Chaodong () is a town in

Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County () is an autonomous county of northeastern Guangxi, China. It is under the administration of Hezhou City. Administrative divisions As of January 2016, Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County has nine towns and three townships u ...

Guangxi Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang Province, Hà Giang, Cao Bằn ...

, China. As of the 2017 census it had a population of 33,850 and an area of .

Administrative division

As of 2016, the town is divided into one community and twenty-one villages: * Chaodong Community () * Chaodong () * Dongshui () * Huangbao () * Xiushui () * Heping () * Chashan () * Minzhu () * Tangyuan () * Bengbei () * Yingshang () * Ruzi () * Tongshi () * Longgui () * Shilin () * Gaozhai () * Youmu () * Chashan () * Huangsha () * Changtang () * Liyutang () * Fuxi ()

Geography

The town is situated at northwestern

, bordering

Jiangyong County Jiangyong County () is a county of Hunan Province, China. It is under the administration of Yongzhou prefecture-level City. Located on the south margin of the province, it is bordered on the west by Guangxi. The county is bordered to the northea ...

to the northwest, Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County to the southwest, and Chengbei to the northeast. The Xiushui River () flows through the town northeast to northwest.

Economy

The economy is supported primarily by farming and ranching. The region mainly produce

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vegetable Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. This original meaning is still commonly used, and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including edible flower, flo ...

grape A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus ''Vitis''. Grapes are a non- climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters. The cultivation of grapes began approximately 8,0 ...

Castanea mollissima ''Castanea mollissima'', also known as the Chinese chestnut, is an Asian species of chestnut tree in the family Fagaceae. Description It is a deciduous tree growing to tall with a broad crown. The leaves are alternate, simple, long and b ...

and medicinal materials. Other products include

sweet potato The sweet potato or sweetpotato (''Ipomoea batatas'') is a dicotyledonous plant in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its sizeable, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable, which is a staple food in parts of ...

pumpkin A pumpkin is a cultivar, cultivated winter squash in the genus ''Cucurbita''. The term is most commonly applied to round, orange-colored squash varieties, but does not possess a scientific definition. It may be used in reference to many dif ...

, and

taro Taro (; ''Colocasia esculenta'') is a root vegetable. It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, stems and Petiole (botany), petioles. Taro corms are a ...

Tourist attractions

The town enjoys rich tourist resources. The most popular natural scenic spots are the Site of Jiangdong Academy (), Site of Pangu Temple (), cliff inscriptions (), and Huilan Wind-rain Bridge (). Ma Yin Temple () is a National Historical and Cultural Site in Guangxi.

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Geography

Economy

Tourist attractions

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