• Mesa
  • Qingan County

A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by a more resistant layer or layers of harder rock, e.g. shales overlain by sandstones. The resistant layer acts as a caprock that forms the flat summit of a mesa. The caprock can consist of either sedimentary rocks such as sandstone and limestone; dissected lava flows; or a deeply eroded duricrust. Unlike plateau, whose usage does not imply horizontal layers of bedrock, e.g. Tibetan Plateau, the term mesa applies exclusively to the landforms built of flat-lying strata. Instead, flat-topped plateaus are specifically known as tablelands.

Qingan County, which belongs to Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, is located in the intersection of Songnen Plain and Xiaoxinganling in the middle of Heilongjiang Province. It belongs to the middle and upper reaches of Hulan River Basin. It covers an area of 5469 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 14 townships and 93 villages with a total population of 412000. Hajia Railway, Hay Highway and Jina Highway pass through the border, 170 kilometers away from Harbin. Qingan County belongs to the low mountain and hilly plain area, which belongs to the cold temperate continental monsoon climate, which is suitable for planting rice, corn, soybean and other crops. Qingan is a national green food A-grade rice production base, which enjoys the reputation of "the hometown of green food in China". On January 25, 2019, he was selected as the national "Ping an Agricultural Machinery" demonstration county in 2018. The quality of farmers' cooperatives across the country will be improved and pilot units will be promoted throughout the county.
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