2008年3月26日星期三

A Brief Introduction of Dehua County(1)

Dehua County lies in the middle of Fujian Province. It is about 200 kilometers away from Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province, about 180 kilometers from the harbor city of Xiamen and about 110 kilometers away from Quanzhou, a city famous for historical culture in China. The county is known as the Ceramic Capital of China.
Dehua enjoys the praise of "Treasure in Fujian" with its numerous mountains, sufficient water, abundant minerals and exquisite ceramics.
There are over 280 peaks of more than 1000 meters above the sea level situated at Dehua. Daiyun Mountain, named as "Ridge in Fujian", is a national natural reserve. There are 284 families, 928 genuses and 2066 species of higher plants involving 115 species of rare plants, plants in imminent danger or special plants, 47 species of orchid plants, 38 families and 136 species of macrofungi; there are 34 orders, 99 families and 420 species of terrestrial vertebrates involving 40 species of animals under the state's first or second-class protection; there are 30 orders, 260 families and 1645 species of insects; there are the largest Huangshan pines area of 100,000 mu which is one of the protective zones that have the highest biodiversity value per unit. "the Taoism Land of God" Stone Ox Mountain is the national geology park and forest park. It is praised in 2006 as one of the top ten worthy places in Fujian Province for foreigners to visit. Daixian Falls,

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