Basic Overview of Siwang Township

Shiwang Town, located in the northwest of Pingnan County, Guangxi, 20 kilometers from the county town. It is close to Dayao Mountain in the north and Jiangkou, the major town of Guiping City, in the west, and is the main transportation pass of Pingnan Guiping and the two counties. The town has 17 administrative villages under its jurisdiction, with a population of 93,000 at the end of 2005. Administrative area of 167 square kilometers, arable land area of 48,000 acres, forested area of 9,000 hectares, forest coverage rate of 30%. The area of cash crop cultivation is 1,000 hectares. Yonglong River runs through the hinterland from Siwang, and the long river water irrigates more than 40,000 acres of fertile land on both sides of the river.