1. LABOR RESOURCES

The total number of households in Hang Gon: 2,845

The number of residents: 11,811

The number of people at their working age: 7,087

+ The rate of industrial laborers: 9.36%

+ Rate of agricultural laborers: 48.64%

+ The rate of commercial laborers: 22.03%

+ The rate of service laborers: 19.97%

2. LAND

Total natural land area: 3,385. 31 ha.

Agricultural land area: 2,121.29 ha – 62.6%.

Forest land area: 41.47 ha - 1.2%.

Special-use land area: 266.14 ha - 7.8%.

Housing land area: 951.15 ha - 28.09%.

Land use: The commune’s land is relatively favorable for agricultural production and planting perennial crops and climate is also quite favorable for planting annual and perennial crops, especially fruit trees.

3. FOREST RESOURCES

Forest area: 49.2 ha.

Types of forest trees.

Most of the forest area is planted with weeping paperbark, African mahogany, Hopea odorata, Afzelia xylocarpa, and other types.

Economic efficiency: forests provide sources of wood and firewood, are natural air-conditioners, prevent storms, and regulate water and are also a habitat for plants and animals as well as a place for storing valuable and rare genetic resources.

4. MINERAL RESOURCES

Hang Gon has basaltic soil which is favorable for developing industrial crops, especially such fruit trees as durians, rambutans, mangosteens, and so on.

There are mineral mining sites in Hang Gon like the peat in Cau Dau lake and the exploiting material site for leveling hill 64.

There are Cau Dau and Bau Mon reservoirs in Hang Gon, which are the places storing underground water sources and helping to develop the eco-tourism in the future.

5. LANDSCAPES, TOURIST ATTRACTIONS AND HISTORICAL SITES

The historical monument of megalith tomb in Hang Gon commune is located on National Highway 56 and in Hang Gon hamlet, Hang Gon commune, Long Khanh town.

Hang Gon megalith tomb, also known as Ong Da tom, is located in Hang Gon hamlet. The tomb was discovered by engineer J. Bouchot in 1927 while he was moving land for the construction of a road from Long Khanh to Ba Ria - Vung Tau. In 1928, this relic was ranked and added in the list of historical monuments with the name of “Indochina or Dolmen Tomb of Hang Gon”.

This is a form of catacomb, which is 4.2 m long, 2.7 mm wide, 1.6 m high, is made of 6 perfectly-smoothed granite pieces; 4 vertical stone pieces that are used as walls and weigh about 30-40 tons; 2 horizontal pieces that are used as the bottom and lid. The connection between granite slabs is established thanks to a strong vertical groove system. There are many 7.5 m high granite pillars with a rectangular cross-section of 1.10 m x 0.3 m and most of the pillars are carved with a saddle shape.

The tomb has traces of long earth streaks forming an arc and its top is full of ashes and metal slags; there are many ceramic pieces with the patterns made from clay mixed with sand and crushed mollusk shells on the tomb; there are two bronze olifants and two stone grinding tables with a hole in it. In addition, there are many other artifacts made of ceramics, and stone, and abrading tools, stone pillars and burnt earth and ashes. In the stone workshop that was found earlier, the survey team found stone slabs and pillars, and many stone pieces and tools.

With its outstanding value, the archaeological relic of Hang Gon megalith tomb in Long Khanh town, Dong Nai province is classified as a special national monument by the State Prime Minister in decision no. 2367/QD-TTg dated December 23, 2015.

Hang Gon megalith tomb is one of the indispensable destinations for visitors to Long Khanh and Xuan Loc. Now, Hang Gon megalith tomb attracts a lot of domestic and foreign visitors who come to explore and learn about history and culture and this is also a highlight in Dong Nai’s eastern gateway tour.

6. CONTACT INFORMATION

At present, there are Internet providers like Viettel, VNPT, FPT, and so on, which provide local extensive services, 5 Internet access points, and the telecommunication network has widely covered and there is a communal broadcast system with 16 clusters of speakers spreading more than 3 hamlets, and there are 8,000 landline and mobile phone subscribers. There are now ,423 phones/2,845 households

7. TRANSPORT

The national and provincial roads running through Hang Gon is the National Highway 56 with a length of 4.3 km.

The reality of Hang Gon’s road system:

Most of the roads in residential areas are concreted and asphalted in residential areas, which is very convenient for people’s travel in the commune.

The total length of asphalted roads: 39.97 km.

The total length of concrete roads: 14.2 km.

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