Jintian Town, Guiping City, Guigang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Jintian town

Jintian town is located in the north of Guiping City, Guangxi, 24 kilometers away from Guiping city. It is located in the center of five towns in the north of Guiping district. Two secondary highways from Guiping to Jintian and from Pingnan County to Wuxuan County pass through the town, making Jintian town the hub of Central Guangxi, Southern Guangxi and Northern Guangxi to Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. At the same time, it is also famous for the outbreak of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom peasant movement. See the Jintian uprising for details. It is the famous "hometown of Huaishan" in China. With a total area of 153 square kilometers, the town has jurisdiction over 18 administrative villages and a residents committee. It is a big town integrating agriculture, industry, commerce, trade, processing, transportation, service, catering and tourism.

Original name

Before the Republic of China, Jintian town was always known as Daxuan, or Xinwei. "Wei" was the local name for the town in Cantonese. The old overseas Chinese who moved abroad from this place knew Da Xuanwei but not Jintian town. Jintian used to be a village. It originated from the Yao people's uprising in the Ming Dynasty. Hou Dagou, the leader of the rebel army (Zhuzhan people in Guiping), prepared to build the capital in the area of Bauhinia and Jintian. He named the place where Jintian was built as the capital "Jinlong hall", or "Jindian" for short. After the failure of the uprising, the local people did not dare to call it "Jindian" and changed it to "Jintian" (homonym of "Jindian" in Cantonese). After Hong Xiuquan came to Jintian to preach, he fixed the name of "Jintian". After liberation, it has been called "Jintian"

Jintian villagers and their ancestors are Hakkas who immigrated here from Guangdong and other places. Huaxian County, Guangdong Province, where the revolution was brewing, is where the Hakkas live together, and Jintian village, which has sprung up, is also a Hakka territory.

agricultural production

High quality grain, fruit, Huaishan and yellow sand turtle are the agricultural pillar industries of Jintian town. Among them, the annual planting area of Huaishan is more than 20000 mu. With the support of the Department of agriculture of the autonomous region and the Agricultural Bureau of Guiping City, the standardized planting of Huaishan has been implemented since 2002. The annual yield of fresh Huaishan is more than 50000 tons, and the products are exported to Southeast Asia. At the same time, it is popular because of its high quality, delicious taste and high nutritional value. In addition, Shajiang, star anise, fruit cane, flowers and other production also reached a certain scale. In 2008, Jintian village was named the village of Huaishan in Guangxi.

Township Enterprises

The town continues to increase the intensity of infrastructure construction, optimize the investment environment, and increase investment. The main enterprises include more than 800 agricultural products processing factories, clock factories, fireworks and firecrackers factories, wood processing factories, wool weaving factories, etc. Among them, the wool weaving industry has developed rapidly in the past two years, which has become a new bright spot for the town to transfer rural surplus labor and increase farmers' income.

Small town construction

In recent years, the town Party committee and government, with the vision of development and the orientation of county-level towns, have carried out the overall planning for the construction of towns with high starting point, high standards and high requirements, vigorously implemented the street hardening, greening, beautification and lighting projects, constantly grasped the appearance of towns, and gradually improved the management of residential quarters. Guigang City has built the largest town cultural center square, 13 specialized markets and 3 parking lots for agricultural and specialty Chinese herbal medicine, wood, clothing, etc., and the urban infrastructure construction is becoming more and more perfect. In 2002, Jintian town was awarded the "Nanzhu Cup" Advanced City Award by the autonomous region.

tourism

Jintian has a long history, beautiful scenery, Guiping to Jintian and Pingnan to Wuxuan two secondary roads to Jintian brought convenient traffic conditions. Three main lines are being formed and developed: the historical and cultural tourism based on the site of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom peasant uprising - jintianyingpan; the entertainment and holiday tourism based on fengmenao Tourism Development Zone, which has passed the evaluation of experts from the Tourism Bureau of the autonomous region and integrates tourism, vacation and water entertainment; and the rural ecological home tourism based on Licun. Among them, the first phase of comprehensive development of jintianyingpan is under construction, which is planned to add a number of scenic spots, such as racecourse, female soldier camp and navy camp. Li village's trees, birds, sweet fruit, flowers, bridges, water, people Let people have a sense of paradise and return to nature.

San Jie Temple

Located on the hillside of Qinghu village in Longhua, the "Sanjie Temple" in Shenzhen was built in the Ming Dynasty with three bays and two deep layouts. The temple has wooden beams and tile roofs, grey and green brick walls. On the walls, there are still some color paintings describing filial piety and fraternity. On the eaves and beams, there are exquisite carvings. On the walls, there are "inscriptions on the rebuilding of Sanjie Temple", which was recorded by the rebuilding in 1832. The inscription describes the origin, legend and grand occasion of the temple fair of Sanjie temple. In 2011, the overseas compatriots and villagers of Qinghu village spontaneously donated money and materials to rebuild the old site. On May 23, 2014, the temple was completed and held a ceremony of regaining its glory.

Rural culture

Jintian town has a long history, strong rural culture, simple customs, hospitable people, Hakka culture has a long history. Mass cultural and sports activities are carried out regularly. There are many lion teams, bands, yuequ singing teams, puppet troupes and basketball teams in the town. In recent years, the construction of rural library, youth and elderly entertainment center and electronic information station has been accelerated.

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