Heping Town, Xiaxia Town, Shaowu City, Fujian Province

Heping Town

Heping Town is located in the southwest of Shaowu City, Fujian Province. It has 10 administrative villages and 1 neighborhood committee. In 2005, it was rated as the second batch of "national historical and cultural towns" and "national mass sports advanced towns".

In 2007, the total industrial and agricultural output value of the town reached 223.48 billion yuan. Among them, the gross industrial product is 74 million yuan, the gross agricultural product is 149.48 million yuan, the fiscal revenue is 3.848 million yuan, and the per capita income of farmers is 4398 yuan.

On October 14, 2016, it was jointly recognized as the first batch of small towns with Chinese characteristics by the national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of housing and urban rural development.

In 2017, the administrative area was 13406 hectares, with 8694 permanent residents.

General situation of villages and towns

Heping Town is located in the southwest of Shaowu City. Its geographical coordinates are 117 ° 21'53 "- 117 ° 31'2" E and 27 ° 8'17 "- 27 ° 17'49" n. its four reaches are adjacent to Chengjiao Town, DABUGANG town and Longhu town of Taining County in the East and Southeast. It has jurisdiction over 10 administrative villages and 1 neighborhood committee, divided into 128 villager groups and 74 natural villages.

In 2005, it won the titles of "national mass sports advanced town" and "China's historical and cultural town". In 2006, it was also rated as "civilized town in Fujian Province" and "the most beautiful village in Fujian Province"

On October 14, 2016, the Ministry of housing and urban rural development announced the list of the first batch of small towns with Chinese characteristics. A total of 127 small towns entered the list. Heping Town, Shaowu City, Nanping City, Fujian Province was selected.

Climate and products

The whole territory is hilly, with mountainous area, mid mountain area and plain accounting for one third respectively. The average altitude is 320 meters. The climate is pleasant and the rainfall is sufficient. It belongs to the mid subtropical monsoon climate. The annual average temperature is 17c and the annual average rainfall is 1800mm. It is one of the main grain producing areas in Shaowu City, and it is rich in tea, tobacco and other economic crops. The forest area of the town is 1876.7 hectares, of which the forest coverage rate is 716.6%.

Agriculture is still the leading industry of the town, the town's grain output has reached 14000 tons; tobacco has nearly 20 years of planting history, the annual planting area of more than 400 hectares, has become the town and village farmers' three rich planting project; tea production has a long-standing reputation, an area of 430 hectares, luoqian, Kanxia Dapingshan tea farm has been rated as the provincial and national pollution-free tea demonstration base, with green standard In addition, the "broken copper tea" in Guanxing mountain of Kanxia village is well-known both at home and abroad. It has the functions of dispersing wind and clearing heat, relieving summer heat and eating, cooling blood and moistening liver, relieving thirst and producing fluid, and the wonderful effect of broken copper money. The animal husbandry is also more developed, with more than 10000 live pigs in stock, more than 50000 piglets sold annually, and 80000 poultry raised. Heping's characteristic product "Heping tofu" is far away from "Heping carp" It's famous in recent years. In addition, there are abundant mineral resources in the territory, such as pyrite, kaolin, tungsten sand, white stone powder, feldspar, crystal stone, lead-zinc porcelain clay, mica, etc., which have certain mining value.

traffic

Heping Town has convenient transportation, 40 kilometers away from the urban area, 2.3 kilometers away from provincial highway 204 shaotai line, 3 kilometers away from Fuyin Expressway Interchange, and wushao expressway is also connected with Fuyin expressway through Heping.

infrastructure

The town is rich in water resources. Hetian River is the main river in the town. It is formed by the confluence of five tributaries with sufficient water. It passes through the southwest corner of DABUGANG, flows through Taining and Jiangle, and flows into Minjiang River through Huisha river. The town has one small type 2 reservoir and two small type 3 reservoirs, with a storage capacity of 3.1 million cubic meters. There are seven small hydropower stations with a total installed capacity of 1200 kW. All of them are connected to the 35000 kV transmission and transformation power stations in the town. The town has a waterworks with a daily water supply of 3000 tons. All of the ten villages are connected with tap water and program-controlled telephone, and three mobile base stations and two connecting stations are built. The communication signal coverage is more than 95% With the exception of Lishe and Zhuyuan, the roads in eight villages have been hardened with cement, the traffic conditions have been further improved, and the investment environment has been optimized.

