Zilaiqiao Town, Mingguang City, Chuzhou City, Anhui Province

Zilaiqiao town

Zilaiqiao town is located in the southeast of Mingguang City. Its geographical location is between 11804634-11803836 E and 3203607-3204407 n. It is located at the junction of four counties (cities and districts) in two provinces (Anhui and Jiangsu). It borders Yixu County in Jiangsu Province and Lai'an county in Anhui Province in the East and Nanqiao District in the south. It borders Laokou Township in the north and jiashanji Township in the West. The town has 10 villager committees, 110 natural villages, 124 villager groups and 24156 permanent residents (in 2017). The town covers an area of 205.66 square kilometers (including 2 square kilometers of streets). The existing cultivated land area is 23514 mu, including 15114 mu of dry land and 8400 mu of paddy land. The area of Yilin mountain farm in the town is nearly 30000 mu.

brief introduction

The town is a low mountain and hilly area, a typical Yangtze Huaihe River Watershed back area, surrounded by mountains, the town is a small basin terrain, the central flat open, fertile land. Since 1958, the town has successively built a small (1) reservoir, 10 small (2) reservoirs, 250 ponds and dams, with a total storage capacity of 5 million cubic meters. The climate belongs to the transition zone between subtropical and warm temperate zone. The annual average temperature is 15.6 ℃, the annual average precipitation is 940 mm, and the frost free period is 219 days

Historical evolution

Zilaiqiao town is named because of the bridge. According to Yixu county annals, "zilaiqiao is Chuzhou and Lai'an Road, and the bridge stone is the water flowing to it, so it is named.". Speaking of Zilai bridge, there is another magical legend: as early as the Yuan Dynasty, Zilai bridge was the famous ancient road from Huaihe River to Liuhe river. The Ancient Road passed through a stream Bay, and there was no bridge on the river. In dry season, pedestrians could only walk on a few "stone steps", while horses and vehicles could only cross the river. In case of flash flood, pedestrians can only look at the river and sigh. In 1341, the people of the ancient town generously donated money and materials to repair the bridge, found craftsmen and bought stones. The construction started at the beginning of the year, and the bridge foundation and piers were completed a few months later. Only the stones on the bridge deck are hard to find, which is very urgent for the bridge builders. It is said that this event moved the Jade Emperor. On June 23 of that year, the sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder, heavy rain and torrents broke out. In the torrent, a large flat and square stone went down the river to the pier and stopped suddenly. Made in heaven and earth, it just coincides with each other and becomes a natural bridge deck. The miracle of "harmony between man and nature" to build bridges for the convenience of the people was born in this way in a small mountain town. Later, in order to forever commemorate this beautiful and magical story, people set up a stone tablet of "Zilai bridge" at the head of the bridge, and wrote the "stele of reconstruction of ancient Zilai bridge of Zilai bridge" to record Yongzhi.

