Jingshan City is located in the transition zone from the hilly area in central Hubei to Jianghan Plain, and the terrain is inclined from northwest to southeast, which can be roughly divided into four types: low mountains, hills, hills and plains. It belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate zone, with green mountains and green waters and beautiful natural scenery, and the forest coverage rate of the city reaches 44.5%.
Rich in natural resources, nonmetallic minerals have high industrial mining value; The main soils are paddy soil, fluvo-aquic soil, yellow brown soil, calcareous soil and purple soil. Natural disasters always occur frequently in many types, especially drought, followed by flood.
The city covers an area of 3,520 square kilometers (including Qujialing Management Area 173 square kilometers and Taizishan Forest Farm 75 square kilometers), accounting for about 1.78% of the total area of Hubei Province. Jingshan City has a long history, rich culture, beautiful mountains and rivers, rich products and convenient transportation, and is known as "Emerald in Central Hubei, Back Garden of Wuhan".
Climatic characteristics
Jingshan is a subtropical monsoon climate zone with four distinct seasons, warm in spring and hot in summer, cool in autumn and cold in winter. Sufficient sunshine, abundant heat, occasional chilling injury and abundant rainfall, but uneven distribution, frequent droughts and floods, and great annual climate difference. Annual average temperature 16.3℃, extreme maximum temperature 40.3℃, extreme minimum temperature -6.2℃.
The temperature difference between mountains and plains is obvious. The frost-free period is 223-243 days, and the annual average total solar radiation is 108 kcal/cm2-10 kcal/cm2. The total sunshine hours are 1970.5 hours, and the sunshine percentage is 46%. There are fewer sunshine hours, slightly more hills and plains, more in summer and less in winter.
The annual average precipitation is 1 179mm, and the summer precipitation accounts for about 4 1%-45% of the whole year, 7%-8% in winter, 28%-32% in spring and 18%-20% in autumn.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jingshan City