He Kou Kou Zhen, Jianghua Yao Autonomous County, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province

Helukou town

Helukou Town, a town under the jurisdiction of Jianghua Yao Autonomous County, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, is located at the foot of Gupo mountain in the southernmost part of Jianghua county and the north foot of Nanling Mountain. It was called "Wuling Nanping" in ancient times. It is the southernmost town in Hunan Province and adjacent to six towns in Hezhou City, Guangxi Province. The total area of the town is 134.76 square kilometers, and the registered residence population is 27634 (2018). It has 1 communities and 13 administrative villages (2019).

In 2018, there were 13 industrial enterprises in helukou Town, including 5 Industrial Enterprises above Designated Size and 82 comprehensive stores or supermarkets with a business area of more than 50 square meters.

Historical evolution

River crossing, because the Baisha River and Hunan, Guangxi Province, the only way to get the name.

In 1950, the township was established.

In 1958, it was the people's commune at Hekou.

In 1984, the township system was restored.

In 1985, the township was removed and the town was built.

administrative division

In 2003, helukou town governed 18 administrative villages and 1 community.

In 2019, helukou town has one community and 13 administrative villages: helukou community, lamanshan village, Chuanlingjiao village, baishatang village, Lingjiao village, xiuyutang village, Linjia village, laoche village, Caitang village, Zhaoli village, pogantou village, buliping village, Jianshan community village and Niulu community village.

geographical environment

Location context

Helukou town is located in the southernmost part of Hunan Province and the southernmost part of Jianghua county. It is located at the northern foot of Gupo mountain, which was called "Wuling Nanping" in ancient times. It is adjacent to Liangchahe in the East, Babu District, Zhongshan County and Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County in Hezhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the south, Lianshan town and Xinhua Township in Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County in the west, and Taowei town in the north, with a total area of 134.76 square kilometers (2016) Before the village merging reform, the area was 123.73 square kilometers. After the reform, shanmuyuan village, originally belonging to Taowei forestry farm, was merged into Niulu community, with an area of 134.76 square kilometers. The town government is 59 kilometers away from Jianghua county.

natural resources

The cultivated land area of helukou town is 912.73 hectares, including 660.33 hectares of paddy field and 252.4 hectares of dry land.

Helukou town is rich in tin, tungsten, iron, kaolin, rare earth and other minerals, of which the reserves of rare earth minerals are second only to Bayan Obo in Inner Mongolia, ranking second in the country, and has the reputation of "mineral treasure house".

population

In 2017, there were 15668 permanent residents in helukou town.

In 2018, 27634 people registered residence in the town of he Lu Kou.

Helukou town is an area inhabited by ethnic minorities. There are five ethnic minorities, including Yao and Zhuang. The population of ethnic minorities is 21962, accounting for 87.5% of the total population. Yao is the main ethnic group, accounting for 4385, accounting for 85.15%.

Economics

The industrial development of helukou town mainly focuses on planting, breeding and trade.

Helukou town speeds up the construction of mining and metallurgy circular economy industrial park, focuses on building an area of 6 square kilometers, forms three industrial clusters of mining and metallurgy circular economy, tungsten and tin intensive processing, rare earth, kaolin rough processing and stone industry, and strives to create a provincial high-quality pig breeding demonstration base and a fruit base dominated by Rose tangerine.

In 2013, the gross national product of helukou town was 2.3 billion yuan, including 2.1 billion yuan of industrial output value, 600 million yuan of fixed asset investment, and nearly 50 million yuan of fiscal and tax revenue.

In 2018, there were 13 industrial enterprises in helukou Town, including 5 Industrial Enterprises above Designated Size and 82 comprehensive stores or supermarkets with a business area of more than 50 square meters.

Transportation

National Highway 207 passes through Hekou town.

History and culture

Local customs

The Pingdi Yao in Hekou town are concentrated, most of them are shangwubao Yao who speak yeheni language, and their clothes are ancient and elegant. Every year, grand celebrations are held on King Ren's day on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month and King Pan's day on the sixteenth of October. Every year, on the first day of the second lunar month, young men and women go to the mountains to sing songs. Every festival, every village dances duemani dance, lion dance and dragon dance. Every family makes tofu balls, rice noodles or boiled pork. On the Bird Festival, we make glutinous rice boiled Baba, bamboo leaf wrapped Baba on the Qingming Festival, and zongzi Baba on the Dragon Boat Festival and July. It takes three years to get married. When getting married, the bride should wear a phoenix crown and sit in a sedan chair. Before getting married, she should sit in a song hall at night.

famous scenery

Gupo mountain

In 2009, Gupo mountain at Hekou was approved as a provincial scenic spot. Two thirds of Gupo mountain scenic spot is in Hekou town. Gupo mountain, the main tourist attraction in the territory, is tall and the main peak is 1726 meters above sea level.

Honorary title

In 2019, helukou town was rated as the outstanding sub unit of the county's performance evaluation in 2019, the county's advanced township of grass-roots party construction, the county's advanced township of comprehensive management and stability maintenance (safe construction), the top 15 in the public survey evaluation, the third in the county's total year-end results in the public survey, the "three noes" township of petition work, the advanced township of poverty alleviation, the advanced town of rural revitalization, and the implementation of urban and rural construction land increase Lingjiao village was awarded the third prize of "safe demonstration village" in 2019, Linjia village was awarded the advanced village of human settlement environment improvement (environmental sanitation) in 2019, and Niulu community was awarded the advanced village of roadway construction in 2019.