Dingxiang County, located at east longitude 1 12.9, north latitude 38.4, north of central Shanxi Province, north of Taiyuan City and southeast of Xinzhou City. The total area is 865 square kilometers. It is adjacent to Yuanping City and Wutai County in the north, Yuxian County and Yangqu County in the southeast and Xinfu District in the west.

Dingxiang is surrounded by mountains in the east, south and north, and Pingchuan in the middle and west, which looks like a dustpan. The highest peak is Liulin Jianshan, with an altitude of 2 10 1 m. The western and central parts are the Ding Xin Basin. Hutuo River, the main river in China, runs through the whole territory from west to east. The topography of Dingxiang County is dustpan-shaped from east to west. Dingxiang climate belongs to continental monsoon climate. Spring is warm, dry and windy; Summer is hot and the rain is concentrated; Autumn is short and crisp; Winter is cold, windy and snowy.

County development

By 20 10, the main economic pillar industry of Dingxiang is forging industry. There are 632 forging enterprises with nearly 20,000 employees in Dingxiang County, with more than 800 forging equipment such as forging hammers and air hammers, and more than 700 processing equipment such as turning, drilling and planing/kloc-0, forming four series of products such as flanges, gears, bearings and alloy steel modules.

In 20 12, 24 high-yield corn fields were built in Dingxiang, with a total grain output of 330 million Jin. Eight farms of different sizes have been built. In 20 12, Dingxiang implemented a poverty alleviation community construction project with 45,000 square meters 1 10,000 immigrants, and provided employment training for10.2 million rural laborers. In 20 12 years, Dingxiang county received more than 30 overseas visits, and * * * signed projects 14.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Dingxiang County