Laozishan Town, Hongze District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province

Laozi Mountain town

Laozishan town is located in Hongze District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province, China. It is located at the intersection of Huaihe River and Hongze Lake. It is the source of Hongze Lake and the Dabie Mountains. It connects the Yangtze River and Huaihe River on the top and the Yi and Si rivers on the bottom. It is the water transportation hub of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces. Ninglian and ningxu first-class highways are close to the town, and the "shilao" highway runs through the town, with convenient water and land transportation. Laozi Mountain is a water town with a long history, ancient culture and beautiful scenery on the southwest Bank of Hongze Lake, covering an area of 300 square kilometers, 90% of which is water area. It is one of the 100 famous towns in Jiangsu Province, with a total population of 13423 (2017).

In December 2019, laozishan town was selected as "civilized town of Jiangsu Province in 2016-2018".

Historical evolution

Laozi Mountain town has a long history. It is said that 2500 years ago, Li Er, the founder of Taoism, collected herbs and made pills here to save people's diseases. Later generations will not forget his virtue, so it is also named Danshan.

geographical environment

Laozishan Town, Hongze District, Jiangsu Province, is located on the Bank of Hongze Lake, where the sun rises and the sky shines. It is connected with the rivers of Jiangsu, Huaihe, Zhejiang and Sishui. It is the throat of the water transportation of Jiangsu, Henan, Shandong and Anhui. Ningsu Expressway and Ninglian first-class highway are close to the town, and the land transportation is convenient.

administrative division

32082910501121 college community

32082910502121 cha'an community

320829105200122 Xinhuai Village

320829105201122 ZhangZui Village

320829105202122 anhuacun

320829105203220 Changshan Village

320829105204220 Guishan Village

320829105220 Hongming Village

320829105206220 liuzui Village

320829105207220 Xintan Village

320829105208220 Xinglong Village

Population nationality

According to the population of 13423 (2017), mainly Han nationality. Fishermen account for about 60% and live in more than 60 beaches in the lake area.

natural resources

The total area of the town is 300 square kilometers, of which water surface and beach account for about 90%, and the town area is 4.8 square kilometers. Laozi Mountain town is a famous Taoist mountain, a town of hot springs, an ecological home with rich resources. Especially the hot spring resources and cultural resources, the town has proven rich hot spring resources, which is one of the best hot springs in China. It can be mined for more than 100 years. It is rich in mineral salts such as metasilicic acid and more than 20 trace elements such as strontium, sulfur, selenium and fluorine. It can be used for physical therapy, tropical fish breeding, indoor flower cultivation and so on. It has a broad market prospect.

Infrastructure

Laozi Mountain hot spring villa, built by Suyuan Group with an investment of 80 million yuan in 2004, has a club, physiotherapy, bathing, fish bath, fishing, leisure and other functional areas. It receives more than 200 visitors a day. Its service scope has been integrated into the one hour metropolitan area of Nanjing. It has absorbed more than 170 local employees of Laozi Mountain and established business relations with more than 20 travel agencies, with an annual turnover of more than 2000 The tax is 2 million yuan. In 2006, the gross national product was 180 million yuan, the investment was 120 million yuan, the fiscal revenue was 2.74 million yuan, and the per capita income of farmers was 4700 yuan.

economic development

With the pace of reform and opening up, laozishan town has taken advantage of its unique water resources, and formed a unique economic development mode by taking the waterway, making a fortune, and "panning for gold" with water. There are more than 1200 fishermen in the town now fishing on water, which has developed from river Lake fishing to sea fishing year by year, with an annual fishing output of more than 8000 tons; aquatic planting, scientific planting of reed, Salix, Zizania latifolia, etc Jialing, Euryale ferox, etc. have an area of 70000 mu, with only 1 million bales of Phragmites per year, and more than 20000 mu of water chestnut, Euryale ferox and lotus root planting area. For water transportation, there are more than 300 water transportation households in the town, more than 80 operating routes, and the annual dynamic load tonnage is more than 50000 tons. Aquatic products transportation and marketing. More than 300 fishermen break into the market and engage in short-distance and long-distance transportation, with an annual transportation volume of more than 8000 tons; aquatic products processing has built aquatic products processing plants and 5 freezers, and the number of individual processing households has grown to nearly 400, with an annual output of more than 3000 tons of fish nets, dried silver carp, lobster and shrimp, cuttlefish fillets, frozen crab roe, frozen green shrimp, etc., which are not only sold well in more than 20 provinces and cities in China, but also sold well in Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Changshu and Huaihe River An and other foreign trade ports have entered the Southeast Asian markets such as Japan and South Korea.

Laozi Mountain town is located at the intersection of Huaihe River and Hongze Lake. It was named after Li Er, the ancestor of Taoism, who used to collect medicine and refine pills to save people's diseases. It is the only town named after Laozi in China. The town is surrounded by water on three sides, with a total area of 300 square kilometers, 90% of which is water area. The town has 2 residential committees and 9 administrative villages, and has 18720 registered residence. It is a water town with a long history, an ancient culture and beautiful scenery. It is known as the "hot spring town, Taoist Resort and ecological home".