Science, education, culture and health

Shaowu No.2 Middle School, located at the foot of Bijia mountain in Ximen Town, was founded in October 1947, covering an area of 36000 square meters. It resumed high school in 2003. Now it has realized multimedia teaching and built a library in 2006. There is a kindergarten and ten primary schools in the town, including three primary schools. The central primary school is equipped with advanced teaching equipment, computer equipment and boarding conditions. The township health center has complete equipment and strong technical force. In 2005, it established a cooperative hospital with Shaowu municipal hospital, radiating several surrounding towns, and became the central health center of shaonan. In addition, all the ten villages in the town were connected by CCTV in 2006, which further enriched the people's spiritual and cultural life.

economic development

In 2006, the total industrial and agricultural value of the town was 323.6 million yuan, the financial revenue was 7.21947 million yuan, and the per capita annual net income of farmers was 3988 yuan. With the improvement of infrastructure and the continuous optimization of investment environment, many businessmen have been attracted to invest and develop. The newly introduced Yezhi forest bamboo Co., Ltd., with a total investment of 80 million yuan, has become the largest enterprise project of Heping. So far, there have been 11 large-scale enterprises in the town, forming pillar industries such as bamboo and wood products, casting, tea processing, needle spinning, freshwater eel breeding, etc.

History and Humanities

Heping Town is the throat of ancient Shaowu to Jiangxi, Taining, Jianning and Tingzhou. Moreover, one of the three passes out of Fujian Province, the pass "chousiling" is located in Heping, so it has become a must for military strategists. Heping Town was inhabited by human beings as early as 4000 years ago. It was built in the Tang Dynasty and has a long history and culture. It is the first ancient town in the history of Shaowu. It is a rare Castle style village in China, and many of its ancient buildings are one of the most distinctive ancient residential buildings in China.

Heping, formerly known as "Heping", means flat terrain and rich in rice. In the Neolithic period, the ancestors of ancient Yue lived and multiplied here. The recorded history began in the Tang Dynasty. The history of its establishment is as follows: in Tang Dynasty, it was named as zhoujinli; in Song Dynasty, it was named as zhoujinxiang; in Yuan Dynasty, it was named as Xiaxiang; in Ming Dynasty, it was named as 33 capitals of Xiaxiang; in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, it was named as hepingfen County; in 1960, it was renamed as Heping people's commune; in 1984, it was renamed as Heping people's commune Pingzhen is now the economic, cultural and commercial center of shaonan. In the history of peace, there were many talented people, including two prime ministers, six ministers and 137 Jinshi. Therefore, peace is also known as the "hometown of Jinshi in China". Today, there are more than 20 doctors, masters and postgraduates, who are distributed all over the country.

Architectural landscape

Heping ancient town has a long history and profound cultural accumulation. The architectural pattern of Heping ancient town is rare in China. At present, there are still two gates, qiaolou and part of the city wall in the east gate and the north gate. In the city, a main street paved with bluestone slabs is more than 600 meters long, which is called "the first street in Fujian" by experts. There are many cultural relics and historic sites in the ancient town. In the castle of 0.43 square kilometers, there are the earliest "Peace Academy" founded by Huang Qiao in the history of Northern Fujian. There are five "dafudi" such as Li's, Huang's and Liao's. There are also "county yamen", the former site of County Division set up during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. There are also Qishan temple, Ding's temple, jiushiyicang, Xie's zhuangcang, simadi and jiushisangong (Tianhou palace, Dingshi temple, etc.) Nearly 200 typical Ming and Qing ancient buildings, such as Wanshou Palace, Sanxian palace, enkui, etc., form a group of ancient residential buildings. Heping is also Huang Qiao's hometown. After five dynasties, Huang Qiao, the Minister of industry of Tang Dynasty, married 21 sons with three wives and had more than 20 million descendants all over the country and Southeast Asian countries. Therefore, the "Huang Qiao tomb" and "Huang Shiqiao ancestral hall" in Kantou village attract lots of tourists every year In addition, the Guangyuan temple in luoqian village, the Zhongqian temple in Kanxia village, the xiashen bridge in Kantou village, and the "Jukui pagoda" inscribed by yuan Chonghuan, a national hero and militarist in the late Ming Dynasty, are listed as municipal cultural relics protection units.

geographical position

Heping Town is located in the southwest of Shaowu City, adjacent to Chengjiao Town, DABUGANG town and Longhu town of Taining County in the East and Southeast, Guilin Township and xiaojiafang town in the South and southwest, Jinkeng Township in the West and northwest, and Yanshan town in the north.

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