Ketan Town, Lujiang County, Hefei City, Anhui Province

Cotan town

Ketan town is located in the southwest of Lujiang County, Hefei City, Anhui Province. The town government is 70 kilometers away from Hefei city and 17 kilometers away from Lujiang County. Hejiu railway and he'an Expressway pass through the territory, and the Ketan river runs through the territory.

Ketan town has 8 administrative villages and 2 communities with a permanent population of 54165 (2017). The total area is 136.68 square kilometers (2017), including 48000 mu of mountain farm and 55000 mu of cultivated land. The northern part of the territory is hilly, and the southern part is Pingfan. Niuwang village, 594 meters above sea level, is the highest mountain in Hefei. The historic site is Ganquan temple, which was built in Yuan Dynasty.

In 2014, it was rated as "national ecological township".

Evolution of organizational system

In 1992, it belonged to Ketan town and chenbu Township respectively.

In 1996, Ketan town covers an area of 62 square kilometers with a population of 26000, and has 12 village committees, including Dongchong, Xichong, Zishu, Baogang, Qiaohe, Xiangpu, Hongxing, Fenshui, Youfang, Ketan, YeFan and Hudong; chenbu Township covers an area of 75 square kilometers with a population of 33000, and has jurisdiction over Gugeng, wayuan, chenbu, Zhufang, loufang, Luodian, Shishu, Xiaodun, Qinglongshan, Meihua, Xintian, Chengchi There are 17 village committees in Zheyuan, zaogang, Zhonggang and Wuxi. In 2004, Ketan town had one neighborhood committee and seven village committees with an area of 48 square kilometers and a population of 27100; chenbu Township had nine village committees with an area of 75 square kilometers and a population of 34400.

In 2005, chenbu township was abolished and merged into Ketan town. The town has one neighborhood committee and 16 village committees, covering an area of 123 square kilometers and a population of 61500. The town government is located in kejiatan (the former residence of Ketan town government).

There are two middle schools in Ketan Town, one is chenbu middle school and the other is Ketan middle school

administrative division

Ketan community, chenbu community, Fenshui village, Hudong village, Pugang village, gemiao village, zaogang village, Chengchi village, Xiaodun village and Shishu village.

natural resources

mineral resources

There are many treasures in the high mountain, good timber in the deep forest, Jasper in the clear water, and tea fragrance in the beautiful land. The town is covered by volcanic rock series, rich in stone resources, and huge storage of railway ballast and high-quality building materials. In the 1990s, Hejiu railway company was used as a designated supply base for railway ballast. The territory is rich in iron ore and other rare metal ores, marble and granite resources to be developed.

tourist resources

The original ecological natural scenery has unique charm. It has been rated as "beautiful environment town" by the city and the provincial level. There are qichan temple, Guanyin cave, Longchi Temple (relics), Zheng Linchuan ancient house and other landscapes. Hudong reservoir, guoyuanshan reservoir and Banqiaohe reservoir are inlaid with three bright pearls.

Natural resources

Ketan is rich in tea, with a total area of 4000 mu. High quality tea has been widely promoted. It has a long history of tea making, and is well-known for its quality, color, fragrance and shape. "QianChuan Xuefeng", "Longjing 43", "Wuhao" and big and small orchids are well-known. New tea is in short supply. "QianChuan Xuefeng" has won the gold medal of National Agricultural Expo. In particular, Ketan tea company has developed from a small private factory into the No.1 tea factory in Jiangbei, with an annual processing capacity of 3 million catties of refined tea. Ji Shenbao, the manager of the company, has won the title of "top 100 leaders in getting rich" in the whole province and the first "labor model" in Chaohu City. Ketan mountain wild vegetables go out of the mountain area and go to the city. Now it has a production base of more than 800 mu, with an annual processing capacity of more than 20000 kg of cauliflower, coriander, Toona sinensis, dandelion and fern. The planting area of Castanea mollissima, green seedlings and traditional Chinese medicine in mountainous areas is large, and the development potential is deep.

economic development

agricultural economy

It covers an area of 136.68 square kilometers (in 2017), with 31000 rural laborers and an annual total agricultural output value of 184780000 yuan.

