Xituan Town, Dafeng District, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province

Xituan town

Xituan Town, located in the middle of Dafeng District, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, is the famous "hometown of shot blasting machine" in China. With a total area of 96 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 2 neighborhood committees, 13 villages and 79 villager groups. The total population is 33700, and the cultivated area is 5100 hectares.

At present, there are 340 industrial enterprises, of which 30 are scheduled to report, with annual industrial added value of 315 million yuan, sales revenue of 1.24 billion yuan and profits and taxes of 79.99 million yuan. The town achieved a GDP of 766 million yuan, a fiscal revenue of 43.02 million yuan, and a per capita net income of 6120 yuan for farmers. Yancheng Municipal Party committee and municipal government were commended as five good township party committee and advanced town in finance and taxation.

In July 2020, the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee reconfirmed xituan town as a national health township.

History and Humanities

Xituan has a long history and profound culture. 600 years of history has gathered profound cultural heritage. Legends such as white bull fighting the dragon, hair embroidery saving father and King Wu Juyi spread, while the smoke and shadow of religious sites such as zushi temple, hang Wang Temple, Dutian temple and Longwang temple still exist. This is the birthplace of Zhang Shicheng, the leader of the Yanmin uprising in the late Yuan Dynasty. Shi Naian wrote the glorious outlaws of the marsh in the form of it; Kong Shangren, the author of Peach Blossom Fan, controlled the water here, leaving the well-known "records of the West regiment"; Li Ruzhen, a writer of the Qing Dynasty, saw the mirage here and wrote the immortal masterpiece "flowers in the mirror"; Zheng Banqiao, one of the "eight monsters of Yangzhou", once lived here , leaving behind paintings and legends Since ancient times, there have been 22 Jinshi, 28 Ming and Qing Juren, and more than 20 city and county leaders.

Transportation and logistics

Xituan town is adjacent to Dafeng City and Dafeng Economic Development Zone, and Coastal Expressway runs through the whole area.

economic development

In 2018, the annual GDP reached 3.495 billion yuan, an increase of 7.4%. The general public budget revenue was 133 million yuan, an increase of 7.78%, of which the value-added tax was 96.9 million yuan, an increase of 8.17%. The investment in fixed assets was 833 million yuan, an increase of 31.2%. The total industrial invoice sales reached 2.53 billion yuan, an increase of 11.8%; the invoice sales of Industrial Enterprises above Designated Size reached 2.02 billion yuan, an increase of 20.24%, and the per capita disposable income of residents reached 23700 yuan, an increase of 8.8%.

At present, there are 340 industrial enterprises, of which 30 are scheduled to report, with annual industrial added value of 315 million yuan, sales revenue of 1.24 billion yuan and profits and taxes of 79.99 million yuan. The industrial cluster of shot blasting machine has developed rapidly. In 2006, it realized sales of 1 billion yuan and profits and taxes of 87 million yuan. At present, there are 109 shot blasting machine enterprises with nearly 10000 employees.

Industrial dream

In Xiduan Town, Dafeng District, with only 35000 people, there are more than 140 shot blasting machine manufacturers, large and small. From the Secretary of the town Party committee to the business operators, they firmly believe that the largest production, R & D and export base of shot blasting machine in China will be built in this green field.

On January 20, Deng Jiming, Secretary of the Party committee of xituan Town, came to Fengte Foundry Machinery Co., Ltd. early. On this day, his work arrangement is to investigate the leading enterprise of shot blasting machine production, and discuss the development blueprint of shot blasting machine industry in the town with Qiao Shengbing, chairman of the company. Xituan is a small town with only 35000 people in Dafeng District, but there are more than 140 enterprises producing shot blasting machines, large and small, gathering 15000 people in the whole town and surrounding rural areas. "At present, we have only completed a large number of enterprise concentration, with more horizontal agglomeration and less vertical supporting. On the whole, the technical content of our products is relatively low, the degree of specialized production is not high, and the contradiction of homogeneous competition is prominent. The development of shot blasting machine industry in Shandong, Shenzhen and other places in China is exerting increasing pressure on us, and the export proportion of our products is still very small." Deng Jiming's understanding of the shot blasting machine industry makes Qiao Shengbing deeply admire the secretary who has just been in office for two months.

Before coming to xituan, Deng Jiming was director of the foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau of Dafeng district. At that time, he had his own in-depth thinking about the xituan shot blasting machine industry, which is one of the top ten industrial clusters in Yancheng City. His idea is that after 30 years of economic tide, it is entirely possible to build the largest shot blasting machine production, R & D and export base in China on the green field of xituan.

Deng Jiming's idea is also an early industrial dream of the Western League, a small town in central and Northern Jiangsu. Several party and government leaders and 100 grassroots entrepreneurs of the Western League have been working hard.

The beginning

Shot blasting machine is the general basic equipment in the mechanical industry, which is widely used in ship, automobile engineering, machinery manufacturing and other industries for rust removal, polishing, sand cleaning and other metal surface treatment. There is a huge market demand at home and abroad.

