Yudu County (, ) is a county under the administration of the
prefecture-level city
A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province of China, province and above a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county in China's ...
of
Ganzhou
Ganzhou (), alternately romanized as Kanchow, is a prefecture-level city in the south of Jiangxi province, China, bordering Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, and Hunan to the west. Its administrative seat is at Zhanggong District.
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province, China. It is located in the east of Ganzhou City. It is adjacent to
Ruijin City to the east,
Huichang County and
Anyuan County
Anyuan County () is a rural County (People's Republic of China), county in the prefecture-level city of Ganzhou, Jiangxi. The county seat is at Xinshan Town (), located southeast of Ganzhou proper.
Transportation
The under construction Ruijin ...
to the south,
Ganxian District to the west, and
Xingguo County and
Ningdu County to the north. With a total area of 2893 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 9 towns and 14 townships, with a total registered population of 1.115 million. The county government is stationed in Gongjiang Town.
The territory belongs to the Hakka Culture (Southern Jiangxi) Ecological Protection Experimental Zone. In 2019, the total production value was 26.62 billion yuan. The "Master Plan for the Development of Ruixing in the Economic Revitalization Pilot Zone" was officially approved by the National Development and Reform Commission. The pilot zone covers the three counties/cities of Ruijin, Xingguo and Yudu, with a total population of approximately 2.3 million. The plan envisages that Ruixing will be built in the experimental zone into a "special economic zone in the old revolutionary base areas" and "experimental zone in the special zone".
In March 2019, it ranked among the first batch of counties in the revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization area. On May 20, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Jiangxi for investigation. During the investigation, he went to Yudu County to present a flower basket to the Monument to the Long March of the Central Red Army. On April 26, 2020, Yudu County was removed from the list of poverty-stricken counties.
History
Yudu County was established in the year 201 BC (
Han Dynasty
The Han dynasty was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC ...
). It is known as the "mother of six counties" and "the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Hunan". The name Yudu () came from its highest mountain, Yushan Mountain (), and was renamed to "" in 1951. In 1934 the county was the starting point of the
Long March
The Long March ( zh, s=长征, p=Chángzhēng, l=Long Expedition) was a military retreat by the Chinese Red Army and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from advancing Kuomintang forces during the Chinese Civil War, occurring between October 1934 and ...
for the First Red Army.
Administrative divisions
Yudu County has 9 towns and 14 townships.
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Climate
Gallery
File:A photo of yudu city beside the gong river.jpg, Cityscape of Yudu from Gong River.
File:A photo of yudu city in hongqi avenue.jpg, Hongqi Avenue in Yudu.
File:A photo of yudu city near the gong river.jpg, View of town center across the Gong River.
File:A photo of yudu city from above.jpg, Paranoma view of town center.
File:A church in yudu.jpg, A church in Yudu.
File:Yudu city at night.jpg, Night scene of Yudu.
File:EFF5AA3BE8241E32FB02587A1F25959D1F9C12A0 size339 w900 h507.jpg, the jijie bridge of yudu
Transport
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Ganzhou–Longyan Railway
References
Ganzhou
County-level divisions of Jiangxi
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