Ruotang Town, Xuanwei City, Qujing City, Yunnan Province

Ruotang town

Ruotang town is located at the junction of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in the north of Xuanwei City, Yunnan Province, 43 kilometers away from Xuanwei City. The town has 18 administrative villages, with a total population of 80403 people living in Han, Hui, Yi, Miao and Zhuang NATIONALITIES (2017). It is the birthplace of general Zhou Jianping, the former commander of the tenth Red Army. Ruotang has a long history and outstanding people. The ancient Southern Silk Road passed through the territory, and today there are more than 400 meters of ancient post roads. In the 16th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, ruantang was a castle in housuotun, and then a post office was set up; in the fifth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, a patrol office was set up in ruantang; in the second year of the Republic of China, a county assistant office was set up, and in 1998, the old system was removed to build ruantang town. Ruotang is an important gateway for other provinces to enter Yunnan. The total area is 382.58 square kilometers.

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The town governs 18 administrative villages, with a total population of 80403 people (2017), inhabiting five ethnic groups, namely Han, Hui, Yi, Miao and Zhuang. It is the birthplace of general Zhou Jianping, the former commander of the tenth Red Army. Ruotang has a long history and outstanding people. The ancient Southern Silk Road passed through the territory, and today there are more than 400 meters of ancient post roads. In the 16th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, ruantang was a castle in housuotun, and then a post office was set up; in the fifth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, a patrol office was set up in ruantang; in the second year of the Republic of China, a county assistant office was set up, and in 1998, the old system was removed to build ruantang town. Ruotang is an important gateway to Yunnan. Sancha, fasai and other rural roads lead to Xuanwei watershed and connect with national highway 326. The Erke line extends from Xuanwei in Nantong to Qujing and Kunming in the north, and from Weining, Zhaotong and Luzhou in Guizhou in the north.

General situation of villages and towns

Ruotang town is directly under Xuanwei City of Qujing. It is located in the northern border of Xuanwei. The town government is 43 kilometers away from the city. The town road is a second-class oil road with convenient transportation. There are 412 kilometers of roads in the town. It is adjacent to Lefeng in the East, Laibin in the south, Dalu in Longtan in the west, Yangliu in the north and Weining in Guizhou across the river. The town has 18 village committees, 167 villager groups and 251 natural villages, including ruantang, Deyi, Fahong and JIUPU. There are five nationalities, Han, Hui, Yi, Miao and Zhong, with a permanent population of 80403 (2017). The town has a land area of 382.58 square kilometers, an average altitude of 1760 meters, an annual average temperature of 14.4 ℃, and an annual precipitation of 980 mm. It is suitable for planting corn, tobacco, potatoes and other crops. In 2006, the total rural economic income of the town was 446 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 2086 yuan. The farmers' income was mainly planting and breeding, labor services, which was a typical agricultural town in mountainous areas.

Historical evolution

Ruotang has a long history and outstanding people. In the 16th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1384 AD), ruotang was a post office in the rear army. In 1651 ad, ruotang was transferred to Zhanyi Prefecture. In the fifth year of Yongzheng reign (1727 A.D.) of the Qing Dynasty, the local government was changed to the local government, and Xuanwei Prefecture was established. In 1816, ruotang was the site of flood. In 1913, Xuanwei Prefecture was rebuilt as Xuanwei County, and ruotang was rebuilt as ruoke County assistant office (the building of ruoke inspection office is still well preserved in the government courtyard of ruotang). In 1931, it was changed into one of the four towns of Xuanwei. After liberation, ruotang was divided into districts and communes. In 1988, ruotang was set up as a town. Ruotang, with profound cultural heritage, is the birthplace of general Zhou Jianping, commander of the 10th army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army. The ancient Southern Silk Road passed through the territory, and today it is more than 400 meters long. In 1994, there were 10 cultural operators in the town. In 1996, Songlin village's "mass grave" and "human head tree" were listed as Xuanwei's patriotic education base. In the same year, the cultural station reached the second level planning standard station of Yunnan Province. In 1997, ruotang was rated as an advanced social and cultural town in Qujing. In 2002, the former residence of general Zhou Jianping was listed as the patriotic education base of Qujing City, and in 2005, if the inspection office could be upgraded to a cultural relic protection unit of Qujing City.