Focusing on the problem of agricultural efficiency and farmers' income, the whole town has done a good job in agricultural development. The total output value of agriculture has achieved the goal of an average annual growth of 5%. The per capita net income of farmers has reached 3246 yuan, and the average annual income has increased by 150 yuan. In the mountainous area, economic and ecological forestry, mainly tea and chestnut, has emerged. Low yield forest should be transformed, economic and fruit forest should be developed, and forest management mechanism should be changed. Driven by scientific and technological demonstration, the "two high and one excellent" agriculture has been vigorously developed, and the grain quality has been greatly improved. Egg duck breeding and other breeding industries have made great progress, expanded the scale, built the base, and established the egg duck breeding cooperatives, so that the egg duck production and processing gradually embarked on the path of industrial development. Tea has developed from brand to pollution-free and organic tea, and has expanded its scale. Tea associations have been organized to promote the development of farmers by companies. Continue to strengthen the construction of agricultural infrastructure, the town has invested nearly 10 million yuan, vigorously build the main dam, dredge farmland irrigation channels, transform rural roads and bridges, effectively promoting the stability of the status of agricultural infrastructure.

The main agricultural products are: grain, oil, tea, meat, duck eggs, aquatic products, etc.

industrial economy

The total annual industrial output value is 233 million yuan, showing a good momentum of economic development. Over the past few years, the town Party committee and government always put economic development in the first place, paid close attention to attracting investment, gave full play to the advantages of resources, and made use of the advantages of "Hejiu" railway, "Hurong" and "Hehuang" expressway running through our town to develop the "crossing" economy. We should implement the new concept of entrusted investment promotion and national investment promotion, and implement the work of investment promotion. Since the township was merged, the town Party committee and government have taken promoting the construction speed of the town's industrial concentration area as the focus of attracting investment, determined to take chenbu road crossing of hetonghuang expressway as the main part, and planned an industrial concentration area of 1500 mu and 3000 mu in Xiaodun village in the long term.

Location traffic

Historically, it used to be the only place from Hefei to Anqing. Now Hejiu railway and he'an Expressway run through the territory. The exit of Hehuang expressway is 8km away from the town. Wanke, Leke and Lutong highways form a highway network extending in all directions, which has convenient transportation with Tongcheng and Tangchi.

During the Anti Japanese War, the democratic government of Lujiang County, Lujiang middle school, private Siwei middle school and the first branch of the provincial high court all moved to the territory. Hejie expressway, hetonghuang Expressway and Hejiu railway radiate from north to East, West and south, running through the town. It is 70 km away from Hefei, the provincial capital, in the north and 65 km away from Tongling City in the south. It is in a three hour economic circle with Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai and other cities in the Yangtze River Delta. There are passenger and freight stations of Hejiu railway in the town. The planned Hefei Tongling railway meets here and is under construction Chenbu exit connecting line of he Tong Huang expressway is constructed according to the municipal first-class road standard, with two-way 8 lanes, known as "Anhui first road". It is 4.5 km away from Lucheng and only 8 km away from the town. The traffic location advantage is very obvious.

One day tour route of Ketan Town: lujiangnan (exit of Expressway) → zhengjiazhuangyuan → Ketan old street → Ketan organic tea factory → WanMu tea garden → maizuling → Gaojian and Gaofeng (tea Town, tea flavor and tea family) → Hudong villa (tourist reception center, dining and leisure) → Hudong reservoir (Lake and mountain scenery) → towering ancient trees (Millennium ginkgo biloba and five grain trees in Ketan middle school) → back to the city.

Honor record

On June 30, 2020, it will be included in the list of provincial rural governance pilot demonstration towns in Anhui Province.

Chinese PinYin : An Hui Sheng He Fei Shi Lu Jiang Xian Ke Tan Zhen