Ximo Town, Ruicheng County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province

Ximo town

Ximo Town, located in the northeast of Ruicheng County, is a typical mountainous town. Ximoji Town, where the town government is located, is 12 kilometers away from the county seat. It is adjacent to Zhongtiao Mountain in the north, Fengping highway in the South and Donglong Township, Monan town in the East and Nanwei Township in the West. Located at 34 ° 43'20 "n and 110 ° 44'00" - 50'00 "E, the town is 9 km wide from east to west and 10.5 km long from north to south, with a total area of 85.5 square kilometers.

Villages under its jurisdiction

Ximo village Banqiao Village Shihu village Zaoyuan village Dongmo village baozi village Jiagou village yanjiayao village bujizhang village Xiayang village Mayao village Dongsheng Village Donghua village Baishe village Yumenkou village fenggong village songjiaya village Shangzhuang village Zhuyang village hetaogou village Mayu village goubei Village

Historical evolution

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Ximo town was governed by Ximo Town, the Second District in 1952, Ximo Township in 1953, Hongqi commune in 1958, Ximo commune in 1960, Ximo Township in 1984, and Ximo town in 1995. In 1978, there were 18330 people in 3995 households. In 2010, Ximo town governed 10 village committees, including 66 natural villages, with a permanent resident population of 20428 (2017), including Ximo, Baishe, Shihu, Mayao, Banqiao, fenggong, Zhuyang, Shangzhuang, Jiagou and Dongsheng.

natural resources

In the north of Ximo Town, there are bedrock mountains, alluvial fan in the middle, and Loess Plateau in the south. The mountainous area accounts for 25.26%, showing the trend of high in the north and low in the south. The town is rich in natural resources, with the reserves of phosphate rock reaching 50 million tons and limestone reaching 300 million tons. In addition, there are abundant pyrite, marble, dolomite, granite and other minerals.

socioeconomic

Since the reform and opening-up in 1978, the successive Party committees and governments of Ximo town have adapted measures to local conditions, made scientific plans, and insisted on formulating development ideas in combination with the actual situation of Ximo town. The gross output value of the national economy has increased from 2.09 million yuan in 1978 to 132.55 million yuan in 2010, including 85.46 million yuan in agriculture, 20.58 million yuan in industry and 26.51 million yuan in the tertiary industry. The per capita net income of farmers has increased from 54 yuan in 1978 to 3856 yuan in 2010. Ximo town is a famous town of agriculture, animal husbandry and fruit industry in Ruicheng County. The cultivated land area is 4400 hectares in 1949, 4066.6 hectares in 1978 and 3600 hectares in 2010. In the past, the town had a dry climate and had been in drought for nine years. 43 supporting electromechanical wells were built, and the Yellow River irrigation area was expanded to 1666 hectares. The town has 2200 hectares of irrigated land, accounting for more than 60% of the town's total land area. It has formed a new pattern of five major industries, namely, grain, apple, animal husbandry, medicinal materials and service industry.

Grain production

The total grain output was 1220 tons in 1949 and 2235 tons in 1978. In 2010, the sown area was 4489.7 hectares, including 2246.4 hectares of wheat and 1962 hectares of corn, with a total output of 20644 tons. In 2010, 160 hectares of high standard agricultural demonstration parks have been built, with an average yield of 750 Jin of wheat and 1300 Jin of corn per mu. In addition, 160 hectares of oilseeds have been planted, with a total yield of 191 tons.

Apple industry

Apple is the dominant industry of economic crops. By 2010, 964 hectares of apples have been developed in the town, including 500 mu of high standard demonstration garden with an annual output of 16777 tons of apples. Apple income has become the main pillar of increasing farmers' income. The annual output of walnut, persimmon, peach and peach reaches 91 tons, forming a new pillar industry.

Animal Husbandry

The development of animal husbandry is another characteristic. A standardized and scientific captive breeding pattern has been basically formed. By the end of 2010, there were 16255 pigs, 2529 sheep, 613211 chickens and 251 cattle in the town. The number of farmers in the town has reached 256, and the breeding income in 2010 alone reached 27.14 million yuan.

Medicine industry

Medicinal materials industry is another characteristic industry in Ximo town in recent years, mainly planted with Scutellaria baicalensis, Salvia miltiorrhiza and chrysanthemum. By the end of 2010, the area of medicinal materials in the town reached 49.6 hectares, with an annual output of 250 tons.

Service industry

Ximo township enterprises started early and developed rapidly. In the 1970s and 1980s, Shanxi Medical Insurance Company, standard parts factory, machinery factory, mold factory, agricultural repair factory, sugar jujube factory and cement factory all played a great role in promoting the economic development of Ximo town. Ruicheng processing factory of Shanxi Medical Insurance Company, the largest factory, has 380 employees, including 14 senior and intermediate engineers. It produces medical gauze and imitation down cloth for export, With an annual output value of more than 4 million yuan, former factory director Zhang Tianxun is known as a private entrepreneur in Shanxi Province. In the reform of 1978, due to the change of ownership, although most of them changed production, private enterprises, individual businesses and individual service industries developed faster. There are 326 enterprises with 1365 employees. Among the service industries, Yangqiao hard faced Mahua is the most famous. It has a history of 200 years and has won the favor of customers for its fragrance, crispness and good taste.

