Zhongbao Town, a town in Xinghua City, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province

Zhongbao town

Zhongbao Town, subordinate to Xinghua City, Jiangsu Province, is located in the northwest of Xinghua City, adjacent to Diaoyu town and Dazou town in the East, Xibao Township in the south, Ganggu Township, zhoufen Township and Shagou town in the west, xingyanjie River in the north, DAZONGHU town and Yifeng town in Yandu County of Yancheng City across the lake.

With a total area of 83.2 square kilometers (2017), the town governs 13 administrative villages, 1 neighborhood committee and 205 villager groups.

Wugong Lake in the South and Dazong Lake in the north are rich in water resources. Now it has an aquaculture area of 3333.3 hectares, and the total amount of various aquatic products on the market reaches 18000 tons annually. It ranks first in Taizhou and is known as "the first town of aquaculture in Central Jiangsu". Dazong Lake Ecological Breeding protection zone, with beautiful ecological environment and unique natural scenery, is a municipal scenic spot in Xinghua City.

geographical environment

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Eighteen kilometers north of Xinghua City in Jiangsu Province, there is a bright pearl inlaid between Dazong Lake and Wugong lake. It is the famous town of drunken crabs in the north and south of the Yangtze River -- Zhongbao ancient town.

The ancient town is surrounded by lakes, marshes, marshes and lakes. Rivers, ditches, harbors and lakes are as dense as cobwebs. It is low-lying with frequent floods. For thousands of years, the industrious and intelligent people of Zhongbao not only used the method of high building platform and tamping house foundation, but also built earth dikes (walls) around them to stop the flood. In ancient times, towns or villages surrounded by earth walls were called "fortresses". So Zhongbao got its name from this. As for the legendary story of filial son "zhongbaozi" judging whether the stone lion's eyes are red to judge the coming of flood, which is still popular in Zhongbao area, it also shows the wisdom and good wishes of Zhongbao people to overcome the flood disaster.

history

Zhongpu is an ancient town with beautiful scenery and water characteristics. The beautiful centipede lake and Dazong Lake in the South and north of the town care and nourish the ancient town. A five or six hundred meter long river in the town is like a silver ribbon, which divides the ancient town into East and west parts, forming two waterfront streets with numerous business houses in the north and south. In order to facilitate the cross-strait exchanges, the Shihe River is lined up from north to South with "Qinglong", "Taiping", "Yilong", "Fengming", "Xinglong", "pterosaurus", "Anle" and other bridges of different styles, which are made of wood and brick. A beautiful picture of "Shuanghu scenic spot" and "Qiqiao smoke scene" is drawn. In addition, a lot of time-honored shops, ancient residential buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Dongyue Temple, Dutian temple, Longwang temple and many other ancient temple buildings in the ancient town add a thick foundation and charming style to the ancient town.

humanity

Zhongpu is an ancient town with rich cultural heritage. Many literati in the past dynasties were born, grew up or lived here. They left some masterpieces of poetry, calligraphy and painting in the ancient town and went down in history. From 1405 A.D. to 1415 A.D., Gao Gu (later the cabinet Bachelor of the Five Dynasties) set up a school in Donggao and Xiali to teach apprentices. The spring breeze was like a curtain, and he benefited the students of Zhongbao.

Gaogu's footprints cover the streets and lanes of Zhongbao, enjoying the scenery of the two lakes and leaving many poems. Bian Shoumin (1684-1753), a painter and calligrapher of Yangzhou, lived in Zhongzhuang because of his admiration for the beautiful natural environment of Zhongbao. He also built a "Weijian bookstore" near the junpi bridge outside his hometown Huai'an in the first year of Qianlong's Qing Dynasty. He paid attention to the living conditions of wild ducks and wild geese in the reed marshes for sketching Painting, and impromptu poetry on the painting. For example, "Lu Yan poem" wrote: "yellow reed rustle ring, Liao Liao to the wild geese. I live in the reed house and write about the autumn sound of grass. " Bian Shoumin's painting object is mainly Luyan, which is unique in "Yangzhou Eight monsters". The different poses of the Luyan he painted are "deep and vivid, simple and elegant", and are honored as "Bian Yan". His paintings are collected in Zhongbao, Xinghua, Yangzhou and other major museums all over the country. Li Zhen, another representative of "Yangzhou Eight monsters", has his ancestral property in Zhongbao, a thousand mu paddy field and a ancestral home in the town. When he lived in Zhongbao, he was influenced by the border residents and painted Luyan.

In 1753 A.D., in the flower screen painted by Li Chen, there were also Luyan, whose poem says: "the spring breeze swallows come, why have they gone for a long time. Teach me how to draw a wild goose and think slowly. Zheng Banqiao once lived in Zhongbao and praised the beautiful scenery of the two lakes and the rich aquatic resources of Zhongbao. In addition, there are many successful painters in Zhongbao, such as Yang Xichun, Yu Yatang, Wang Jin, Fang Guoying, Fang Shaochen and Fang Laibin. According to Fang's genealogy, Xinghua's Fang family originated from Fang Xuanling, the famous Prime Minister of Tang Dynasty. In the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the Fang family moved from Suzhou to Zhongbao in Xinghua, where they once painted Fang Guoying. After the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Fang Laibin, a descendant of Fang Guoying (named Hongxun, named Laibin, named Shuanghu Jushi, 1894-1941), learned from Fang Shaochen, his second uncle, in his early years and made a living selling paintings in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou.

