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UTC+8 |
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Daylight saving time is not observed in the current region. |
Pingding County is part of Yangquan City, Shanxi Province, China, and is located in the Taihang Mountains in eastern Shanxi Province, with a total area of 1,394 square kilometers. As an important gateway to eastern Jin, Pingding is connected to Yu County in the north, Xiyang in the south, and Jingfu County in Hebei Province in the east, and has been a major transportation hub connecting Jin and Hebei provinces since ancient times.
Pingding has a long history, as early as in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the county has been set up, so far there have been more than 2,200 years of establishment history. It is the ancestral home of Wang Wei, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, and there are national key cultural relics protection units such as the Great Wall of Gu Guan and Niangziguan, of which Niangziguan is known as the "Ninth Pass in the World".
Pingding County is rich in mineral resources, coal reserves of 2.6 billion tons, is an important coal production base in Shanxi. In recent years, Pingding County has been actively developing ceramics, calcium-based new materials and other industries, as well as utilizing the natural scenery of the Taihang Mountains and red tourism resources to vigorously develop the eco-tourism industry.
Pingding retains a rich folk culture, such as Yazhou Drums, Wu Yazhou Drums and other traditional performing arts are listed in the national intangible cultural heritage. Pingding Sandware is the most famous specialty product, with a history of more than 1,300 years, and a reputation as the "best sandware in the world".
Lanxi County is located in the south-central Heilongjiang Province, southeast of Suihua City, the hinterland of the Songnen Plain, the east bank of the lower reaches of the Hulan River, east of Bayan County, south of Hulan District, west of the city of Zhaodong, Anda City, north of Qinggang County, is one of the important satellite city of the Harbin metropolitan area. The county covers a total area of 2,499 square kilometers, with 4 towns and 10 townships under the jurisdiction of the county, with a total population of about 500,000 people, and the county government is located in the town of Lanxi. Lanxi County has a long history, the twenty-first year of the Qing Guangxu (1895) set up the county, taking the "Hulan Province of the West" meaning the name Lanxi, is Manchu, Hui and other ethnic minorities living in the area. As a traditional agricultural county, producing corn, soybeans, rice and other food crops, enjoying the "China's flax township", "China's Northeast Folk Art Township" reputation, flax planting and processing, folk paper-cutting, the Northeast and other folk culture is unique. In recent years, Lanxi County, relying on location advantages, and actively develop modern agriculture and rural tourism, and gradually built the Harbin metropolitan area an important supply base for agricultural products and cultural tourism destinations.