These factors, coupled with the gangs of bandits who historically roamed the region, made Longde a county famous for its impoverishment.

The range became famous when Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong wrote a poem with the phrase "On the summit of Liupan, the red flag waves freely in the western wind".

On the hilltop, there is a memorial pavilion for the Long March of the Red Army, a television relay tower, a meteorology station, and other things.

Because the Liupan range, which is over 200 kilometers long in total, is in the southeast part of Longde, and the county is generally high above sea level in the east and lower in the west, river water is said to flow backwards here.

Products produced in the county include apples, pears, apricots, watermelons, and traditional Chinese medicine.

For example, "singed rickets" during the first month of the lunar new year, sauteed peas on the second day of February, hanging picked sallow outside one's door on the fifth of May, giving winter clothes to one's ancestors on October 1, and others.

In recent years, the local government has successively organized residents to move to the plains areas in northern Ningxia.

There are also many rural young people who leave the county to find work opportunities in China's coastal regions.

[1] 3 towns 10 townships In Zhang Henshui's short story Returning For Yan, the female main character Yang Yanqiu is from Jingning County, in Gansu, but grew up in Longde and sees it as her home.

Later, Yang Yanqiu follows her parents to Nanjing, but returns to Longde after her father's death to find her family members.