Fengtai County

Fengtai County is located in the middle reaches of the Huaihe River, on the southern edge of the Huaibei Plain. It was formerly known as Zhoulai or Xiacai. Fengtai is adjacent to the Huaihe River and XiFeihe River is under its jurisdiction. It covers an area of 1,100 square kilometers, with arable land of 46,100 hectares, and water area of 160000 mu. The population in Fengtai is 730,000. The county governs 16 townships, 1 economic development area, 213 administrative villages, and 37 communities. Fengtai County, with coal-fired power as its pillar industry, is the largest county in deep well coal mining in China. It has been awarded the titles of National Advanced County for Science and Technology Progress, National Advanced County for Grain Production, National Advanced County for Water Conservancy, Home to Chinese Folk Art Flower Drum Lantern, Home to Chinese Ethnic Folk Song and Dance, National Advanced County for Legal Publicity and Education, National Garden County, Provincial Civilized County, Provincial Garden County, Provincial Double Support Model City, and Provincial Safety County, County without Cult, First Batch of Civilized County, and the County Town of Health in Anhui Province. It is known as the “Pearl of Huaihe River” and “Jiangnan in Northern Anhui”.

Fengtai has abundant tourism resources, such as Maoxian Ancient Cave and Qingtian Temple, an ancient temple built in Western Han Dynasty, where it and modern inscriptions complement each other. Xiashankou, with two peaks facing each other and a stream of water flowing from the middle, is known as the first canyon of the Huaihe River. Heilongtan, about several hundred meters deep, links Xiashankou by water. The millennium-old ginkgo tree, a living fossil of the plant, and the tomb of Lian Po, a famous general in the Warring States Period, are renowned. This is the ancient battlefield of the “Battle of Feishui River”, a famous battle in Chinese history that a troop with fewer people defeated its counterpart. The idioms of “every bush and tree looks like an enemy” and “fear ambush at every tree and tuft of grass” originated here.