Taiping Town, Sihong County, Jiangsu Province

Taiping Town

Taiping Town, Sihong County, Jiangsu Province, is located on the Bank of Hongze Lake, about 35 kilometers away from Sihong County. It is an agricultural township. Due to economic development, since 2000, many farmers have transformed to aquaculture, livestock breeding and other directions. The town government has attracted investment. By the beginning of 2014, the town has a large number of residential areas and is fully moving towards a modern society.

On July 2, 2020, the people's Government of Jiangsu Province decided to abolish Taiping town.

General situation

Taiping town is located 35.20 kilometers east of Sihong County. It is adjacent to Chengzi Lake in the East, market town in the north, Hongze farm and Longji town in the southwest and south. The total area is 72.51 square kilometers (2017), with 3617.6 hectares of arable land, 2000 hectares of water area and 10.2 kilometers of lake shoreline.

It has 15 administrative villages, including 3 neighborhood committees and 2 farms, with a total of 26693 people (in 2017).

Historical evolution

Before the founding of the people's Republic of China, the township was under the jurisdiction of Siyang and Sixian counties. In 1941, with the establishment of the Anti Japanese Democratic base in Huaibei, Taiping Township was established, which belonged to Siyang County in Huaibei. After the establishment of Sihong County in 1949, Taiping Township was set up and put under the jurisdiction of Sihong County. In 1958, it was merged with Longji to form Longji people's commune. In 1962, it was separated and changed into Taiping commune. In August 2000, the township was set up.

On July 2, 2020, the people's Government of Jiangsu Province decided to abolish Taiping town.

administrative division

Taiping town has 15 administrative units

Residents committee (5): Taiping, Taihe, Taixing, Gaoji, Xiangcheng

Breeding plants (2): Emei, Chenmen

Administrative villages (8): ChenLao, xiezui, zhouzui, yanggou, xutai, Peinan, Nanxie, Qiaokou

educational services

Taiping middle school, Taiping primary school, Taiping kindergarten, Taiping adult education center.

Savings Center

Taiping postal savings, Jiangsu Rural Credit Union (Taiping Branch)

medical institution

Taiping Town Health Center, the administrative unit hospital.

Resources and enterprises

Taiping is a big agricultural town with abundant resource potential. First, there are sufficient food resources. With an annual output of 16500 tons of wheat, 13750 tons of rice, 500 tons of soybeans and 3000 tons of peanuts, it can be used to develop grain processing industry and breeding industry; secondly, there are a lot of wood resources, with 475000 trees in the town, 281% of forest coverage and 84.4% of village coverage, which are conducive to the development of wood processing industry; thirdly, there are abundant labor resources. With the large-scale land transfer and the general improvement of mechanized operation, at least 15000 labor force in the town have been liberated from the farmland to seek another occupation. Therefore, it is a good place to develop labor-intensive enterprises. Taiping's industrial economy is booming. In recent years, the Party committee and government closely around the working principle of industrial breakthrough, take the development of industrial economy as the primary task, and take a variety of measures to actively attract investment. It has completed the contract of attracting investment of 40 million yuan, fixed assets of 8.6 million yuan, and started a project in the County Industrial Park. Not long ago, it successfully signed two letter of intent agreements with Zhejiang merchants to invest 5 million yuan to set up a toy factory in the town, and with Suzhou merchants to invest 4 million yuan to set up woolen sweater households in the town. They are about to start production. Gaoji industrial concentration area, which covers an area of 1500 mu and 380 mu in the first phase of the project, has invested 1 million yuan to lay 1100 meters of cement road and build two 200 square meters of industrial plants, which has laid a solid foundation for further attracting investment. In addition, it covers an area of 16000 square meters, has a construction area of 120000 square meters, and a total asset of 3.54 million yuan. It has two processing and production lines of 1000 tons of starch and 1000 tons of vermicelli, and a Taiping vermicelli factory with 5000 square meters of cement sun drying yard and 50 tons of cold storage, With an area of 2800 square meters, total equipment investment of 360000 yuan, daily processing of fresh potato 300000 Jin, daily starch 60000 Jin, annual output value of more than 2 million yuan, Gaoji potato starch factory has become a leading enterprise in the city and an excellent private enterprise in the town, and a locomotive driving the local potato deep processing industry. In addition, there are compound fertilizer plants with an annual output of 300 tons of foreign investment enterprises, and a number of local private enterprises with an investment of more than 300000 yuan, such as agricultural and sideline products processing plants, chicken farms, flour mills, agricultural machinery repair plants and wheat straw processing plants, which have laid a solid foundation for the extensive development of the secondary industry and the acceleration of the development of an open economy.

Catering culture

The unique geographical location and historical background give birth to the unique food culture of Taiping town. The representative hotel is jufulou hotel in Sihong County, which has superior geographical location and good cultural conditions. By the beginning of 2014, it had a great reputation in the catering industry of Taiping and attracted a large number of guests.

Taiping catering culture combines local taste, customs and resources, inherits the traditional, ecological and green concepts, and has the characteristics of Huaiyang, Huizhou and Shandong catering culture.

Characteristic products

In 2006, under the condition of overcoming flood and waterlogging and persisting in self-help of production, we still achieved a GDP of 220 million yuan, a fiscal revenue of 2.42 million yuan and a per capita net income of 3700 yuan. It has three characteristic products: one is the well-known "Taiping fans". The development of agricultural industrialization in the town has formed a scale. In 2004, the 30000 Mu deep processing base of green food yam, which passed the provincial certification, has been further consolidated. Taiping has become the "hometown of fans" because it has the largest fan Market in Northern Jiangsu. The second is to raise crabs in pollution-free paddy fields. In recent years, the aquaculture industry in Taiping town is developing rapidly to famous, special and high-quality new varieties. There are 7 hectares of special aquaculture in Inner pond, 300 hectares of pollution-free paddy field, and 1000 hectares of aquaculture in Outer Lake. The annual output value has exceeded 22 million yuan, making Taiping a "land of fish and rice". The third is the "ecological bank" of traditional Chinese medicine. With the steady development of forest economic production, the 10km sericulture economic belt and 1000 mu fruit tree and Chinese herbal medicine three-dimensional intercropping demonstration garden highlight the huge economic benefits, and their products are in short supply in the provincial market.

Development prospects

Taiping's industrial economy is booming. In recent years, the Party committee and government closely around the working principle of industrial breakthrough, take the development of industrial economy as the primary task, and take a variety of measures to actively attract investment.

Honors

On July 29, 2020, it will be included in the National Health township (county) naming list of 2017-2019 cycle.

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