Guowa Township, Dafang County, Bijie City, Guizhou Province

Guowa Township

Guowa township is a township under the jurisdiction of Dafang County, Bijie City, Guizhou Province. It is located in the north of Dafang County, about 80 km away from the county. The township is 12 kilometers long from east to west and 16 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of 92.76 square kilometers. It borders Taiping Township of Jinsha County in the East, Dashan township of Jinsha County in the south, Shishi town of Jinsha County in the West and Malu township of Jinsha County in the north.

The origin of the name

The evolution of the place name of Guowa township is said that Guowa was originally a guo'ao, which belongs to the Yi language and is only like the terrain. If it is Guowa, there is no way to verify it.

According to the reasoning, there are two sources of the name of Guowa: one is because of the trees and the ground, because the ancient ginkgo tree is commonly known as ginkgo, and the white fruit tree is rare and precious, and it symbolizes the ancient civilization. In addition, the terrain of Guowa is like a tile on the back, so each one takes one word to get the name of Guowa.

The second is to take it from its products. Because Baiguoshu is known as a divine tree, people take the word "fruit" from Baiguoshu in order to have a spirit in their heart and never forget it. It is also said that some people made earthen tiles two or three hundred years ago. In ancient times, they took the word "tile" from Baiguoshu and the word "fruit" from Shenshu, and got the name of Guowa. In short, there is no textual research on the historical origin of the place name of Guowa.

Evolution of administrative districts

In September 1950, it belongs to 12 districts

In April 1953, Guowa township was established.

In September 1958, Guowa township was transformed into a commune; in November 1958, it was transformed into a management area.

In March 1963, Gowa commune was restored.

In 1984, Guowa commune was transformed into a township.

In December 1991, Chayuan Township, Longli village of Longli Township, Guangming Village and Qingyang village of Dashan Township were merged into Guowa township.

administrative division

As of June 2020, it has 1 neighborhood committee and 10 villager committees.

Demographic situation

The township governs 11 villages, including Shangzhai, Guowa, Suoyi, Wuxing, Longli, Guangming, Qingyang, Xinlin, etang, Chayuan, Dazhai, and 77 villager groups, with 4246 households and 16712 people living in six ethnic groups, including Han, Miao, Yi, Bai, Gelao, and Mongolia. There are 11 village branches, 5 organ branches and 410 Communist Party members in the township, including 64 organ party members, 346 rural Party members, 80 senior high school (technical secondary school) or above and 330 junior high school or below.

There are 1 junior middle school, 323 junior middle school students and 23 teachers; 11 primary schools, 1843 primary school students and 92 teachers.

Land condition

There are 66657 mu of woodland, 58257 mu of grass slope and 14196 mu of cultivated land, including 1159 mu of farmland and 13037 mu of soil.

geographical environment

The township government is located in Zhongzhai group of Shangzhai village, with an altitude of 1065 meters. The lowest point is downstream of Sancha River at the junction of Xiaohe group of Suoyi village and Malu township of Jinsha County, with an altitude of 800 meters. The highest point is Dayantou of Xinjian group of Qingyang village, with an altitude of 1600 meters. There are yellow soil, purple sand soil, blood sand soil, leaching limestone soil, white sand soil, etc. in this township, blood sand soil accounts for one eighth, and white sand soil accounts for about one sixth.

There are two rivers in the township, one is Guowa River and the other is Jiajia River, belonging to the Yishui river system. Jiajia river is a tributary of erdaohe river. It originates from LAOHUDONG in Tongxin formation of Qingyang village and flows through Qingyang village, Wuxing village and Longli village to erdaohe river. Guowa river originates from tingzidong and zhoujialong cave in fengxianglin and Xinlin villages of Chayuan village and flows to Gexin formation (dabazi) of Guowa Township, flows to erheyan and into the upper reaches of Maluo River and flows out of the countryside to the north.

The main mountains originate from the Jiulong Mountain of Baina and enter Guowa Township through Xingxiu Township and Dashan township. Yuanjiafen mountain, the main peak in the territory, is divided into two veins: Qingyang village and Guangming Village on the left; Dayantou mountain on the right, Xinlin village, etang village, Guowa village, Shangzhai village, Wuxing village and Suoyi village on the left; Chayuan village, etang village and Dazhai village on the right, Lvzhu mountain and Jinsha on the right.

national culture

Guowa has the site of mude eight story yamen built in the Qing Dynasty. In front of the government office building, there is an ancient ginkgo tree with a diameter of 1.5 meters at breast height. The ginkgo tree and the eight story yamen site are county-level cultural relics. One kilometer to the left of the township government is the largest Han Yi double character group in Bijie area, which is the two ancestral tombs of the an family. The couple were buried together in one place, with a height of 1.28 meters and a width of 3.6 meters. Due to years of damage, only part of the stele and the main stele were left, and the inscriptions were written in both Yi and Han languages. The other tomb belonged to an's wife, Lu family. The eight story yamen site, the only remaining stone dam, stone ridge and the dragons, phoenixes, lions and tigers on both sides have been destroyed in the civil strife in the decade of the cultural revolution.

natural resources

Agricultural and sideline products include lacquer, tea, chestnut, walnut, peach, plum, plum, pear, persimmon, hemp, tobacco, rape, Tung, Camellia oleifera, etc.

Fir, pine and cypress are the main timber forests, including birch, poplar, Castanea mollissima, Zizyphus jujuba, Dengtai, waxy leaf, Cinnamomum camphora, Maliu and other trees.

Economic forests include lacquer, tung oil tree, Camellia oleifera, tea, gallnut, sericulture, etc. Medicinal materials include Gastrodia elata, Eucommia ulmoides, Phellodendron amurense, Radix Polygoni Multiflori, etc.

The wild animals include pheasant, golden pheasant, yellow deer, white faced beaver, hedgehog, owl, etc. protected by the state, as well as other unprotected animals.

The main food crops are corn, rice, wheat, kidney bean, potato, soybean, sorghum, sweet potato, barley, etc. There are nearly 20 high-quality rice varieties in this township.

The mineral resources in the township include anthracite, pyrite, limonite, rare hematite, limestone, silicate sand shale, talc, kaolin, etc. Due to the poor local energy, all kinds of mineral resources have not been effectively developed and utilized.

economic development

The total population of the township is more than 14800, and the total number of households is 3386. At the end of 2003, the per capita grain yield of the township was 670 Jin, and the per capita net income was 902 yuan. The income of the township people is mainly from the planting and breeding industry and migrant workers, and there is no other exploitable mineral resources. The forest coverage rate is 30%. By the end of 2003, there were 618 League members and 13 League branches in the township.

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