Transportation

The highway branch line of Ximo town is connected with Pingrui highway in the south, dongyanshan highway across the town in the north, and village oil roads are also connected with each other. The 38 km village road pattern of "five vertical and two horizontal" has been basically formed, and the transportation of the whole town is unprecedented convenient.

Education and medical treatment

After the merger of Ximo town in 2007, only one boarding junior high school with 645 students, four boarding primary schools and 586 students is reserved. All the primary and secondary schools have implemented tuition fee, book fee and accommodation fee exemption, equipped with 45 senior teachers and installed multimedia teaching equipment, all of which have reached the Provincial acceptance standard. there is a health center in Ximo Town, with 17 medical staff, 8 doctors and 40 beds. The hospital has internal medicine, surgery, maternal and child, laboratory, radiation, health care and other departments, which has laid a solid foundation for the common people's minor diseases. All 10 village committees have established health centers with certain conditions and 22 medical personnel, all of whom have passed the acceptance. 20664 people participated in the new rural cooperative medical system, with a coverage rate of 99%. 10800 people have participated in the rural social endowment insurance, with a coverage rate of 93%. Every year, the whole town also has a free physical examination for the elderly over 60 years old and school students, and all medical records have been established. Ximo town is rich in cultural and sports life. The town has a central cultural station, an open-air stage and six village level stages. Each village committee of Ximo town has set up a relatively high standard village committee office, five villages have set up an open-air theater, six villages have set up basketball courts, table tennis activity rooms and fitness venues for the elderly. There are eight gongs and drums teams in the town, and the Yangqiao gongs and drums are unified. Yangqiao gongs and drums were taught by the famous old artist Yang Laoliu (Yang Dengyun) in Ruicheng 100 years ago. It enjoys a high reputation in the whole county for its fast beating and beautiful melody. In addition, there are five Yangko troupes and five dance troupes in the town. Fenggong's stilts and platforms, and Baishe's lions and dragon lanterns have a history of 100 years. They perform every year on the Lantern Festival and are highly praised by the masses. In addition, each village committee has also established a library. The town has 280000 books, and the borrowing system is relatively perfect, which is very popular with the masses.

living standard

By the end of 2010, there were 64 large and medium-sized cars, 10 agricultural cars, 3740 agricultural tricycles, 45 agricultural tractors, 4560 motorcycles, 6298 TV sets, 2412 refrigerators, 4128 washing machines, 2514 mobile phones and 1537 mobile phones. The annual agricultural electricity consumption reached 1.08 million kwh, and the annual fertilizer consumption reached more than 3138 tons. The rural residents have enough energy to save The deposit reached 70 million yuan, 3288 yuan per capita. In 1987, it was awarded the advanced unit of afforestation in Shanxi Province. In the past three years, more than 5500 mu of walnut trees have been planted along 12 km of both sides of the mountain. At present, there are four new rural pilot villages in Ximo town determined by the province. The Party committee and government of the town are determined to grasp the key points and strive to promote and ensure that the project of benefiting the people can be completed quickly and well.

scenic spot

Qingliang Temple

---It was founded in 1303, the seventh year of Dade in Yuan Dynasty, and rebuilt in all dynasties. It is located at the foot of Ganzao mountain, one of the eight old scenic spots in Ruicheng, Zhongtiao Mountain, namely Dongsheng Sili village. Because there are nine springs at the foot of the mountain, it is also called "jiulongkou", 11 kilometers away from Ximo town. Qingliangsi cemetery is one of the "top ten archaeological discoveries in China in 2004", which plays an important role in the study of the origin of Chinese civilization.

Mawuzhai

---It was founded in the reign of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is located in the East Erli of Ximo town. It is said that the famous general Ma wubing was blocked when he attacked Luoyang. He once stationed troops here to repair it, which was called ma Wuzhai in ancient times. It has high archaeological value.

Ten thousand people cave

---Located in Honggou of wanjiazhuang, it is said that during the Wanli period, there were 10000 people in the wanrendong family in wanjiazhuang. One year, Li Zheng was forced to ask for tax exemption. The king obeyed the order of the former king, but the condition was that one person was missing to kill the whole village. Li Zheng, the elder of wanrendong, gathered the people together and counted them repeatedly. There were only 9999 people, so they killed all the people in wanrendong under the pretext of killing them. The result was that the head count was just 10000, It turns out that Li Zhengqing didn't order himself several times when he ordered people. At that time, the scene was full of blood, and even the ditch soil was dyed red. Honggou is five miles long, so far the soil color is all red, so Honggou is also named. Because of the Qu case, the village was named wanjiazhuang in memory.

Shi Yongzheng Memorial Hall

---It is located in Shihu village of Ximo Town, 4 kilometers away from Ximo town. Shi Yongzheng, born in Jingcun, Qinxian County, Shanxi Province, 1938

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