Jiaxian County, belongs to Pingdingshan City, Henan Province. It is located in the west of central Henan Province and the north of Pingdingshan City, with 8 towns, 5 townships, 2 street offices, 377 administrative villages, 782 natural villages and a total area of 737 square kilometers. According to the seventh population census, as of November 1, 2020, there were 506,377 permanent residents in Jia County.
Jia County is the hometown of Zhang Liang. It can be summarized as "one county, two relics, four places, four treasures, six townships, and six great things". "One county" is a thousand-year-old county. "Two Legacies", i.e. Jiaxian large bronze, Yaozhuang gold inlaid jade two national intangible cultural heritage projects. "Four places", i.e. the birthplace of national intellectual youth culture, the base of Chinese poetry creation, the base of Chinese Tangjun, and the base of "Shan'erxi" smoke. "Four treasures", i.e. there are four national key cultural relics protection units, the resting place of the Northern Song Dynasty's great writers Su Xun, Su Shi, and Su Zhe, father and son - San Su Garden (San Su Ancestral Hall and Tomb), the best-preserved county-level Literary Temple in China - Jiaxian Literary Temple, the Wan Wan Literary Temple and the National Literary Temple of China - Jiaxian Literary Temple. -Jiaxian Temple of Literature, Jiaxian Shan-Shaan Association Hall which is an important pivot of the Ten Thousand Miles Tea Route, and Linfengzhai which is the first red stone ancient fortress in the Central Plains. The "Six Hometowns" are the Hometown of Longevity in China, the Hometown of Calligraphy in China, the Hometown of Poetry in China, the Hometown of Red Bulls in Jiaxian County in China, the Hometown of Cast Iron Woks in China, and the Hometown of Gourmet in China. The "six delicacies" are six excellent cuisines, roasted chicken, beef, noodles, tea, three stews, and tofu dishes.In 1955, Chairman Mao Zedong wrote a glorious instruction for 郏县："The countryside is a vast heaven and earth, where great things can be done."
In 2019, Jia County's gross regional product was 19,679.7 million yuan, calculated at comparable prices (the same below), an increase of 8.1% over the previous year.
