Bin County is located in the northwest of Xianyang City and belongs to the Weibei Dry Plateau Liang Gully Area. The layout resembles an orthographic character "人". The Jinghe River runs diagonally through it from west to east, dividing the county into two plateaus in the north and one river in the south. The county has a total area of ??1,183 square kilometers, a total population of 312,000, and jurisdiction over 8 towns, 12 townships, and 325 administrative villages. The average altitude is 1108 meters, the annual average temperature is 9.7°C, the temperature difference between day and night is 11.7°C, the annual average precipitation is 579 mm, and the frost-free period is 180 days. It has a typical continental warm temperate semi-arid climate.
Bin County is rich in natural resources. The county's total cultivated land area is 600,000 acres. There are 12 large and small rivers in the territory, with a total water resource of 1.9 billion cubic meters. The underground mineral deposits mainly include more than 10 kinds of coal, clay, quartz sand, etc. The county's coal reserves are 3.26 billion tons. The raw coal in the coal area has shallow burial depth, large reserves, thick coal seams, and good coal quality. It is a high-quality power coal and gasification coal.
There are 8 national-level cultural relics protection units and provincial-level cultural relics protection units in Bin County. The Great Buddha Temple Grottoes are a dazzling pearl on the Silk Road. The Amitabha Buddha in the cave is the largest Buddha in Shaanxi. The majestic Binzhou Tower fully demonstrates the superb architectural art of the working people. The murals and painted reliefs on the tomb of Feng Hui, King of Wei of the Later Zhou Dynasty, provide precious literary and historical materials for the study of the history of the Five Dynasties and fill the archaeological gaps in the history of the Five Dynasties in my country.
Bin County has a long history and outstanding people. 3,500 years ago, Zhou Zugong Liu founded the country in Bin, opened up floods and wastelands, taught people how to farm, and pioneered agriculture in the Jinghe River Basin. "The Book of Songs·Bin Feng" records the specific scenes of the ancestors of Bin County engaged in mulberry farming. Li Yu, a famous scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Shunmin, a poet in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Lun, Yan Ben, Yan Rang and Liu Zhao, the upright Binzhou officials in the Ming Dynasty, have been famous for centuries and are still praised today. In modern times, a group of great martyrs such as Wang Fugui, Zhang Zhanyun, and Hu Yanying made certain contributions to the liberation cause of the Chinese people.
Since the reform and opening up, the county party committee and county government have relied on their resource advantages to take over the overall work of poverty alleviation, strengthen "one foundation (grain production)" and develop "five pillars (fruit, tobacco, livestock, coal, (Electricity)", one term after another, and achieved certain results in economic construction. In 2000, the gross national product reached 611 million yuan, local fiscal revenue was 52.426 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 1,249 yuan, successfully achieving the "crossing the line" goal of poverty alleviation.
Bin County is a major agricultural county. In 1991, the county's total grain output reached 113,000 tons, a record high in history. In 2000, 230,000 acres of mulched wheat were planted in the county. After continuous droughts in winter and spring, it still achieved good harvests. The average yield per mu reached 208.6 kilograms, an increase of 72 kilograms compared with open field wheat. The promotion of mulched wheat has found an effective way to increase grain production in the dry plateaus of Weibei.
Bin County is known as the "Fruit Town". In 2000, the county's orchard area had grown to 340,000 acres, of which the fruit area reached 300,000 acres, and the dried fruit area reached 40,000 acres. The total fruit output was 132,000 tons, and the total dried fruit output was 5,090 tons. The output value was 132 million yuan. Fruit farmers The per capita income is 470 yuan, and the fiscal revenue reaches 21 million yuan, accounting for 40% of the local fiscal revenue that year. Binzhou pear cultivation has a long history. After Chairman Mao Zedong tasted Binzhou pears during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1957, he instructed the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to reply to the letter and encourage the people of Binxian County to vigorously develop Binzhou pears. Currently, 100,000 acres of Binzhou pears are cultivated in the county, which are sold all over the country and exported to Southeast Asia. Bin County is also the apple production base county in Shaanxi, with a cultivation area of ??200,000 acres. Bin County is the hometown of jujube in the Jin Dynasty. There is a record of "peeling jujube in August" in "The Book of Songs Bin Feng". It is known as "eight to one foot, ten to one catty". It has become a palace tribute as far back as the Ming Dynasty. . At present, the cultivation area of ??jujube trees is 5,000 acres. The Persimmon Garden is the "Iron Orchard" of Bin County, with an annual output of more than 8,000 tons of persimmons, which are sold in Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other places.
Bin County is the flue-cured tobacco production base county in Shaanxi Province. Flue-cured tobacco production started in 1973, and was designated as a flue-cured tobacco production base county by the province in 1982. In 1991, 200,000 tons of tobacco leaves were harvested, and tobacco tax revenue was 10.3 million yuan, accounting for half of the local fiscal revenue that year. In 1993, our county was rated as a first-class county by Shaanxi Province for tobacco leaf production reaching standards.