Meili Town, Changshu City, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Meili town

Meili town is under the jurisdiction of Changshu City, Jiangsu Province. In 908 ad, the first year of Tianbao in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the king of Wu and Yue garrisoned Mei Shizhong and Li Kaishan. The residents of Meili town took the surname of the two generals and named the place after them. Meili town is located in the northeast of Changshu, with Shanghai in the East, Suzhou in the south, Wuxi in the West and the Yangtze River in the north. With a history of more than 1100 years, it is known as "18 towns in Dongxiang, the first town in Meili".

With a total area of 80.84 square kilometers, Meili town governs 15 administrative villages and 3 communities, with a population of 109892 (2017).

Meili town is a pilot town of administrative system reform of economically developed towns in Jiangsu Province, a pilot area of comprehensive supporting reform of urban-rural integration development in Suzhou, and a demonstration site of beautiful town construction in Suzhou. In October 2019, it was selected as one of the "Top 1000 towns with comprehensive strength in China in 2019". On December 24, 2019, it will be included in the list of national rural governance demonstration towns.

In July 2020, the National Patriotic Health Association confirmed Meili town as a national health Township in 2019.

Evolution of organizational system

In the Tang Dynasty, the later collection of Wu Di Ji contains: "Twelve capitals of Changshu County: Jishan, Kaiyuan, Taiping, reformatory, Nansha, Chongsu, Duanwei, guizheng, Shuangfeng, Sizheng, Guoxing, Shengping.". Mei and Li belong to Kaiyuan.

In Song Dynasty, according to Yuanfeng jiuyu annals, Changshu County governs nine townships and three towns, and Meili is one of them.

During the period of Duanping in the Southern Song Dynasty, nine townships under Changshu county had jurisdiction over 50 capitals, and Meili was roughly the 25th and 26th capitals of Kaiyuan township.

In the Yuan Dynasty, in the first year of Yuanzhen (1295 A.D.), Changshu county was upgraded to Changshu Prefecture, and Li was changed to Tu, which was divided into Chang, Du and Tu below the township. Mei and Li belong to the twenty capitals of the east two fairs and the twenty-five capitals of the East three fairs. They belong to the east two venues and twenty capitals: one to Meili, two to three to Meili north, four to Meili East, five to Meili south, thirteen to Meili south, and twenty to Meidong River Bridge. It belongs to the 25 capitals of the East Sanchang: youliututangqiao, the 18 upper and lower zhaijiao, and qingshuigang.

In the Qing Dynasty, in the fourth year of Yongzheng (1726 AD), Zhaowen county was set up in the east of Changshu County, and Meili was subordinate to Kaiyuan township of Zhaowen county.

In 1910, Changshu county and Zhaowen county were divided into 35 townships and Meili city.

In August 1929, Changshu county was divided into 15 districts. Meili city belongs to Meitang district.

In April 1934, the county was divided into eight districts, and Meili district (the Second District) was established. The district office was located in Meili Town, with jurisdiction over 5 towns and 37 townships.

In May 1936, Meili district was expanded into 5 towns, 8 townships, 169 Bao and 2326a. The former meibei Town, Shide Township, jusha Township and chiwu Township were merged into Meili Town, and the former Wanliu Township, Tangqiao Township and Taosha Township were merged into Tangqiao town.

In March 1950, the county was divided into 14 districts and 218 townships, and Meili District governed 19 townships. Meili town is now divided into Meili, jusha, Fanshen (changed to Jingxiang Township in September 1953), Qingshui, Shide, Tangdi and chiwu. In the second half of the year, Baojia was abolished and administrative villages and villager groups were established.

In November 1952, the county designated Meili township as a town directly under Meili district.

In September 1957, the whole county was withdrawn from the district and merged with the township. Now the whole Meili town is merged into MeiLiDa Township, which is directly under the county.

In October 1958, a rural people's commune was established in Meili Township, which was renamed Meili people's commune. The government and society should be integrated.

In March 1981, the Revolutionary Committee of Meili people's commune was abolished and renamed the Management Committee of Meili people's commune.

In 1983, the government and society were separated and renamed Meili Township People's government, which directly belongs to Changshu City.

On April 5, 1986, Meili Town People's government was established.

administrative division

As of July 2015, Meili town has 15 administrative villages and 3 communities, and the government is located at No. 18, Renmin Road, Meili town.

Population nationality

Meili town has a permanent population of 109892 (in 2017), and the ethnic group is Han nationality.

geographical environment

Location context

Meili town is located at 31 ° 42 ′ N and 120 ° 52 ′ e, which is the alluvial plain of the Yangtze River Delta. It is located in the northeast of the city, 12 km away from the urban area, adjacent to Bixi and zhenmen in the East, Guli town in the south, Zhouxing town in the west, Hupu and Zhaoshi in the north, with a total area of 80.84 square kilometers.

