Leling has a long history. Founded in the fifth year of Emperor Gaozu (202 BC), 1988 was approved by the State Council to withdraw from the county and set up a city. More than 2,000 years of system. Now it has jurisdiction over 4 townships, 8 towns and 4 offices, with a total area of 1.237 square kilometers, cultivated land area of 1.02 million mu and a total population of 650,000.
Leling enjoys an excellent geographical location and convenient transportation. Located in the northwest of Shandong, at the junction of Shandong and Hebei provinces, 50 kilometers away from the Bohai Sea, it is in the center of the northward economic Long Mai composed of Beijing, Tianjin, Jinan and Taian. It is the northern gate of Shandong and the main gateway to Beijing, and is known as "Qiyan Fortress" and "Shandong-Hebei Hub". National Highway 205 and 4 provinces
The first-class trunk highway is vertical and horizontal, and it is connected with beijing-shanghai railway, Jingfu Expressway, Huanghua Port and Jinan Airport within a radius of 80 kilometers, with excellent traffic conditions.
Laoling has developed agriculture and rich agricultural and sideline products. Rich in cotton, wheat, corn, soybeans, peanuts, vegetables, fruits and other agricultural products, it is a national designated commodity grain production base, jujube production base, goat skin processing and export base, lean pig breeding base and national economic forest demonstration city, especially the unique quality "China Leling Golden Jujube" enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad, and is known as the "hometown of pears and jujubes". Leling golden jujube has a long history of cultivation, which began in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, flourished in Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in Ming and Qing Dynasties, with a history of more than 300 years. Jia Sixie, an agronomist in the Northern Wei Dynasty, wrote:> records: "Qingzhou has Lemin Jujube, which is rich in muscle and fine in nucleus, and rich in cream, ranking first in the world." << Warring States Policy >> Praised that "although the people are not cultivated by fields, jujube chestnuts are enough for the people to eat." Leling has fertile land, rich in golden jujube, and is known as "a land of geomantic omen" and "living in Sanqiu every year". In recent years, Leling has vigorously implemented the strategy of "enriching the people with jujube trees" to accelerate the industrialization of jujube trees around the target requirements of "increasing agricultural efficiency, increasing farmers' income and increasing financial income". All the 65.438+00000 mu of cultivated land in the city has been intercropped with jujube and grain, and the total number of jujube trees has reached 25 million, with an annual output of more than 65.438+080 million Jin. It has been named as "the hometown of golden jujube in China" by the state.
Leling condiment industry has developed rapidly. With the adjustment and optimization of agricultural structure, the condiment production base with pepper and pepper as the main products has grown to 1.5 million mu, and there are 1.57 condiment processing enterprises headed by Feida Condiment Co., Ltd., with an annual processing capacity of 200,000 tons. With An Yang Town as the center, the largest condiment wholesale market in China was established.
However, China holds our friendship, and heaven is still our neighbor. The hospitable people of 650,000 jujube villages sincerely look forward to friends from all over the world coming to Leling for sightseeing and investment.