Pingxiang belongs to subtropical monsoon climate zone, with abundant light and heat, abundant rainfall, distinct four seasons and mild climate. The annual average temperature 17.2℃, annual average rainfall 1600 mm, annual sunshine hours 1600 hours and frost-free period of 270 days.
Pingxiang is rich in mineral resources. The city's cultivated land area is 52,700 hectares. The main mineral resources are coal, iron, manganese, copper, molybdenum, tungsten, aluminum, limestone, kaolin, granite and mineral water. The prospective coal reserves are 852 million tons and the iron ore reserves are 67.6 million tons. All kinds of nonmetallic mineral resources have very broad development potential.
The forest coverage rate of the city is 55.4%, and there are more than 200 kinds of plants/kloc-0. There are five rivers: Shui Yuan, Pingshui, Caoshui and Lianjiang. The surface water runoff is 2.646 billion cubic meters per year, the exploitable water energy is 40,000 kilowatts, and the groundwater reserves are 400 million cubic meters.
As far back as the Neolithic Age more than 5,000 years ago, there were three Miao people living in Pingxiang. Pingxiang belonged to Yangzhou in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period, Chu in the Warring States Period, Yichun County in the reign of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, Pingxiang County in the second year of Baoding in the Three Kingdoms (267), and Luxi ancient port in the county. In the second year of Tang Wude (6 19), the county magistrate moved from Gugang in Luxi to Fenghuang Pool in Pingxiang (now the city magistrate's office). In the first year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, it belonged to Yuanzhou Prefecture, the western region road in the south of the Yangtze River, and Zhenyuan (1295) Pingxiang was upgraded from county to state. In the second year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1369), the state was changed to a county. Qing belongs to Yuanzhou Prefecture of Jiangxi Province. In the third year of the Republic of China (19 14), it belonged to luling road. 15 years, Zhili province. For 20 years, it belongs to the eighth administrative region. In 24 years, it was the second administrative region. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it belonged to nanchang district, and in June 1959, it was renamed Yichun District, and Pingxiang belonged to it. 1September 1960, the county was withdrawn to set up a city, which was managed by Yichun Special Zone. 1March, 970, Pingxiang was a provincial city. 197 1 year, with the approval of Jiangxi Revolutionary Committee, four districts were established.
Pingxiang City now governs Luxi County, Shangli County and Lianhua County (with the approval of the State Council, Lianhua County was placed under the jurisdiction of Pingxiang City from Ji 'an in August 1992), Anyuan District and Xiangdong District, as well as the provincial Anyuan Economic Development Zone, with 28 towns, 18 townships, 7 sub-district offices and 64 1 992.
The total population of the city is1800,200, and the non-agricultural population is 524,800. The population density of this city is 470 people per square kilometer.
The city's planned fertility rate is 95.45%, the birth rate is 13.28‰, the mortality rate is 5.95‰, and the natural growth rate is 7.30‰.
There are 927,800 employees in the city, including 295,200 employees in cities and towns and 632,600 employees in rural practitioners.
There are128,300 employees in the city, with an average annual salary of 10345 yuan, including 94,700 employees in state-owned units, with an average annual salary of1kloc-0/647 yuan.
The above data are statistics at the end of 2003.
Pingxiang is an important industrial city in Jiangxi Province, which has formed a relatively complete industrial system of coal, machinery, metallurgy, chemical industry, building materials, ceramics and so on. Products such as steel, electric porcelain, industrial porcelain, fireworks and firecrackers sell well in domestic and foreign markets. At present, coal production accounts for 40% of the province; Steel accounts for more than 30% of the province; The production and sales of chemical fillers account for 70% of the country; The production of electric porcelain occupies an important position in China. The market share of low-voltage electric porcelain in China exceeds 60%, and the export volume of electric porcelain accounts for 85% of the whole province. PC electric porcelain is a well-known trademark in China. The building materials industry has developed rapidly and has become an important building materials production base in the province, with an annual output of more than 5 million tons of cement. The output of 200 1 float glass reached 5.55 million weight boxes, ranking eighth in China; Anyuan brand buses sell well all over the country. Anyuan shares were grandly listed on July 2, 2002, becoming the first listed enterprise in our city. Private enterprises are booming, and the "Tengfei" plastic products produced by Tengfei Plastic General Factory and the waterproof materials, refined tea oil and "Honganyuan" liquor produced by Wuguan Group sell well in the domestic market. The food industry, which mainly processes agricultural products, is developing rapidly. China Eucommia Tea, Tiantianshang, Wugongshan and yuechi county mineral water are more and more popular in the market.
Light industrial products won more than 300 prizes of various famous products, of which 15 won the national prize. Won the new product achievement award 100, among which the trademark "flying saucer" of electric fan won the famous trademark of Jiangxi province, the towel factory "queen towel" won the export inspection-free product, and the brand "Qikuan" of Huahai rainproof clothing factory won the national patent product gold award 1998 and/kloc.
Since the reform and opening up, Pingxiang's economy has developed at an unprecedented speed. From 1978 to 200 1, the average annual GDP growth is 10.2%. The economic structure has been continuously optimized. The proportion of the added value of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in GDP has changed from 33.3: 43.8: 22.9 in 1978 to 13.6: 54.8: 3 1.6 in 2006, and the economic strength has been continuously enhanced. In 2003, there were12,243 industrial enterprises in the city, including: state-owned and non-state-owned industrial enterprises with annual product sales income of more than 5 million yuan 155; There are 12 088 non-state-owned industrial enterprises with annual product sales income below 5 million yuan. In 2003, the city's total industrial output value was 27.56 billion yuan. Output of main industrial products in 2002: 6,544,700 tons of raw coal, 26,543,800 kWh of power generation, 6,543,800 tons of steel, 3,735,800 tons of cement and 5,835,200 weight boxes of flat glass. In 2003, the total industrial output value of state-owned and non-state-owned industrial enterprises with annual product sales income of more than 5 million yuan in the city was 852 1 100 million yuan; The industrial added value was 2.76 billion yuan; The product sales revenue was 8.628 billion yuan; Profits and taxes reached 1, 2 1 billion yuan, of which the total profit was 659 million yuan.