Suoshan Town, Ludian County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province

Suoshan town

Suoshan Town, located in the northwest of Ludian County, is the most remote poverty-stricken mountainous Township in the county, with poor traffic conditions, blocked information, more people and less land, poor land, poor infrastructure construction, large poverty area and deep overall poverty. Located in two provinces, three counties, eight townships intersection of Niulan river. It is located in the northwest of Ludian County, 86km away from the county seat, facing Xiaohe and Hongshan towns of Qiaojia county across the river, adjacent to duiping township of Jinyang county and Yanshan, Tianba and Dashanbao towns of Zhaoyang District in Sichuan Province in the south, and Shuimo and Lehong towns in the southeast. The altitude of the town government is 1395 meters. The northeast area of the town is high, while the southwest area is low. The temperature difference is large. The whole town can be divided into three parts: alpine cold area, second half mountain area and dry hot valley area. The highest altitude is 3356.2 meters, and the lowest altitude is 568 meters, both of which belong to the highest and lowest altitude points in the county.

natural resources

The land area of suoshan town is 134.61 square kilometers. In 2003, the land area of rural infrastructure construction was reduced by 1007.49 Mu due to road construction and debris flow. The existing cultivated land resources are 16032.51 mu. At the end of 2004, the total grain output of our town reached 10.834 million kg, an increase of 604000 kg over the previous year, with an increase rate of 6.07%. The average person has 353kg of grain. The total economic income of the town is 32.95 million yuan, and the per capita net income is 971 yuan. It has jurisdiction over 9 villagers' committees (56 natural villages) including suoshan, Heishi, mishuo, Chala, goushui, heizhai, Gengdi, Tule and gantian, and 182 villagers' groups. The total number of households in the town is 6744 and the permanent resident population is 28872 (2017). The town is inhabited by five ethnic groups: Han, Yi, Miao, Hui and Zhong. the main grain products of the town are corn, rice, potato and wheat; the economic forest fruits are Zanthoxylum, tung oil tree, Ligustrum lucidum and walnut; the economic crops are sugarcane, konjac and flue-cured tobacco.

National customs

Suoshan town has a long history of humanities, and ethnic minorities have their own traditional festivals and unique national customs. Among them, the ethnic customs represented by the Yi "Torch Festival" have strong national characteristics in our county. Ethnic minorities live above the second half of the mountain, and have retained their own cultural characteristics and national customs for many years. Every year, they solemnly hold their own happy festivals Festivals.

Resource advantages

The geographical location and geological characteristics of suoshan town are relatively special. It has the highest and lowest altitude in our county, and has become the natural trend of three-level climate. In the valley area, it has Niulanjiang Grand Canyon, which is known as "Southwest Grand Canyon"; in the second half mountain area, it has Blackstone cave, which is known as "the first karst cave in southwest"; it has certain development value, location advantage and economic benefits In the past, our town was known as "Little Hong Kong". The town is rich in forest and fruit resources, including the famous small red sugarcane and yellow fruit. There are also hot spring tourism resources in gantian village, Blackstone cave, and mineral resources such as coal, iron ore and Yingshi mine.

infrastructure

With the support and help of the County Transportation Bureau, the town Party committee and government organized the masses to invest in the construction of heizhai highway, tole highway and gantian highway. According to the requirements of Tongda highway construction, 9 km of heizhai highway, 13 km of tole highway and 22 km of gantian highway have been built This project has achieved the goal of connecting every village and greatly improved the traffic conditions of our town.