18 10, with 5005 students and graduates 1386. Ordinary primary school enrollment 1432, students192, graduates 1899. In the stage of compulsory education in rural areas, students in public schools realize free schooling.

Trade with Vietnam

Pingxiang is connected with mountains and rivers in Vietnam, and there has been trade since ancient times. As early as the Song Dynasty, after Vietnam established its own feudal country, Sino-Vietnamese border trade began. In the Qing dynasty, the folk trade between the two sides included star anise, fennel oil, yellow sugar and piglets. After the opening of classes in Yongzheng for seven years, the modern industrial products from western Europe flowed into Vietnam, and the goods from China were also exported to Southeast Asia through samples. At that time, there were two main land trade routes between China and Viet Nam. One is from Hua Kai Prefecture (now Wenshan County) in Yunnan to Vietnam, and the other is from Longzhou and Ningming in Guangxi to Nanguan in Pingxiang Town (now Friendship Pass). Tiger Pass enters Nanguan in lang son Town and Gaopingweiju Pass in Vietnam, becoming the only pass of the "Silk Road" in southern China, and Pingxiang becomes the distribution center of Sino-Vietnamese border trade.

After the founding of New China, Sino-Vietnamese trade has made new progress.

At the beginning of 1953, Pingxiang established a small-scale trade joint office with Vietnam, which was composed of government, customs, foreign trade, taxation, banking and other departments, with 5 units and 229 employees. When 65438+1October 20th officially opened to Vietnam. 1953 In April, with the development of border trade, Pingxiang set up corresponding financial institutions for Viet Nam-Pass Exchange Office of the People's Bank of China and Ping 'er Exchange Office, specializing in the exchange of foreign currency in border trade between the two sides and the deposit of RMB for border residents. 1953 and 10, the port Committee of Munanguan (now Friendship Pass) was established, which was composed of the government, eight foreign affairs units, public security, banks and the garrison. These eight units are: People's Republic of China (PRC) Friendship Border Inspection Station, China Customs Pingxiang Branch, People's Republic of China (PRC) Sample Health and Quarantine Institute, People's Republic of China (PRC) Pingxiang Animal and Plant Quarantine Institute, China International Travel Service Pingxiang Branch, China Foreign Trade Transportation Company Pingxiang Branch, Liuzhou Railway Bureau Pingxiang Branch, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Foreign Affairs Office Pingxiang Branch, which are responsible for meeting with Vietnamese port committees and handling border trade affairs. 58850.000000000501At that time, Vietnam's institutions in Pingxiang mainly included: the General Transportation Bureau of Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the transportation class of the head office in Pingxiang, the General Logistics Bureau of the Vietnamese People's Army in Pingxiang, and the General Railway Bureau of the Ministry of Communications in Pingxiang. Due to the complete and open institutions, the number of cross-border personnel on both sides is increasing day by day, and the border turnover has risen sharply.

1953 There were 276,000 Vietnamese immigrants in Pingxiang border area, accounting for 6 1.3% of the total Vietnamese immigrants in Nanning during this period. In the Pingxiang border trade of 1955, the turnover between China and Vietnam reached129.52 million yuan, accounting for 79.4% of the total turnover in Nanning in the same period, of which 4.577 million yuan was imported and 8.375 million yuan was exported. Our export products mainly include industrial products and Chinese patent medicines. Vietnam mainly deals in agricultural and sideline products, Chinese herbal medicines and some industrial consumer goods. Trade between countries, 1952 China and Viet Nam signed the first trade contract. 1953, the trade volume between the two countries increased by% compared with 1952. By 1956, the trade volume was 13 times that of 1952, ranking first in Vietnam's trade with other countries. 5438+097 1 to 18.

On June165438+1October 12, 2020, the list of the top 100 counties and cities with county tourism development potential in China was announced, and Pingxiang City was on the list.

20201October 20 10 Pingxiang won the title of National Model City (County) with Double Support in 2020.

On June 9, 2020, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment awarded Pingxiang the title of the fourth batch of national demonstration cities and counties for ecological civilization construction.

In August of 20 19, the list of comprehensive demonstration counties of rural e-commerce in 20 19 was released, and Pingxiang city was on the list.

From 2065438 to March 2009, Pingxiang City was included in the list of the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization counties (Zuoyoujiang area).

2065438+On August 6th, 2008, Pingxiang won the honor of the fourth batch of national advanced legal units in counties and cities.

20 17, 17 In February, Pingxiang City was included in the first batch of autonomous region-level ecological counties (cities, districts) in Guangxi.

On February 20 16 16, Pingxiang was included in the list of counties (cities, districts) with basically balanced development of compulsory education in China in 20 15.