The general description of qinqu county

  Qinqu county are at 11 kilometers away from the wuzhong city southwest litong district. It is through the daqiao village. To its northwest, it is the huanghe river; to its south, it is connected with the qingtongxia county, with 6.7 kilometers from east to west; and 3.5 kilometers from south to north and the toal area are 17.2 square kilometers, in which the arable land are 13880 mu with the per capita 0.83 mu. Right now, its coverage includes: damuqiao, hequbai, dingjiawan, tawan, dayuanzi, qinkanguan, lutianwa, haoqu( 8 village) and 70 villager groups. Whole county has 3863 household and 157.67 population. It belong to the area of irrigation. The corn are mainly including rice, wheat, corn and beans. It built the level two road for almost 60 kilometers, it once has the target of has the coating road at every village, group and school and temple. After its finish, it covers the whole county and the whole territory program controlled telephone net, with convenient traffic and communication. We take the government as the center, we built the supply and selling office, comprehensive business building, stockbreeding office, building office and the middle school testing building. The town has initial scale, gradually it lay the foundation to the industrial and business street.

    In the reform and opening, the people in qinqu count get a breakthrough to accelerate the all the industries centered by the economy. To receive the new century, we will stand together to open the qinque county social economy.

    Qinqu, was once named as qinjiaqu. Its trench is opened at the east coast of huanghe river qingtong gordge entrance, which is the earliest dry trench in ningxia plain east huanghe river irrigation area. Early in B.C. 214, qin first emperor, sent the troop to resist the xiongnu troop by building the great wall. He set 44 county in ningxia and building the beidi county, adopting the business in the border policy. To develop, it is the first time to build the 100 li trench at the east of huanghe river, it is the qinqu today. According to the <ningxia fuzhi>, qiqu has 150li, with the irrigation area of 110700 mu.  

    In the ming dynasty 18^th year ( also the AD 1590), the official went to inspect the river issue, said: the qin and han trench should be built at the han,tang trench, to make the water flowing all the time, with the irrigation area hectares. In AD 1623, in order to protect the lingzhou city, the bank has been built for 100 zhang to force the water change the direction, protecting the irrigation and save the lingzhou city.

    Qinqu trench opening was originally earth ground, it takes time and money to save it every year. In qing dynasty, the 39^th year kangxi emperor ruling period(AD1700), it has been changed to stone to protect the trench. Till 38^th year of qianlong emperor, the port was again ruined, together with the local disturbance, no regulation and very dangerous. It was resume the original till gangxu emperor 30^th to 34^th years(AD 1904—1908) under three time reinforcement. Till 1935, another several times sealed.

    After the liberation, it will be mended every spring, to replce the curve by the straight. The dangerous area are protected by the dangerous area. The original trench opening are at 400 meters near the qingtong xia dam side. At its upper part, it belong to blank trench. So in 1977, it moved to yujiaqiao. Qin and han trench are combined int 4meters depth with the biggest flowing at 65 cuber meters per second.

    Now the trench covers the 400000mu, 3.5 times as that before liberation. It through our city qinqu county, banqiao county, lingwu guojia qiao county, haojiaqiao county, dumuqiao county, which is joined the lingwu city in huang he river, with the total 70 kilometers. Till today, it also have the undispensible role.