In recent years, under the correct leadership and support of the county Party committee and the county government, the town Party committee and the government closely focus on the 12th Five year plan goal of "industrial breakthrough, finance of 100 million yuan, tourism construction of two zones", with investment attraction as the main line, project construction as the starting point, tourism development as the center, improvement of people's livelihood as the foundation, based on the reality, strive to tackle the difficulties, and the economy and society have achieved rapid development Rapid development. In 2011, it built a 2A level tourist scenic spot; in 2012, it won the honorary titles of "China's best ecological leisure tourism destination", "China's charming customs tourism town", "China's best hot spring resort tourism town" and "China's ecological strong town"; in 2013, it built a municipal level tourist resort, and won the "Asia Golden Tourism Award · the most beautiful cultural leisure tourism town in Greater China" and "Jiangjiang city" Jiangsu Province "famous town of Landscape Tourism". At the same time, it is listed as one of the 20 Characteristic Towns in the "4820" town by the municipal Party committee and municipal government.

Laozi Mountain hot spring villa, built by Suyuan Group with an investment of 80 million yuan in 2004, has a club, physiotherapy, bathing, fish bath, fishing, leisure and other functional areas. It receives more than 200 visitors a day. Its service scope has been integrated into the one hour metropolitan area of Nanjing. It has absorbed more than 170 local employees of Laozi Mountain and established business relations with more than 20 travel agencies, with an annual turnover of more than 2000 The tax is 2 million yuan. In 2006, the gross national product was 180 million yuan, the investment was 120 million yuan, the fiscal revenue was 2.74 million yuan, and the per capita income of farmers was 4700 yuan.

scenic spot

Laozi Mountain town has a profound cultural heritage. It has explored and built Taoist culture, Buddhist culture and ancient Huaihe culture. It has invested more than 2 million yuan to build Anhuai temple and restore qingniuji, Xianren cave, Guishan imperial wharf, jellyfish well, stone turtle, etc. in particular, the annual fishermen's kite art festival and Anhuai temple activities attract tourists from all over the world. Three fishermen's water sports meetings were held successively, including water basketball, water tug of war, husband and wife rowing, bow throwing fork, underwater fishing, Fu Zhong swimming, mast climbing and whistling, fishermen's weaving net, etc. more than 20 sports events were held, such as sports stage, economic and trade singing, annual festival activities, creating direct economic benefits of more than 1 million yuan. Laozishan town is one of the 100 famous towns in Jiangsu Province, and also one of the advanced towns in science and technology, mass culture and sports in Jiangsu Province. In 2006, laozishan town won the title of advanced town in fitness activities of hundreds of millions of farmers in China.

Geothermal hot spring

Laozi Mountain is rich in geothermal hot spring resources: four springs have been drilled, the water temperature is 61 degrees, and the daily water output of each hot spring well is 2000 cubic meters. According to the experts' argumentation, the water reserves are medium-sized and can be exploited for more than 100 years. Hot water is rich in a variety of mineral salts, of which metasilicic acid content is 64.22 mg / L, total soluble solids up to 2047 mg / L, lithium 0.245 mg / L, strontium 4.0 mg / L; in addition, fluorine, sulfur and other more than 20 trace elements also meet the national standards of medical and mineral water, according to experts, Laozi Mountain hot spring is the best hot spring in China, which not only plays a role in physical therapy, beauty, but also is the most suitable It is suitable for the construction of hot spring baths, tropical fish breeding and mineral water development. Laozi Mountain is an excellent place for investors to develop hot spring industry and tourism economy.

An Huai Temple

Anhuai temple is located at the top of the north mountain of Sizhen. Its original site is Guishan. It was built in Song Dynasty. It is known as Guishan temple in history and is a famous temple of Jianghuai. In 1680, the temple was submerged by the flood. In 1839, Linqing, the governor of Jiangnan River, moved to Anhai temple to install the Buddhist vessels from qianguishan temple. Due to the disrepair after the mid Qing Dynasty and the war and banditry, the temple was razed to the ground after liberation. In 1994, in order to implement the party's religious policy and develop local tourism economy, the people's Government of laozishan town built a new Anhuai temple on the top of Beishan Mountain, covering an area of more than 20 mu. It was built in the same year. A grand opening ceremony was held on May 18 (April 8 Buddha Bathing Festival).

Thanks to the efforts of all the jungles and monks, the construction scale of xin'anhuai temple has been expanded year by year, the Buddhist instruments have been improved day by day, the exchanges between cloud monks have been frequent, and tanyue has been increasing day by day. Anhuai temple, in front of which is the Shanmen Hall (dedicated to Maitreya Buddha and Weituo God), in the middle is the Daxiong Hall (dedicated to the three saints of the West and the Bodhisattva of dizang king), in the south is the Jade Buddha Hall (dedicated to Sakyamuni Buddha and thousand handed Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva), in the north is the Dawang Hall (dedicated to four golden dragons and four statues of Dawang), and at the foot of the mountain is the immortal Cave (dedicated to Laozi's meditation). It seems to be a pattern of gathering Buddhas, Taoists, immortals and gods. This is the only tree in the country. At this point, visitors can not only worship the Buddha, worship the gods, pray for fortune, but also take the lead to visit the Phoenix Pavilion and enjoy Hongze Lake. The Huaihe River flows, the boats shuttle, the lake