Songkou Town, Meixian District, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province

Songkou town

Songkou Town, subordinate to Meixian District, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, is located at the junction of Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, in the northeast of Meixian district. The town government is located in Songkou sikeng New District, 48.1 km away from Meixian District People's government. It is adjacent to Qingxi Town of Dapu County in the East, Songshan Mountain of Baidu town in the west, Yingya town of Dapu county and Yanyang town of Meixian District in the south, Taoyao town and Longwen town in the north, with a total area of 328.4 square kilometers. By the end of 2018, 64811 people had registered residence in Song Kou Town. As of June 2020, Songkou town has 41 administrative villages and 5 communities.

Since the modern times, the Hakka people in Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi have been the first stop of the Hakka people in the Southeast Asia. They are the first Chinese Hakka immigrants to open up the "India Ocean Road". They have the only "China (Meizhou) immigration Memorial square" in China Chinese mainland. They are one of the four ancient towns in ancient south of the Five Ridges. They are a town with a history of 1200 and have rich historical and cultural relics. Songkou town is known as "the hometown of culture, folk songs and overseas Chinese". In 2012, Songkou town was designated by UNESCO as the "memorial site for Chinese immigrants"; in 2014, Songkou town was rated as "China's famous historical and cultural town" and "national key town"; in 2015, Songkou town was rated as "China Overseas Chinese international cultural exchange base"; in 2017, Songkou town was rated as "Guangdong's top ten Maritime Silk Road Cultural and geographical coordinates"; in 2018, Songkou town was rated as "Guangdong's top ten Maritime Silk Road Cultural and geographical coordinates" "The top ten ancient villages and towns in Guangdong that are most loved by netizens".

In 2015, the total income of rural economy in Songkou town was 2.664 billion yuan; the total output value of industries above designated size was 593 million yuan; the investment in fixed assets was 1.617 billion yuan; the tax revenue was 13.516 million yuan; the per capita disposable income of farmers was 15000 yuan.

Historical evolution

Songkou town is one of the four ancient towns in the south of the five ridges. The history of Songkou can be traced back to the Western Jin Dynasty. It was named Dongshe village at that time, and later renamed Meikou. It was named Songkou town in the third year of Qianhe in the Southern Han Dynasty (945).

Since the Song Dynasty, the ancestors of Songkou's surnames have moved here from Fujian and Jiangxi, and developed and built a business distribution center of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, especially at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Songkou became an important post station for the overseas migration of Meizhou, Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi Hakkas, the birthplace of the "maritime Silk Road" for overseas Chinese, and the first port of the "Indian Ocean Road" for Hakkas.

In 1994, Songbei Township and Songkou town merged into Songkou town.

administrative division

By June 2020, Songkou town has 41 administrative villages (Zhenjiao village, Datang Village, Dali Village, Shipan village, sikeng village, Xiaping village, Daoche village, Meijiao village, Panlong village, yangkeng village, Shankou village, Taidong village, Chetian village, Dajian village, Guanping village, tongpa village, Songjiao village, Pengxia Village, Nanxia village, nanshang village, zhentou village, Dahuang village, Xiaohuang village, Hengdong village, Hengxi Village) There are five communities (prosperity community, Guangming community, Aiqun community, songnanxu community, songdongxu community), including Ziyu village, Dehua village, sishe village, Jingzhai village, Pengshang village, Taobao village, JieXi village, Zhongjiang village, Jiantian village, fukeng village, Xiajing village, Zhongjing village, Shangjing village, santa village, Shangshe village, Zhongshe Village).

geographical environment

Songkou Town, located at the junction of Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, is located in the northeast of Meixian district. The town government is located in Songkou sikeng New District, 48.1km away from Meixian District People's government. It is adjacent to Qingxi Town of Dapu County in the East, Songshan Mountain of Baidu town in the west, Yingya town of Dapu county and Yanyang town of Meixian District in the south, Taoyao town and Longwen town in the north, with a total area of 328.4 square kilometers.

natural resources

land resource

The mountainous area of Songkou town is 6240 hectares, and the cultivated land is 1066.66 hectares.

mineral resources

The main mineral resources of Songkou town are tungsten and limestone.

Hydrological resources

There are Songyuan River and Longwen River in Songkou Town, which flow into Meijiang River in Tongyin and Xiaohuang respectively.

population

By the end of 2018, 64811 people had registered residence in Song Kou Town.

Economics

overview

In 2015, the total income of rural economy in Songkou town was 2.664 billion yuan; the total output value of industries above designated size was 593 million yuan; the investment in fixed assets was 1.617 billion yuan; the tax revenue was 13.516 million yuan; the per capita disposable income of farmers was 15000 yuan.

