Taocun Town, Qixia City, Yantai City, Shandong Province

Taocun town

Taocun town is one of the three important towns in Jiaodong history. It is located in Yantai, Qingdao and Weihai, the first three coastal open cities, and the center of Fushan, Muping, Haiyang, Qixia, Laiyang and Rushan. It is a central town with transportation hub as its main feature. With a total area of 280 square kilometers, Taocun town in Qixia City has 113 administrative villages and a population of 100000. It is the center town with the largest area, the second largest number of villages and the second largest population in Yantai city.

In October 2019, Taocun town was selected as one of the "Top 1000 towns with comprehensive strength in China in 2019".

Economic situation

Taocun town is located in the center town with the largest area, the largest number of villages and the second largest population in Yantai city. It has been identified as "national pilot town of development and reform" and "national key town". As Yantai's satellite city and Yantai's southern economic group, it has been included in a new round of urban development planning of Yantai, and has become an important plate and regional logistics center of Yantai's suburban processing trade base and peninsula manufacturing base.

The Party committee and government of Taocun town earnestly implement the scientific outlook on development, follow the working ideas of "one point, two lines" and "breakthrough Taocun" of Qixia municipal Party committee and government, and rely on their own advantages in location, resources, industry and carrier,

Taking the overall situation as a whole by attracting investment and opening up, firmly establishing the concept of "environment first and project first", striving to build a platform and carrier for economic development, effectively promoting the coordinated and rapid development of economy and social undertakings through emancipating the mind, positioning the high point, pressing forward and catching up with and surpassing the development of the whole town. In 2006, the town's GDP reached 1.84 billion yuan, an increase of 29.4%;

Fiscal revenue was 35.51 million yuan, an increase of 17.1%; investment in fixed assets was 1.68 billion yuan, an increase of 29.7%; domestic capital was 820 million yuan, an increase of 36.5%; per capita net income of farmers was 5566 yuan, an increase of 12%; contracted foreign capital was 14.43 million US dollars; actually utilized foreign capital was 2.555 million US dollars; resident savings balance was 800 million yuan.

Historical evolution

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it belonged to Wenhua Township and Jingfeng Township, and then Taocun town was set up. At the beginning of the Republic of China, Taocun town belonged to the second district. It belonged to Qidong County in 1941 and Yaqian County in 1945. In 1951, 11 townships were built, Taocun District was set up in 1956, Taocun commune was set up in 1958, Taocun commune was set up in March 1984,

Tiekou town was set up in October 1992 and Dazhuangtou town in March 2000. In December 2000, Tiekou town and Dazhuangtou town were abolished, and their administrative divisions were merged into Taocun Town, where the town government was stationed.

In 2000, Taocun town was approved as a central town by Shandong Provincial People's government. Now the built-up area of Taocun town is 8.2 square kilometers, with 45000 urban residents. Since the reform and opening up, the economic construction and social undertakings of Taocun have made great progress, the town has taken on a new look, the comprehensive economic power has been continuously strengthened, and the transformation from an agricultural town to an industrial and trade town has been realized, which has laid a good foundation for the leap forward development of Taocun.

In March 2005, due to the national macro adjustment, Yantai City cancelled the original Taocun special industrial zone in Qixia City. In order to speed up the development of Taocun, with the consent of the provincial government, it reported to the relevant state departments to apply for the establishment of Taocun as a provincial Economic Development Zone, with the same regional area as the original Taocun special industrial zone.

Ruins

Jiaodong revolutionary martyrs cemetery. Located in front of Yashan mountain, 1km northwest of Taocun town government, it is a national key martyr memorial building protection unit and a national patriotism education base. The cemetery covers an area of 50 hectares, with more than 300 martyr memorial buildings including martyr memorial hall, memorial tower, martyr list tower, famous martyr tomb and memorial Pavilion. The Anti Japanese martyr memorial tower stands on the top of Yingling mountain, towering into the sky.

Jiaodong Anti Japanese martyrs memorial tower. It is 21.37 meters high and composed of 960 pieces of granite. The monument is majestic and majestic. The white granite is engraved with the heroic names of 5716 martyrs. The tower base is engraved with the preface of the monument jointly written by the Party committee of Jiaodong District, the provisional Council of Jiaodong District, the administrative office of Jiaodong District, the Political Department of Jiaodong military region of the Eighth Route Army, the Anti Japanese and national salvation Federation of all walks of life in Jiaodong and the people's self defense committee of Jiaodong on July 7, 1945. The monument was completed on August 15, 1945, when Japan declared its surrender. The statue of Jiaodong revolutionary martyrs was designed by Zhang Yonghao, a famous sculptor and professor of Shanghai Academy of fine arts. It was completed before Qingming Festival in 1993. In the memorial hall of the martyrs, there are pictures and deeds of famous martyrs such as Zhang Jingyuan, Zhang Lianzhu, Li Qi, Wang Wen, Yu Kegong, Lin Jiang, Ren Changlun and Xie Wenqing, and a large number of revolutionary cultural relics are displayed.

