Qindou Town, Leizhou City, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province

Qindou town

Qindou town is located in Beibu Gulf, Leizhou City, Guangdong Province, China, with an area of 104 square kilometers (in 2017) and cultivated land of more than 30000 mu. It has 18 administrative areas and 68 natural villages with a population of 53542 (in 2017). Qindouwei, the seat of the town government, is 62 kilometers away from Leicheng.

economic development

Pearl culture and mango cultivation are the two advantages of Qindou. Pearl and mango have become famous products at home and abroad. Liusha pearl culture farm has become the largest and most efficient pearl culture base in Guangdong Province. There are 22 specialized pearl farming villages and 2541 family pearl farms in the town, covering an area of more than 2300 mu, with an annual output of 2.8 tons of pearls, accounting for one third of the national pearl production. They are exported to Japan and other places. The income of pearl industry is 22.6 million yuan. With the continuous expansion of pearl breeding scale, pearl seedling breeding, pearl necklace processing, shell processing and other businesses also emerge as the times require. There are 157 processing plants and 257 pearl seedling breeding farms. Qindou mango, with good quality and fragrant taste, can be compared with Luzon mango and is exported to Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asian markets. In 2008, the total output value of industry and agriculture was 297.4752 million yuan, including 61.2125 million yuan of industrial output value, 236.2627 million yuan of agricultural output value and 1.45 million yuan of fiscal revenue. Qindou mango and Liusha pearl are the two characteristic industries of Qindou town. They were certified as "products under national protection of geographical origin" by the expert group of protection and examination of products of geographical origin of AQSIQ in April 2005. Qindou mango: the town has an excellent mango planting area of 15000 mu, with an average annual output of more than 15000 tons. In 1995, Qindou Zihua No.1 mango won the silver award of the second National Agricultural Expo (the highest fruit series Award); in 1996, Qindou town was named "the hometown of mango in China"; in 2004, it was recognized as a pollution-free fruit by the Ministry of agriculture. Quicksand pearl: in 1965, it achieved the success of artificial cultivation of pearls, creating a precedent of artificial cultivation of pearls in China. At present, the town has 3 million mu pearl breeding area, more than 60 fish fry and shellfish hatcheries, more than 110 Pearl series products processing enterprises, with an annual processing of more than 20 tons of pearls (90% of the national sea pearls), and more than 500 tons of nacre powder. The products sell well at home and abroad. Qindou town has convenient transportation and superior location. It is 10 kilometers away from 207 National Road in the East, and the roads are crisscross in the territory. It has the second largest deep-water port in western Guangdong, Liusha port. Liusha port is not only the second channel from the mainland to Hainan, but also the golden waterway from the mainland to Vietnam and Southeast Asian countries. In recent years, our town has given full play to its resource advantages, determined the working idea of "prospering the town with port and prospering the town with characteristics", vigorously developed coastal industries and sought new economic growth points relying on the port. We should strive to build Qindou into a central coastal town with prosperous commerce, beautiful environment and harmonious society in the shortest time.

Population data

(fifth census data) 53542 (2017).

History and culture

Tangbian Catholic Church

From the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China, with the religious culture of Xuanmen, Buddhism and Catholicism flowing into Leizhou Peninsula in Zhanjiang, France, Britain and other countries built some religious buildings in Leizhou Peninsula in Zhanjiang. However, with the passage of time, some of these ancient buildings have collapsed, some of them have been demolished in political movements in different historical periods, and the remaining foreign buildings have been destroyed Very few. In Tangbian village, Qindou Town, Leizhou City, Zhanjiang, there is a Catholic church built in 1933, which has become the most intact building in the southwest of Haikang. According to the records of Haikang county annals, the church was established by the French priest Gao Miqian in the 22nd year of the Republic of China. In 1953, the French priest Gao Miqian was deported by the government to stop the religious movement. In 1986, the church resumed the religious movement. Tangbian village church, with a significant foreign building style, surrounded by the remains of the turret and wall, the scale is very magnificent. Seeing these, it seems that the fierce pictures of villagers fighting with bandits and Japanese devils in the past are emerging again. Li Peng, a village cadre, told the author that according to the eight or 90 year old people in Tangbian village, during the anti bandit and anti Japanese movements, the whole village and even the villagers of several neighboring villages were hiding in the church. At that time, there were high and solid walls and turrets around them. The villagers hid in the turrets and used gunpowder guns to shoot Japanese devils or bandits, which made many villagers escape from the disaster Disaster. During the Anti Japanese period, the Japanese once wanted to bomb the church by plane. When they saw that the church was planted with the French flag, they gave up bombing the church. After liberation, the church used to be the office building of the production team, the sports ground of the Party branch in Tangbian Township, and the cultural movement center in the village. Every year, during the grand Catholic Festival, believers from far and near such as Zhanjiang hold a grand movement here, and the villagers consciously protect this historic construction in the period of the Republic of China.

Li's ancestral hall in Tangbian Village

Tangbian village has a long history. Its ancestors are from Xiangxiang village in Dongzhuang, Putian, Fujian Province. Li Demi, a Jinshi in Ming Dynasty, was born in Xiangxiang (under Songshan Mountain) village, Xiuyu Town, Putian, Fujian Province. In the 14th year of Chenghua (1478) of Ming Dynasty, he was granted Jinshi of Wushu and served as the governor of Zhili. In the first year of emperor Hongzhi (1488), he was promoted to Guangyou to inspect the Constitution and patrol the north of the sea. Hongzhi (1492) ascended the rank of Demei Gong, a Jinshi in Ming Dynasty, and served as Cao wailang and Lei Qiongzhou's chief inspector. Under the jurisdiction of Lei Qiong, he is famous for his outstanding political achievements and honesty. He has dealt with many wolf children, calmed down the rampant sea bandits, recovered gourd essence, enriched farmland and made the people rich. Duqiong toured the counties and townships to understand the local conditions and customs, built schools, changed customs and customs, used both virtue and prestige, promoted advantages and eliminated disadvantages, and won the hearts of the people. It is recorded in the historical records of Haikang, Qiongzhou and Hepu. The first father, Demei Gong, gave birth to two men, the eldest son, Ke Cheng, and the second son, Ke Yan. The second son, Keyan, was on his way back to Leizhou with his father (Demi Gong), who died of illness and then stayed in Leizhou. Li's ancestral hall in Tangbian Village

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