利川这个以古老稀有的树种——水杉而闻名国内外的地方,人们称它是“水杉的故乡”.建国以来,它对我省和全国乃至世界水杉的发展作出了不少的贡献.国内许多省、国外遍及亚、非、欧、美等洲五十多个国家和地区栽培的水杉,其种原都来自“水杉的故乡”.今天,“水杉故乡”的水杉如何?利川县委对水杉十分重视,近几年采取了各种措施加以保护和发展.使水杉出现一派兴旺景象.从历史上遗存下来的胸径在20厘米以上水杉树现有5426株,其中胸径40厘米以上的有2000株,每年提供的水杉种子都是来于这些母树.1964 Icheon, famous for its ancient and rare species of Metasequoia, is home and abroad, and is called “the hometown of Metasequoia.” Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, it has made a lot of contributions to the development of Metasequoia in our province, the country and even the world. In many provinces in China and abroad, Metasequoia cultivated in more than 50 countries and regions in Asia, Africa, Europe, the United States and other continents comes from “the hometown of Metasequoia.” Today, “Metasequoia Hometown” Metasequoia Lichuan County attaches great importance to the Metasequoia, in recent years has taken various measures to be protected and developed. Metasequoia appears to send thriving scene. From the history of survived down to 20 cm in diameter at present, there are 5426 trees with a diameter of 40 cm More than 2000 strains of Metasequoia have been supplied to these trees each year