The warm and humid subtropical monsoon climate nourishes this land. 300,000-400,000 years ago, human beings thrived here. The excavation of a complete skull fossil has refreshed the history of civilization in the Yangtze River, and the name "Hexian ape-man" has pushed Hexian to the world.
There are more than 20 natural and cultural landscapes in the county, such as Wujiang River where Xiang Yu, the overlord of the Western Chu Dynasty, hanged himself with his sword, Tianmen Mountain where Li Bai stopped to sing, Liu Yuxi's humble room in Hezhou, Xiangquan where King Zhao of Southern Liang bathed and treated his illness, and Zhenhuai House stationed in Ming Taizu.
County outstanding people, rich in humanities. Du Mo, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, Chen Tinggui, a patriotic poet and writer in the Qing Dynasty, a contemporary Cao Sheng, the first gold medal winner in the history of China Olympic Games and a famous ecologist, are all the pride of Hexian County.
His county is young and rich.
Rich in coal, phosphorus, dolomite, limestone, yellow sand and other mineral resources, it is a virgin land that needs to be developed urgently.
The spring breeze of reform in the 1980 s blew into this hot land, and the county town was rejuvenated from then on; The agricultural structure has been continuously optimized, and greenhouse vegetables have become "the largest vegetable basket in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River". Industrial development has begun to take shape, opening up three industrial parks in Wujiang, Liyang and Shenxiang, and building an industrial system with papermaking, machinery, chemicals, building materials and agricultural and sideline products processing as its pillars; Tourism is booming, and key tourist attractions such as China International Xiangquan Lake, Tianmen Mountain and Bawang Ancestral Hall have been planned and built.
The comprehensive evaluation of county economy ranks eighth in the province dynamically.