Dongping was named after "Dongping Yuanping" (Yu Gong in Shangshu). The recorded history is over 3,000 years. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Dongping was once a country, a county, a road, a prefecture, and a regional political, economic and cultural center. Dongping has a large number of talented people in past dynasties. In the Han Dynasty, there was a peasant hero, Suo Luhui, who led the uprising to defeat Wang Mang's army and achieved a "salt-free victory", as well as Serina Liu, one of the "seven sons of Jian 'an". In the Sui Dynasty, Cheng led many people to participate in the Wagangzhai Uprising. There were two top scholars in Song Dynasty, Liang Hao and Gu Liang, and a pediatrician, Qian Yi. In the Yuan Dynasty, there were Wang Zhen, an agronomist, and Gao Wenxiu, a zaju writer. There were politicians Wang Xian and Du Sance in Ming Dynasty. During the Republic of China, Lv Yanzhi designed the Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and the Guangzhou Memorial Hall.
Brilliant history and culture and unique nature have left a rich natural and cultural heritage for Dongping. Dongping is a major cultural relic county in the whole province, with more than 50 ancient sites, ancient tombs, stone carvings and cliff stone carvings 1, including national cultural relics protection units1,9 provincial key cultural relics protection units and municipal key cultural relics protection units1. There are 138 Buddhist stone carvings in Baifoshan, west of the county seat, which are listed in the list of places of interest in China, among which the giant Buddha stone carving is a national treasure. Zhang Qian's Ode to the Eastern Han Dynasty, unearthed in Dongping Old City, was listed as one of the eight masterpieces of calligraphy in the past dynasties by the Palace Museum. The cliff carving on Hongdingshan in Dongping Lake is the largest cliff carving before the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. Dongping Lake in the territory is the only remaining water area of the famous "800-Li Liangshan Shui Bo" in history, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with beautiful scenery. It is listed as a scenic spot by Shandong Provincial People's Government 1985, and it is an important part of Shandong Tourism Hotline. Lashan on the west bank of the lake is tall and straight, with lush trees. It is famous for its strangeness, danger and seclusion, and it is one of the top ten forest parks in China. In recent years, Dongping County has vigorously developed the tourism industry with "Water Margin" culture as the main line and "Two Mountains and One Water" (Lashan, Baifoshan and Dongping Lake) as the focus, and formed three tourist hotlines, namely, Water Margin Heritage Tour, Landscape Ecological Tour and Scenic Spot Tour, which attracted a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists.
Dongping is suitable for developing agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline and fishery. It is a national grain and oil production base county, rich in wheat, corn, sweet potato, peanuts, soybeans and so on; It is the four major livestock and poultry production and transportation bases of small-tailed Han sheep, Luxi yellow cattle, Dongping Lake ducks and special animals, with an annual stock of 800,000 small-tailed Han sheep, 6,543,800 Luxi yellow cattle, 500,000 ducks and 50,000 special animals. Forest fruits mainly include high-quality dry and miscellaneous precious fruits such as walnuts, pomegranates, apples, winter peaches and winter jujubes, among which 65,438+10,000 mu of thin-skinned high-quality walnuts and 50,000 mu of pomegranates. Dongping Lake is an important freshwater fishery base in Shandong Province, which is rich in famous and special aquatic products such as river crab, snakehead, prawn, soft-shelled turtle, lotus seed, water chestnut and Euryale ferox, with a culture area of 76,000 mu. Dongping has many kinds of mineral deposits and large reserves. At present, there are gold, iron, limestone, purple shale, granite, marble and river sand, which have high development value.
Since the reform and opening up, Dongping's economic and social undertakings have entered the track of rapid development. Industry has formed an industrial system with chemical industry, textile, building materials, machinery, pharmacy, food and agricultural and sideline products processing as the pillars, complete categories, reasonable structure and in line with the direction of industrial development. Agriculture has intensified its structural adjustment, promoted the process of industrialization development, and realized the improvement of overall benefits. In 2005, the per capita net income of farmers was 35 10 yuan. Transportation, communication, electricity and other infrastructure are complete. 105, National Highway 220, Provincial Highway 072 and Jihe expressway run through the county, and program control, mobile phone, data communication, optical cable transmission and network services are fast and convenient. The transformation of rural power grid was completed, and radio and television coverage was realized. Science and technology, education, culture, health, sports and other social undertakings have developed at a high speed.