Laozhou Town, suburb of Tongling City, Anhui Province

Laozhou town

Laozhou Town, a suburb of Tongling City, Anhui Province, is adjacent to the Yangtze River, with a total area of 114.24 square kilometers. By 2019, Laozhou town has 19 administrative villages with a total population of 75000.

In 1968, after the county Revolutionary Committee replaced the county people's Committee, Laozhou district established a revolutionary committee, and Laozhou established a revolutionary committee. In 2005, after the merger of towns, the former Laozhou town and the former Laowan town were merged into a new Laozhou town. In October 2018, Anhui provincial government approved Laozhou town to be under the jurisdiction of Tongling suburb.

Laozhou town is the third batch of national development and reform pilot towns. In 2017, it won the titles of national civilized town, Anhui civilized town, Provincial Ecological Town and Anhui advanced health unit.

Historical evolution

In 1968, after the county Revolutionary Committee replaced the county people's Committee, Laozhou district established a revolutionary committee, and Laozhou established a revolutionary committee.

In 1981, Laozhou people's commune was restored.

In 1984, Laozhou commune was renamed Laozhou Township, belonging to Laozhou district.

In February 1992, Laozhou township (Wangtao, Zhenxing and Hudong villages belong to Laowan township) and Hongyang Township were merged into Laozhou town.

In 2005, after the merger of towns, the former Laozhou town and the former Laowan town were merged into a new Laozhou town.

In October 2018, Anhui provincial government approved Laozhou town to be under the jurisdiction of Tongling suburb.

administrative division

By 2019, Laozhou town has jurisdiction over 19 administrative villages and 364 villager groups.

geographical environment

Location context

Laozhou town is adjacent to the Yangtze River, with a total area of 114.24 square kilometers.

land resource

The agricultural land area of Laozhou town is 5900.36 hectares, including 4963.43 hectares of cultivated land and 3236.24 hectares of basic farmland. The agricultural land is mainly paddy field and dry land, and mainly cultivated rice, wheat, rape, cotton, potato and other crops. The total construction land area of the town is 1918.65 hectares, mainly used for market town construction and rural residential land, mainly distributed in Daqiao market town area and Laowan Industrial Park. The undeveloped land covers an area of 3515.32 hectares, mainly distributed in the Yangtze River Bund and inland beach, which is used to supplement the reserve resources of cultivated land.

population

By the end of 2017, the total population of Laozhou town was 637.

By the end of 2019, the total population of Laozhou town is 75000.

Economics

In 2018, the financial revenue of Laozhou town was 17.202 million yuan. The total investment in fixed assets is 48 million yuan, the sales volume of commercial enterprises is 72.68 million yuan, and the total industrial output value is 1.11 billion yuan. The rural per capita disposable income is 12198 yuan, and the urban per capita disposable income is 26187 yuan.

Laozhou town has three industrial parks, namely Qiaotou Industrial Park, permanent Industrial Park and Laowan Industrial Park. There are 11 Industrial Enterprises above Designated Size and 10 Commercial Mobile Enterprises above designated size. Enterprises above the designated size are mainly engaged in the production of textile and clothing and high-tech materials.

Laozhou town is rich in agricultural products resources. The traditional ones are rice, yam, peanut and duck, while the new ones are asparagus, dried moss and other agricultural products. There are 47 rural professional cooperatives, 100 family farms and many leading agricultural enterprises in the town. The local chicken breeding industry in Laozhou town has an annual output of 2 million.

traffic

Laozhou town is a famous waterway transportation town in history. He Tong Highway, Zongyang Xiabei line, Tong'an highway, he Tong Huang highway and national highway 347 (Laozhou section is 10.8 km) pass through the town. It has 28.2 km of the golden coastline of the Yangtze River. It is an important hinterland of Hefei Tongling Economic belt.

social undertakings

education

As of 2002, there are three middle schools in Laozhou Town: Laozhou middle school (Wanzhong middle school directly under the county), Tonggui junior middle school and Hongyang junior middle school, with 139 teaching staff, including 1 senior teacher, 18 intermediate teachers and 30 junior teachers. Equipped with physical and chemical laboratory, reading room, broadcasting room, etc. There are 18 primary schools in the town, with 260 formal primary school teachers. There are 33 senior teachers, 103 intermediate teachers and 45 junior teachers in primary schools. It is equipped with reading room and library, with a total of 4680 books. Early childhood education began in 1983. Tongxin primary school in Laozhou Township opened its first kindergarten. By 2001, there were one or two private pre-school classes in each village. The number of students ranged from 10 to 30. There are 18 primary schools in the town, with a total area of 83210 square meters and a total construction area of 16902 square meters. From 1995 to 2002, the total number of adult trainees in the town reached 21430.

Cultural undertakings

As of 2002, Laozhou Culture Station was set up in Laozhou town. In 1985, manglin literature society, the first folk literature society in Zongyang County, was established under the leadership of the cultural station, and the publication manglin literature was published. In 1990, the cultural center built a two-story building with library, recording room, ball room and other mass activities. In 2001, it merged with the radio station to become a cultural TV station.

medical and health work

As of 2002, there were Laozhou health centers and clinics in each village in Laozhou town. Laozhou Township Health Center has 2 deputy senior professional titles, 6 chief professional titles and 12 teacher (scholar) professional titles. The hospital has 7 clinical departments, 4 medical technology departments, 1 nursing department and 1 prevention and health care group. There are medical clinics in 18 administrative villages of the town. Laozhou has set up a schistosomiasis prevention and control group. By 2000, the total area of snail inspection was 3.9166 million square meters, and the area of snail elimination was 1.7342 million square meters, which reduced the area of snail area by 55.7 percentage points, inspected 500000 person times, treated 90000 person times, and treated 400 advanced patients.

social security

In 2018, there were 3 383 registered poor households and 9 551 people in Laozhou Town, including 3 618 registered poor households in 1474 households, and 2 335 registered poor households in 785 households to be lifted out of poverty in 2018; there were 4 poor villages, including Yufeng village, luodun village, Yuantan village and Hengyu Village, among which Yufeng village has been listed, and luodun village and Hengyu village will be listed in 2018.

Local specialties

Zongyang matchmaker (Yaogang Village) won the geographical trademark. Zongyang breeding duck is an excellent local waterfowl genetic resource formed by long-term domestication and selection of local working people. It originated in the southwest of Anhui Province, close to the North Bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The climate is mild and humid, the water network is intertwined, lakes and ponds are scattered, and food resources are rich. It has attracted a large number of wild waterfowl, especially wild ducks. Before liberation, the local people lived by fishing and hunting for generations. The hunters mainly netted all kinds of wild ducks and geese, and raised them in captivity when they couldn't finish eating them. After long-term domestication and domestication, the genetic resource of Zongyang breeding duck was formed.

Honorary title

Laozhou town is the third batch of national development and reform pilot towns. In 2017, it won the titles of national civilized town, Anhui civilized town (community), Provincial Ecological Town and Anhui advanced health unit.