Tongwan Town, Zhongfang County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province

Tongwan town

Tongwan Town, located on both sides of Yuanjiang River in the eastern half of Zhongfang County, is the economic and cultural center in the eastern part of Zhongfang county. The people's Government of the town was stationed in Tongwan. Tongan village was established in Song Dynasty and Tongwan village in Qing Dynasty. Tongwan town was established in 1953, Tongwan Township in 1956 and Tongwan commune in 1958. In 1984, he returned to his hometown and set up a town in the same year. It mainly produces rice, citrus, Camellia oleifera and wood. There are agricultural and sideline products processing, farm tools, pottery and other factories. There is a Polder, which is an important market in the east of the city. The highway connects Huaihua City and Yuanjiang River. It is connected with Xinjian and Xiaping in the west, xinluhe and Yuanjia in the south, and Longchang and Tongding in the north. The town covers a total area of 97.67 square kilometers (2017), and has jurisdiction over 23 villages including Xinghua, shuiluoan, Huangxi, maxijiang, dujiangpo, Hecun, Dayantou, Siping, duizi, Xinwu, Songpo, zhuyuantou, Sancha, sanjiatian and feijiatian, and 2 neighborhood committees including shaluowan and Xinglong Street, with a total population of 22530 (2017). There are 12061 Mu paddy fields and 1095 Mu dry land. The town has convenient water and land transportation, prosperous commerce and trade, developed economy and stable society.

infrastructure

In recent years, the town's infrastructure has been greatly strengthened. There are 193 mountain ponds and reservoirs in the town, including 3 small type I reservoirs and 4 small type II reservoirs. There are 186 mountain ponds with a total storage capacity of 4.91 million cubic meters. They are divided into three irrigation areas: zhuyuantou, dujiaxi and taoziping Shuangxikou. There are 52 kilometers of main canals in the town, 36 kilometers of which are impervious and hardened on three sides, and 615 hectares of farmland can be irrigated, which can basically guarantee the income from drought and flood. There is a tap water supply company in the town, which benefits 921 households of 4 village (neighborhood) committees and more than 2730 people. There is a 35KV substation in the town, which is the power hub center of Tongwan town and other six towns. The nearby rural power is supplied from here, which can fully guarantee the power consumption of small and medium-sized factories. There is also a small power station with an installed capacity of 250 kWh and an annual generating capacity of 800000 kwh. Tongwan hydropower station, with a total investment of 1.68 billion yuan, started construction in 2004. Since 2001, 2 neighborhood committees of 15 villages in the town have carried out rural power grid transformation, with 4326 Households Participating in the transformation, all realizing the same price of urban and rural power grid. The roads of 15 villages and 15 neighborhood committees have reached villages and groups. There are 645 telephones in the town. There are two signal transfer towers in the town, so the communication is convenient and fast. There are more than 1600 cable TV users in the town. There are 2 Internet cafes and more than 240 computers in the town, which can communicate with the outside world.

agricultural economy

There are black bone chicken and Tongwan river fish, the main food crops are rice, poultry and livestock are mainly raising chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle and sheep, and the planting industry is mainly orange, peach and pear. In recent years, with the adjustment of the industrial structure, the cultivation projects have changed, mainly including Chinese herbal medicine, tobacco, winter jujube, high-quality fish, etc. now it has a certain scale, and Tongwan river fish has become famous both inside and outside the county.

Public utilities

In recent years, the town's culture, education, health and other public utilities have also made great progress. There is a 10000 volume Library in the town, which has passed the provincial standard acceptance. There are 12 amateur "Bawangbian" teams, 2 lion dance teams and 1 folk troupe in the territory. It was once rated as "the hometown of Bawangbian art in Hunan Province". In 2000, it was rated as "the advanced town of fitness activities for 100 million farmers" by the State General Administration of sports, China farmers' Sports Association and the Ministry of agriculture. There is a middle school in the town (the second middle school in the county), which is divided into south school and north school. There are 114 teachers and 1700 students in the school, covering an area of 54 mu. There are 1 Central Primary School and 8 village primary schools, with more than 120 teachers and 1400 students, covering an area of 61 mu. The school education conditions are good. Computer and English education have been popularized in primary schools. The teachers in middle schools are strong and the teaching quality is good. There is a central health center in the town, covering an area of 7400 square meters, with 75 doctors and nurses, 40 beds, 13 village clinics and 13 doctors. The equipment is advanced and the medical and health conditions are good. There is a nursing home in the town, which was built in 1984.

History and culture

the town's farmers are hardworking and the people are honest. The residents in the town were originally ethnic minorities, and later Han people from song, yuan and Ming Dynasty migrated here from Jiangxi. The main surnames are Zhou, Yang, Liao and Qu, among which Zhou and yang are the main ones, accounting for 75% of the town. They are mainly distributed in feijiatian, Dayantou, shuiluoan, Shancha, Siping, Huangxi and zhuyuantou villages. The vast majority of the people in the territory love singing folk songs, Bawangbian and other traditional literature and art. I like dragon dance and lion dance in Spring Festival. due to its long history and long culture, the town has many places of interest and rich tourism resources. There are 1 ancient site (Zhuge city ancient battlefield site), 2 ancient buildings (Zhou ancestral temple, Huangxi Ming and Qing Dynasties ancient buildings), 1 ancient tomb (Xinwu Warring States tombs), 1 revolutionary cultural relic (Tongwan incident martyrs memorial tower), 7 landscape (Gaojia Fengyu bridge, Liu Tong's tomb, first Yuan Dynasty Gaoming lady, Longjing moon night, Huangxi cave spring, etc.). After nearly a year of exploration and development, Huangxi scenic spot was officially opened to the outside world on May Day in 2004, receiving more than 50000 tourists annually, and has become a hot spot in the surrounding areas. There are more than 500 towering ancient trees, 5 ancient roads and temples in the town, all of which are of great tourist value.