Jianjialong () is a

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Shaodong Shaodong () is a county-level city in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located in the central Hunan, the city is bordered to the northeast by Shuangfeng County, to the northwest by Xinshao County, to ...

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

, China. As of the 2017 census it had a population of 40,337 and an area of . The town is bordered to the north by Huochangping Town, to the east by Yejiping Town, to the south by

Qidong County Qidong County () is a county and the 8th most populous county-level division in the Province of Hunan, China; it is under the administration of Hengyang prefecture-level city. The county was formed from the eastern part of Qiyang County in Apri ...

, and to the west by Shuangfeng Township.

History

On November 5, 2014, Jianjialong Township was upgraded to a town.

Administrative division

As of 2017, the town is divided into fifty villages.

Economy

The main cash crop is Chinese herbal medicine. The main crops are

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and

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Education

There are two middle schools, ten primary schools and three kindergartens in the town.

Tourism

Chengzhi House () is a famous scenic spot in Shaoyang. It was built in 1812 during the Jiaqing period of the

Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

(1644–1911).

References

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