摘要
FUPING County of Hebei Province,about 300 km away from Beijing and perched on the Taihang Mountains,is a national-level impoverished county.It used to house the government of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region during the period of the Chinese People’s War of Resis-tance Against Japanese Aggression.“Ninety percent of its area is covered by mountains,five percent by water and five percent by arable land”is an accurate description of the landscape and natural environment of this county.Like many other impoverished areas around the country,Fuping has seen its development curbed by insufficient in-frastructure and a low level of industrial development for many years.
