Laolong Town, Longchuan County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province

Laolong town

Laolong Town, located in the south of Longchuan County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, is located in the upper reaches of Dongjiang River. It is the political, economic, cultural and traffic center of the whole county. The total area of the town is 107.56 square kilometers (2017), with high terrain in the northeast and low terrain in the southwest, surrounded by mountains on three sides and Dongjiang River in the West.

It now has one village committee and eight community neighborhood committees with a total population of 219708 (2017), which is one of the more developed towns in Longchuan.

Historical evolution

Laolong has been a place of merchants since ancient times.

It was established as the seat of the county government on June 1, 1949.

It is said that the top of Laolong village was Zhao Tuo's stronghold in Longchuan during the Qin Dynasty.

Originally called Laolong, it was renamed Laolong in 1688, and Laolong district was set up after liberation.

Laolong commune was established in 1958;

Laolong town was established in 1983.

geographical environment

Laolong town is located in the south of Longchuan County, located in the upper reaches of Dongjiang River. It is the political, economic, cultural and traffic center of the county.

Laolong town is high in the northeast and low in the southwest, surrounded by mountains on three sides and Dongjiang River in the West.

administrative division

It now governs one village committee in Laolong village, eight community neighborhood committees in Shidong, Shinan, Shibei, mianniuxing, shuikeng, Renmin Xincun, Huaxin and wushixia, with 219708 people (in 2017), and is one of the more developed towns in Longchuan.

traffic

Laolong town has convenient water and land transportation. National Highway 205 runs through the town. Hemei Expressway passes through the city. Beijing Kowloon Railway and Guangzhou Meizhou Shantou railway meet in the suburbs, and there is the largest marshalling station in South China. By water, along the Dongjiang River, you can reach Heping on the top and Heyuan, Huizhou, Dongguan and Guangzhou on the bottom. It is the hub of transportation and material exchange in the northeast and even the Central South of Guangdong Province.

Economic overview

Laolong town insists on taking economic construction as the center, holding high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "Three Represents", establishing and implementing the scientific outlook on development, closely centering on the development ideas of increasing farmers' income, deepening reform, expanding opening up and social stability, giving full play to the location and popularity advantages of the county, emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, bold exploration and practice The hard work of the people of Laolong town has made exciting achievements in the socialist modernization construction and achieved the coordinated development of various social and economic undertakings. In 2004, the town's GDP reached 613 million yuan. Among them, the total industrial output value is 333 million yuan, the total agricultural output value is 7.51 million yuan, and the total output value of the tertiary industry is 273 million yuan. The fixed assets investment is 54.8 million yuan, the town level fiscal revenue is 4.61 million yuan, and the rural per capita net income is 5586 yuan.

Industry

Laolong town actively implements the strategy of "building a town by industry", always regards the development of industrial economy as the first priority of economic work, adheres to the new road of industrialization, and promotes the great development of industrial economy. ① We should give full play to the unique advantages of counties and towns, actively implement the strategy of "loan development", and take the work of attracting investment as the top priority in the development of industrial economy. In 2004, the actual utilization of foreign capital reached 1.916 million US dollars. ② In view of the relatively developed status of individual industrial enterprises in the county, various effective measures are actively taken to create an environment conducive to the development of individual industry, encourage individual industrial enterprises to increase production and expand investment, and guide individual industrial enterprises to become bigger and stronger. ③ Vigorously develop town run enterprises. Since the reform and opening up, Laolong town has set up more than 20 factories, including embroidery factory, automobile repair factory, plastic factory, packaging factory, stone factory, construction company and chemical factory. In the tide of reform and opening up, these town run enterprises carry forward the spirit of hard work, boldly explore, work hard, and constantly explore the market, making positive contributions to the economic development of Laolong town. In 2004, the total output value of enterprises run by Laolong town was 73.2 million yuan.

Agriculture

As a county town, with the development of the county, most of the land in Laolong town is used for the construction of the county, and the arable land resources are less and less. However, Laolong town insists on taking "rural stability, agricultural efficiency and farmers' income increase" as the overall task, unifying the overall situation of agricultural and rural work, vigorously implementing the strategic adjustment of agricultural industrial structure, giving full play to the advantages of being located in the county, making efforts to reduce the rice planting area, developing the vegetable planting industry and breeding industry, taking the road of commodity agriculture with suburban characteristics, and constantly speeding up farmers' poverty alleviation Cut.

the service sector; the tertiary industry

Since the reform and opening up, Laolong Town, based on the geographical advantages of the county, insists on taking the development of the tertiary industry as the pillar of town level economic growth. According to the principle of "guidance, support, protection and supervision", a series of preferential policies have been issued to promote the healthy and rapid development of the tertiary industry. By 2004, the proportion of the tertiary industry in the gross national product of Laolong town had risen to more than 44.5%.