In 1914, he studied under Wu guandai, a master of traditional Chinese painting in Wuxi. His figures, smooth lines and verdant ink are recognized by the world, and he is the author of Shuanghu picture album. In 1917, he was invited by industrialist Rong Desheng (father of former vice president Rong Yiren) to paint in Wuxi Meiyuan. In addition, many painters in Xinghua, such as Xu Zijian, Wang Molin and calligrapher Li Zonghai, once lived in Zhongbao.

Sociology

Zhongpu is an ancient town with long standing reputation, abundant products and full of commercial vitality. In the Qing Dynasty, due to the prosperity of Yangzhou's salt industry, a group of salt merchants gathered in Yangzhou, which brought unprecedented prosperity to Yangzhou's economy. For this reason, the imperial court set up the "Lianghuai salt transportation department" in Yangzhou, which was responsible for the management of salt affairs. At that time, there were abundant reeds and cattail grass in the water network area of Xinghua, especially in Zhongpu, which provided inexhaustible raw materials for weaving and packing salt cattail.

As a result, most of the pubao and straw rope used by Yangzhou salt merchants to pack salt came from Zhongbao. In addition, since the Ming Dynasty, Zhongbao has made use of local specialties to produce handmade products such as "rice sweet wine", "Silk fish net", "Luling", "gan'er Bao" and "Pu Bao". Among them, "gan'er Bao" has been exhibited in Zhejiang West Lake Expo, Jiangsu goods exhibition and Chicago Expo and won awards.

It is particularly worth mentioning that Zhongzhuang drunk crab, a well-known Chinese brand with a hundred years history, is well-known throughout the world for its exquisite materials, authentic formula, excellent production, delicious taste and rich nutrition. In 1915, Zhang Jian, then director of agriculture and Commerce of the national government and President of the National Water Conservancy Bureau, recommended the "Zhongzhuang drunk crab" to the Panama International Exposition and won the Gold Award for food. In 1984 and 1997, "Zhongzhuang drunk crab" won the title of famous brand product of Jiangsu Province and was recognized as "green food" by the national green food development center.

Economics

In 2007, the town's GDP is expected to reach 307.55 million yuan, an increase of 112.88 million yuan over 2003, with an average annual growth rate of 12.1%. Among them, the agricultural added value was 159.48 million yuan, 43.8 million yuan more than 2003, with an average annual growth rate of 8.3%; the industrial added value was 43.52 million yuan, 23.37 million yuan more than 2003, with an average annual growth rate of 21.2%; the construction added value was 17.16 million yuan, 5.45 million yuan more than 2003, with an average annual growth rate of 10%; the service added value was 87.39 million yuan, 40.26 million yuan more than 2003, with an average annual growth rate of 16.7%. The per capita net income of farmers was 6200 yuan, an increase of 2211 yuan over 2003, with an average annual growth rate of 10.6%; the fiscal revenue was 1.702 million yuan, an increase of 1.394 million yuan over 2003, with an average annual growth rate of 53.2%.

The town adheres to the development of modern and efficient agriculture as the focus, focuses on increasing the promotion and application of new agricultural technologies and new varieties, promotes the adjustment of innovative planting and breeding structure, speeds up the development of regional scale, ecological brand and characteristic economy, focuses on accelerating the pace of agricultural infrastructure construction with new sluice stations as the main, continues to promote the dredging and regulation of village river channels and the project of farmland forest network, and focuses on improving the ecological environment Agricultural production conditions, vigorously promote the transfer of rural surplus labor, multi-level promotion of farmers' income.

The first is to guide the farmers to optimize the planting structure and increase the production of grain, cotton and oil in the whole town; the second is to fully implement the national policy of supporting agriculture and benefiting agriculture, and the national, provincial and municipal subsidy funds for supporting agriculture are in place; the third is to present a new pattern of labor transfer, the number of migrant workers and businessmen continues to rise, and the wage income has increased significantly; the fourth is to continuously strengthen the agricultural foundation and strengthen the construction of gate station In 2007, the "five stations and three gates" supporting project was completed. Vigorously implement the "three clean and one green" project, and achieve phased results in the "three clean" work focusing on village river regulation. Since 2003, 325000 trees have been planted, 6500 mu of forest land has been added, and the forest coverage rate is 12.7%.

In order to promote the rapid development of industrial economy, we should always focus on attracting investment first, focus on attracting investment, seek breakthroughs in inferior conditions, and push forward pragmatically in regional competition. In 2007, by continuing to track the implementation of the new investment in the projects transferred up and accelerating the implementation progress of the projects under construction, 21.1 million yuan of investment was received, accounting for 105% of the city's target tasks.

We should adhere to accelerating the development of industrial economy as a breakthrough to increase the total economic output and industrial and commercial tax revenue, and focus on increasing investment in technological transformation and expanding the scale of existing industrial enterprises

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