Muru Township, Daofu County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province

Muru Township

Muru township is under the jurisdiction of Daofu County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. Muru township was established in 1956, changed to Muru commune in 1960, and restored to Muru Township in 1984.

Muru township is located in the south of the county, 40 kilometers away from the county. It covers an area of 284.59 square kilometers and has a population of 1395 (2017). There is a road through. It has jurisdiction over five village committees, namely Vada, siyiri, yaoerlu, Gecun and animal husbandry.

Muru Township mainly produces wheat, highland barley and potato. Astragalus, Cordyceps and other wild Chinese herbal medicine resources are rich.

Plant species

There are many kinds of animals and plants in the forest area. During the active period of rare wild animals, such as leopard, snow leopard, Golden Eagle, Hu vulture, Tibetan wild donkey, brown eared pheasant, etc., there are black bear, brown bear, red panda, small billed grouse, Tibetan eared pheasant, rock sheep, argali, etc., and they are rich in Cordyceps sinensis, Fritillaria, notopterygium, snow lotus, rhubarb, Astragalus and other precious Chinese herbal medicines, Tricholoma matsutake The edible fungi such as chicken oil fungus, Morchella esculenta and Bigfoot mushroom are favored by Chinese and foreign consumers.

Development status

The geographical coordinates are 100 ° 32 ˊ - 101 ° 44 ˊ e, 30 ° 20 ˊ - 31 ° 32 ˊ n, 116.24 km from east to west, 132.44 km from north to south, with a total land area of 284.59 square kilometers. Forest resources are very rich. The terrain in the territory is high in the north and low in the south, with undulating mountains, crisscross gullies, deep valleys, high mountains, dense forests and vast forests. It is crisscrossed and concentrated in the humid areas of shady slopes and semi shady slopes. The county has a forest area of 141913.5 hectares, with 8313607 cubic meters of standing trees. The forest resource coverage rate is 13.58%. The main tree species are fir, spruce, birch, Qinggang, alpine cypress, poplar, seabuckthorn, etc., and the economic trees are apple, Huahong, sweet apricot, peach, walnut, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Sorbus, etc.