Fan Shi is located in the northeast of Shaanxi Province, with Hengshan Mountain in the north, Hunyuan County in the south, Wutai Mountain in the east, Lingqiu County and Fuping County in Hebei Province in the east and Daixian County in the west. It is the easternmost county in Xinzhou City, with jurisdiction over 4 towns (Fancheng Town, sha he Town, Daying Town and Pingxingguan Town) and 9 townships (Xingyuan Township, Guangyubao Township, Xiaruyue Township and Jiyizhuang Township). The total area of the jurisdiction is 2368 square kilometers, accounting for 9.47% of the city's total area, ranking third in Xinzhou City. There are many kinds of mineral resources in China, with large reserves, high grade and wide distribution. There are 27 kinds of preliminarily proved reserves, including gold, silver, copper, iron and molybdenum, among which the proven reserves of molybdenum are 10 1000 tons, ranking first in the province. Rock gold mine has a pure gold reserve of 20 tons, ranking first in the province; The proven reserves of iron ore are 965,438+1100 million tons. According to historical records, humans settled here in the Neolithic Age. Counties were established in the Western Han Dynasty and successively belonged to several counties, with a history of more than 2,000 years. Named after the mountains and temples and the confrontation between the north and the south. Known as "the northern gate of Buddhism", "the source of rainstorm" and "the eastern gate of Sanjin". During this period, the county moved several times, and moved to its present site in the 14th year of Wanli of Ming Dynasty (1586). 1949, Fan Shi is an institution in Xinxian County; 1958165438+10. In October, Fan and Dai counties merged and still belonged to the Northern Shaanxi Department. 196 1 year, the county is divided into counties, each under the jurisdiction of the old government and the new county department. Fan Shi is a national health county, a national water conservancy scenic spot, a provincial environmental protection model county, an advanced forestry construction county and a provincial double-support model county. At the end of 20 18, the forest area in Fan Shi was 604 17.93 hectares, and the forest coverage rate was 25.44%. At the end of 20 18, the county's total population was 277,000, accounting for 8.73% of the city's total population, ranking fourth among the four counties (cities, districts) in the city.
In February, 20021,Fan Shi ranked 8 1 in the top 100 list of county e-commerce competitiveness in China.
In June, 2020, Fan Shi was included in the second batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization counties (Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region).
20 18 September, 20 18 list of comprehensive demonstration counties for e-commerce in rural areas was released, and Fan Shi was on the list.
In February of 20 18, Fan Shi was included in the list of counties (cities, districts) with basically balanced development of compulsory education in China in 20 17.