Kaixiangong Village

Kaixiangong Village

Kaixiangong village is located in the southeast of Qidu Town (in 2004, Qidu Town merged with Miaogong town and renamed Qidu Town), with dongzhuangdang in the East and xizhuangdang in the West. The village is a window for Chinese and foreign scholars to understand and study rural China.

On December 24, 2019, it was selected into the list of national rural governance demonstration villages.

Basic information of open string bow

In 2001, the administrative region was adjusted from the original Kaixiangong village and xicaotian village. Now the village covers a total area of 4.5 square kilometers, with 25 villager groups, 781 households and 2884 permanent residents. The transportation is convenient. Miaozhen highway runs through it. The exit of Shanghai Jiangsu Zhejiang Expressway and suzhentao first-class highway are in the south of the village.

Kaixiangong village, as a natural village, is located on the west side of Xiaoqing River. If you look down from a high altitude, the south village looks like Zhanggong, and the village looks like an arrow, so it is named as the village. Kaixiangong village is located on the South Bank of Taihu Lake, only 3 kilometers away from the lake. Historically, this area of Kaixiangong village has been fishing in the lake with nets, planting mulberry and raising silkworms on the ground, with yellow cauliflower in spring and heavy paddy in autumn. Although the terrain is low and flood prone, it is still a hometown of fish and silkworms. Lu guimeng, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "everywhere you lean on silk foil, every family has fish in it", which describes the economic work and life of the ancestors in this area.

Kaixiangong and Jiangcun economy

The scientific name of Kaixiangong village is Jiangcun. The name "Jiangcun" was coined by Mr. Fei for writing a book. There are three bases: the village and Mr. Fei's hometown belong to Wujiang, which is also a village in Jiangsu Province. His alias (feiyijiang) also has the word "Jiang". Mr. Fei took the name of "Jiang Village" for the convenience of narration. He did not predict that the future "Jiang Village" would be destined to have a special relationship with "water".

In the 1930's, Mr. Fei Xiaotong, dressed in a homespun gown and with a clean face, came to Jiangcun for research and wrote his doctoral thesis "Jiangcun economy" at the London School of economics and politics. This article not only made the young Mr. Fei famous all over the world, but also made this small village in the south of the Yangtze River, which is located on the shore of Taihu Lake, attract worldwide attention.

Today's bow

In recent years, relying on the party's policy of enriching the people, economic construction has developed rapidly, forming three major industries, namely chemical fiber textile, sweater knitting and aquaculture. At present, there are 15 private enterprises. In 2009, the total output value of the village's three industries was 238.45 million yuan, and the per capita income of the village was 14336 yuan. There are 2 village health and medical stations, 1 kindergarten and elderly activity room in the village. A new rural library, with more than 2000 volumes of science and technology books and the collection of Professor Fei Xiaotong and his students.

Every family has access to tap water and liquefied gas. Broadband was opened in 2004 and digital TV was installed in 2007. In 2010, the village is now "two vertical and two horizontal" cement road.

Kaixiangong village also has its own farmers' market, covering an area of 1200 square meters, which is convenient for vendors to set up stalls and trade in an orderly manner, and conducive to the improvement of the environment.

The village has also set up a special cleaning team composed of 11 people to clean the garbage in the main village roads and rivers. Environmental awareness and harmonious concept of loving family can be read from the slogan written on the powder wall of the rural house: "clean the village, clean the home, clean the river". It seems simple, but it can make people warm.

In terms of education, the enrollment rate of primary and secondary school students in the village has reached 100%, with 135 college students (including those who have worked), 5 Master's degree students, 2 doctoral students and 1 doctor.

Kaixiangong Village

In 2010, the compilation of Kaixiangong village records was officially launched. Kaixiangong village annals is compiled by the general Party branch and the village committee of Kaixiangong village. The chief editor is Professor Liu Haoxing, a retired professor of Fudan University and a famous sociologist. He is also Fei's disciple. "Kaixiangong village Chronicle" will adopt the structure of volume, chapter, section and purpose, with nine volumes of natural geography, agriculture, industry and commerce, politics, military, science, education, culture, health and sports, village construction, social life, characters and inspection visits, systematically recording the history and current situation of Kaixiangong village from the beginning of history to the end of 2010. The whole compilation plan will take three years to complete.

Historical evolution of Kaixiangong Village

Around 1936, Kaixiangong Village (now group 1-15) was under the jurisdiction of Kaixian Township, Zhenze District, Wujiang county.

In 1956, during the period of cooperation, Kaixiangong village established the third joint senior production cooperative of Wujiang county (now 1-15 groups, 16-19 groups of hehuawan and 4 groups of mishiwan).

In 1958, during the period of people's communization, Kaixiangong village was renamed as the third brigade of the League (23 groups).

