Bengbu, referred to as "Bengbu", is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Anhui Province. It is located in the Yangtze River Delta in the east of China, in the northeast of Anhui Province, in the middle reaches of Huaihe River, with Suzhou and Huaibei in the north, Huainan and Chuzhou in the south, Chuzhou and Suqian in Jiangsu Province in the east and Bozhou and Huainan in the west.
Bengbu is the Huaihe River Basin and the central city in northern Anhui supported by the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government. It is a national civilized city, a national double-support model city, a national garden city, a national ecological civilization pioneer demonstration zone, a national hundred livable cities, an old industrial base city, an important processing and manufacturing base in Anhui Province, and a core city in the Hefei-Wuhu-Bengbu independent innovation comprehensive experimental zone.
Bengbu geology:
Geologically, Bengbu is located in the composite part of the second subsidence zone of New China and the Qinling belt-like structural zone, and belongs to the secondary structural unit of Huaihe Depression of China-Korea paraplatform, which is called "Bengbu platform arch". As early as Sinian, there was an obvious uplift, and it became land in the late Cambrian, and it has been in an ancient land state since then.
Bengbu geology experienced five periods of rapid tectonic movement, namely, Bengbu period, Fengyang period, Caledonian period, Yanshan period and Himalayan period. Not only the folds and faults of sedimentary strata, but also the intrusion and eruption of magma. The stratigraphic system is the Huaihe sub-region of North China stratigraphic area, which was missing in the Middle and Late Paleozoic. The strata before the early Paleozoic are mainly metamorphic rocks and marine strata, and the Mesozoic and Cenozoic are mainly continental and volcanic rocks.