Kuixiang Miao Yi Township, Yiliang County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province

Kuixiang Miao Yi Township

Kuixiang Miao Yi township is located in the south of Yiliang County, Yunnan Province, 88 kilometers away from the county. It is adjacent to Shulin township of Yiliang County in the East, Hezhen Township and dezhuo township of Hezhang County in Guizhou Province in the south, Maoping Township and Longjie township of Yiliang County in the west, and Fafa Township and Haizi township of Yiliang County in the north. The township covers an area of 228.25 square kilometers, with the highest altitude of 2478 meters, the lowest altitude of 1500 meters, and the average altitude of 2039 meters.

History and culture

Kuixiang has a long history. The seat of the township government was the county seat in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. During the Long March period, Helong, Xiaoke and Ren Bishi led the second and sixth Red Army Corps to enter and leave kuixiang three times, and launched the famous Wumeng roundabout war. It was an old revolutionary base area, and built a Red Army long march Monument with Xiaoke's inscription.

Brief introduction of villages and towns

The township has 8 villager committees and 204 villager groups. There are 11008 households of Han, Miao, Yi, CAI and Shui nationalities, with a permanent population of 49440 (2017). At the end of 2005, the per capita net income of rural farmers was 1318 yuan, and the per capita grain was 309 kg.. Zhao (Tong) town (Xiong) highway runs through the territory. Every village has electricity and access roads. China mobile communication network covers Kuiyang village, cuntian village, Pingdi village and Songlin village. China Unicom communication network covers Kuiyang village. Kuiyang village and cuntian village open program-controlled telephone and PHS.

Status of agriculture and animal husbandry

The main crops are corn, potato and flue-cured tobacco. The average annual output of corn is more than 20000 mu, with an output of 12.87 million kg, potato is more than 18000 mu, with an output of 27 million kg, and flue-cured tobacco is 6000 mu, with an output of more than 1.5 million Jin and an output value of 5 million yuan. Animal husbandry is another industry of kuixiang. Pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens and other large and small livestock have a large stock and a high sales rate, with an annual income of more than 7 million yuan. With the transfer of rural surplus labor force, labor export income has gradually become the support point of increasing farmers' income, with an annual income of 6 million yuan.

mineral resources

Kuixiang is rich in quartz sand, iron ore and coal resources. It has proven hundreds of millions of tons of high-grade quartz sand, 34 million tons of recoverable iron ore and nearly 10 million tons of coal.