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Introduction of Gushi County, Henan, China

Gushi County is located in the southeast of Henan Province, belonging to Xinyang City, at the junction of Henan and Anhui Provinces, and is an important gateway of Henan facing East China. As a place where the Central Plains and Chu cultures meet, it has a history of more than 1,800 years and is known as "the first hometown of expatriates in the Central Plains". The county has a total area of 2,946 square kilometers, with a population of about 1.7 million people. It has a subtropical to warm-temperate transition climate, and produces rice, wheat and other crops, and is an advanced county for grain production in China.

History, Culture and Tourism Resources of Gushi

Gushi is the hometown of the Tang people - the ancestral land of Fujian and Taiwan, the starting point of four large-scale migrants southward in history, known as "the most desirable roots of the global Chinese holy land". There are national cultural relics protection units such as the ruins of the old city of Fanguo and the ancestral shrine of Chen Yuguang. West Jiuhua Mountain Scenic Area is a national 4A-level tourist attraction with ten thousand acres of tea gardens, bamboo sea and Zen cultural landscape, and receives more than one million tourists annually. The Roots Cultural Festival is listed as a key cultural festival in Henan Province.

Economic Development and Specialty Industries of Gushi

Gushi has now become a regional center city in the southeast of Henan Province, forming three leading industries: willow weaving, grain and oil processing, and equipment manufacturing. Gushi chicken, Gushi goose and Gushi duck are listed as national geographical indication products, and "Gushi willow weaving" is selected as national intangible cultural heritage. Ningxi Railway, Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway passes through the city, and it takes 1 hour to reach Xinyang Minggang Airport. The transportation network radiates to the three provinces of Henan, Hubei and Anhui, and it is building a regional center city at the junction of Henan and Anhui.