Jiedexiu Town, Gongga County, Shannan City, Tibet Autonomous Region

Jedxiu town

Gongga County of Shannan City governs the town. It is located in the east of the county, adjacent to Zang County in the East, Jixiong town in the west, Changguo Township across the Yarlung Zangbo River in the north and Langjiexue Township in the south. Jiedexiu is a famous "apron town" and one of the "eight ancient towns". Jiedexiu means "eloquence" in Tibetan. Zeng Mingjie, Dexiu, jiedexue, etc.

In January 2019, jiedexiu town was selected as the seventh batch of famous historical and cultural towns in China.

Established in 1959, it has jurisdiction over three townships. Jiedexiu township was built in 1987 and renamed jiedexiu town in 1999. It covers an area of 175.36 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over jiedexiu, semei neighborhood committee and Xiuer, Kexi and Guoji village committees, with 28 natural villages. Jiedexiu neighborhood committee of town government. There are 5036 permanent residents (in 2017), all of whom are Tibetans. The economy is dominated by agriculture, with animal husbandry, sideline and handicraft industries. It is one of the main grain producing areas in Gongga County, with an area of 1417 mu of cultivated land and cultivated highland barley, wheat, potatoes and rape. The grassland covers an area of 9671.5 hectares, mainly raising yaks, cattle, goats and sheep. The town has 133.4 hectares of Wetland Reserve, inhabiting black necked Crane, yellow duck, white duck, spotted goose and other wild animals, as well as rich fish resources. There are 120 households in transportation, grain and oil processing, machinery repair and other service industries in the town, and jiedexiu apron factory is built in the center of the town. In 1987, the high voltage transmission line from Woka power station to jiedexiu town was built in jiedexiu Town, the substation in jiedexiu town was built in 1998, and the high voltage transmission line of Yanghu power station was built in 2000, which basically met the production and living power consumption of the whole town. Convenient transportation, 101 National Road across the territory. In the center of the town, there are cooperative medical station, two central primary schools, Lukang commercial street and dunxi Quguo temple, as well as suruolin temple, qubu nunnery temple and Padang balakang. Dunxi Quguo temple is a county-level cultural relics protection unit.