Caoping Town, Dingcheng District, Changde City, Hunan Province

Caoping town

The south of Yuan River and the shore of waste water are inlaid with a bright pearl lawn. The town is located 10 kilometers south of Changde City. It is subordinate to Dingcheng District of Changde City. It is adjacent to Shimenqiao in the East, huangtudian in the south, Dingjiagang and Doumu Lake in the west, and Deshan Development Zone in the north. National Highway 207 runs through the whole area. County Highway 08 passes through the area. Taohuayuan Airport is far away. It can reach Deshan wharf of Yuanshui River directly along the river. The traffic is convenient by sea, land and air, and the geographical location is very advantageous.

On January 9, 2019, Caoping town was selected into the list of "hometown of Chinese folk culture and art" from 2018 to 2020 by virtue of song and dance.

Location overview

The town covers an area of 76.14 square kilometers (2017), with 18 administrative villages and 2 neighborhood committees, and a total population of 25277 (2017). It has 40000 mu of paddy field and 38000 mu of mountain forest, mainly producing grain and Camellia oleifera.

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infrastructure

In 2005, the town formed an industrial base mainly composed of Maanshan Iron and steel plant and bamboo plywood plant, and a visiting base mainly composed of middle schools and central primary schools, with complete medical and health care, postal and telecommunications facilities.

Industrial economy

It is rich in high-quality rice, tea oil, pollution-free vegetables, oranges and other agricultural and sideline products. In 2007, the town's gross social product reached 150 million yuan, the fiscal revenue was 1.34 million yuan, the total investment in fixed assets reached more than 50 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers reached 2598 yuan, maintaining rapid economic growth for five consecutive years. The number of Industrial Enterprises above designated size has grown to 3, the planting area of double cropping rice has been stable at 75000 mu, and the planting area of high-quality rice has been expanded year by year, reaching 15000 mu in 2007.

social undertakings

In 2007, inspired and promoted by the spirit of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, due to the continuous economic development, the town injected more powerful power into the development of Caoping town. In order to accelerate the pace of urbanization construction of the town, the Party committee and government of the town have formulated a plan according to the situation of the whole town. Towns and villages are responsible at different levels and invested separately. The town government has invested more than 1.2 million yuan in the construction of Caoping Town North Road and Caoping town second bridge, and the village level has gradually invested according to its own situation. Among them, jiaxiling village invested 580000 yuan to build 2.7 km of village road; liansanqiao village invested more than 700000 yuan to build 3 km of village road; Wujiaping village invested 300000 yuan to build 1.6 km of village road. By the end of November 2007, all these projects have been completed with high quality.

Caoping town culture and Art Festival

The first folk culture and Art Festival of Caoping town was solemnly held in the cultural square of Caoping town. Caoping town sincerely invited yaotianping Town, zhoujiadian town and Hunan University of Arts and Sciences of Dingcheng District to participate in the performance. The opening ceremony of the festival was presided over by Che Shizhong, deputy secretary of Dingcheng District Party committee. Liu Jinneng, Han Lin'an, Mo Daohong, Zhang Xinmin, Zheng Jingyang, Dong Lan, Che Shizhong, Pangbo, Zhu Zhengquan, Deng ciling, Tan Yong, Tang Shaohua, Wang Zhihua, Luo Wangfu, Xu Zhengguo and other urban leaders and veteran comrades attended the opening ceremony and watched the performance. Thousands of local and surrounding people watched the opening ceremony and performance.
With the theme of "promoting folk culture and art and publicizing the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress", the festival aims to display the achievements of folk culture and art in our district, expand the popularity and influence of folk culture and art in Caoping Town, and promote the construction of "cultural town" in Caoping town. The content of the festival is divided into three parts: artistic performance, the launching ceremony of the new book Changde lawn, the hometown of national folk culture and art, and the exhibition of calligraphy, painting and photography.
Ouyang Yan, Secretary of the Party committee of Caoping Town, delivered a welcome speech to the opening ceremony. I would like to extend a warm welcome to all the leaders who have come to the festival and the people of Caoping town. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks and high respect to all the guests and friends who have participated in, supported and cared about the development of Caoping! He also said that Caoping town will use culture to lead the development of various undertakings of Caoping, and comprehensively promote the construction of "famous cultural town, new tourism town and strong economic town".
Dong Lan, deputy secretary of the district Party committee, pointed out in his speech that we should constantly summarize the achievements of folk art and enrich the cultural life of the masses.
At the opening ceremony, Liu Jinneng, member of the Standing Committee of the municipal Party committee and Minister of publicity, awarded the medal of "national advanced unit of cultural system reform" to Caoping Town, and announced the opening of the first Changde Caoping folk culture and Art Festival.
In the following performances, Yao Tianping presented the wonderful dragon and lion performance, Zhou Jiadian presented the performance of "selecting the township head" and Hunan University of Arts and Sciences presented the song and dance "Luhua". The folk troupe of Caoping town sang the town's original songs "welcome to the lawn" and "a river flows on the lawn". In addition, "the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress warms the hearts of the people", "Yuanli customs" and other literary and artistic programs integrate traditional folk arts such as three stick drum and ground flower drum to show the charm of traditional folk culture and art.

Population data

At the end of 2003, the population data of the town: (the fifth census data) 25277 people (2017).

Honors

On February 2, 2019, it was named "the hometown of Chinese folk culture and art" by the Ministry of culture and tourism in 2018-2020.

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