Anxin county lies in the middle part of Hebei province, between 38°43′-39°02′north latitude and 115°38′-116°07′east longitude. Belonging to warm and temperate continental monsoon climate, it covers a total area of 738.6 sq.km, with one second as water area. There are 3 townships and 9 towns in the county under which there are 173 natural villages and 210 administrative villages, and there are 39 total water villages among them.400,000 people live in the county among them 100,000 people coming from water areas. Except for Han nationality, there are 14 minorities, such as Meng, Hui, Wei, Miao, Zhuang, etc. As the county government is in the town, Anxin is the centers of politics, economy, culture and communication in the county. It situates on the borders of Beijing, Tianjin and Shijiazhuang—162 km apart from Beijing in the north, 159 km apart from Tianjin in the east and 187 km apart from Shijiazhuang in the southwest with efficient road network and convenient traveling.
      Anxin county has a long history, and as early as neolithic age human beings gathered and lived here. It is also an important military territory captured by many armies since ancient time. In the Warring States Period, it was the boundary of Yan state and Zhao state—“south border of Yan state and north borer of Zhao state”, and the placename Zhangbeikou comes from this. Ge city (now town government of An’zhou town situatea here) was established in Zhao state, Santai and Hunni city(now town government of Anxin situates here) were established in Yan state, so these three cities stood facing each other in the county, and this also indicates the important geographic position of Anxin. There is the record that southwest part of the county was established in the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty being called Yizheng county at that time, and the name of the county was changed along with the change of dynasties, for example it was changed for An’zhou for Shun’an army was set up in Song Dynasty; the northeast part of the county was established as Wocheng county since Jin Dynasty and it was changed for Xin’an county in Yuan Dynasty, Ming and Qing Dynasty follows the name, and Xin’an county joined in Anzhou in the 12th Year of Daoguang (1832), but it actually disparted from Anzhou. The initial characters of Anzhou and Xin’an were combined in the 3rd Year of Minguo (1914), thus Anxin came into being.
      The famous 4 A national level tourism site—Baiyangdian, locates in Anxin. With the expanse water area, Baiyangdian covers 366 sq.km, inside the shallow lake are there 143 shallow lake berths with different sizes and shapes divided by 3,700 channels, 120,000 mu(about 667 sq.m/mu) reed and 50,000 mu lotus. Baiyangdian possesses excellent tourism resource for scenery is always beautiful through the four seasons in Baiyangdian, and also including the rich resource of water products. In recent years, a series of tourism infrastructures were completed and were put into operations and science was added into tourism management along with the implementation of the strategy of the county is prospered by tourism initiated by the Anxin county committee and government through the way of completely making the use of the zoology in Baiyangdian. So the tourism environment looked brand-new since the order management was enhanced through setting up the special supervision and management department. In the consecutive 2 years there are more than 1 million tourists come here and the direct income from tourism exceeds 10 million yuan. Thus tourism industry in Baiyangdian achieves a long time development. Baiyangdian was appraised as the 4 A national level tourism site, and was appraised as provincial wetland conservation area in 2002 by the provincial government. The 17th national lotus exhibition was successfully held here in 2003, and it was selected into <800 China recognized golden tourism sites> compiled by national tourism bureau. Excluding the already existed large view sites, such as Baiyangdian culture garden, grand garden, mandarin duck island, window of Baiyangdian and so on, Anxin county government invested a large sum of money developing a 56.8 km sightseeing special line circling Baiyangdian in 2005, and tourists can experience the striking of green and shocking of red in person with the wonderful scenery of Baiyangdian being fully displayed and the great Anti-Japanese War being presented again.
      Township enterprises develop quickly in Anxin with 8 backbone industries, namely tourism, breed, down, wool, clothes, shoemaking and smelt with a bright future, and GDP of the county is 2.3 billion. At the same time, infrastructure establishment like electric power, communication, correspondence, education and sanitation also develop quickly and with new respect. A brand-new Anxin is about to present before us under the leadership of the county committee and government, and the name of Baiyangdian—pearl of north China will be well known home and abroad.
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