Xihe Town, Xiazhen Town, Dapu County, Guangdong Province

Xihe town

Xihe Town, subordinate to Dapu County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, is located in the northeast of Dapu county. It is adjacent to Yongding County, Fujian Province in the East and North, chayang in the west, Yanshang and hucha in the south. The territory is triangular in shape and covers an area of 127.12 square kilometers. By the end of 2018, Xihe town had a total population of 36169. As of October 2019, Xihe town has jurisdiction over one community and 27 administrative villages.

In Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, Xihe belonged to Zhangxi and Yong'an. Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was called Baoan and the second class of reform, which was still the case in the Republic of China. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, Xihe District was set up, with Yanshang township. In 1961, shiyanshang commune was established. In March 1978, Dongtang commune was established. In November 1983, Dongtang commune was withdrawn and returned to Xihe District. In the winter of 1986, the district was removed and the town was established.

In 2018, the total rural economic income of Xihe town was 1.001 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.06%; the per capita net income of farmers was 15548 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.87%.

Historical evolution

In Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, Xihe belonged to Zhangxi and Yong'an.

Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was called Baoan and the second class of reform, which was still the case in the Republic of China.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, Xihe District was set up, with Yanshang township.

In 1961, shiyanshang commune was established.

In March 1978, Dongtang commune was established.

In November 1983, Dongtang commune was withdrawn and returned to Xihe District.

In the winter of 1986, the district was removed and the town was established.

administrative division

As of October 2019, Xihe town has jurisdiction over one community and 27 administrative villages.

geographical environment

Location context

Xihe Town, located in the northeast of Dapu County, is adjacent to Yongding County in Fujian Province in the East and North, chayang in the west, Yanshang and hucha in the south. The territory is triangular in shape and covers an area of 127.12 square kilometers.

topographic features

There are 10 peaks in Xihe Town, such as liangshanlai and dahuading, with an altitude of 600 meters, which are distributed in the northeast and adjacent to the southeast. The town is located along the stream, with flat terrain, and the rest are mostly valleys or low hills.

hydrology

In Xihe Town, there is Wenshui River from east to west, which meets with Huangsha River from Fujian in xihewei, which is called Zhangxi. Zigzag westward flow, through chelong, huangtang, Dongtang, Dajing, Beitang to chayang old Dapu County Ximen Huiting River, so also known as Ximen river. There are 6 hydropower stations with an installed capacity of 2500 kW.

natural resources

The mountainous area of Xihe town is dominated by pine trees, with a small amount of fruit trees and medicinal materials.

Economics

Xihe town is a mountainous town which mainly focuses on agriculture. It is the key agricultural production base of Dapu County, known as the "granary of Dapu". Flue cured tobacco is the main cash crop, and shredded radish is a traditional product in winter. There are 920 hectares of cultivated land, including 780 hectares of paddy fields. In 1990, the comprehensive management of "mountains, rivers, fields, forests and roads" was carried out. Focusing on the construction of irrigation and water conservancy facilities, a total of 9.65 million yuan was invested in the comprehensive treatment of Zhangxi River, reservoir, dike, dam, irrigation channel and mechanized road. By 2000, 80% of the farmland had been protected from drought and flood. Since 1979, Xihe town has developed planting and breeding industry, and cultivated five agricultural pillar industries, including flue-cured tobacco, watermelon, honey pomelo, vegetables and fish culture. By 2000, 15 production bases have been established, including 200 hectares of high-quality flue-cured tobacco, 200 hectares of high-quality watermelon, 200 hectares of honey pomelo, 66.67 hectares of high-quality persimmon, 66.67 hectares of vegetables, 33.33 hectares of fish culture and 133.33 hectares of high-quality rice. In 1979, the planting area of grain crops was 1240 hectares, the total output was 3777.55 tons, and the total income of rural economy was 1.093 million yuan. In 1990, the planting area of grain crops was 1700 hectares, the total output was 8212 tons, and the total income of rural economy was 21.46 million yuan. In 2000, the planting area of grain crops was 1828.93 hectares, the total output was 10300 tons, and the total income of rural economy was 153 million yuan.

As of 2000, there are 634 township enterprises in the town, including 35 township enterprises, 41 village enterprises and 558 individual enterprises, with 5367 employees. The total output value of township enterprises is 91.81 million yuan. The industry involves casting, building materials, paper making, leather processing, hardware, electric power, agricultural machinery manufacturing, etc. Hydropower enterprises have developed into large-scale enterprises, with a total of 11 large and small power stations with a total installed capacity of 5000 kW. The larger hydropower stations include Zhangbei hydropower station, Xitou hydropower station, xiaodiaohe hydropower station and taipingting hydropower station.