In xituan town of Dafeng, located in the hinterland of Central Jiangsu Province, the rise of shot blasting machine industry has no dazzling ancestral background. Li Aiwen, who is now the president of xituan shot blasting machine Association, was the director of Dafeng special alloy foundry 24 years ago. This dark old man witnessed the beginning and prosperity of the xituan shot blasting machine industry.

"Our factory was built in 1976 and started to produce simple castings. In 1982, with the help of an old secretary's family in the factory working in Nanjing Railway Branch, the production business of supporting products of shot blasting machine was introduced. This was also the first time that the people of Xiduan knew about shot blasting machine. In 1984, the factory established economic and technological cooperation with Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shanghai Foundry Research Institute and other institutions of higher learning, and began to produce complete sets of products of shot blasting machine. In 1985, the factory successively introduced four college students from Xi'an Jiaotong University. Tang Xiaoshan, vice chairman of the CPPCC Committee in Dafeng District of Yancheng City, is one of them. He is also the first person for foreign college students to work in Yancheng township enterprises. " Li Aiwen said, "the arrival of college students has doubled the confidence of our local bosses and greatly improved the scientific and technological capabilities of enterprises. After a series of technological breakthroughs, starting from the middle and late 1980s, it is marked that the shot blasting machine products manufactured by Xitun have been out of Yancheng in large quantities, competing for the market with their counterparts across the country. "

Dafeng special alloy foundry is the matrix of xituan shot blasting machine industry. The vast market demand space and considerable profits make a local group of muddy legs with hazy investment consciousness see the prospect of this industry. In 1997, when Dafeng township enterprises were fully restructured, including the special alloy foundry, there were six shot blasting machine manufacturers of a certain scale in xituan, and there were more than 10 workshop type supporting manufacturers, with more than 2000 employees. The total annual output value of the industry exceeded 10 million yuan.

"An accidental family relationship, through the conscious efforts of the people of the Western regiment, has become a large-scale industry." In 2001, Li Aiwen was transferred to the Deputy Secretary of industry of xituan Town, focusing on the development of shot blasting machine industry. From that time on, thanks to the active guidance of the government, the xituan shot blasting machine industry began to usher in a stage of great development. Li Aiwen took the reporter to Dalong Industrial Park in xituan town and pointed to the numerous enterprises of shot blasting machine. The old secretary, who has already retired, said: "after years of fission type development, a number of modern enterprises with technology and scale are rapidly replacing small workshops."

Change of situation

Qiao Shengbing, 43, chairman of Fengte Foundry Machinery Co., Ltd. Ten years ago, taking advantage of the restructuring of township enterprises, he resigned from his official post and raised funds to buy a small factory with poor efficiency, and began to set foot in the production of shot blasting machine. In 2000, he invested 5 million yuan to move the factory to Dalong Industrial Park. Qiao Shengbing is one of the few "class students" in xituan shot blasting machine industry. He graduated from Nanjing University of technology, majoring in mechanical manufacturing. With his own professional advantages, Qiao Shengbing has been focusing on the development of new products since the first day of running the factory. When the whole shot blasting machine industry of xituan only produced a single product of roller shot blasting machine, Fengte company took the lead in developing a full range of shot blasting machine products, such as hook type, crawler type and rotary table type. Accompanying the reporter to visit Fengte company's European style garden factory, Qiao Shengbing said with pride: "some famous enterprises in more than 20 provinces and cities in China, such as Angang Group, Pangang Group, Xugong Group, Jiangnan Shipyard, all use our shot blasting machine. Because they always strengthen their technical advantages, the competitiveness of Fengte series products in the international market is also increasing year by year and has been exported We have visited nearly 10 countries, including Japan, Indonesia and Vietnam. " Like Qiao Shengbing, Chen Yanjun, the director of Dalong foundry machinery factory, resigned in April 2002 after 17 years as a middle school teacher. He raised 4 million yuan to build a factory in Dalong Industrial Park. In just five years of development, it has achieved an annual sales of 40 million yuan. Fengte Foundry Machinery Co., Ltd. and Dalong foundry machinery factory are the best in xituan shot blasting machine industry. Dong Yi, head of xituan Town, said: "it is these innovative enterprises that have brought xituan's shot blasting machine industry into a real stage of change." In 2001, after the adjustment of township division, around the construction of regional characteristic economy, xituan town raised more than 5 million yuan, acquired 650 mu of land, started to build Dalong Industrial Park, and made every effort to build an industrial cluster of shot blasting machine. Dong Yi told reporters that by the end of 2007, the area of the park had reached 1600 mu. In 2007, the total output value was 2 billion yuan, the profits and taxes were 110 million yuan, and the market share of xituan shot blasting machine products in the domestic market reached more than 40%. Shot blasting machine industry is not only an important pillar industry in xituan Town, but also an important part of productivity distribution in Dafeng County.

Dream

On the wall of Deng Jiming's office, the Secretary of the town Party committee, is the Dalong shot blasting machine industrial cluster of Xitun town