In 2010, the county achieved GDP of 5.4 billion yuan, an increase of 5.4%; the total industrial output value of 9.63 billion yuan, an increase of 13%; the industrial added value of 2.18 billion yuan, an increase of 4.5%; the actual utilization of foreign capital of 135.26 million US dollars, an increase of 1.8%; the total export value of 39.62 million US dollars, an increase of 30%; the general budget revenue of 181 million yuan, an increase of 5.4%. "Eight stresses and eight guarantees" to promote development.

Industrial transfer

Beside Dengyun exit of Meihe expressway, 205 National Road, and huge billboards of Nanshan (Longchuan) industrial transfer park in Shenzhen, modern buildings stand here, which is quite eye-catching.

From barren mountain to industrial new town, the change of Daping mountain is a miniature of the development of industry in Longchuan County. The county vigorously promotes the construction of the park. Through revitalizing and integrating the waste factories and old industrial bases, it plans to build an industrial park with a total area of 3 square kilometers, and 33 enterprises have settled down. It has initially formed an industrial structure with electronics, shoemaking, weaving and pharmaceutical as the leading industries.

Combining with the actual situation of the county, Longchuan County speeds up the economic development of the county, is willing to spend money to create the environment, makes layout arrangement around "three roads and two rivers" (namely Beijing Kowloon Railway, Meihe expressway, national highway 205, Dongjiang River and Hanjiang River), and constructs "two parks and four districts" according to the mode of "planning, construction and effect". Baolong and Baotang industrial parks, Fengshen, HANGHUI, Xincheng and Meicun industrial districts have been planned and constructed to a high standard.

In November 2008, Shenzhen Nanshan (Longchuan) industrial transfer park successfully won the gold lettered signboard of "provincial industrial transfer park". Longchuan County regards the construction of the Industrial Park as the "main battlefield" for the development of industry, and is committed to creating the best platform for undertaking the industrial transfer in the Pearl River Delta.

Shenzhen Nanshan (Longchuan) industrial transfer park is located in a superior position: 205 national road passes through it, Meihe expressway has Dengyun entrance and exit in this section, about 10 km away from Laolong of the county seat, less than 20 km away from the largest marshalling station of Beijing Kowloon Railway in South China, with convenient transportation. The total planning control area of the park is 28 square kilometers, of which the first phase development area is 4 square kilometers. The leading industries of park planning are electronics, communication and related industries. The first phase development and construction project of the park is expected to invest 517 million yuan, which will be completed in five years.

The park is developed and constructed in accordance with the general idea of "high starting point planning, high standard construction and high efficiency management" and the principle of "overall planning, step-by-step implementation, one piece of development, one piece of supporting facilities and one piece of achievements". Based on two years' foundation and five years' achievements, the park strives to build itself into an electronic information industry base and a demonstration industrial transfer park in Guangdong Province. The county accelerated the infrastructure construction of the park. It has invested 190 million yuan to complete the first phase of land leveling of 4 square kilometers, and the construction of roads, pipe networks, water supply, substations, sewage treatment plants and other projects in the park has been solidly promoted. There are 6 enterprises settled in the park, including 1 in operation, 3 under construction and 2 in preparation.

In order to continuously expand the development space and enhance the development potential, Longchuan County has also made full use of the advantages of the Beijing Kowloon Railway Marshalling Station, planned and controlled the construction of a 20 square kilometer happy industrial new town in the north of the marshalling station, and signed a cooperation agreement with Bao'an District of Shenzhen city to jointly create a Bao'an (Longchuan) industrial transfer park, striving to build the park into an industrial park with logistics and machinery manufacturing as the leading industries New town.

Spiritual civilization

cultural education

While doing a good job in the construction of material civilization, Laolong town always adheres to the principle of "two hands, two hands must be hard". Taking improving the quality of civil civilization as the foundation and establishing a civilized legal environment as the goal, Laolong town promotes the coordinated development of spiritual civilization and material civilization, and realizes the common prosperity of economy and culture.

The cause of culture and education has made great progress. From the strategic height of "revitalizing the town through science and education", Laolong town pays great attention to the development of culture, science and technology, and education, so as to meet the needs of social development for talents. The first is to increase the investment in "hardware" construction of township schools, improve school running conditions, actively promote quality education, and strive to reduce the burden of students, so that the teaching level and education quality of the school have been significantly improved, and the goal of "beautiful campus, optimized management, excellent school spirit, excellent teaching and excellent talents" has been achieved. By 2004, the number of students in township schools has reached more than 6300. Second, it has accelerated the pace of cultural facilities construction, invested heavily in the construction of Songlin Park, longxingshan Park, shuikeng ecological scenic spot and other cultural and leisure activities, which has enriched the carrier of spiritual civilization construction. Third, actively carry out various forms of cultural and sports activities, such as women's fitness activities, youth football.

Ideology and morality

Ideological and moral construction has been continuously strengthened. We should persist in carrying out various forms of Ideological and moral education activities, guide the broad masses of cadres and the masses to continuously enhance their consciousness and sense of responsibility in implementing the party's basic line, and firmly establish the proletarian world outlook, outlook on life and outlook on life

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