Animal Resouce 

    Hengyang is home to more than 200 species of mammals and birds, including 30 mammal species and over 170 bird species belonging to 17 orders and 40 families.

    National Class I Protected Animals include the clouded leopard, white stork, river deer, and Chinese merganser.

    National Class II Protected Animals consist of the Chinese pangolin, Chinese edible frog, otter, large Indian civet, small Indian civet, masked palm civet, sambar, goral, forest musk deer, and mandarin duck.

   Birds of prey and rare species include the grass owl, owl, brown wood owl, short-eared owl, northern goshawk, red-footed falcon, silver pheasant, sparrowhawk, white-crowned long-tailed pheasant, Temminck's tragopan, and Chinese giant salamander.

   There are more than 30 species of Hunan Provincial Key Protected Animals, such as the little egret, ring-necked pheasant, bamboo partridge, common coot, spotted dove, South China tiger, oriental turtle dove, grey heron, cattle egret, Chinese bamboo rat, silver-grey bamboo rat, fox, yellow-throated marten, raccoon dog, leopard cat, snakes, toads and frogs, among others.

Plant Resources

    The city boasts 1,047 species of woody plants under 342 genera and 99 families.

National Class I Rare Protected Tree Species include ginkgo, Chinese parasol tree, Koelreuteria bipinnata, Chinese swamp cypress, Bretschneidera sinensis, hairy pod locust, and Emmenopterys henryi.

  National Class II Precious Tree Species comprise Cephalotaxus oliveri, Eucommia ulmoides, zelkova, Fujian nanmu, Chinese yew, and magnolia officinalis.

    National Class III Protected Tree Species cover Keteleeria calcarea, Keteleeria pubescens, Magnolia officinalis subsp. biloba, Phoebe zhennan, Pteroceltis tatarinowii, Tapiscia sinensis, Cyclocarya paliurus, Torreya grandis, golden-leaved trees, white magnolia, Lithocarpus hunanensis, and Reevesia glaucophylla.

    There are 120 fast-growing fine native tree species across 20 families, including Chinese fir, masson pine, cyclobalanopsis, castanopsis, quercus, ring-cupped oak, sweetgum, schima, and kalopanax.

    Major introduced tree species include slash pine, loblolly pine, Chinese pine, Huangshan fir, Huashan pine, dawn redwood, pond cypress, bald cypress, birch, alder, and Italian poplar.

    Featured high-quality economic forest tree species independently selected, propagated and cultivated locally include moso bamboo, oil tea, Tanqiao chestnut, Qidong seedless fragrant pomelo, Hengshan Jiulong plum, apple plum, birchleaf buckthorn jujube, and ginkgo nut.

Hengyang has 1989 senior plants, 1700 of which are seed-bearing plants. Of the senior plants, there are 99 sections, 342 genera and 1047 kinds of them are woody plants. In the woody plants, 50 genera or 265 species are lumber trees, 9 genera or 65 species are lipin trees, 40 genera or 703 species are other trees. There are 14 erotic trees: country top-level protective species is metasequoia, national second-level protective species three gingko, Henry emmenopherys, golden-larch. As of grain crops, there are 647 species falling into 6 kinds namely rice, wheat, beans, yam, broomcorn, and corn. Apart from that, there are 113 kinds or 438 species of economic crops on this land.  

Hengyang Prefecture sits in southeast of Hunan Province, the city is the middle reaches of Xiangjiang River. This prefecture has 5 counties and two subordinate cities. Hengyang belongs to sub-tropical area with warm and wet climate, characterized by mild weather with distinct seasonal change. Hengyang’s agreeable weather results in its high crop-productivity. The yearly average temperature is 18℃, and the yearly average rainfall is 1600mm or so. Good weather plus ample rainfall make Hengyang a key commodity producing base for fine rice, hogs, rape oil and the like which enjoy a long reputation both at home and abroad. This area is an indispensible zone of national bases for marketable grains, hogs and cooking oil and therefore dubbed as “Land of Milk”, and “Barn of Jiangnan”. The yearly grain output of the prefecture is over 3 billion kilograms, and more than 3.5 million hogs hit the food market each year. In the last few years, led by Hengyang Municipal Committee and Municipal Government, Hengyang people have exerted great efforts to tap potential of agriculture on this land. So far, the fund invested adds up to over ￥500 million; people have got badland-turned farming fields 250,000 mu; forest and fruit plantation 350,000 mu; have reformed low-productivity land 1.5 million mu; have improved irrigation condition for 1.1 million mu. Hengyang’s agricultural means’ marketable rate and added value is augmenting by 110%. There are a wide range of special local products like binlang taro; Changning’s tea-seed oil, tuberless ginger; Hengyang’s lotus seeds; Hengdong’s straw mat; Hengshan’s tea. Most of the above-mentioned products are big welcomes both to local consumers and outside purchasers.  

Hengyang has a wide range of special local products like Qidong’s citron daylily，binlang taro; Changning’s tea-seed oil, tuberless ginger; Hengyang’s lotus seeds; Hengdong’s straw mat; Hengshan’s tea, Jinyan-brand fine rice, long-lasting-flavor ginger tea, pigeons for meat. Most of the above-mentioned products are big welcomes both to local consumers and outside purchasers.