present situation

After hundreds of years of construction, the market town of zilaiqiao has been very prosperous by the beginning of last century. The North-South Street (old street) is eight meters wide and more than one thousand meters long. There are gates and archways at the north and south ends. The streets are all paved with stones. Due to the long-term use of unicycle, the stone ditch is clearly visible, and the streets are covered with green bricks and small tiles. The buildings are unique and elegant, and the shops are numerous. There are grain shops, salt shops, tobacco shops and paper shops In ancient times, it was known as "little Nanjing". Before and after liberation, zilaiqiao was the seat of town, district and county governments for decades. In 1943, the Anti Japanese democratic government of Jiashan County under the leadership of the Communist Party was set up at the north end of zilaiqiao street until 1946. During the Anti Japanese War, Liu Shaoqi, Tan Zhenlin, Fang Yi, Xu Haidong, Luo Binghui and Wang Daohan all fought or worked in zilaiqiao. Since zilaiqiao is the special location of the county government and the secret traffic line between the East and the west of the road, from February 1938 to January 1941, the Japanese bombed zilaiqiao three times, invaded zilaiqiao five times, burned down nearly a thousand houses, and basically destroyed the ancient buildings in the old street. It has brought great disaster to the people of zilaiqiao. with the development of society, the town made a comprehensive planning in 1990. Along the jianlai highway, a new "ten" shaped street was opened up, with a total length of 1100 meters, connecting the old street to form a "dry" shaped street, with a width of 40 meters. From 1995 to now, we have built many projects, such as farmers' market, business district, sewer, etc. Due to the ancient market town and its moderate location, the number of Shangji people reaches about 10000 on the first, fourth and seventh day of the lunar calendar, and the daily turnover can reach 300000 yuan. Ten thousand volt high-voltage electricity connects all villages and groups in the town, and the low conversion rate of rural electricity is more than 95%. The waterworks built in 1992 has been reformed several times to meet the needs of market towns. More than 3000 program-controlled telephones are installed, accounting for about 70% of the farmers in the town. There are more than 200 CATV users in market towns. Unicom and mobile communication towers have been built in the town. The transportation is very convenient. Laijian highway runs through the town for 11 kilometers, and Zhang Zizi and Yang Zizi highways cross each other. The village roads and village group roads have reached the sand petrified level and formed a network. In terms of agricultural economy, in the process of continuously adjusting the agricultural industrial structure, the agricultural planting structure with "three melons and one medicine" as the pillar industry has initially formed (i.e. wax gourd, gourd grafted watermelon, nine seed melon and yam), with an annual output of about 25 million kg of wax gourd, 28 million kg of watermelon and 5 million kg of yam. Wax gourd is rated as A-class green food by the Ministry of agriculture of the people's Republic of China. It is exported to Nanjing, Shanghai, Yangzhou, Qingdao, Anqing and other places. There is a wax gourd food processing plant in the town, with an annual processing capacity of 5000 tons. In recent years, the town baiyunsi, Zhengang, Zhuyuan and other villages large-scale planting of high-quality fruit yam has been booming. In 2005, the planting area is more than 10000 mu, the output is more than 30000 tons, the storage is more than 25000 tons, and the off-season sales potential is great. The potential and advantage of mountainous areas lie in the mountains. It is hopeful to vigorously develop animal husbandry production. In recent years, the Party committee and government actively guide, support and cultivate large farmers, and actively implement the renewal of excellent varieties. Now the town has dozens of households to raise cattle, pigs, sheep thousands of head, raising tens of thousands of poultry farmers. the town is rich in various ore resources, marble, granite, potash feldspar distributed in the south of the town, covering an area of about four square kilometers. The marble has been tested by the laboratory of Nanjing mineral resources center of the Ministry of Geology and mineral resources of the people's Republic of China, and its quality is leading in China. Potash feldspar is a rare mineral resource with large storage and good quality. It is an essential raw material for processing glass and other products. In recent years, private enterprises have developed rapidly. At present, four feldspar processing enterprises have been built in the town, with an annual mining capacity of 100000 tons of ore, fine processing capacity of 20000 tons, and five rice flour and food processing plants. There are thousands of individual businesses and workers engaged in three industries. At the same time of economic development, social public welfare undertakings have also made great progress in recent years. There are 7 primary schools and 1 middle school with 3500 students in the town. The middle school has invested nearly one million yuan to build teaching and experimental buildings with a construction area of more than 2000 square meters. The Central Primary School has introduced foreign investment and raised nearly one million yuan. A new teaching building has been built, which has greatly improved the teaching environment and teaching conditions. Now the campus environment is beautiful. Since 1992, the township health center has successively built outpatient building and other building houses, purchased a large number of medical equipment, increased 10 departments and 30 beds.

Water conservancy of zilaiqiao town

According to the 2008-2012 planning outline of comprehensive management and development of drought prone areas in Jianghuai watershed, zilaiqiao town has mainly done the following work in 2008:

Production development engineering

1. Strengthen the construction of farmland and water conservancy. To achieve efficient use of water resources, optimize the quality, comprehensive conservation and effective protection. This paper focuses on the expansion, reinforcement, excavation and dredging of Zhengang small type I reservoir, Meihua reservoir, Yuejin reservoir, Daling reservoir and Fenghuang reservoir, the hardening of flood overflow and irrigation channels of 15000 meters, the construction of 15 flood discharge culverts, the construction of upstream slope protection works, the completion of 330000 cubic meters of earth and stone works, the elimination of potential safety hazards of dangerous reservoirs, so as to improve their benefits and play their normal functions. comprehensively improve the water storage capacity of reservoirs and dams, focus on "digging deep and expanding capacity", adhere to the simultaneous development of reservoirs, ponds, dams and wells, expand small ponds, dig deep shallow ponds and upgrade low ponds, fully raise and store runoff, expand artesian irrigation and increase drought resistance. In 2008, we focused on "digging deep and expanding capacity" of eight main ponds, basically reaching one main pond in each village. We built six water retaining projects in baiyunsi, Meihua, Qiaozhen, Laokou and other villages, and completed 64000 cubic meters of earthwork, including 10000 cubic meters of mortar block stone and 4000 cubic meters of concrete. 2. Speed up the pace of land consolidation, according to the overall land use planning, carry out comprehensive consolidation of fields, water, roads, forests and villages, increase the area of cultivated land, improve the comprehensive agricultural production capacity, combine with the new rural construction, increase land replacement efforts, vigorously manage the "hollow villages", and strive to reduce the construction land of rural residential areas More than 200 mu have been replaced. 3. To develop high-quality and efficient agriculture, on the basis of consolidating the grain and oil production area, change the agricultural planting mode, promote the adjustment of industrial structure, and build the base of advantageous and characteristic agricultural products. In recent years, the Party committee and government of Qiaozhen town have made great efforts to promote the adjustment of industrial structure in the process of agricultural industrial structure adjustment, focusing on the development of potato industrialization. In 2008, the planting area of potato in the town was 18000 mu, accounting for 52.2% of the cultivated land. There were more than 3800 farmers, accounting for 51% of the total number of farmers. The average yield per mu was 3000 kg, and the benefit per mu was more than 2000 yuan. Only for this, the income of farmers in the town increased by more than 31 million yuan, and the per capita income increased by nearly 1000 yuan. There are 554 households storing yams in the town, 49 of which are more than 100000 kg

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