Asbestos Profile: Shimian County is located in the southwestern part of Sichuan Province, the southernmost end of Ya'an City, east of Hanyuan County, Ganluo County, south of Yuexi County, Suining County, west of Jiulong County, Kangding County, north and Luding County. It is located in the middle of Gongga Mountain and the middle of Dadu River. It is located at the border of Ya'an City and Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. It is the main thoroughfare of National Highway 108 and Sichuan-Tibet South Line. It is also the gateway to Yunnan, Tibet and other borders. The place that must pass is known as the "Tibetan Corridor". The county covers an area of 2,678 square kilometers and has a population of 124,000. It has ethnic groups such as Han, Yi, Tibetan and Hui. Native products include chestnut, walnut, citrus and gastrodia elata, Fritillaria, rhubarb, Cordyceps and other precious herbs. There are rare animals such as giant pandas, red pandas, badgers, leopards and bears protected by the state. The 10 ethnic townships in the county are mainly based on the custom of the Yi people. The Lunar New Year is the traditional Torch Festival on June 24 and the Yi Nationality on October 16. There are Chinese workers and peasants, the Red Army, and the Dadu River Anshunchang Ferry Site. The county has Shigongshan Pocket Park, and there is a “Wing Wangting” to commemorate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s Wang Shida. “Industrial counties have built a national economic system with energy, raw materials and building materials as the mainstays, and the three levels of industries at the county, township and village have developed simultaneously, forming hydropower and electro-metallurgical industries, mining products processing industry, building materials industry, tourism, silk. Pillar industries with economic advantages and development prospects.