In 1962, Kaixiangong village was divided into two groups: Kaixiangong group (Group 1-9) and hehuawan group (Group 10-19).

During the cultural revolution in 1967, Kaixiangong brigade was renamed Lixin brigade, and hehuawan brigade was renamed Hongwei brigade.

After the reform and opening up in 1978, the original names of Kaixiangong brigade and hehuawan brigade were restored.

1982 - Kaixiangong group and hehuawan group merged into Kaixiangong group.

1984 - Kaixiangong team was renamed Kaixiangong village.

In 2001, Kaixiangong village and xicaotian village merged into xinkaixiangong village.

In 2004, Qidu and Miaogong towns merged, and Kaixiangong village was under the jurisdiction of Qidu Town.

International friends visit and investigate

On May 12, 1956, W.R. Geddes, an Australian scholar, visited China with a New Zealand cultural delegation. With the approval of Premier Zhou Enlai, he went to Kaixiangong village to investigate the economic, cultural situation and the people's living customs. He made a comparative study with Fei Xiaotong's Jiang village economy.

From September 20 to 24, 1981, Nancy Gonzalez, executive director of the American Association for the advancement of science, chairman of the Asian group of the American Council for agricultural development, vice president of the University of Maryland, and professor of anthropology, visited Fengyang, Anhui Province at the invitation of the Chinese Association for science and technology. After the visit, she met with Fei Xiaotong in Suzhou, saying that the man who opened the string bow was "skillful and developed industry".

On December 11, 1983, the Beijing resident reporter of tuanjiebao, the central organ of the Communist Party of Italy, and his wife came to Kaixiangong village during their visit to Taoyuan in Wujiang (one month) to interview Professor Fei Xiaotong about the implementation of the party's policies during his previous visit to the village.

On March 3, 1984, a 10 member delegation of sociology and Anthropology from the United States, accompanied by Li Duyun, President of Shanghai society, Shen Guanbao and others, visited Kaixiangong village. The head of the delegation was Rosie, Professor of sociology at the Institute of sociology and population studies of the University of Massachusetts. The main member of the delegation was Lin, Professor of sociology at Hopkins University Martin, Professor of anthropology, University of Chicago, palisheng, Professor of sociology, Salins, Professor of anthropology, Smith, Professor of anthropology, Duke University, and William Wang, Professor of linguistics, University of California.

On June 16, 1984, Harry Wen, a professor and social historian of Clark University, visited Xiangong at the invitation of Professor Fei Xiaotong.

In June 1984, Liu Chuang Chu, a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, visited Kaixiangong village.

On September 9, 1984, Hart, a senior lecturer of the University of Zimbabwe, came to make an investigation.

On February 20, 1986, Professor Ke Lanjun and his husband (University Professor) from the Institute of East Asian Studies, Siberian Free University, West Germany, visited the village factory, Zhou Youfa and Zhou Wenchang.

On May 16, 1986, Professor Nakasone Qianzhi of Tokyo University in Japan and Professor Barnett of Cornell University in the United States visited Kaixiangong village at the invitation of Professor Fei Xiaotong and accompanied by Fei. They visited rural factories and farmers, and had lunch with Zhou Wenchang, the landlord of Jiang village when Fei Xiaotong visited again.

On May 27, 1986, Shen Xingkui (director of the silkworm rearing Bureau of the Korean Agricultural Commission), member of the group, Sheng Yingming (manager of the silkworm rearing farm in Ping'an Road), Shi Xihuan (director of the silkworm rearing Research Institute), accompanied by Bao Yiwu, director of the multi Management Bureau of Suzhou City, and Qian Ming, deputy head of Wujiang County, visited farmers in Kaixiangong village He also visited the silk reeling factory.

On September 31, 1986, a delegation of 8 members from the Japan Society for small town studies visited Kaixiangong village. Its members were Professor Hoshiko ho of saichi University, Professor Chongzhao Yukino and Mauro Anyuan of Chengchi University, Professor Yingye Yamamoto of Tokyo Women's University and researcher Mao Li of Japan Institute of international studies He Zi, researcher of nlra, Ho Ming Kawasaki, executive director of the international cultural museum, Han Xiong Kato, graduate student of Beijing Normal University, and Zhu, director of the Policy Research Office of Jiangsu provincial Party committee, visited 13 farmers to conduct agricultural production survey.

In 1987, Japanese sociologists visited China for the second time, including Junichiro Matsumoto, Yuanzi Matsumoto and jiaozi Ruolin; Gregory Vick, Ph.D. student of George University in the United States; Kong Meilong and his wife, anthropology professor of East Asian Studies Department of Columbia University in the United States; Yoshio Sugimoto and Kishi Hamamoto of Japan University of technology and fiber; Takao Araki of Kyoto University; and representative of Japan Small and medium town Research Association A delegation

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