Tianwaiting County
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- Tianwaiting County belongs to Chongzuo City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and is located in the watershed area of the two watersheds of the left and right rivers in the southwestern part of Guangxi. The total area of the county is 2164.92 square kilometres, with arable land area of 636,900 mu, per capita arable land area of 1.42 mu, which is known as ‘eight mountains, one water, one field’. The vast majority of the territory is low mountains and high hills, with mountains accounting for 77.98% of the total area of the county, and most of the mountains are karst landscapes, which are typical boulder mountainous areas, and have been listed as the National Continuous Development of ‘Yunnan-Guizhou-Guizhou’ Rocky Desertification Comprehensive Treatment Area. The county has 6 towns and 7 townships, 125 villages (communities) and 1226 natural towns, with a total population of 450,000, of which 98% are Zhuang, and it is a county inhabited by ethnic minorities.
Tianwait has a beautiful environment. It is one of the 3 counties in Guangxi listed as the pilot demonstration county for the construction of national main function area, located in the subtropical monsoon climate zone, with abundant rainfall, more than 30% forest coverage, excellent air and water quality, the ratio of good days of ambient air quality reaches 99.4% in 2023, ranking the first in Chongzuo City, and the rate of water quality of the county-level centralised drinking water source reaches 100%, which is the ‘health resort’, ‘summer resort’, and the ‘county’ of Chongzuo City. It is a ‘summer resort’, ‘China's longevity township’, the territory is mainly karst landscape, there are more than 30 scenic spots, the Ming Dynasty geographer Xu Xiake had stayed in Tian etc. for 31 days, and recorded the unique natural scenery of Tian etc. in the travelogue of nearly 20,000 words, describing the scenery of Tian etc. as ‘In March 2024, Tianwait County was awarded the title of Advanced County of National Village Cleaning Action. Tianyong is rich in produce. There are local specialties such as Fingerling Pepper, Big Flesh Ginger, Star Anise, Bitter Tea, etc. The Fingerling Pepper produced in Tian etc. has a bright red colour and is exceptionally spicy, which is known as ‘the first hot pepper in the world’ and is famous both at home and abroad, and Tian etc. has also been awarded the title of ‘The Hometown of Fingerling Pepper in China’. ‘Tianyong Fingerling Pepper’ and “Tianyong Fingerling Pepper Sauce” were awarded the title of National Geographical Indication Protected Products. The county is rich in manganese ore resources, known as ‘China's manganese ore production base’, with proven reserves of 79,754,500 tonnes of manganese ore. The culture of Tianwaiti County is very thick and heavy. With the reputation of ‘Song Sea’ and ‘Dance Township’, the ‘Frost Festival’, ‘Hammer Dance’ and ‘Worship Sack Sea’ have been passed down to this day. The songs and dances with strong national characteristics, such as ‘worshiping the sea of sacs’, have a long history, and have been awarded the title of ‘the hometown of hammering art in China’. In November 2016, the Tianwait Zhuang Frost Festival was formally included in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO, and is one of the four Zhuang festivals in Guangxi to be included in the World Intangible or Intangible Cultural Heritage List. It is one of the four items in Guangxi listed on the world's tangible or intangible cultural heritage list. There is also a thick Luo and Yue culture, poetry is profound, was awarded the title of ‘Chinese Poetry Township’. The people of Tianyong are practical. It took 24 years to chisel the tunnel out of the mountain, writing the contemporary story of ‘Yugong Yishan’, and the deed of ‘preferring to work hard and not to suffer’ inspired the people of Tianwait to struggle and form an army of 150,000 foreign entrepreneurs, businessmen and labourers, who travelled to and from the north and the south to seek for development. It is a model county of labour export in Guangxi. As one of the three cases in Guangxi, the innovative implementation of ‘small workshop’ to pry the countryside into ‘great revitalisation’ has been selected as the best case of poverty reduction in the ‘Fourth Global Poverty Reduction Case Collection’, and the ‘Poverty Prevention Case Collection’ will be published in 2024. In 2024, the ‘Four Guarantees for Poverty Prevention’ won the Fifth Global Poverty Reduction Case, and the experience and initiatives of Tianwait County in preventing the return of poverty were internationally recognised for two consecutive years.
contact details
Tel：00-86-0771-3535603
Address：No.9, Heping Road, Tianwait Town, Tianwait County, China
Working hours：8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. on working days 15:00 p.m.-18:00 p.m.