Timian Town, Huadu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Timian town

Timian Town, belonging to Huadu District of Guangzhou City, is located in the north edge of Huadu District, bordering Conghua District in the northeast and Qingyuan City in the northwest. Timian town is within the 2-hour economic circle of the Pearl River Delta, about 60 minutes' drive away from the urban area of Guangzhou, and only 20 minutes' drive away from Baiyun Airport. The total area of Timian town is 91.2 square kilometers, and the mountain forest area is 76.2 square kilometers, accounting for 83.5% of the total area. In 2019, Timian town has jurisdiction over 8 administrative villages and 1 community neighborhood committee. In 2018, 10417 people registered residence.

Timian town has won the title of "Guangzhou characteristic rural tourism spot", "city level Ping'an Street Town", "Guangdong tourism characteristic town", "Guangdong ecological town", "Guangdong health town", "Guangdong livable demonstration town", "Guangdong famous town", "Guangdong Forest Town", "China Village song creation base", "national top ten civilized villages" and "national health town" ”And "national ecological township". The songs describing the scenery and customs of the terraces, "song of Prince mountain" and "when rape flowers are in full bloom" are rated as "China's top ten village songs" and "China's excellent village songs" respectively.

In 2017, the gross output value of Timian town was 425.36 million yuan, an increase of 7.7% over 2016; the total output value of industry and agriculture was 121.2276 million yuan, an increase of 21.7% over 2016. The national tax revenue is 42.54 million yuan, and the local tax revenue is 7.87 million yuan.

History of construction

Terraced area was originally under the jurisdiction of Huashan people's commune, known as terraced management area.

In February 1962, the Tiemian area was designated from Huashan people's Commune and Huaxian state-owned forest farm was established.

In March 1984, the Timian District Office was established, and the Baibuti forest farm in Huaxian county was renamed Timian forest farm, which implemented the management of two brands and a set of people.

On January 1, 1987, the people's Government of Timian town was established, and the original employees of the forest farm were taken over by the government of Timian town.

administrative division

In 2019, Timian town has jurisdiction over 8 administrative villages and 1 Community Neighborhood Committee (Timian community neighborhood committee, Lianfeng village, Xikeng village, Lianmin village, Min'an village, Hengkeng village, Wulian village, Hongshan village and puling Village).

geographical environment

Location context

Timian Town, located in the northern edge of Huadu District, Guangzhou, borders Conghua District in the northeast and Qingyuan City in the northwest, with a total area of 91.2 square kilometers.

topographic features

The terrain of Timian town is inclined from northeast to southwest, surrounded by mountains on all sides, and the middle hills are dense, forming a small plateau mountain area. YAYING mountain in the west of the town is the highest peak in Huadu.

population

In 2018, the registered residence population in the town was 10417.

Economics

In 2017, the gross output value of Timian town was 425.36 million yuan, an increase of 7.7% over 2016; the total output value of industry and agriculture was 121.2276 million yuan, an increase of 21.7% over 2016. The national tax revenue is 42.54 million yuan, and the local tax revenue is 7.87 million yuan.

The leading industries of the town economy of Timian town have experienced changes in different periods, which can be divided into three stages: (1) before the 1980s, they mainly relied on agricultural planting and felling of trees, and rough processing of trees; (2) from the 1980s to 2003, they mainly relied on opening quarries, mining white mud, transporting white mud, and operating mud quarries; (3) after 2004, they began to enter the traditional agriculture and forestry industry The tourism industry is in the primary stage and has not yet formed a scale. The industrial and agricultural production is still the main contribution to the GDP.

Transportation

Timian town is within the 2-hour economic circle of the Pearl River Delta. It is about 60 minutes' drive away from the urban area of Guangzhou and only 20 minutes' drive away from Baiyun Airport. National Highway 106 and Guangle Expressway pass through the town and village.

History and culture

name

In the Qing Dynasty, there were 360 stone terraces built at the foot of the mountain to reach the mountain (now in the town), commonly known as "Baibuti", which is also located on the top of "Baibuti", so it is called "tiamian".

dialect

There are 66 natural villages (polders) and 47 Hakka speaking villages in Timian town. There are 14 vernacular villages, including Tangwu, tielukou, Shaguanping, Dawang temple, chetoudun, gaoyingjiao, Yandun, shanpaijingkou, guiziting, Dawei, gengzailou, laowei and jiaocheling. In addition, dashiling, Dakeng, tielu, forestry team and guilongkou are local and Hakka. The population of the town is 7080. 1564 people speak vernacular, accounting for 22.1%; 5516 people speak Hakka, accounting for 77.9%.

Folk customs

The terrace Rape Flower Festival is held in March every year, and it has been successfully held for 12 consecutive times until 2020. It has won the award of "2012 best green ecological and humanistic tourism festival in China". During the rape flower festival, there are Hakka folk songs, dance performances and art performances. The "red mountain market day" displays Hakka snacks and local products, as well as greenway walking and cycling activities.

famous scenery

Prince Hill Forest Park

Wangzishan Forest Park is a provincial forest park approved by the Forestry Department of Guangdong Province. It is also a green cultural treasure land in the north of Guangzhou. The forest coverage rate of Prince mountain forest park is 98%, the content of negative ions per cubic centimeter of forest is more than 6400, and the noise index is only 30 dB. It is known as "Guangzhou North lung" and "Guangzhou second Baiyun Mountain".

Hongshan village national 3A scenic spot

The national 3A level scenic spots of Hongshan village include "eight scenes of red mountain", such as clear spring on stone, strolling in Huaxi River, long water wheel, singing in long corridor, spring scenery of Red Lake, listening to wind in bamboo forest, seeking seclusion in deep valley and exploring in shallow valley. Hongshan village, a national 3A tourist attraction, has been awarded "Guangzhou tourism and leisure agriculture demonstration village", "Guangzhou civilized village", "Guangzhou beautiful village", "Guangzhou most beautiful village", "Guangdong health village", "Guangdong livable demonstration village", "Guangdong civilized village", "national ecological demonstration village", "national democracy and rule of law demonstration village", "national civilized village", etc A series of honors.

Honors

On January 6, 2021, it was announced as the second batch of tourist towns in Guangdong Province by Guangdong Provincial Department of culture and tourism.

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