Yatan Town, Wangjiang County, Anqing City, Anhui Province

Yatan town

Yatan town

Located in the northwest of Wangjiang County, Anhui Province, it is composed of yatan Town, maiyuan Township and Gulu Township, 42 kilometers away from Wangjiang county. It is adjacent to Gaoshi town in the East, Wuchang Lake in the southeast, Changling town in the south, Dashi Township and Xuqiao town in Taihu County in the west, Xincang town in Taihu County in the north, Leibu Township and Shipai town in Huaining County in the northeast. It has jurisdiction over 15 administrative villages with a population of 68748 (2017), the longest from east to west of 29.5 km, the widest from north to south of 18 km, and a total control area of 155.64 square kilometers. In January 1956, the county was divided into four townships: dock, maiyuan, Fengling and Gulu. After the district was withdrawn and the township was merged in 1992, dock Township and yatan Township were merged into yatan Town, and Gulu and maiyuan were directly under the jurisdiction of the county. In February 2005, Gulu Township, maiyuan Township and yatan town were merged into yatan Town, which was approved by the provincial government as a central town in 2008.

In 2008, yatan was named "the hometown of Chinese folk culture and art" by the Ministry of culture. On January 9, 2013, the website of Anhui Provincial Tourism Administration announced that yatan town was rated as "excellent tourism town in Anhui Province". At the same time, xiangmingshan scenic spot in yatan town was rated as a national "2A" scenic spot by the tourism department. On July 21, 2014, yatan town was rated as "national key town".

In December 2014, yatan town won the title of "the first town of children's clothing in Anhui Province" and "civilized village in Anhui Province".

In June 2020, yatan town was awarded the title of "the fifth civilized village in Anhui Province".

Economics

In 2017, the town achieved fiscal and tax revenue of 7.8918 million yuan and fixed asset investment of 926 million yuan, respectively completing 146.1% and 118.7% of the tasks assigned by the county; the total industrial output value above designated size was 961 million yuan, an increase of 10.6%. The annual evaluation of key work, such as civilization construction, investment promotion, beautiful rural construction, poverty alleviation, forest fire prevention, straw burning prohibition and conscription, ranked in the forefront of the county, and won the first place in the comprehensive evaluation of target management of county Party committee and county government.

In 2018, yatan town achieved fiscal revenue of 7.99 million yuan, completing 200% of offline tasks; fixed asset investment of 584 million yuan; total industrial output value of 820 million yuan, an increase of 19.2%; nine projects were introduced in the whole year, with a total agreed investment of 909 million yuan; and high-tech output value of 147 million yuan, an increase of 32.4%.

traffic

Yatan town is the junction of Wangjiang, Taihu and Huaining counties. Since ancient times, it has been in the throat of connecting East and West, North and south. Water and land transportation is developed.

"Two horizontal and three vertical" five roads

"Two horizontal" refers to the East-West "East Road" and "West Road".

Dongda Road: it starts from Wangjiang County, passes through Cuiling, houbuling and tiejiangling, crosses yatan bridge, goes through yatan street to Shipai town, and then goes from Wanhe River to Anqing by land or by boat. It is commonly known as Dongda road and has a post station in wofengling.

Xida Road: from Anqing to Shipai, through Leibu, Shamao mountain, Zhangbei mountain, along the southern foot of Mingshan mountain, to Taihu Lake, Susong, Hubei Huangmei. Commonly known as Xida Road, there is a post station in Zhangbei mountain.

"Three vertical" guide north of the "East Road", "middle road", "West Road".

East Road: from Wangjiang county to Shipai town via houbuling, Sanjiaoling, Chihu ferry and erjialing;

Middle road: from houbuling, via yatan bridge, chongyangling and shamaoshan, to tuolongshan in Taihu County and Huangni town in Qianshan County, there is a post station in chongyangling (next to today's Zhengjia cottage).

West Road: from changlingbu to Xincang town of Taihu County via Fuziling and lianhuajianshanliang.

Convenient transportation and superior location. Yatan town is the junction of Wangjiang, Shipai and Taihu counties. Jinan Guangzhou Expressway (Jinan Guangzhou), which is under construction, runs more than 10 kilometers from the territory. It is only 15 kilometers away from the Wangjiang exit of Shanghai Chengdu Expressway and 16 kilometers away from Beijing Kowloon Railway. Provincial highway S212 North highway runs through the whole territory for 20 kilometers. Provincial highway S211 connects Taihu County from maiyuan Township, passing through Xuqiao town and Xincang town of Taihu Lake, and you can directly get there The Shanghai Chongqing Expressway G50, through which the Shanghai Chengdu expressway is connected, is an important channel connecting the Shanghai Chengdu Expressway and the Jinan Guangzhou Expressway G35. Yuebei highway and Wogan highway connect yatan town to anjiu highway from north to south. Yatan town has been incorporated into the national traffic artery by the domestic and surrounding highways, which can directly lead to the expressways all over the country. The G35 buried hill to Wangjiang section of expressway through yatan is under construction in full swing and is expected to open to traffic in 2016. After completion, from yatan to the south, it can directly connect Wangdong Yangtze River Bridge to Dongzhi County, and to the north, it can connect the buried hill transportation hub.

