Weinan is situated in the east-central area of Shaanxi Province, separated from Shanxi and Henan provinces by the Yellow River. It is bordered by Xian and Xianyang in the west, and neighboring Yan'an and Tongchuan in the north. The area spans for 182.3 kilometers from the north to south, and 149.7 kilometers from west to east, which has been taken a important role in the new land bridge of Asia and Europe, also is considered as the “east gate” of Shaanxi province as well as the west provinces to the middle and eastern regions of China. Five geomorphic types can be found by the axes of Wei River, and mountains and plateau forms are in both north and south sides, and the plain covers the center. The alluvial plain formed by the River Wei is the widest area in Qinchuan. With the administrative Division of 1 district (Linwei), 8 counties (Huaxian, Tongguan, Dali, Pucheng, Chengcheng, Baishui, Heyang, Fuping), 2 county-level cities (Huayin, Hancheng), 196 townships and 3221 administrative villages, it has a population of 5,430,000 , within it there are 2,510,000 agricultural labors out of 3,890.000 agricultural population, and covers an area of 13,000 square kilometers, in which 8,730,000 mus are the cultivated land, and 2 mus for each person.
Weinan owns splendid mountains and rivers, superior natural conditions and abundant agricultural resources, the climate feature belongs to the monsoon climate of semi-humid and semi-arid, meanwhile, it also enjoys four distinct seasons, plentiful sunshine, favorable temperatures, and enough rainfall. With flat topography, and fertile soil, it’s very suitable for the development of agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry. The city has more than 10 kinds of animal in captivity, some of them won the fame of great quality, such as qinchuan cattle, the guanzhong donkey and milk goats, besides, there also obtain more than 80 kinds of crops and forestry, particularly like wheat, corn, beans, cotton, rapeseed, peanuts, apples, crisp pears, vegetables, tobacco, pepper and watermelon.
Agriculture plays a great role in Weinan, it is one of the major agricultural producing areas and production bases in Shaanxi even for the entire country, and it is known as "Shaanxi granary" and "Shaanxi Cotton Warehouse”. The output of the major agricultural products like grain, oilseeds, fruit, big livestock, poultry, and eggs accounts for 1/5-1/7 of the province's total contribution, for cotton acreage, it accounts for 4/5 coverage of the province planting land, for the acreage and output of apple production, it respectively accounts for 1/5 and 1/4. seven national commodity grain county bases (Pucheng, Fuping, Linwei, Heyang, Chengcheng, Dali, Hancheng), four state-level high-quality cotton county bases (Dali, clinical Wei, Pucheng, China County), eight state-level high-quality wheat county bases (Pucheng, Fuping, Linwei, Heyang, Chengcheng, Dali, Hancheng, Huaxian),three national dairy goat county bases (Linwei, Dali, FuPing), three national commodity fish county bases (Dali, Heyang, Huayin), and six provincial-level high-quality apple county bases(Baishui, Chengcheng, Pucheng, HeYang, Fuping, Hancheng) had been successively established in here.
Weinan witnesses a long history and has various humanities, especially rich in tourism resources, which made the world knows the dangerous but breathtaking Huashan, magnificent imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty, history saint Simaqian, the calligraphy saint Cangjie, the wine saint Dukang and the largest wetland Qiachuan tourist scenic spot along the Yellow River. As the convenient transportation system, it is referred to as “arteries of Shaanxi, and thoroughfare for provinces,”which is the connection hub of the North, Northwest and Southwest of China. The whole region realized the full establishment of the railway in every county, highway in every village, as well as the advanced postal communications.
Depend on the first-class investment environment, Weinan faces the whole country, and expanding the opening up policy, lead the construction of “one line and two belts”in Guanzhong area to achieve an extraordinary leaps and bounds.
