Gucheng County, Hubei Province is located in the mountainous area of northwestern Hubei. It is surrounded by high mountains in the south and Han River in the north. It belongs to the area bordering Qinling and the remnants of Daba Shandong and Jianghan Plain . There are more than 30 peaks in Gucheng . There are more than 1,000 meters above sea level in the territory of Gucheng . Qinglong Mountain in the southwest has an altitude of 1,584 meters, making it the highest peak in the county.
How did Gucheng County name come from? Historical records: In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Feng Boyi's descendant was not Zi in Qin and Gu, and later developed into Qin and Gu, with Qin as the duke and Gu as the earl. Gu Country is the fiefdom of Gu Bosui . Gu is from the northwest of Gucheng, Hubei Province today. He is the king of Gu Country in the early spring and autumn of . The Gu Kingdom built a city in Gushan, which is called Gu Kingdom City (also known as Gu Bo City). Guguocheng is located in Gushan 15 miles north of Gucheng County, and is located in the east of Hanjiang . Gushan is the place where Gubocheng is located and has the ruins of the ancient city of "Guguo". Later, because the area was a major food producer, the ancient city of "Guguo" was praised by villagers as "Gucheng".
But according to the "Jiuyu Zhi", "Gucheng was named after Shennong's who tried to plant grains here." The "Shennong" here refers to Yandi Shennong. Why did "Gucheng" become "Jingucheng"? This is directly related to Gucheng County's ecological environment protection measures in recent years. Gucheng is located on the west bank of the middle reaches of the Han River in the west of Xiangyang City, and is located on the southeast foot of the Wudang Mountains. Its landform characteristics are "eight mountains and half water and half field", surrounded by Jingshan in the south, Wudang in the west, and Hanshui in the east, and the two rivers in the north and south are connected to the Han River in the east. They are surrounded by mountains on the northwest and southwest, and the terrain is high in the west and low in the east. In recent years, Gucheng County has been praised by ecologists as a "green ecological hometown and summer vacation paradise" by ecologists because of its healthy implementation of ecological protection.
Gucheng County has an area of 2541 square kilometers, a forest area of 2.743 million mu, and a forest stock of 7.92 million cubic meters. In 2021, the county achieved a forest coverage rate of growth of 0.55% and a 3.23% growth of forest stock, exceeding the standards to complete the comprehensive evaluation targets and tasks of high-quality development of county economy.
On October 20, 2022, an evaluation team composed of experts and professors from Hubei Provincial Forestry Bureau, Huazhong Agricultural University , Hubei University , Wuhan Botanical Garden , Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Botanical Garden , and Chinese Academy of Sciences reviewed the overall plan for the construction of Gucheng County's provincial forest city. It believed that Gucheng County has an important ecological status, rich forestry resources, profound cultural heritage, and has good conditions for creating a provincial forest city. In addition, the results of the compilation of the "Gucheng County Provincial Forest City Construction Master Plan" can be combined with the county's economic and social development and the provincial forest city construction reasonably planned and scientifically designed, with sufficient content and feasible measures, and unanimously agreed to pass the review.
html Over the past 0 years, Gucheng County has set up 1,033 three-level forest chiefs. The whole county adheres to urban-rural integration, coordinates mountains, rivers, forests, fields and roads, and continuously expands green space, realizes the "three forest construction" of protective forests, landscape forests and economic forests, and carries out the green results of more than 70% forest coverage. The ecological red line area was demarcated with a variety of measures to restore the ecology of the Han River waterfront, and the protected area of green space in the county reached 78.5%. The scientific concept of " green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains " has been fully implemented into practice, making Gucheng County a "green water and green mountains" a fruit produced by people and given it as "Golden Valley City".
