Tengxian is located in the southeast of Guangxi, bordering Cangwu County in the east, Pirong County and Cenxi City in the south, Pingnan County in the west and Zhaoping County and mengshan county in the north. The maximum distance from east to west is 86 kilometers, and the maximum distance from north to south is 1 12 kilometers. It governs 16 townships, 266 villages and 13 neighborhood committees with a total population of 965,000. The area is 394,562 square kilometers, and the cultivated land area is 480,600 mu, including 392,400 mu of paddy field, 88,000 mu of dry land and 4,292,000 mu of forest land. Is an agricultural county with "eight mountains, one water and one field".
Tengxian is rich in natural resources. There are more than 20 proven mineral deposits, such as ferrotitanium, gold, barite, granite, lead, zinc and silicon. Among them, titanium ore reserves are large and high grade, with a total reserve of about 210.5 million tons; The total reserves of kaolin are about100000 tons. The county's forest coverage rate reached 70.3%, and the forest stock reached 7.398 million cubic meters; Agricultural and sideline products mainly include rice, seedless watermelon, taro, kudzu root, cassava, tea, sericulture, longan, Shatian pomelo and so on. Among them, seedless watermelon has a planting area of 6,543,800 mu and an annual output of 250,000 tons. The planting area of taro is 6.5438+0.5 million mu, and the total output is about 25,000 tons. The planting area of Pueraria lobata is 1.6 million mu, and the annual output of Pueraria lobata is about 30,000 tons.
Tengxian is one of the top 100 counties for comprehensive agricultural development, advanced forestry ecological construction and greening. It is also a national commodity grain base county, a national top ten rosin production base county and a national late-maturing litchi production base county. Animal husbandry products mainly include pigs, three yellow chickens and so on. Aquatic products mainly include bighead carp, silver carp, bighead carp and carp, as well as freshwater pomfret, Xijiang catfish and local yellow sand turtle.
Industry belongs to resource processing industry, and its main products are titanium dioxide series, forest chemical products series, lead-zinc mine, kaolin, brick making, aluminum village, plywood and so on. Among them, titanium products and rosin are the pillar industries in the county, with an annual output of 50,000 tons of titanium dioxide, 20,000 tons of rosin and 3,900 tons of turpentine.
There are many rivers and rich water resources in the county. The total annual water resources in the county reach 3.382 billion cubic meters, and the theoretical reserves of hydraulic resources reach149,300 kilowatts. The county has convenient land and water transportation. Luozhan Railway under construction, Nanguang Intercity High-speed Railway under construction, Pingguo-Wuzhou Expressway pass through from the south, and five secondary highways, namely National Highway 32 1, Nanning-Wuzhou, tengxian (Tandong)-Cangwu (Xindi), tengxian (Taiping)-Mengshan (Tang Chen), tengxian-Rongxian and Taiping-Tandong, which are about to start, run through them. The maximum navigation capacity of Xijiang shipping is 2000-ton ships, and passenger and cargo ships can reach Nanning, Liuzhou, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao.
Tengxian is the hometown of Qin Longmu, Yuan Chonghuan, the minister of war during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, Li Xiucheng, the loyal king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Chen Yucheng, Lv Shunde, the visiting king and Li Shixian, the servant king. This is the hometown of Li Zhenya martyr, deputy commander of Qiongya column of China People's Liberation Army, and Mo Naiqun, late vice chairman of Guangxi CPPCC.