The former site of the third branch of the Anti Japanese military and Political University. Located in fenghuangzhuang village. In May 1941, the third branch of the Eighth Route Army's Anti Japanese military and Political University (Jiaodong branch) was moved from Sanyuan village in Yexian County (now Laizhou City) to diaoyahou and Madi in the West foot of Yaxi. Later, it moved to dongkuang Village (now Fenghuang Village) at the northern foot of Yashan mountain. Each battalion was stationed in more than 20 villages, including queliujia village, Xiaozhuang Village (now Fuzhuang Village) and shangyatou village. Headmaster Nie Fengzhi's office is in Fenghuang village, which is well preserved today.

The former site of Dazhong newspaper of Jiaodong District CPC Committee. Located in yazikuang village, Taocun town. In the spring of 1941, Yu Liangchen, Hu Huashan, Chang Qijing and other staff of Dazhong daily once lived in three cottages in yazikuang village. The whole property of the times is a mimeograph machine, which is called "the burden newspaper" by the masses. The newspaper has been working for four years in a tough environment. The three cottages where the newspaper is located are still in good condition.

character

Li Qi, formerly known as you Jianduo, former Secretary of Jiaodong special committee of CPC, was born in Taikang County, Henan Province. In October 1937, he organized and led the Tianfushan Anti Japanese armed uprising, announced the establishment of the third army of Shandong people's Anti Japanese and national salvation army, and served as chairman and commander of the Jiaodong military and political Commission. On February 13, 1938, he was attacked and killed by the Japanese army at the Leishen temple in the south of Muping city. He was 32 years old.

Ren Changlun. Level 1 battle hero. Huang County (now Longkou City) people. At the age of 19, he joined the Eighth Route Army. He fought more than 120 times, suffered 9 injuries and 11 scars. In November 1944, he led 33 soldiers to take up the task of blocking the Japanese army. In one hour, 135 Japanese and 123 puppet soldiers were killed, and Ren Changlun and 33 soldiers were all killed.

Resource advantages

location advantage

Taocun, located in the hinterland of Jiaodong Peninsula, is one of the three important towns in Jiaodong history. It is located in Yantai, Qingdao and Weihai, the first three coastal open cities, and the center of Fushan, Muping, Haiyang, Qixia, Laiyang and Rushan. It is a central town with transportation hub as the main feature.

Taocun has obvious port advantages. It is 25 km away from Yantai Laishan airport, 42 km away from Yantai port, 130 km away from Qingdao Liuting Airport and 150 km away from Qingdao port. National Highway 204, Yanfeng highway and Wensan highway run through the city. The blue Yantai Railway and Taowei railway meet here. The Yantai Dalian railway ferry project runs through Bohai Bay. The opening of the project will build a new East Road from Harbin in the north to Shanghai in the south The large coastal corridor directly shortens the railway transportation distance between Yantai and Dalian by 1654 km,

It only takes four hours to cross the Bohai Strait by train. At the same time, the "qingyanwei light rail" under construction has brought Taocun into the "one hour economic circle" of Jiaodong Peninsula. Thus, Taocun has the best location with a large radiation range around, a large demand pull around, a large traffic carrying capacity and a large space for its own development. It has a unique comparative advantage in Jiaodong.

Industrial advantages

Taocun's industrial economy is an independent system, with more than 660 enterprises of various types, including more than 30 wholly foreign-owned and joint ventures. It has formed pillar industries such as machinery manufacturing, electronic information, knitted apparel, pharmaceutical and chemical industry, food processing, etc. Taocun's trade and economic development is rapid, and it has been an important place of trade since ancient times. In recent years, Taocun has taken effective forms such as attracting investment to develop various professional markets as a breakthrough in accordance with the goal of "building a regional logistics center",

Vigorously cultivate the carrier of business logistics, make the business logistics industry develop rapidly, and become another important plate to drive the economic development of Taocun. The specialized wholesale market mainly composed of coal, building materials, fruits and vegetables is also being planned and cultivated. Taocun will become the intersection center of North and South agricultural and sideline products, the handling center of circulation and export, and the logistics configuration center.

Resource advantages

The territory is rich in granite resources, with reserves of more than 4 billion cubic meters. It is an important stone production and export base in Jiaodong. Agricultural products are mainly rich in pollution-free apples, edible fungi and vegetables, known as the "hometown of big cherry". The fruit storage capacity of the town exceeds 100000 tons, and it is an important fruit storage and circulation base in Qixia, the "city of apples".

There are abundant tourism resources, such as Jiaodong revolutionary martyrs cemetery, National Forest Park Yashan, provincial eco-tourism area guolukuang and so on. Fuhai eco-tourism resort is under planning and construction, gradually forming a tourism park integrating revolutionary traditional education, cultural landscape, natural landscape, pastoral scenery and "farmhouse entertainment" Tourism pattern is an important part of Yantai's tourism industry.

Carrier advantage

Taocun has complete infrastructure, perfect urban functions and obvious carrier advantages. It has 1 220000 volt transmission substation and 5 35000 volt substations, 3 waterworks with daily water supply capacity of more than 50000 cubic meters, and postal, Netcom, mobile, Unicom, radio and television departments. The design capacity of the program-controlled telephone is 40000, the wireless network covers the whole territory, and the popularization rate of cable TV reaches more than 96%. It has more than 10 financial institutions such as Bank of China

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