Hengfeng County

Hengfeng County (Simplified Chinese:横峰;Traditional Chinese 橫峰;Pinyin:Héngfēng) is a small county under the administration of Shangrao city,JiangxiProvince, P.R.China. It is located in the middle part of Shangrao city, about 30 km from Shangrao Xinzhou District which is the locality of the municipality.

History

The Hengfeng county is set up in Year Jiajing 39(明嘉靖39年，1560 AD) with the name Xin'an(兴安县), whose initial highest administrator is Chen Qingyun（陈庆云）who took his duty in the same year.

In the Year Mingguo 3(民国3年，1914 AD)，Hengfeng changed its name from Xin'an to current name Hengfeng to eliminate the ambiguity since a county in Guangxi Province has the same name.

Geography

The Hengfeng county's east-west distance is 28.3 km, and the north-south is 50.3 km. The total area is 655.24 square km by aircraft measure.The highest mountain is Mill-Dish Mountain(磨盘山) with its peak altitude 1366.6 meters. Xinjiang River,the main river across Shangrao city, lies in the county for 9.82 metres. Cengang River runs across the county. The county's intensity of river grid is 0.2 km/square km.

Celebrities

In the last century,the main celebrities are Fang Zhimin(方志敏) and Shao Shiping（邵式平）.

Fang Zhimin

Fang, born 1900 in Yiyang County,Jiangxi Province,led revolution in Jiangxi with Communism faith and Marxism theory, who had the same prestige with Mao Zedong at that time. Fang and Shao Shiping had successfully launched Yiyang-Hengfeng Uprising and built The Northeast Jiangxi Revolution Base. But unfortunately he was captured by the Kuomintang troops in Huaiyu Mountain, Yushan County, Jiangxi in his adult age in 1935 and killed in Nanchang in the same year. "Lovely China" he wrote in prison is his masterpiece and influnced a number of revolutionaries.

Shao Shiping

Shao(1900--1965), born too in Yiyang County, was also reputed for the revolution. After the foundation of People's Republic of China in 1949, he was the initial province stadholder of Jiangxi. Fang and Shao had successfully launched Yiyang-Hengfeng Uprising and built The Northeast Jiangxi Revolution Base.

Population

Until 2005,the population is about 200,000, most of which work in the primary industry.

Transportation

The transportation is very convenient. No.320 National Road, No.311 Expressway (alias name is Hukun Expressway, or Liwen Expressway), Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, Hengnan Railway make the county 2 hours to Nanchang city, 3 to Hanzhou city, 4 to Shanghai city.

Economy

Currently the local government concentrates on developing economy, mainly by building industry garden and offering good policies. Xin'an Industry Garden lies in the western part which is gradually expanding west to the boundary of its nearby county -Yiyang County.

Sights and Resort

Sights

Cen Mountain lies in the north of Cenyang Town,which is the place of administration centre. In the mountain there are Cen Mountain Cave Temple and Tiantai Temple, both of which are buddhistic temples. There is a beautiful legend about Cen Mountain Cave. The daughter of the highest administrator of the county got blind caused by illness, and the administrator sought for all kinds of treatments to heal her but none had made sense. The local residents recommended him to use the fountain from the Cen Mountain Cave to wash her eyes. The miracle happened. The girl was able to see the world clearly again. The adiministrator was so very happy that he decided to build a temple to protect and commemorate the fountain, that is Cen Mountain Cave Temple.

Resort

Geyuan Town once was the capital of The Northeast Jiangxi Revolution Base where quite a lot of relics remain, such as Red Square, Hospital, Post Office, The schoole of Workers Peasants & Warriors, and so on.