Biancang Town, Tinghu District, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province

Biancang town

Biancang is a thousand year old town in the history of Song Dynasty. It is located in the South Gate of hetinghu District in the suburb of Yancheng City, with Tongyu River in the East and doulonggang in the south. The town has 10 administrative villages, 2 neighborhood committees, 40000 people and a total area of 78 square kilometers. It is known as an important vegetable Town, a strong sericulture Town, a famous tourist town and a hometown of withered tree peony.

General situation

Biancang is a thousand year old town in the history of Song Dynasty. It is located at the South Gate of hetinghu District in the suburb of Yancheng City, with Tongyu River in the East, Doulong port in the south, Chuanchang River, Xinchang railway, 204 National Highway and Tongyu highway passing through the whole area, close to Ningjing salt and Coastal Expressway, only 20 km away from Yancheng airport, and convenient water and land transportation. At present, the town has 10 administrative villages, 2 neighborhood committees and a population of 40000, with a total area of 78 square kilometers. The territory is flat, with four distinct seasons, fertile land and rich resources. It is known as an important vegetable Town, a strong sericulture Town, a famous tourist town and a hometown of dead branches and peonies.

The town is famous for its strange, special, strange and spiritual peony. It is recorded in the classical novel Jing Hua Yuan and Yancheng county annals of Ming and Qing Dynasties. From the end of the Song Dynasty to now, it has been more than 700 years. After the rise and fall of dynasties, great changes and war, it is still so prosperous. The poem says: "take advantage of the prosperity to find the fragrance to accompany, and the withered branches and famous flowers will be immortal. Dongming flowers and colors in the afternoon, once spring, once open

Historical evolution

In the Tang Dynasty, sea salt was produced, which was called Dongming town because it was adjacent to the sea in the East.

In the Song Dynasty, Yancheng merged nine salt farms into seven, each of which was set up with zhengyancang and bianyancang. This is the biancang of Wuyou salt farm, hence its name. Xinqiao township was established in 1957, renamed biancang commune in 1958 and biancang Township in 1983

The origin of place names

Biancang sea salt was produced in Tang Dynasty. It was called Dongming town in ancient times because it was adjacent to the sea in the East. In the Song Dynasty, the Yancheng Supervisor (the government in charge of the salt industry in one place) merged nine salt farms into seven, each of which was set up with zhengyancang and bianyancang. This place is the biancang of Wuyou salt farm, so it is named.

Area and population

At present, the town has 10 administrative villages, 2 neighborhood committees and a population of 40000, with a total area of 78 square kilometers.

economic development

pillar industry

The town has a strong momentum to promote the project. Adhering to the concept of Pro business, love business, secure business and rich business, vigorously implementing the strategy of attracting investment and prospering the town by industry, continuously accelerating the process of industrialization, forming six pillar industries, including machinery, clothing, building materials, plastics, electronics and food, and cultivating a relatively complete and comprehensive main economic industrial chain. The plastics industry is well-known in the country, including Hongli electronics, Jinlian building materials, etc The supporting effect of new projects on industrial economy is gradually emerging.

Efficient agriculture

Biancang town in Tinghu District, known as the "hometown of vegetables", has a fast pace of efficient agriculture. The industrial layout features of East vegetables, West birds and middle mulberry are obvious. Vegetable professional cultivation has a history of more than 50 years. There are 11600 mu of continuous, off-season, high-quality, pollution-free, greenhouse facilities cultivation Vegetables. There are 8 pollution-free brand vegetables, such as zichangqie. They have been identified as pollution-free vegetable base and permanent protection base by the province and the city. Among them, there are 30 "biancang" brand vegetables, such as zichangqie, celery, Chinese cabbage, cucumber, spinach, garlic, etc Many varieties were rated as pollution-free agricultural products by the Ministry and the province.

Silkworm

The production of sericulture is an important part of biancang. There are nearly ten thousand mu of high standard continuous mulberry fields, and four sericulture villages with an area of more than 1500 mu. The mulberry fields are ecological, and the varieties are excellent. The annual output of high-quality fresh cocoons is 30000 tons. The industrial advantages of biancang are also very obvious, such as livestock and poultry breeding, freshwater aquaculture, hybrid rice seed production, flower planting and so on.

Vegetables

Biancang Town, located in the South Gate of Yancheng City, is known as the "hometown of vegetables". It was listed in the vegetable basket project by the province and city in the 1960s. The area of multiple cropping of vegetables in the town is 17500 mu, with an annual net income of more than 5000 yuan per mu and an annual output of 200000 tons of vegetables.

Biancang town has a history of greenhouse vegetable cultivation for more than 40 years. It is the "cradle" of vegetable production in Yancheng City and even in central and Northern Jiangsu. It has been listed as the city's permanent protection base by the municipal government. The town now has tens of thousands of mu of vegetables cultivated in continuous, off-season, high-quality, pollution-free green greenhouse facilities. Vegetables are available throughout the year, seasonal and off-season Sales are booming. In order to ensure that the vegetables in the town can be produced and sold well, the vegetable association has been established, and more than 200 professional brokers have been trained. They have been sold to Shanghai, Wuxi, Suzhou, Nanjing, Yangzhou and other large and medium-sized cities, with an average sales income of more than 40000 yuan per household and a net income of more than 20000 yuan. Since 2006, with the vigorous implementation of the city's "double hundred project" and the district's "13th five year plan" project, the town has taken the implementation of pollution-free vegetables construction as an opportunity to increase the efforts to create brands and the introduction of high-quality vegetables, and has built 600 pollution-free green greenhouses. Through the establishment of specialized vegetable production, purchase and marketing cooperatives organized by farmers, the town's pollution-free production base of purple eggplant and Western Celery has continuously improved product quality and expanded sales channels, which has formed certain industrial characteristics. The off-season Western Celery produced by cooperatives has high yield and strong fragrance. It has a small reputation in the provincial farmers' market. The supply of its products exceeds the demand, and has initially formed a large-scale and industrialized operation.