climate

Meili town is located in the north subtropical coastal area of China, with prevailing monsoon, four distinct seasons, abundant rainfall and annual absolute humidity of 17.6 HPA. In spring, the southeast wind and northwest wind alternately appear, the temperature rises, but it is unstable, sometimes cold and sometimes warm, the weather is changeable, and there is more spring rain. In summer, there are more southeast wind and rainy weather in the early stage; in mid summer, the temperature is the highest and there are more summer droughts; in the late stage, there are more typhoons. In the early autumn, there are late typhoons, occasional tornadoes, more autumn wind and rain; in the middle and late autumn, there are clear air and early frost. In the early stage of winter, there are many northwest winds, cold and dry, and few rain and snow; in the late stage, there are cold rain and snow weather, with the annual average temperature of 15.4 ℃, the highest year (1961) is 16.5 ℃, and the lowest year (1972) is 14.8 ℃. In Rizhao Meili area, the annual average sunshine hours are 2202.9 hours, accounting for 50% of the total sunshine hours. The annual total solar radiation is 118.029 kcal / cm2, and the annual rainfall is 1055.8 mm, which is concentrated between April and September. In early June, when the plum ripens, the rainfall is more and the longest, commonly known as "Meiyu" season, accounting for about 28% of the whole year. The average annual frost free period in shuangzhen district is 242 days, and the guarantee rate of frost free period in 80% of the years is 228 days.

soil

The soil of Meili town is developed and formed under the combined action of natural and human factors. The parent material of the soil to the east of yantietang is the Yangtze river alluvium, mainly sandy soil and fluvo aquic sandy soil. To the west of yantietang, it is mainly composed of lacustrine parent soil and Wusha soil, and the terrain is flat due to the alluvial cover. The remnant of a 4.6 km long and 40 m wide strip-shaped ancient hillock is mainly sandy soil, belonging to the infiltration type paddy soil. The rice area in the town is mainly composed of Wusha soil, wuzha soil and Wusong soil, while the cotton area is composed of sandy soil, tidal sandy soil and sandy soil.

natural resources

There are 11 kinds of mammals, 40 kinds of birds and 12 kinds of reptiles in Meili Town, such as tortoise and turtle. There are three kinds of amphibians: frog, toad and toad. There are 24 species of fish, such as black carp, silver carp, silver carp. There are 9 kinds of crustaceans, such as green shrimp, river crab and snail. There are 45 species of insects. There are 63 species of wild plants in Meili Town, such as Acorus tatarinowii, Atractylodes lancea and Zizania latifolia.

traffic

Meili town is located in the northeast of Changshu, in the middle of the main urban area and the port area, 12 kilometers away from the main urban area. Within the one hour core economic circle of Shanghai, the Yangtze River Expressway and Coastal Expressway (Suzhou Jiahang Expressway) meet in Changshu. Changshu and Changshu port road of the Yangtze River Expressway are 2 minutes away from Meili, and provincial roads 227 and 338 pass in meilichuan. From Meili, you can reach Suzhou, Wuxi and Kunshan in half an hour, and Shanghai in one hour. Meili is 80 kilometers away from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, 120 kilometers away from Pudong International Airport, 40 kilometers away from Sunan International Airport, 40 kilometers away from Suzhou north station of Beijing Shanghai high speed railway, and 10 kilometers away from Changshu port..

Waterway: Changshu port is a national first-class port open to the outside world. It is a combined port of Shanghai shipping center and has been navigable in 265 ports in 55 countries and regions around the world

Railway: Beijing Shanghai high speed railway (35 minutes from Meili to Suzhou north station) takes 18 minutes to Hongqiao and 5 hours to Beijing

Shanghai to Nantong high speed railway (Shanghai Changshu Nantong) has started

The intercity railway along the Yangtze River (Shanghai Changshu Nanjing) has started

Tongsu Jiaxing Intercity Railway (Nantong Changshu Suzhou Jiaxing) is under planning

economic development

overview

In 2014, the GDP of Meili town was 9.04 billion yuan, the public budget revenue was 540 million yuan, an increase of 7.2%, and the total industrial output value was 28.296 billion yuan.

In 2013, the GDP of Meili town reached 10.95 billion yuan, and the public budget revenue was 504 million yuan, an increase of 22.2%. The growth rate ranked first among the towns in the city, and the total industrial output value was 33.02 billion yuan.

In 2012, the GDP of Meili town reached 10.78 billion yuan, an increase of 0.5%. The total investment in fixed assets was 2.33 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 12.5%. The electricity consumption of the whole society was 1.63 billion kwh, an increase of 16.6%. The public budget revenue was 410 million yuan, an increase of 8.5%.

In 2008, the GDP of Meili town was 6.98 billion yuan, an increase of 18.8%; the local general budget revenue was 267 million yuan, an increase of 15%; the total industrial output value was 21 billion yuan, an increase of 20%; the sales revenue of industrial products was 20.5 billion yuan, an increase of 20.2%; the registered foreign capital was 21.53 million US dollars, the actual foreign capital was 33.79 million US dollars; 66 private enterprises were newly established, the new registered capital was nearly 900 million yuan 1.2 billion yuan in industrial investment and 1.5 billion yuan in fixed assets investment.

primary industry

In 2012, Meili town was a 13000 Mu vegetable standardized demonstration production base with Zhenbei, Xinfeng and jusha as the core, with an annual vegetable output of about 120000 tons. The new high-efficiency agricultural area is 6000 mu. A total of 12000 mu of water-saving irrigation area has been built, and a production and marketing platform has been built to carry out "agricultural supermarket docking" and "agricultural business docking", supplying nearly 80 tons of vegetables to enterprises. New vegetable cold storage 7000 cubic meters, a total of 24000 mu, circulation