Bai Lian Xiang, Huoqiu County, Lu'an City, Anhui Province

Bailian Township

Bailian Township, known as "Bailian tower" in ancient times, is located on the West Bank of the West Lake of Huoqiu City, 28 kilometers away from the county. It faces the lake on three sides and the hill on one side. It faces Zhangji village of songdian Township in the East, Hekou town in the South, Madian town in the northwest, Longtan town in the southwest, Shaogang town in the north and Shidian town in the northwest. It covers a total area of 92 square kilometers, with a cultivated area of 56300 mu, including about 8600 mu of huwan field.

natural environment

Division evolution

Bailian township was formed by merging the former Bailian Township and Niuji Township in February 1992. The township government is located in Bailian street. The township now governs two streets (Bailian street and Niuji Street), 18 administrative villages (Bailian, Jingzhuang, Yaoliu, Sancha Road, Qijing, Dingyan, mancangfang, Xihe, Wuxing, Zhenzhu, Niuji, laoyuan, wangshuiwei, dutanglou, Xintang, Changtang, Qiaotou, Liuqiao), 21 Township units (Bailian Township Central School, Bailian Township vocational junior high school, Bailian Township Limin school) Bailian credit cooperative, Bailian grain storage station, Bailian post office, Bailian telecommunication station, Bailian power supply station, Bailian water management station, Bailian supply and marketing cooperative, Bailian livestock and poultry station, Bailian agricultural technology station, Bailian radio and television cultural station, Bailian Local Taxation station, Bailian finance station, Bailian agricultural economic station, Bailian people's political office, Bailian family planning office, Bailian judicial office, Bailian Township Health Center, Bailian county Police station).

Population, nationality

In 2004, the total number of households in Bailian township was 8150, with a total population of 33500. The agricultural population was 31000, and the non-agricultural population was 25000. The ethnic group was mainly Han nationality. Nine ethnic groups were scattered in the township, including Yao, Dai, Dong, Shui, Miao, Zhuang, Yi, Li, Tu, etc.

topographic features

Bailian is located on the Bank of Chengxi lake. The township is spindle shaped, northwest and Southeast. The whole terrain is high in the west, low in the East, and sloping in the north and south. It faces the lake in three directions (West Lake in the East, Chahe road in the north and south, Niujiao River in the south, yaowan River in the North), and Fengxi main canal in the West. Jingzhuang, Yaoliu and Sanchalu administrative villages in the East are located in the lake bay, where water comes to form a lake and water goes to form a beach. Dingyan, Xihe, Qijing three administrative villages are located in the north and South River slope, easy to waterlogging and drought.

natural resources

There are about 8600 mu of huwan farmland in Bailian Township, of which about 7500 Mu are reclaimed from the lake (14 polders are built in the township). More than 2000 mu of aquatic products have been developed in the polder to raise fish, plant lotus seeds, lotus roots and other economic crops, and raise livestock and poultry, forming a trend of comprehensive cultivation, recycling and three-dimensional development of lotus fish, livestock and poultry. the township is mainly agricultural, with grain crops such as rice, wheat, red taro, and a small number of miscellaneous grain crops; cash crops such as cotton, vegetables, soybeans, mung beans, sesame, kenaf, mint, etc. It is suitable for raising cattle, sheep, geese and ducks, and mainly for raising pigs.

natural disaster

As the township is located on the Bank of the West Lake, flood has always been a serious problem for the people of the township. In 1991, six villages, Jingzhuang, Yaoliu, Sanchalu, Qijing, Dingyan and Xihe, suffered different degrees of disasters. The flood engulfed the dike and villages, destroyed crops and trees, and caused direct economic losses of millions of yuan. In 1998, 2003 and other floods, some dikes were broken, crops were flooded, and farmers suffered great losses. The rice planthoppers in the autumn of 1997 reduced the yield of some fields in the township. places of interest: there are few places of interest in Bailian township. It is said that many years ago, Bailian street was east-west. There was a pagoda about two or three feet high in the north and a big pond 200 meters away in the south. In the pond, lotus flowers were in full bloom, fragrance overflowed and the water was clear. Every evening, the reflection of the pagoda appeared in the water. Hence the name of Bailian pagoda. It is said that it has a history of more than 200 years. The pagoda remains, and the Datang has been filled into a street. there is also the legend of "dragon playing in the water". The North Bank of Niujiao river is a large hill slope, which is about 100 meters long from east to west and is circular. The slope is high in the north and low in the south. The distance from the top to the bottom of the slope is about 1000 meters. There is a small hill slope on the East and west sides of the slope, and there is a depression in the south, which is about 300 meters away. From the whole view, the big slope in the middle looks like a dragon head, and the small slopes on both sides look like dragon claws. From a distance, it looks like a giant dragon playing in the river, which has been regarded as a "geomantic treasure land" for generations. Since ancient times, rich and powerful families have been burying their ancestors here in order to prosper their families.

