Yixing is a famous pottery bean in China. Yixing is known as "the ancient capital of Tao Dou, the world of caves, the oasis of tea and the ocean of bamboo". Yixing is the birthplace of "Zisha Pot", with more than 80 caves, more than 3,500 hectares of tea gardens and 800 miles of bamboo sea. Su Dongpo, a great poet in the Song Dynasty, left a poem in Yixing: "Buy Tian Yang and envy me for being old. From the beginning, it was only good for Xishan. "
Yixing is located at 3107 ′ ~ 3137 ′ north latitude and 0/9 3120 03 ′ east longitude. Located at the southwest end of Jiangsu Province, in the center of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Triangle, it is connected to the water surface of Taihu Lake in Suzhou in the east, Changxing County in Zhejiang Province in the southeast, Guangde County in Anhui Province in the southwest, liyang city in Changzhou City in the west, Jintan District in Changzhou City in the northwest and Wujin District in Changzhou City in the north.
Gehu Lake is embedded between Yixing and Wujin, and three Zelkova trees (Zelkova orientalis, Zelkova tuandii and Zelkova occidentalis) accompany the urban area. The terrain is high in the south and low in the north, with low mountains and hills in the southwest. The highest peak in the city is Huangta, with an altitude of 611.5m. Taihu Lake in the east is a blasphemous area, suitable for planting all kinds of vegetables. The north and west are plain areas and low-lying polder areas respectively, which are the main grain and oil producing areas in Yixing. The total area of the city is 1996.6 square kilometers, and the urbanization rate is 65.2 1%.
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Yixing area is rich in resources, and there is a lot of land that can be developed and utilized. Abundant precipitation, dense rivers and lakes, rich water resources, water area of 532.6 square kilometers. There are 30 natural lakes (not including Taihu Lake). There are 27 kinds of proven minerals, such as limestone, marble, sandstone, coal and peat. The unique clay in Shushan is the first-class raw material for making purple sand utensils.
There are timber forests dominated by bamboo, pine and fir, which is the most abundant area of bamboo forest resources in Jiangsu Province. Tea planting area is 74,900 mu, and the total output of tea is 6,029 tons, which is the main tea producing area in Jiangsu Province. There are hundreds of wild birds such as wild ducks, orioles, orioles, wolves, wild boars, hedgehogs, squirrels and other wild mammals, and dozens of aquatic products such as whitebait, crucian carp, grass carp, mussels and crabs.
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Yixing Municipal People's Government-Overview of Yixing
National Administrative Division Information Query Platform-Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province