Ningdu County, belonging to Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, is located in the southeast of Jiangxi Province and the north of Ganzhou City, with a total area of 4,053 square kilometers, and is the core county of the former Central Soviet Area, the key county of national poverty alleviation and development work, the extension county of the Western Development Policy, and the county of the Luoxiao Mountain Range Special Difficulties Area. As of October 2021, Ningdu County has 12 towns and 12 townships under its jurisdiction. According to the seventh census data, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, the resident population of Ningdu County city was 702,394 people.
With a long history, Ningdu is the early settlement and distribution center of the southward migration of the ancestors from the Central Plains, the important birthplace of the Hakka folk lineage in Gan, Fujian and Guangdong, and a pure Hakka county, which is regarded as the ancestral land of Hakka; Ningdu is a place of humanities, and it is the birthplace of the nationally famous prose writer Wei Xi in the Qing Dynasty, and the originator of the landscape painting in Jiangxi Province in the Qing Dynasty, such as Luo Mu, etc. From the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Ningdu has been the first town in China to receive the highest grade in the imperial examinations. From Song to Qing Dynasty, there were 132 successful candidates, among which there were 2 Scholar and 1 Scholar, ranking the first in Gannan, and it is known as the country of literature and poetry; Ningdu is a revolutionary hotspot, the political and military center of the pre-Central Soviet Area, and it was the commanding center, the main battlefield, and the consolidated rear of the five anti-encirclement and suppression wars of the Central Soviet Area, and it was the shocking "Ningdu Uprising" that broke out in the country. "Ningdu is rich in resources, with more than 800,000 acres of arable land and an annual output of more than 800 million jin of grain, accounting for one-fifth of the total output of Gannan, and is one of the first commodity grain base counties of the country, known as the granary of Gannan; Ningdu is ecologically beautiful, and the Meijiang River, the main river of the county, is the longest and largest tributary of the Gan River, with 592.02 million jin of land in total. Ningdu has beautiful ecology, the main river in the county, Meijiang River, is the longest and largest tributary of the Gan River basin, and 592.02 square kilometers of land area is included in the scope of the Gan River Source Protection Zone, which is the source of the Gan River in name only.
In 2020, Ningdu County will realize a gross regional product of 21.931 billion yuan, up 3.9% year-on-year, of which: the added value of the primary industry will be 4.545 billion yuan, up 3.0%; the added value of the secondary industry will be 5.906 billion yuan, up 2.2%; and the added value of the tertiary industry will be 11.480 billion yuan, up 5.2%. The structure of the three industries was adjusted from 19.7:28.0:52.3 (revised) in 2019 to 20.7:26.9:52.4 in 2020.
