Guqiao Town, Changge City, Xuchang City, Henan Province

Guqiao town

Guqiao town is located in the east of Changge City, Henan Province, 25 kilometers away from the urban area. Guqiao town is connected with Nanxi in the East, Shixiang and Dongcun in the West. Changge Nanxi highway and No.2 highway cross the East and West, and Xuchang Kaifeng pass through the territory. The territory has developed transportation, flat terrain, fertile land and rich water resources. Shuanghe River and Wenhe river run through the whole territory. It covers an area of 56.3 square kilometers and 54000 mu of arable land.

brief introduction

Guqiao town is located in the east of Changge City, 25 kilometers away from the urban area, with a total area of 56.3 square kilometers (2017). It governs 56 natural villages, 33 administrative villages, 196 villager groups, 54000 mu of arable land and 49460 people (2017). Guqiao town is at the junction of Nanxi town in the East, Shixiang town and Dongcun town in the west, Changge Nanxi road and No.2 road cross the East and West, and Xuchang Kaifeng Road cross the territory. The territory has developed transportation, flat terrain, fertile land, rich water resources, Shuanghe River and Wenhe river run through the whole territory, and the original ecological environment is well protected. In December 2013, Guqiao was removed from the township and built into a town.

Historical evolution

In 1948, Guqiao town was subordinate to Jichuan County, known as Guqiao district; in 1949, it was subordinate to Jichuan County, known as the Second District of Jichuan; in October 1954, Changhe was merged, and Guqiao was subordinate to Changge County; in 1955, it was subordinate to Changge County, known as Guqiao commune; in 1960, it was subordinate to Guqiao people's commune; Guqiao district government in October 1961; Guqiao commune in September 1966; Guqiao township government in March 1983; Guqiao township was officially changed into Guqiao town in 2014 with the approval of the provincial government.

Administrative division

In 2018, Guqiao town has 4 communities and 29 administrative villages. The communities include Chengu community, Guqiao community, Shizhuang community and Benzhuang community. The administrative villages include Weizhuang, Liuli, Shizhuang, caoliau, Xinzhuang, Huanggang, Guxian, qianwangkezhuang, Shuangliu, xuwangzhao, Caiwang, Shizhuang, Guomei, Yili, Gangli, Yuandian, helukou, Mengzhai, Gongzhuang, zhumaozhao, dongtianlong and nanxinzhuang , Guozhuang, Jiaji, miaozhang, Xiezhuang, sihouli, Jiagang, houzhangzhuang.

modern agriculture

Guqiao Town, with the working idea of "building the town by agriculture and prospering the town by ecology", has led the whole town to build "ecological agriculture", with roads, canals, ditches and rivers as the skeleton, and the combination of points, patches, networks and belts. Now it has formed a beautiful new agricultural pattern of "square fields, net forests, connected ditches and roads", and has made great efforts to build an effective connection between towns, villages and new and old demonstration square, Relying on the 500000 Mu efficient water-saving irrigation project in Xuchang City, the high standard farmland construction project of agricultural comprehensive development and the 65000 Mu high standard grain field promotion construction project in Changge City, the planning of the whole town should be done well. In the planning, the roads in the project area will be comprehensively upgraded according to the width of the field subgrade no less than 7 meters, and the main roads in the field will be laid in place at one time to open the "last kilometer" connection of the roads in each village. In accordance with the modern agricultural pattern of square fields, network of forests, connection of roads, connection of canals, irrigation by drought and drainage by waterlogging, the comprehensive improvement of wells, electricity, pipes, roads, forests and canals should be carried out, and the construction of field roads, forest network, ditches and rivers, and forest ecological villages beside villages should be well done. According to the standard of 200-300 mu of farmland forest network, the boundaries between villages and groups are broken, so as to realize the effective link of field roads, ditches and forest network, and realize the seamless connection between the East and Nanxi Town, the South and Shixiang Town, and the West and Dongcun town. For the project village, the infrastructure such as well, line and pipe should be configured in strict accordance with the grassroots democratic decision-making mechanism, fully soliciting the opinions of the masses, making overall arrangement, reasonable layout and scientific planning, so as to lay a solid foundation for the town's modern agriculture and ecological agriculture. He was awarded "model town of land greening" by Henan Province.

Characteristic industry

In recent years, relying on the development of ecological agriculture as the goal and Henan Yuxing ecological agriculture park as the support, the town Party committee and government have built an industrial chain with "Taoyuan culture" as the soul, "green countryside, leisure and vacation" as the theme, and featured planting, featured breeding, featured catering and featured experience as the attraction, integrating sightseeing agriculture, ecological wetland, leisure and vacation, farming experience and featured tourism The tourism complex with functions of catering, science popularization and education, as well as the famous theme park of ecological leisure farm in Central Plains, promote the rapid development of local agricultural economy. Six fruit tree varieties, such as golden sun, Kaite apricot and Jinshi, have been planted in Shizhuang village, which has won the honorary titles of "ecological demonstration village in Henan Province" and "National Ecological Culture Village"; the bronze craft of Guqiao town has a long history and is known as the hometown of "bronze craft"; palace lanterns, embroidery and other handicrafts are sold in and out of the province.

Human history

Guqiao town has rich cultural heritage, which is the birthplace of the Three Kingdoms culture. The Han tomb site is listed as a provincial cultural relics protection unit. Historical figures emerge in large numbers: Chen Shi, a famous Chinese character for his influence on Liang shangjunzi, Huang Jie, the right servant of the Ministry of household affairs during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, and the normal guard of shietai palace, who accurately calculated the "summer calendar" and "the way to heaven and earth". There are some historical sites such as Chen Shi's Mausoleum and Huang Shilang's tomb. The "Thousand Buddha Hall" built in the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty (1546) was listed as one of the eight sceneries of Jichuan county at that time.

Current leader

Chinese PinYin : He Nan Sheng Xu Chang Shi Zhang Ge Shi Gu Qiao Zhen