Taojiang County
　Taojiang county becomes famous because of a song, by Lijinhui half a century ago. Taojiang County is located in the middle of Hunan, to it south is Xuefeng Mountain, and to it north is Dongting Lake. The total area for the county is 2063km?, and it belongs to tropic monsoon climate. The mountains, rivers and plants are rich in the county, and it is one of the ten big scenic spots in Hunan, and one of the external opening counties of the country. The tourism resources in the county are rich. The 12 sceneries in the county get praised by many poem. The land of queer, mystical, silent, and beautiful has become one of pearl on the Chinese land.
　　The natural resources in Taojiang are rich. It is always called the land of bamboo, the land of tea, the land of non-ferrous metal and the land of building material. There are over 30 kinds of proven mining resources, such as antimony, manganese, iron, gold, uranium, granite and so on, and the reserves is large. There is 172mu-mountain area in the county, and the coverage of forest is 48%. The storage of bamboo is 60000000 pieces, and it is the first of the province and the third of the nation. Apart from that, there is 170000mu-economy forest, which is mainly of fruit and tea-oil tree. The geographical position is excellent for Tiaojiang County. Luozhan railway and Shichang railway meet here, and Zijiang is going through the county from west to east, which covers 12 villages with the length of 102km. The road and water transportation is convenient. After 1980’s, over 10 universities such as Hunan University, National Defense Technology University, make a close cooperation with Taojiang county because of the advantages of hilly in the county. At the early of 1990’s, Taojiang County is listed as presenting county for mountain area, and also listed as key contrasting county with provincial technology department, and the technology Cooperation County with Hunan and Chinese Technology Institute. The telecommunication is rapidly developing, and 24 villages are opened program controlled telephone and mobile phone.
　　 Recently, Taojiang county lead a new road of “ based on the brand of Taojiang to promote the industry development” based on local resources and aim at the market inside and outside the country with policy supporting and promoting in all directions. More than 10 products with Taohuajiang brand are well sold in the country, such as bamboo wine of Taohuajian brand, bamboo sleeping mat of Taohuajiang brand, purified water of Taohuajian brand, bacon pork of Taohuajian brand and so on. Apart from that, Wutan fish and Xiushan noodle are also well sold inside or outside the country. The Taojiang chunhao, Taojiang zhuye studied and produced by technology institute have been reward as provincial famous tea for two years. Bamboo carving are regarded as priceless craft because of the grace shape and super skills, and it has good reputation in Japan and south east of Asia. The latest developed fresh bamboo can, series of food has been sold to Hongkong, Macao, and southeast of Asia. There are 5 basements are built on the characteristic of hilly, and based on the basement they carry on scale development. The basements are: high grade of tung tree of 30000mu, high grade of rice of 100000mu, high yield of bamboo of 200000mu, high grade of tea of 50000mu and basement for bacon hog of 50000 heads. They have formed commodity advantages and the scale benefit. It leads the rapid development of high efficient agriculture. The development of economy promotes the rapid development of education, culture, health and broadcasting and TV. Taohuajian women tourism school sends over 500 talented persons to the society every year, and makes the women in Taohuangjian not only beautiful but with much knowledge.
　　 The building of basic facilities is changing a lot in Taojiang, and the investment surrounding is also changed. The putting into traffic of Changyi highway and Yitao high standard road make that it only takes 1 hour to go to Taojiang from Changsha. Taojiang County has become the best county of Changsha. In 1998, it is rewarded as the provincial Civilization County. In order to quicken the external opening steps, the government of Taojiang sets two economy developing zone of Taohuajiang and Huishangang. The warm Taojiang people is welcoming the compatriot from HongKong, Macau and Taiwan, overseas chinese and foreign guests to talk about the trade, run entity, and touring. If you come to Taojiang, there will be no difficulty. Taojiang will bring favorable policies and high grade of service in all aspects.
The scenery of Taojiang is unforgettable, and the land of Taohuajiang welcomes you to invest. Taojiang, which is beautiful, warm, open, is hoping your coming.