Fu County or Fuxian () is a county in the south of

Yan'an Yan'an (; ), alternatively spelled as Yenan is a prefecture-level city in the Shaanbei region of Shaanxi province, China, bordering Shanxi to the east and Gansu to the west. It administers several counties, including Zhidan (formerly Bao'an) ...

City,

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, China. The county has an area of , and a permanent population of 150,500 as of 2012.

Administrative divisions

The county is divided into one

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, six

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, and one

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. The county's sole subdistrict, , is home to the county's administrative offices. The county's six towns are , , , , , and . Fu County's sole township is . These jurisdictions then in turn are divided into 137 administrative villages.

Geography

The county's area is largely covered by hilly terrain, with the altitude ranging from to above sea level. The Luo River, as well as the Hulu River () both flow through the county.

Climate

Fu County's annual average temperature is , with its highest recorded temperature being , and its lowest being . The county receives an averages of 2369.3 hours of sunshine per year, an average of of precipitation per year, and on averages experiences 188 days without

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History

The area of present-day Fu County was a part of both the

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and

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, the earliest dynasties in Chinese history. During the

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, the area was incorporated as Diaoyin County (). During the first year of Emperor Sui Yang's rule, the county was reorganized as Fucheng County (), which would be changed immediately after his rule in 618 CE to Fu Prefecture (). It remained this way for approximately 1,300 years until in 1912, under the rule of the

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, Fu Prefecture was reorganized as Fu County (). In 1964, the

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renamed the county to its current name, Fu County ().

Economy

Agriculture

The county produces a number of agricultural goods, such as

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tobacco Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus '' Nicotiana'' of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the ...

rice Rice is the seed of the grass species '' Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera '' Zizania'' and '' Porteresia'', both wild and domesticat ...

, and a number of

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s. 360,000 mu in Fu County are dedicated to growing apples, producing 507,700 tons of apples as of 2015. The county also grows 12,000 mu of tobacco, and 6,700 mu of rice.

Natural Resources

Fu County has a number of natural resources, including significant deposits of

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copper Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pink ...

iron Iron () is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from la, ferrum) and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, right in ...

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, and

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. The county reported 62.844 million tons of proven oil reserves, 1.46 billion cubic meters of proven natural gas reserves, and 425 million tons of coal reserves. As of 2015, an oil production plant owned by Yanchang Oilfield produced 188,000 tons of oil, and a plant owned by

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produced 5,175 tons. These two plants combined have 2,591 oil wells, and employ over 400 people. In 2015, the county produced 2.72 million tons of coal.

Education

The county is served by a total of 70 schools of various types, employing 2,077 full-time staff and an additional 1,714 workers.

Transport

Road transport

* National Highway 210 * National Highway 309 *

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G65 Baotou–Maoming Expressway The Baotou–Maoming Expressway (), designated as G65 and commonly referred to as the Baomao Expressway () is an expressway that connects the cities of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, and Maoming, Guangdong. When fully complete, it will be in le ...

Rail transport

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References

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