Jieji Township, Yongqiao District, Suzhou City, Anhui Province

Jieji Township

Jieji township is located in the northeast corner of Yongqiao District, Suzhou City, Anhui Province, with 33.9 'n and 117.3' E. It is adjacent to Tongshan County in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province in the north and Lingbi County in Suzhou City in the East. Jieji township is famous for its seedless watermelon, mutton and marble.

Brief introduction of villages and towns

Jieji township is located in the northeast of Yongqiao District, Suzhou city. It governs 41 administrative villages with 78000 mu of arable land. In the south, Laowang lake is located. In the north, there are more than 150 hills and 57000 mu of barren hills. Jieji township is known as the hometown of marble, the sheep raising base and the seedless watermelon production demonstration base of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The transportation is very convenient, 20 kilometers away from Hefei Xuzhou Expressway and 40 kilometers away from Xuzhou Guanyin Airport. In the area under jurisdiction, there are Zigong, one of the 72 sages of ancient Chinese thinker Kong Qiu, the site of sun drying calligraphy, the fishing site of Jiang Taigong, and the hometown of Li Bainian, a famous calligrapher in modern times.

Administrative area

It has jurisdiction over 13 administrative villages, including jieji, Zhangshan, Gongshan, Longshan, qiaogui, Matai, Dalingshan, Xuanhua, Liuyuan, Qingquan, Yunguang, Luying and huanglin.

location advantage

After 2000 years of development, jieji seedless watermelon production scale continues to expand, sales channels continue to expand, broker team continues to grow. Merchants all over the country are famous one after another. The picture shows a corner of watermelon market. Jieji township has unique conditions to develop seedless watermelon production. First, soil conditions. Most of the soil in jieji township is safflower silt, with fertile soil and moderate pH value, which is suitable for seedless watermelon growth. Second, climate conditions. The large temperature difference between day and night in mountainous area is conducive to sugar accumulation, and the seedless watermelon produced is extremely sweet. According to the determination, the sugar content of seedless watermelon produced by jieji is 1-2 percentage points higher than that of watermelon in other places. Third, environmental conditions. In 2008, there was no industrial project and no industrial pollution in the watermelon producing area of jieji township. It is an ideal green agricultural production base.

Geography and climate

Jieji township is located between the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, in the middle latitude zone, with subtropical humid monsoon climate. The annual average temperature is between 15 ℃ and 16 ℃, the extreme minimum temperature is - 20.6 ℃, and the extreme maximum temperature is above 38 ℃. The average annual precipitation is between 900 mm and 1000 mm.

The characteristics of annual temperature change in jieji township are obvious monsoon, four distinct seasons, mild climate, moderate rainfall, changeable spring temperature, crisp autumn, significant plum rain and concentrated summer rain. In short, the climate conditions are superior and the climate resources are rich.

industrial structure

Seedless watermelon

The annual planting area of Seedless Watermelon in the town is more than 20000 mu, and there are more than 20 key villages around the four mountains. The high-yield cultivation and greenhouse seedling raising technology of gourd grafting and sparse planting in the township is at the leading level in the country. The three-dimensional intercropping and interplanting mode has greatly increased the planting efficiency of melon farmers. The total yield of Seedless Watermelon in this township can reach 150 million jin every year, and more than 95% of them are sold to southeast coastal cities. This alone can increase the income of melon farmers by more than 30 million yuan. The production of seedless watermelon has also trained thousands of scientific and technological personnel, of which nearly 100 have been actively engaged in technology teaching and technology contracting all over the country for many years. More than 800 sellers, intermediaries and service personnel are engaged in the sales and service of seedless watermelon.

Goat breeding

Jieji township is rich in forage resources. The township government actively provides a series of services for farmers in terms of capital, technology, epidemic prevention, sales, etc., which effectively promotes the development of the breeding industry. In 2002, the scale of raising sheep can reach 100000. The township also vigorously implemented the goat improvement project, focusing on the promotion of Boer goat crossbreeding improvement. It is planned that by 2005, the popularization rate of improved goat breeds will reach 90%, and the output value of sheep production will reach 18 million yuan.

Strange stone development

Jieji township is rich in rare stone resources. The rare stone produced has strange shape, rich color and profound cultural heritage. It is a vein of Lingbi rare stone. There are more than 300 people engaged in the processing and sales of rare stones, with an annual turnover of more than 3 million yuan.

Dry fruit development in 2008, jieji township has 20000 mu of barren hills suitable for forestry, and 4000 mu of chestnut and pomegranate have been developed. In 2002, 1400 mu of high-quality pomegranate garden and 700 mu of jujube garden were newly developed.

Township Enterprises

Jieji Township township enterprises are developing rapidly, taking up half of the township economy. In 2001, the total industrial and agricultural output value of the township reached 183 million yuan, of which the output value of township enterprises reached 89 million yuan.

Development initiatives

Jieji Township issued incentive policies, focusing on the adjustment of agricultural economic structure, the implementation of industrialization and the increase of farmers' income. Jieji township is based on the local conditions, aims at the market, adjusts the structure to ensure the increase of income, leads the way with typical examples, focuses on demonstration and promotion, and strives to make the breeding industry become half of the rural economy; develops suburban agriculture around the vegetable basket of urban people, with the purpose of serving the city, enriching rural areas and increasing farmers' income.

Jieji Township takes scientific and technological innovation as the guide, improves goat varieties, and the popularization rate of improved goat varieties reaches 100%. Laser and hormone technology are used for rare flower planting, chestnut is re grafted, peanut covered with plastic film and greenhouse vegetables are bio controlled, pollution-free treatment is carried out, watermelon seed production and black beans are purified and reconstituted every year, so as to add vitality to agricultural structure adjustment and improve market competitiveness competitive power.

Jieji Township aims at market orientation, pays attention to service to promote development, focuses on the exploration of industrialized market operation mechanism, continuously cultivates and expands market main body, develops seed and breeding industry jointly with farmers in the form of contract, establishes the mechanism of risk sharing and benefit sharing, and provides a series of services for seed and breeding industry before, during and after production, mainly including unified variety, unified technical service and unified marketing Sales, decentralized management, base and farmers increase income at the same time.

historical figure

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Population data

The resident population was 58627 (2017).

(fifth census data)