宁强县位于陕西省西南边陲,是一个襟陇带蜀、北倚秦岭、南屏巴山的八山一水一分田的低中山区,属国家贫困县。洪涝、干旱为当地农业劲敌。山区人民广种薄收,艰难维持生计,同时水土严重流失,生存环境逐步恶化。1999年国家实施退耕还林工程,造福于民。截至2010年,全县已退耕还林45.23万 Ningqiang County is located in the southwestern border of Shaanxi Province. It is a low-mountain area with a stretch of water and a field of one hill and one hinterland of Qin Dynasty and Qinling Mountains and Nanping Bashan. It belongs to the national poverty-stricken counties. Floods and droughts are rival to the local agriculture. The people in mountainous areas have been receiving more and more incomes, and have struggled to maintain their livelihood. At the same time, their soil and water have been drastically lost and their living environment has been gradually deteriorating. In 1999, the state implemented the project of returning farmland to forestry to benefit the people. As of 2010, the county has returned 452,300 to farmland