Dock town: according to Wangjiang county annals in 1995, "in the early years of Guangxu, two towns, dock and Saikou, were added.". Dock town is located in the southwest of Yewu village, the junction of Wuchang Lake tip and dock river. It is the largest dock in Wuchang Lake tip and an important way of water transportation. Before the liberation of China, the Yangtze River and the inner lake were integrated. The ships in and out of the Yangtze River transported local and Taihu Lake, Huaining's native products, and Taihu Lake's bamboo, wood, tea, etc. to Wuhu, Nanjing, Wuhan, and then transported the city's industrial products back to yatan for sale to Taihu Lake and Huaining. Local farmers from Anqing transport "Fu dung (collected in Anqing ash fertilizer)" boat also berthed here, often dozens of unicycles, more than 100 people transport team. On the streets of the town, there are white wood (high-quality Chinese fir) market, local specialty trade, miscellaneous department stores, warehouses, restaurants and teahouses transported from Jiangxi. In the peak season, there are nearly 100 large and small wooden boats, people coming and going, and it's very lively.

Ferry: Bridge ferry, fangjiazui ferry, Chihu ferry, huangjingwan ferry, these are the links connecting the two sides of Wuchang lake. There is Wanquan ferry on the nitang river.

After liberation, the Yangtze River and the Inland River were managed separately, and the inland river traffic lost its former busy, while the land traffic developed rapidly. Yuebei line of 212 provincial road crosses the territory for 20 km and intersects with S211 provincial road at maiyuan. Wogan highway connects Yuebei highway at wofengling and extends eastward for 7 km. The two highways connect yatan town with anjiu highway from north to south.

In 2010, vigorously promote the construction of urban and rural transportation network. Nearly 20 million yuan has been invested to complete the construction of more than 70 kilometers of village level cement road network in the whole town; 1.5 million yuan has been invested to build a bridge across the lake, build a new 3000 meters Wuxiang Road, and open the road directly to Changling town; 5 million yuan has been invested to change the line of S212 through the town, which not only improves the traffic condition of the town, but also opens the framework of town construction. At the same time, 131.22 kilometers of sand and stone roads were built in the village group, and all kinds of mechanized roads were built all over bugangling polder, which made production and life very convenient. The construction of Ji Guang Expressway and Wangdong Yangtze River Bridge will bring yatan into the main traffic artery connecting north and South and East and West.

scenery

Xiangming mountain in the northwest of yatan town and Wuchang Lake in the southeast are two major tourist scenic spots in Wangjiang County, with beautiful scenery and charming scenery.

Xiangming mountain spans Wangjiang County, Taihu County and Huaining County. The mountain is Cui Wei, with steep cliffs and strange peaks. The caves are deep and the rocks are jagged. The natural landscape is beautiful and colorful: the lotus tip is like a lotus, the stone Buddha cave is deep and unpredictable, the meifudan stove is covered with clouds and fogs, the lion's mouth spits smoke, and the two Ming magic lamp is incomparably magical. The reservoirs are scattered all over the place; the pines and bamboos are everywhere, the mountain flowers are brilliant, and the tea and fruit are fragrant.

Xiangming mountain meanders for more than 10 kilometers, with precipitous mountains, steep cliffs and magnificent peaks; deep caves and valleys, jagged rocks and various shapes; large and small reservoirs, scattered all over the world, just like bright pearls inlaid in the mountains. The cultural landscape is rich and colorful. There are Mingshan temple, Baoyin temple tower, Chaoyang ancient nunnery, Lianhua academy, Taiping Army ancient battlefield, Liancheng old garrison, Wangma tower, shendun Neolithic site, dongfo temple, zushi hall and many other historic sites. It is a unique folk craft cross stitch. It has been in Beijing for four times as a decoration for Anhui Hall of the Great Hall of the people in Beijing. Xiangmingshan tourism development is listed as the first tourism development project in the county, which has high development value and good development prospects. More than 10 kilometers along Wuchang lake, yatan town is also a major part of the tourism development of Wuchang lake. The two scenic spots of "one mountain and one lake" in Wangjiang county are integrated here.

The cultural landscape is rich and colorful: there are caves where Meifu lived in seclusion, academies where Li Bai and Luo Yin read and wrote, sites where celebrities such as Xie Jin and Weng Pu stopped and lingered, battlefields and barracks where strategists such as Zhu Yuanzhang, Shi Kefa and Shi Dakai fought fiercely. There are more Buddhist buildings: Mingshan temple, Chaoyang temple, cave temple, Baoyin temple and ancient pagoda. Some ancient buildings and pagodas are still in good condition.

Wuchang lake, with an area of 130000 mu, is the largest inland lake in Wangjiang county. It is a bright pearl embedded in the land of Wangjiang. The green water in the lake is magnificent, with a wisp of smoke, a wisp of haze, a piece of lotus, and bursts of fragrance. The green mountains on both sides of the Strait fluctuate, with green mountains, green mountains, thick mountains and light mountains. Fishermen's songs, woodcutters' songs, birds' songs and flowers' fragrance. Zhou peiran, a famous scholar of Wangjiang River, once wrote a couplet saying, "one lake is green and the water is floating with gulls and ducks, and the two banks are grazing with horses and cattle on the green hills." In the face of the picturesque and dreamlike scenery of lakes and mountains, how can people not be intoxicated. There are many places of interest around Wuchang lake. On the lakeshore of more than ten kilometers from huahekou to sanchongxu in yatan, there are the old site of docktown, shendun, yanchidun Neolithic site, guanmacheng, guiwengting and xiewengting, Yongji bridge, wangmalou, Li's ancestral hall, Cao's ancestral hall, Yu's ancestral hall, gulu'an, Zhangshan temple and other landscapes, which complement the resorts on the south bank.

The two scenic spots are located between the Shanghai Chengdu Expressway and the Ji Guang expressway, and run through Yuebei and Wogan highways, Anqing Jiujiang highway and anqing airport

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