economic construction

agricultural economy

① Agriculture: Bailian township is a big agricultural township with 92.5% of the total population. Agriculture is the pillar industry of the township and the main source of income for farmers. In the past 20 years, the whole township has gradually changed its concept, comprehensively developed high-yield, high-quality and efficient economic crops, focused on the development of main agriculture, precision agriculture, ecological agriculture and colorful agriculture, and gradually formed five series of regional commodity bases, including high-quality grain and cotton, livestock and poultry, aquatic products, lotus seed and lotus root (hybrid lotus root) and melon. The high-quality grain area of the township is 55000 mu, and the aquaculture area is more than 4200 mu, including more than 1000 mu of intensive fish ponds, more than 1500 mu of aquatic plants, and more than 8500 mu of low water surface. Since 1998, the five station network project has been implemented, which has fundamentally changed the agricultural structure of the whole Township, mainly rice and wheat. Due to the promotion of high-quality varieties in recent years, the rural agricultural varieties are constantly updated, with Huaimai as the main wheat and Xieyou as the main rice. Therefore, the total grain output of the township in 2004 reached 49400 tons, the average yield of rice was more than 600 kg per mu, the highest yield was 660 kg per unit area, and the average yield of wheat was more than 240 kg per mu, the highest yield was 300 kg per unit area. (2) Forestry: in recent years, taking the opportunity of returning farmland to forest, Bailian township has paid close attention to planting trees on all sides, with a total of 402 hectares of afforestation, of which 149.4 hectares are returned from farmland to forest, with a greening rate of 14%. The ecological environment has been significantly improved, and it has also become a new economic growth point for farmers. (3) animal husbandry: farmers have always attached great importance to raising livestock and poultry. In 2004, the township raised 4500 cattle, 3900 sheep and 28000 pigs, of which 25 households had more than 30 pigs; poultry were mainly chickens, ducks and geese, with 240000 poultry and 12 large chicken households. (4) sideline industry: farmers use local resources to develop breeding industry. Besides, they have 56 tofu workshops and 35 small-scale agricultural and sideline products processing plants. They export 8000 labor workers to and from the province all the year round. The annual income of labor export workers accounts for 42% of the income of farmers in the township. (5) fishery: the township has more than 4500 mu of water surface for aquaculture, and more than 1000 mu of intensive fish ponds. In terms of aquaculture, the three village polder areas, such as Jingzhuang, Yaoliu and Dingyan, are the main ones, driving the development of fish pond aquaculture in Ganggang district. Jingzhuang village has developed more than 3000 mu of aquatic products in the "youth fair", planting lotus seeds, releasing fish fry, raising poultry and livestock. The annual output of lotus seed is 80 tons, fish 306 tons, more than 2250 live pigs, 1250 white geese, 5360 ducks and 3150 Jin lotus root. The total output value is more than 6 million yuan and the profit tax is more than 200000 yuan. Silver carp and black fish here are famous aquatic products of the whole Township and have enjoyed a long reputation.

Township Enterprises

① Bailian Township pearl kiln factory was built in 1993, with a total of 20 doors and a daily output of 40000 red bricks. It has a high output and good quality, and is sold to more than 10 towns with an annual output value of 3 million yuan. (2) Bailian rice processing plant with an annual output value of more than 1 million yuan of private enterprises has assets of more than 5 million yuan, and its products are exported to Africa. (3) commerce: the former collective commerce with supply and marketing cooperatives as the main body basically disintegrated, and the commerce was mainly individual. There are two farmers' markets (Bailian farmers' market and Niuji farmers' market) in the township. The commodities traded in the markets are mainly daily necessities, vegetables, household appliances, motorcycles, etc. There are 96 individual service industries with 192 employees.

infrastructure

road traffic

① Bridges: due to the three facing lakes in Bailian Township, the traffic was very inconvenient 84 years ago. In the 1990s, Jiaoqiao bridge from Bailian to Shaogang, built on yaowan River, was 15 meters long and 5 meters wide; in 1994, with the support of the County Agricultural Committee, planning committee and other departments, Niujiao River Bridge from Bailian to Hekou, 40 meters long and 5 meters wide, was built; Shuanghe bridge from Xihe to Hekou, 20 meters long and 20 meters wide, was also built It's four meters wide. The construction of the three bridges connected the western region of Huoqiu and brought great convenience and happiness to the people. Bailian is 15 li away from Zhangji, songdian Township, including 5 li in the bay area. There is a river from south to north, about 150 meters wide. Over the years, people on both sides of the Strait have been looking forward to building bridges to facilitate exchanges. In the spring of 2006, under the care of the county Party committee and the county government, the construction of Baizhang bridge was started. (2) roads: before 1984, there was no decent road in Bailian township. After 84, the flood funds and project funds were reasonably used, and a large amount of funds were raised to build the Bailian Niuji concrete road, which is 7.5 km long and 4 m wide, the Bailian Jingzhuang concrete road, which is 6 km long and 3.5 m wide, is a flood retreat Road, and the Bailian Dingyan concrete road, which is 3 km long and 3.5 m wide, It is 3.5 meters wide; in 2000, it built a 9 km long and 4 m wide sand stone highway from Bailian to Xihe and Wuxing village; it is 18 km long and 4 m wide sand stone highway from Bailian to Qijing, Bailian to niujiaohe and Niuji to wangshuiwei, which has made the whole village accessible. By the end of 2004, the township had 4 medium-sized buses, 16 minivans and 6 large and medium-sized trucks.

Power supply and water supply

① The power supply station was built in 199

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