Nanchong, also known as Fruit City and Silk Capital, is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan Province, the second largest population city in Sichuan, a provincial-level economic sub-center city, one of the central cities in Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle, a national regional central city, a regional central city in Northeast Sichuan and an excellent tourist city in China.

Nanchong City is located in the northeast of Sichuan Basin and the middle reaches of Jialing River. It has jurisdiction over 3 districts 1 city and 5 counties, with a population of 7.6 million and an area of 1.25 million square kilometers. It is the second most populous city in Sichuan Province, an excellent tourist city in China, a national garden city, a national clean energy demonstration city, a prestigious "Silk Capital", and a central city in the north of Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone determined by the national plan.

natural resource

1, water resources: Nanchong water resources are widely distributed and relatively concentrated, which is the main body of urban energy structure. Theoretical reserves of hydropower resources 165438+ 10,000 kilowatts, exploitable amount113000 kilowatts.

2. Mineral resources: Nanchong mainly has mineral resources such as rock salt, oil and gas, placer gold, ferrotitanium, uranium and phosphorus. Nanchong is located in the core of Nanchong rock basin, the largest rock salt sedimentary basin in Sichuan, with abundant underground salt resources.

3. Plant resources: Only 1 Metasequoia glyptostroboides in Nanchong was introduced and cultivated as a national first-class protected plant; Among the second-class protected plants, there are two kinds of wild fragrant fruit trees and narrow-leaved bottle grass, and two kinds of cultivated ginkgo and Eucommia ulmoides. Among the three protected plants, there are three wild plants: red bean tree, Dysosma versicolor and gastrodia elata.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Nanchong