infrastructure

In 2006, the rural households in the town have been electrified, and the transformation rate of power grid is 51%. There are 412km highways in the town, 167 natural villages connected with highways, and 4 natural villages with hardened main roads. With the steady progress of the basic tobacco farmland project, the degree of water conservancy in the town is 33%. Seven mobile stations, one Unicom station and two Telecom stations have been built in the town, with a signal coverage rate of 98%. 7879 households installed fixed or mobile phones, 5268 households installed cable TV and 11127 households owned TV. The town has a radio and television station, 33 video channels, a cultural station, a collection of more than 800 books. Ruotang market town covers an area of 0.9 square kilometers. It has a farmer's market and a passenger station. It has a population of nearly 10000 people. There are 5 trade markets in the town. The residential houses in the town are mainly of civil structure. In 1994, it invested more than 600000 yuan to build the sports ground of the town government. In 1995, more than 2 million yuan was invested in the construction of the new Minle bridge. From 1999 to 2000, more than 5 million yuan was invested to harden 3.36 kilometers of market town streets and install 40 street lamps. In 2005, 1.1 million yuan was invested to cut off the bend and straighten the main street, 1.3 million yuan was invested to harden the middle section of Jianping Road, and 1.3 million yuan was invested to build a new farmers' market. In 2007, the government office building with an investment of 5.692 million yuan was put into use; the improvement project of No.2 Middle School with an investment of more than 3 million yuan was completed, and the reconstruction project of No.1 middle school with an investment of more than 9 million yuan in the same year was successfully completed.

Characteristic products

Ruotang is famous for its rich special products and has a good reputation as "the hometown of yellow tofu". Ruantang yellow tofu is famous for its unique cooking style and flavor of "Yunnan 19 strange, ruantang tofu sold by bolt". It set a daily sales record of 8 tons at the Kunming trade fair and was praised as "one of the best in China" by Japanese friends. It is characterized by delicate texture, fresh and tender taste, slicing, shredding, frying or cold mixing, etc. Songlin sunflower is produced in Songlin ethnic village in the cold hinterland of Northeast Yunnan Province. Sunflower is rooted in acid soil and fertilized by farmyard manure. It has a long growth cycle and abundant light. It has the advantages of full grain, round grain, rich color and thin inner shell. Kowtow does not hurt the gums, eating oil delicate, sweet full surplus, meaningful aftertaste, is a typical pure natural green food. Ruotang is a small town in the south of Wumeng Mountain, famous for producing yellow tofu. Just like Jinhua ham and Tianjin roast duck, ruotang yellow tofu is called by combining place names with specialties. What stands out here is the word "yellow". Most of the tofu we often see is white tofu, which is yellow and square. The ancestor of Chinese bean curd culture is Liu An, the king of Huainan in Han Dynasty. It seems that this wise king will be remembered by the common people forever, because when people raise their jobs, bean curd is an indispensable and ordinary dish on the table. With more than 2000 years of communication and development, tofu has already gone abroad and become a delicious food for all kinds of skin color and race in the world. "Japanese tofu" is comparable to Chinese bean products tofu. It is made from eggs, natural land plants and other food accessories. But everyone knows how much of the culture and science of this island country, which is just a strip of water away from us, is closely related to China. Like the origin of Japanese tofu, it was also in the process of ethnic migration that the tofu from Tatang came to Tatang. Ruotang is a mixture of Han, Hui, Yi, Miao and other ethnic groups. The Han people migrated mainly during the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty. After the introduction of tofu technology, it quickly spread to every household. The craftsmanship of copper ware and the craftsmanship of copper and aluminum ware by folk artists in ruotang not only has a long history and culture, but also has profound traditional art accumulation. There are more than ten kinds of products, such as pot, basin, spoon, pot, etc.

Resources and environment

the natural resources of ruotang town are mainly coal, with proven coal reserves of 480 million tons, accounting for one fourth of Xuanwei's coal reserves. It is mainly distributed in Sancha, maozong, JIUPU and Qilong, with a thickness of 1.5m. Copper, iron, kaolin, limestone and yellow sand all have a certain amount of reserves. The Mabai reach of Beipanjiang river is rich in hydropower resources, with a forest coverage rate of 43.7%. Ruotang is rich in resources, with proven coal reserves of 480 million tons. There is potential for the development of metallic and non-metallic mineral resources such as iron, copper and kaolin. The Beipan River flows through the Mabai reach of Fahong and Songlin, with abundant hydropower resources. Since the reform and opening up, ruotang's economy has been growing continuously, its comprehensive economic strength has been gradually enhanced, and all social undertakings have been developing in a coordinated way. Ruotang is known as a big coal town and an important Xuanwei town. In 1997, ruotang leaped into the ranks of "top 100 villages and towns in Yunnan Province"; in 2003, the total industrial output value of ruotang was 221.83 million yuan, the total income of rural economy was 21.95 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 1226 yuan. Ruotang yellow bean curd has developed into a new industry of "company + farmer + market". Education has made great achievements, ranking in the forefront of Xuanwei high school entrance examination for ten consecutive years. In the new century, the town Party committee and government unite and lead the people of ruotang, closely around the three goals of building "a strong economic town, an important town in Northeast Yunnan, and a famous historical and cultural town", in line with the regional economic development plan of "producing coal in southeast area, strengthening tobacco in northwest area, strengthening market town area, developing rhubarb bean curd industry, growing vegetables in river valley, and developing potato livestock in mountain area", and in line with the principle of "stabilizing grain, strengthening tobacco, and emphasizing coal livestock" To build towns, build roads, activate circulation, protect ecology, promote water conservancy, create characteristics around the market, and promote development through science and education

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