Fengjie
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Chongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...
Municipality in China
China
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. It is on the Yangtze River
Yangtze River
The Yangtze, Yangzi or Cháng Jiāng is the longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world. It flows for from the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest, central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai. It is also one of the...
; located within a couple hundreds kilometers upstream from the Three Gorges Dam
Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, located in the Yiling District of Yichang, in Hubei province, China...
, it is within the dam's affected area
Three Gorges Reservoir Region
Three Gorges Reservoir Region, including 25 county-level divisions of Chongqing municipality and Hubei province, is the region directly or indirectly involved in the submersion of the water storage of the reservoir region of the Three Gorges Project....
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The county's most famous geographical feature is the Qutang Gorge
Qutang Gorge
The Qutang Gorge is the shortest and most spectacular of China's Three Gorges.Immediately downstream of the ancient village Baidicheng the Yangtze River passes between the Chijia Mountain on the north and the Baiyan Mountain on the south...
, the first of the Yangtze's Three Gorges.
It is the place where Still Life was shot, a film by Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke is a Chinese film director. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan....
that won the 2006 Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
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(Golden Lion
Golden Lion
Il Leone d’Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes...
).
Location and conditions
Fengjie County is located in the northeast of Chongqing, neighboring Wushan County in the east, Enshi City of Hubei Province in the south, Yunyang County in the west and Wuxi County in the north. It is 500km away from urban County of Chongqing, and administers 30 townships, 363 administrative villages and 23 residents’ committee. By the end of 2008, the population of the county is 1.04 million with male population of 540,000 persons, accounting for 51.9% and female population of 500,000 persons, accounting for 48.1%. The area of land cultivated is 58,933 ha. and with a per-capita land area of 0.85mu.The Gross National Product of Fengjie County ranked 25th among 40 Countys and counties in Chongqing and 6th among all counties in the northeast of Chongqing (11 Countys and counties) in 2007. In 2007, the per capita net income of the peasants in Fengjie County is CNY 2,717.
It is known that the "collectively owned" land in Fengjie County were allocated the second time in 2005 after the first time in 1982-1983. Since then, the land has not been reallocated. Fengjie County Government encourages rural residents affected by development projects to become urban residents.
Migrant labor constitutes also an important part of the family income for the local rural residents. In some families, all the members are migrant labor. Their major occupations in urban areas cover restaurant operation, retailing and private business.