In 1999, the township produced 200000 tons of vegetables, with a GDP of 160 million yuan, accounting for 53.3% of the total agricultural output value. Biancang township has a long history of vegetable production. Since 1984, greenhouse vegetable production has been developing year by year. Especially in recent years, with the change of agricultural economic situation and the vigorous promotion of the structural adjustment of planting industry, biancang township has given full play to its local advantages, made a lot of "vegetable" articles, and focused on the idea of "large investment in infrastructure, large-scale production, large-scale improvement of grade, large sales market, and great operation efficiency"“ The "main course" economy has initially formed a regional distribution, specialized production and integrated management pattern. The township has invested 50 million yuan to build 16 standardized solar energy greenhouses, 16 mu; 12000 steel frame greenhouses, 8500 mu; 5000 bamboo and wood greenhouses, 3000 mu. Invest 5 million yuan to build a vegetable wholesale market with an annual trading volume of 200000 tons. Invest 5 million yuan to build a vegetable processing plant with an annual processing capacity of 2000 tons and a 200 ton cold storage. With an investment of 5 million yuan, 45 bridges and culverts will be built. In the vegetable production area, the water, soil, field, forest and road are developed comprehensively, the ditches, canals, bridges, culverts and gates are complete, the waterlogging can be discharged, the drought can be irrigated, the fields can be square, the trees can be in rows, and the roads can be connected by cars. There are more than 30 varieties of tomato, eggplant, green pepper, Chinese cabbage, celery, Luffa, cucumber, balsam pear, broccoli, Toona sinensis, zucchini, cabbage, cauliflower and other 6 Series in the township. Vegetables are on the market all the year round, and the production and sales of seasonal and off-season vegetables are booming. In addition to the supply of the province's major cities, but also exported to Shanghai, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shandong, Beijing, Heilongjiang and other places, welcomed by consumers. The key to the rapid development of greenhouse vegetables in biancang Township lies in its prominent position, excellent quality and effective measures.

tourist resources

I have enough stamina. There are many cultural landscapes, such as ancient blue horse road, Bian ancestral temple site, blissful temple, thousand mu Nanzhu garden, withered branch Peony Garden, etc. The withered branch Peony Garden in biancang has a history of more than 700 years. It is famous for its strangeness, peculiarity, strangeness and spirituality. It can be called a unique one. The "withered branch strange beauty" has been rated as the new ten sceneries in Yancheng. Biancang has made full use of its advantages in tourism resources and made tourism industry an emerging pillar industry. It has drawn up the construction plan of the withered branches peony scenic spot, which has been gradually implemented. It has built more than 10 scenic spots, such as the ink fragrance Pavilion and the wonderful flower Pavilion, and is stepping up the construction of an ecological leisure tourism project with an investment of 100 million yuan.

Since the beginning of 2009, biancang town has always regarded the project construction as an important starting point of organizing economic work. According to the requirement of "every month there are project contracts, and every month there are project starts", effective measures have been taken for the signed projects to ensure their sound and fast progress and lay the foundation for the rapid development of town economy.

social development

There are many bright spots in the construction of market towns. The newly renovated cangzhong Road, the newly built Huayuan road and Cangnan road are green, bright, beautified and purified, and the traffic network of three vertical and six horizontal lines has been formed; the modern communication, financial services, hotel catering, entertainment and leisure, power supply and water supply and other infrastructure facilities are complete, and the business is active and popular; the garden community under development and construction has novel design, unique style, first-class facilities and excellent environment Beauty, small bridge, running water, green space, garden complement each other, with a strong flavor of modern life.

historical romance

One of the legends of famous flowers

Biancang town is known as "the hometown of withered branches and peonies". There are different opinions about the legend of Hui, and there are three aspects of its prosperity. As recorded in Jing Hua Yuan, in order to celebrate her accession to the throne, Empress Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty ordered all flowers to bloom in the middle of winter. Only the Peony Fairy mistakenly played the imperial edict and angered Wu, she then roasted 2000 peonies in the palace with fire moxibustion to form withered branches. It is still recorded in Jing Hua Yuan that "biancang (biancang) in Huainan has the most dead branches of peony in the world. Whenever you take off the branches and put them into the fire, they can burn like dry wood.

Legend of famous flowers (2)

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Bian Yuanheng, a young man with excellent strength, once killed a tiger with bare hands and empty fists. He tasted his wisdom and bravery. Zhang Shicheng, the king of Wu, was the Grand Marshal of the army. Shicheng was defeated, and Yuanheng retired from biancang. On the way, he lost his whip and stopped a deer. He took the withered branch in his mouth and knelt down before the horse. Yuanheng took the withered branch and drove the horse back to biancang home. He planted the withered branch in the ground and became the withered tree peony.

Legend of famous flowers (3)

It is said that Yang Yingguang, a salt officer of the Ming Dynasty, learned about Yuan Heng's legacy and the miraculous spirit of peony. After transplanting the official office, he still planted it but did not live, so he had to abandon it. Bian's descendants took it again and planted it in the same place, competing for branches and flourishing leaves.

peony

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