Yuanxi Town, Cangxi County, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province

Yuanxi town

Yuanxi town is located 38 kilometers away from Cangxi County and the upper reaches of Jialing River, covering an area of 83.7 kilometers. It is adjacent to Wulong town in the East, Heling town in Jiange County in the west, zheshui Township and tingzi Township in the South and Xiangxi Township in Zhaohua District in the north.

Yuanxi town has 17 administrative villages, 1 community and 92 villager groups, with a total of 4084 households and a total of 15584 people (agricultural population 13367, town population 2215), with a total cultivated area of 12081 Mu and a forest area of 36537 mu. Yuanxi town has a long history. It is located at the junction of Cangxi County, Jiange county and Zhaohua district. It is a typical "rooster crows, and all three places are heard". People are prosperous and things are abundant. It is an important place for water transportation in the upper reaches of Jialing River. Yuanxi town is rich in history and culture. It has an ancient post station, which is praised by Lu you for his poems. It is the first choice for the Fourth Front Red Army to cross the Jialing River.

Historical evolution

Cangxi County governs the town. Yuanxi township was established in 1952, the commune was changed in 1958, the township was restored in 1984, and the town was established in 1992. It is located in the west of the county, 38 kilometers away from the county government. It covers an area of 83.7 square kilometers and has a population of 16000. It has been connected with railways and highways, and the Jialing River waterway has been connected with Guangyuan and Chongqing.

In the middle of Ming Dynasty, Yuanxi was prosperous for its Buddhist temple, que Zi temple. It was more than 500 years ago because it was located in the upper reaches of Jialing River.

Yuanxi is a place with a long history. According to historical records, during the Southern Song Dynasty, Yuanxi was an important channel for the Southern Song Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty. The children of Yuanxi were fearless of life and death and fought against the Jin Dynasty bravely, leaving behind many well-known and widely spread historical legends, forming a profound historical gene of Yuanxi.

Yuanxi is a place where culture flourishes. In 1172 A.D., Lu You, a great poet, was called to Sichuan and passed by guloupu (now Yuanxi Gulou Village), leaving the famous drunkard song of guloupu. Since the resumption of college entrance examination in 1978, he has been a well-known hometown of college students, nurturing a strong cultural gene of Yuanxi.

As an important part of tingzi lake reservoir area, Yuanxi is known as "the most beautiful section of Jialing River" and "Xianju blessed land".

The landscape of Yuanxi nurtures the excellent children of Yuanxi represented by Luo Wei, a national moral model, and breeds the moral gene of Yuanxi people's benevolence, solidarity and mutual assistance.

Yuanxi is a place where outstanding people and good places are red. Many revolutionary martyrs came out here. In 1935, the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army established the Soviet regime in xinmiaoliang. The local people raised money to rescue the wounded and actively joined the army to support the Red Army in crossing the Jialing River to resist Japan. In March 1935, marshal Xu Qianqian chose yuanxikou as one of the three troops to cross the Yangtze River, and took quezi temple as the front headquarters to command the crossing campaign, which marked the official beginning of the long march of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army and created the long-standing red gene of Yuanxi.

administrative division

Yuanxi town has a CPC town Party committee, 14 party branches, about 600 CPC members, and a town government. Its affiliated units include rural credit cooperatives, postal savings offices, telecommunication stations, health centers, Yuanxi primary school, and the Federation of industry and commerce.

17 village groups: Gulou, longhui, Gongling, Yandeng, Xuetang, Longyan, Xinmiao, Qibao, Sancha, Minzhong, Fengshan, Sifangshan, Yuanxi, Yakou, Haokou, Shipan, Qingming.

One community: yuanxikou community.

(sixth census data)

Economic situation

Yuanxi town is located in an agricultural township on the Bank of Jialing River, with a total cultivated land area of 12081 Mu and a per capita cultivated land of 0.86 mu. There are three soil types, four soil species and four utilization soil types. The main food products are rice, wheat, corn, sweet potato, potato and beans, with an average annual output of 10526 tons. The oil plants are rape and peanut, with an average annual output of 2803 tons. Economic crops include all kinds of vegetables and fruits in spring and spring, kiwifruit, Cangxi Sydney, citrus, walnut, peach, plum, apricot, loquat and other fruits, sericulture, tung oil tree and so on, and animal husbandry includes pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits and so on.

Yuanxi town is a famous traditional silkworm area in Cangxi County. In order to develop this traditional industry, Mou Guoguang organized "local experts" to graft 350 Mu mulberry trees in the village, and newly planted 150 mu mulberry garden. In order to solve the problem of selling hard, Mou Guoguang took the lead in setting up a cocoon professional association and ran "orders" out of his own pocket. Thanks to the efforts of the cadres and the masses, Xinshan village raised 600 silkworms in 2006, produced 20 tons of cocoons, with an output value of nearly 400000 yuan.

Industrial Development: around the goal of building a "ecological health tourism town", we should promote the industrial development and upgrading of the town on the premise of ecological and environmental benefits, make full use of the precious natural resources wealth of Yuanxi, such as beautiful mountains and rivers, rich water resources and forest resources, and take the development concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains" as the guiding ideology, pursue environmental benefits to the maximum extent, and maintain sustainable development We will continue to expand and strengthen a number of advantageous industries with good environmental benefits. There are two key points. One is to build a lakeside economic belt in the lakeside area, make full use of the natural geographical advantage that Yuanxi is the town with the longest coastline of tingzi Lake in Cangxi, and bring 7000 mu of arable land and 20000 mu of forest land in 10 villages adjacent to the lake into the development plan, so as to promote the development of the lakeside economic belt. In 2019, 600 mu of golden pear and 200 mu of lotus have been built. In the future, we will gradually build 7000 mu of lakeside characteristic economic industrial belt by integrating project funds and attracting investment. The other is to develop the "three 10 billion industries" in the whole town, implement the requirements of the county Party committee and the county government to vigorously develop the "three 10 billion industries", and vigorously promote the development of kiwi fruit, Chinese herbal medicine and healthy breeding industry in the whole town, combining with the actual situation of each village. Each village has built a kiwi fruit collective industrial park of more than 30 mu, driving 345 poor households to develop more than 1 mu Houtao is the main "household garden". More than 1000 mu of Chinese medicinal materials such as safflower, Bletilla striata and Salvia miltiorrhiza were Interplanted in the park. Two new Chinese medicinal materials cooperatives were established. 12 returned entrepreneurs were recruited to cooperate with Wen's company. 15 ecological farms with an annual output of more than 1000 were built. We will continue to manage and protect the existing 5000 mu agricultural development rice projects in Gulou, longhui, Gongling, Yandeng and Xuetang villages, and focus on traditional industries.

Nowadays, Yuanxi is the largest reservoir area of Tingzikou Water Control Project on Jialing River. With aquaculture on the water surface and development of water tourism, it is a big immigrant town. The construction of Xinchang Town integrates commerce and tourism. Guangyu railway runs through the north and south, Guangnan expressway runs through the top, Yuanxi is stepping into a new construction and development, welcome friends from all walks of life.

Atlas of Yuanxi town

Beautiful picture of Yuanxi town

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