In 2018, the total rural economic income of Xihe town was 1.001 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.06%; the per capita net income of farmers was 15548 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.87%.

traffic

Xihe town is 15 kilometers away from the county, and the highway mileage is 24 kilometers. There are provincial highway on the line, provincial highway west line and West Lake line, local highway north rock line. Through Beiyan line and Changshang line, Nantong county and Shantou City, Xitong chayang town and Meizhou City, and through western line to Longyan City, Fujian Province. As of 2000, 17 villages in the town have been opened to traffic with a mileage of 49.2 km, and 70% of the main village roads have been paved with cement. A total of 15 bridges have been built in Zhangxi River Basin, which can be connected by cars. Among them, 13 bridges were rebuilt or newly built after the catastrophic flood on August 8, 1996.

social undertakings

infrastructure

In 1992, program-controlled telephone was opened in every village of Xihe town. By 2000, 8 telephone villages and 3560 telephone users had been built. In 1997, the mobile phone was opened. The cable TV station was built in 1992. By 2000, the coverage rate of cable TV was 90%, and 95% of the farmers used TV.

In 2018, Xihe town completed the construction of provincial new rural demonstration area. Zhangxi railway suspension bridge to Dongtang Baima square waterfront greenway upgrading project was fully completed; Beitang village love bridge was officially opened to traffic, Zhangbei bridge project was basically completed, and traffic environment was significantly improved. 15 new garbage pools and more than 300 garbage cans were built, basically realizing full coverage of garbage collection. The reconstruction of town level water supply pipeline was completed, and the 168 km "village to village" water supply pipeline laying project was completed, basically realizing the full coverage of water supply.

education

In 1988, there were 2 junior middle schools, 16 primary schools and 16 junior middle schools in Xihe town.

In 2000, there was a junior middle school in Xihe town with 78 staff and 865 students. There are 24 primary schools, 211 teaching staff and 1680 students.

Cultural undertakings

In 1988, simple theaters were built in Zhangxi, Dajing and Beitang, respectively.

In 2018, Xihe town carried out cultural activities, and held 29 cultural exhibitions, "three hundred projects" performances, Spring Festival couplets and other activities throughout the year.

medical and health work

In 1988, Xihe town had one health center and eight health centers and stations.

In 2000, Xihe town had one health center and 11 health stations (clinics), with a total of 40 medical staff.

In 2018, 27 village level health stations in Xihe town were basically completed.

Environmental Health

In 2018, Xihe town launched the "two beauties" urban and rural environment improvement action, and initially established a long-term cleaning mechanism for the whole town. Three new garbage compression vehicles and four small garbage collection vehicles were newly purchased. Two cleaning teams were set up and 111 cleaners were employed to clean and transfer more than 2500 tons of garbage. A total of 878 street lamps were installed throughout the year, lighting up 25 km of village roads, renovating the pipeline network of villages along the line, and carrying out afforestation and greening activities. A total of more than 15000 trees were planted throughout the year. We carried out in-depth rectification of livestock and poultry breeding, and removed 156 livestock and poultry farms in the forbidden areas along the river. The river length system has been fully implemented, with 5.6 km of new dykes and nearly 15 km of river channels cleared. To carry out the daily patrol of Town Village joint prevention of "riverside, reservoir side, stream side and ditch side", shut down 3 illegal sand mining sites, clear 3 occupied river courses and reclaim vegetable gardens.

Poverty alleviation

In 2018, Xihe town will do a solid job in the dynamic management of the basic data and information of filing and card establishment, re verify and re screen the information of the registered poor households in the town, standardize and improve all kinds of archives and systems, and establish work accounts by categories and households. There are 629 households and 1282 people living in poverty in Xihe town. By 2018, there will be 606 households and 1222 people living in poverty, and the poverty alleviation rate will reach 95.32%. It should be included in the policy-based guarantee system. 496 poverty-stricken households should receive 100% of the insurance; 192 poverty-stricken students should receive 100% of the education subsidies; 86 poverty-stricken households should complete the reconstruction of rural dangerous houses; all poverty-stricken households should pay the cooperative medical insurance for urban and rural residents in 2019; Xihe town has also successfully passed the provincial, municipal and county poverty alleviation and development assessment.

History and culture

The origin of place names

Xihe River is also called Ximen river because Zhangxi river bends to the West and flows through the west gate of chayang.

Overseas Chinese culture

Xihe town is the key hometown of overseas Chinese in Dapu County, with more than 20000 overseas Chinese and "three compatriots", mostly distributed in Southeast Asia, and 1800 family members of overseas Chinese in the town. After 1979, overseas Chinese and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots donated 35.4 million yuan to set up 568 public welfare undertakings. The major projects include tianjiabing health center, tianjiabing sixth middle school teaching building, laigaojie teaching building of Xinmin school, huangtang primary school, further primary school, Zhangbei bridge, Beitang tianjiabing bridge, Jingxin Bridge, huangtang Yihui bridge, Liangming bridge, Kaijian Road, Qingshou Avenue, etc.

Local specialties

Xihe Kudzu Powder

Xihe kudzu powder is produced in Xihe Town, which is known as "the granary of Dapu". Pueraria lobata with high quality powder

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