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Guangxi Zhuangzu autonomous region lies in the southern
part of China. With an area of 230 thousand square kilometers, it
has a population of 43.6 million.
There are so many mountains all around here. In the middle part
are hills and plains. The hilly land occupied 85 percent of the
area. And the plain only occupied 15 percent. The plains in Yujiang
and Hongshui River are much larger. Zhujiang flows all the region
from the west to the east. And it has so many minor aspects. Among
them, Yujiang is the longest one. It is the moist monsoon climate
in subtropics. Guangxi abounds in mineral resources. The reserves
of manganese, vanadium, titanium, tin, lead, zinc and copper are
in the first place in China. The resources of crops and waterpower
are plentiful too.
In agriculture, there is rice, sugar-cane, peanut, tobacco and
flax, etc. In the south, the tropical industrial crops are very
important too. The gulf in the north is a fishery. The heavy industry,
including machine, iron and steal, electric power and non-ferrous
metals, are developing at a quicker tempo. In light industry, sugar
production and canned food are the two most important ones. And
the output of them is in the first place in the whole country. The
main communication is railway. And also, the highway and shopping
are convenient.
Guangxi is a place with green hills and clear waters-picturesque
scenery. It is widely dispersed by limestone. They formed wonderful
caves and peals. The places of interest here are Li River, Xing'an
Ling canal and Guipingxi Mountain. The traditional specialties are
shell carving, brocade, Guiping cassia bark and Guinan Chinese anise.
Lingshui Spring Pool, anther name Lingxishui is a natural
pool. It is situated in the place of 1 km from Wuming County. It
is said that two Birds named Lingxi have settled in the pool and
were used to come out from water with gloriously lights twinkled
whenever it was calm. In the light, they looked very beautiful.
So that it is named Lingshui. The Lingshui Spring Pool is 5000 sq
km wide in surface and 2-3 meters in deep. The clear spring water
originally ran from different nine springs out of a Cave continuously
and powerfully, at that time, it was called Jiulong Spring. It has
two oddities: Firstly, it is clear all the year around so that everything
in the water can be seen exactly. On matter drought or water logging,
it would be as usual. Secondly, no matter which season it is, its
temperature always keeps about at 23. It is a natural swimming pool
and a training base of State Swimming Team.
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