Agriculture

In 2015, the sown area of grain crops in Songkou was 2966.7 hectares with a total output of 20100 tons, including 2833.3 hectares of rice with a total output of 19400 tons; 4680 hectares of fruit with a total output of 124700 tons, mainly pomelo. The characteristic fruits include red flesh pomelo, three red pomelo, golden pomelo, banana, longan, plum, etc.; and new golden pomelo, three red pomelo and red bean were added throughout the year There are 300 hectares of characteristic industrial bases such as Chinese fir and rare nursery stock. The planting area of economic crops in the town is 1186.7 hectares, mainly including soybean, peanut, cassava, tobacco, etc. There are 45700 live pigs, 513000 "three birds", 752 beef cattle, 1620 sheep, 6891 dogs and 114000 rabbits. The aquaculture area is 266.7 hectares, and the total output is 3366 tons. There are 12 leading agricultural enterprises, including 2 at provincial level, 2 at municipal level, 8 at district level, 2 at provincial level and 1 at municipal level; 148 farmers' professional cooperatives, 49 at new level; 74 family farms, 47 at new level; and 2 organic agricultural products certification. 133.3 hectares of afforestation, 1066.7 hectares of forest tending and 120000 trees were planted. The annual timber cutting area was 68.5 hectares and the cutting volume was 6183.5 cubic meters.

Transportation

In the early 1980s, the transportation of Songkou town mainly depended on Hanjiang River. Songkou port is the second largest inland port in Guangdong Province, with 29 passenger terminals and freight terminals built along the river bank. In 1985, Songkou to Songnan highway was opened; in 1988, Songkou to Taoyao highway was opened; in 1996, provincial highway s223, s332 and national defense highway from Songkou to sanheba of Meixian County ran through Songkou town; in October 2000, Meikan railway, which was completed and opened to traffic, passed through Songkou Town, and there was a freight station in Songkou.

Since the 1990s, the construction of village roads and cement hard bottoming of village roads have been carried out. By 2000, all villages from town to village are equipped with cars, and 17 villages in Songkou town have realized cement hard bottoming of village roads.

social undertakings

social security

In 2015, there were 51512 urban and rural residents participating in medical insurance and 41372 rural social endowment insurance in Songkou Town, including 15461 people enjoying pension benefits; there were 1011 rural low-income households (2403 people), with a monthly payment of about 510000 yuan, 105 urban low-income households (203 people), with a monthly payment of about 75000 yuan, and an annual payment of about 6.9 million yuan; 304 five guarantee households Among them, 268 people were distributed with the five guarantees and 36 people were centralized with the five guarantees, and 2.4 million yuan was paid for the whole year; 2.7 million yuan was given to 476 fixed subsidies and preferential care objects; 333600 yuan was given to 14 retired soldiers in winter 2014; 126500 yuan was given to 23 Anti Japanese veterans; 12200 households were given comprehensive direct subsidies with the amount of 2.8472 million yuan, including 193600 yuan In 2015, a total of 8.2537 million yuan was invested in helping the poor households in Meijiao, Chetian, tongpa and Pengshang villages to get rid of poverty; 48 low-income rural houses were transformed; 457 people of all kinds were trained.

medical and health work

In 2015, there was one health center and 17 village health stations in Songkou town.

Sports

Songkou town has a fitness and leisure square, a football field (5-person system), a Chaohua football field (7-person system), and a national fitness square in Weizhen, nanshang, Nanxia, Dahuang, Hengdong, Hengxi, Xiaping, Meijiao, Guanping, Zhongjiang and Dali villages.

education

In 2015, there were 2 middle schools (Wanzhong Songkou middle school and junior middle school Songnan middle school), 4 primary schools and 4 kindergartens in Songkou, and a new private kindergarten, child star park. The primary school has 55 classes, 1698 students and 116 teaching staff. In 2015, Songkou middle school finished the college entrance examination, with 2 students entering the first line, 73 students entering the undergraduate circle, 25 students entering the super area task, 198 students entering the triple a circle and 32 students entering the super area task; Songnan middle school, junior middle school, 6 students entering the Dongshan middle school score line and 12 students entering the senior middle school score line or above in Meixian district.

History and culture

The origin of the name

On the origin of the name of Songkou, it is said that Songyuan river flows into Meijiang from here, and Songbai market and Xikou market are called together.

An important Hakka town

The town of song Kou is a Hakka Town, and one of the first places where Hakka ancestors moved southward. It is the first stop of Hakka people in Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi to go down to the southeast China. It is China's Hakka people who migrate overseas to develop the "first station of India Ocean Road" and the only Chinese mainland memorial memorial to Meizhou. Since the Song Dynasty, the ancestors of the surnames of Songkou moved here from Fujian and Jiangxi, and developed and built a business distribution center of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. Songkou was the first stop for Hakkas from Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi to go out of Nanyang in the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty. In the 1950s, Meixian set up Songkou port office in Songkou and carried out port construction. At that time, it was a large inland port in Guangdong Province, with well-developed water transportation and active business logistics. At that time, eastern Guangdong, Western Fujian, and Jiangxi provinces