Mudan District, belonging to Heze City, Shandong Province, is located in southwestern Shandong Province, the south bank of the lower reaches of the Yellow River, north of Jancheng, east of Yuncheng, Juno, south of Dingtao, Cao County, west of Dongming connected to the northwestern corner of the Yellow River on the verge of the river, and Puyang City, Henan Province, across the river. Between latitude 30 ° 39 ″ - 35 ° 53 ″, longitude 114 ° 48 ″ - 116 ° 24 ″, with a total area of 1,041 square kilometers, 220 kilometers northeast of the capital city of Jinan. As of October 2022, Mudan District has 7 streets and 11 towns under its jurisdiction. As of the end of 2022, Mudan District had a resident population of 1,096,400 people.
Mudan District is the main urban area of Heze city center, and is famous as the capital of Chinese peony and the hometown of calligraphy and painting, opera, song, martial arts and folk art. Peony is the characteristic industry of Mudan District, which has nine color families, ten flower types and 1,237 varieties, and is the world's largest peony cultivation, ornamental, research and development and seedling export base. Mudan District is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization, which is said to be the hometown of Fuxi, Yao and Shun, and is known as "the middle of the world". During the Warring States period, Sun Bin created the glorious battle example of "Siege of Wei to Save Zhao" here; Huang Chao raised the flag of righteousness from here and embarked on the journey of overthrowing the Tang Dynasty; and Liu Deng's army initiated the Battle of Southwest Lu here. It is also the hometown of Zhao Dengyu, a famous anti-Japanese general, and He Siyuan, a famous patriot. Mudan District has successfully created a national safe community, is a national advanced district in scientific and technological progress, food production, employment service and the second batch of pilot districts for returning to the hometown to start a business, as well as an advanced county and district in Shandong Province in spiritual civilization, social culture, basic education, social security, a provincial civilized district, and one of the top ten counties (cities and districts) in Shandong Province in terms of the county economy's most competitiveness.
In 2022, Mudan District will realize a GDP of 43.24 billion yuan, of which: the added value of the first industry will be 3.77 billion yuan, the added value of the second industry will be 10.58 billion yuan, and the added value of the third industry will be 28.88 billion yuan, and the structure of the three industries will be 8.7:24.5:66.8.
