Brief introduction of Yanling county

Yanling County belongs to Xuchang City, located in central Henan, west of changge city, east of Funiu Mountain Range in Li Qian and south of the Yellow River, the mother river of Wan Li. It is a county under the jurisdiction of Xuchang City, which governs 8 towns and 4 townships of Xu Changdong, the ancient capital of Han and Wei Dynasties and a national historical and cultural city, with a total area of 87 1.6 square kilometers, 920,000 mu of cultivated land and a population of 620,000 (2065438+March 2003). 1 As early as the Tang Dynasty, there was a large-scale comprehensive garden plant cultivation in Yanling, where the royal gardens of the Northern Song Dynasty settled. Li Bai, Su Shi, Fan Zhongyan and other historical and cultural celebrities have visited Yan many times to find flowers, leaving a farewell song that will be told for generations. Wang Wan, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "The wild colors of Yanling lie flat in the palm of your hand, and there is no such scene in Jiangnan." 1 Yanling enjoys an excellent geographical location and convenient transportation. It is 20 kilometers away from Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Beijing-Hong Kong High-speed Railway and Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway in the west and 70 kilometers away from Xinzheng International Airport in the north. National highway 3 1 1 runs through the east and west, and provincial highway 2 19 runs through the north and south. Lannan Expressway and Xu Bo Expressway meet in Yanling. Yanling is a national commodity grain base and a high-quality cotton production base county. The planting area of flower seedlings in Yanling County is 600,000 mu. 20 1 1 was recognized as "National Demonstration County of Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism" by the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Tourism Administration.