Xiangtan is located in the eastern part of central Hunan Province. It spans111 ° 58 ′ - 113 ° 05 ′ E and 27 ° 21 ′ - 28 ° 05 ′ n. Xiangtan City has amaximum horizontal distance of 108 km from east to west and a maximum verticaldistance of 81 km from south to north; it connects Ningxiang County, WangchengCounty and Changsha County in the north, Hengdong County, Hengshan County andZhuzhou County in the south, Zhuzhou City and Zhuzhou County in the East andShuangfeng County and Lianyuan County in the West. The total area of the city is5015 square kilometers.
The existing forest vegetation in Xiangtan city is mainly artificialforest, with a variety of tree species. There are 16 kinds of timber forest,such as Cunninghamia lanceolata, Pinus massoniana, camphor, thick wood, Phoebe,Baile, etc.; 15 kinds of economic forest, such as Camellia oleifera, tung oiltree, palm, Sapium sebiferum, mulberry, tea, peach, plum, plum, etc.; and theintroduced trees are slash pine, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, Metasequoiaglyptostroboides, Taxodium ascendens, Populus deltoides, black wattle, etc.There are abundant crop resources, and thousands of grain, oil, fiber and othereconomic crops can be cultivated. Xiangtan County's "Cun San Lian", suburban Cunpepper, short footed cabbage, and Xiang Peng Long wax gourd are well-known.There are more than 40 kinds of main economic fish, and Shaziling pig and Hutianstone sheep are excellent local breeds.
The land resources of Xiangtan City have the advantages of more cultivatedland, water surface and hilly land. In 20__, there were 122000 hectares ofcultivated land, accounting for 24.3% of the total land area, with 447 squaremeters of cultivated land per capita. The land quality is good, the utilizationrate is high, the paddy soil, red soil and vegetable garden soil are widelydistributed, which is conducive to the development of rice based farming andlarge-scale agriculture.
Xiangtan has four distinct seasons and abundant rainfall. The annualrainfall is generally about 1500 mm. In 20__, the city's total water resourcesaveraged 3.775 billion cubic meters. Among them, 3.145 billion cubic meters ofsurface water and 630 million cubic meters of groundwater. Xiangjiang, Lianshuiand Juanshui all flow through Xiangtan.
By the end of 20__, Xiangtan city had discovered 32.6% of the totaldiscovered minerals in the province, accounting for 25.6% of the totaldiscovered minerals in the country, of which the proved reserves accounted for27.7% of the total proved reserves in the province; a total of 165 kinds ofmineral deposits were found, of which 57 were listed in the table above,including 11 large-scale minerals, 24 small-scale deposits and 25 ore spots.There are only 11 kinds of proven mineral reserves, including manganese,phosphorus, gypsum, sepiolite, ceramic soil, cement limestone, sandstone forglass, flux limestone, metallurgical dolomite, refractory clay and clay forcement batching.
