Baoshan Overview

Baoshan area is located in the west of Yunnan, 19637 square kilometers of the whole area, national boundaries 167.78 -km-long. Baoshan area is located in the south segment of mountain range. The terrain is high in north and low in south, have an elevation of 3915 meters at most, have an elevation of 533 meters the most low. Located in 05 fen for 98 degrees of east foot-path --02 fen for 100 degrees, 08 fen for 24 degrees of north latitude --During 51 fen for 25 degrees. It is low to belong to monsoon climate at the middle subtropical zone at the mountain region at the latitude, it last the south, middle, bringing and the south at the field north, middle, subtropical zone and north tropic north. The average temperature of the whole year of the whole district is 14.8 ? --21.3 ?. It is to the south that the rivers flow into from the north, the geothermal resources is extremely abundant. Total population is 2,237,000 people, Baoshan area have jurisdiction over Baoshan city, county, Changning County, county of Tengchong and Longlin, Shidian county four counties and first city.
There are more than 50 kinds of mineral products in Baoshan, the metal mineral products have iron, titanium, copper, zinc, tin, tungsten, mercury, silver, cut with scissors, saw, shield, the aluminium, pan; The nonmetallic minerals are diatomaceous earth, wollastonite, cement lime stone, cement clay, pyrite, kaolin; The energy mineral products are uranium, thorium, brown coal, peat, etc.. Area of woods of Baoshan is 585,000 hectares, there are more than 2200 kinds of known higher plants, more than 80 kinds precious varieties of trees among them, there are ancient tree of a lot of wood and the azalea, Yunnan camellia. Baoshan area produces and seizes the wood, fragrant camphor tree, catches the wood etc.. Wild animal of Baoshan area, there are more than 50 kinds of beasts, there are 257 kinds of birds, classify as 21 kinds of animals that the country laid special stress on protecting. Among them the rare beasts are takin, slender loris, golden-haired monkey of Yunnan, Bangladesh tiger, gibbon, clouded leopard, leopard, lesser panda, gray leaf monkey, etc.; Rare bird have dark neck long tail pheasant, red belly corner pheasant, white tail tip red pheasant and peacock, etc.. Here is still one of the centres of the national pheasant distribution.
Tea, candy, cigarette, coffee, etc. are the key industry of Baoshan. Changning classify country as export black tea base county while being high-quality, Baoshan city classify as into national lean meat species goods pig production base and coffee production base. The whole district tea, output of cane sugar occupy the second in the whole province. The main export commodities have tea now, coffee, silk, walnut, bean vermicelli, pressed sated duck, rice paper, leather, according to leaf oil, malachite raw material, white cloud beans, do ginger block, handicraft more than 100 varieties.