Dazhangchang Town, Zhongning County, Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Battle town

Dachangzhan town belongs to Zhongning County, Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, with an area of 197.97 square kilometers and 64946 people (2017).

Historical evolution

Dazhanchang town is a section of the ancient Silk Road. It is an important traffic route from the Central Plains to the frontier fortress. In ancient times, there were often caravans. The historical origin of its place name can be traced back to the fifth year of Yuanfeng in Song Dynasty. It used to be a place with dense forests and long grass. Later, due to the wars and logging in the past dynasties, and the constant invasion of the Tengger Desert, the land gradually became desertification. People say that "there are no birds in the sky, no grass on the ground, and the wind blows, the sand and the stone run" is a true portrayal of the features of the battlefield 30 years ago.

Since 1983, the great battlefield has been constructed as an immigrant Diaozhuang, especially since the handover of territorial management, Zhongning county has increased the infrastructure construction of the great battlefield, made great progress in various social undertakings, and accelerated the pace of economic construction. Especially under the strong guarantee of various policies for benefiting the people in the Autonomous Region, the great battlefield has become the largest irrigation area for pumping the Yellow River, the largest labor export Township, and the second wolfberry in Zhongning county Daxiang has also become the largest distribution center of agricultural and livestock products in the surrounding areas.

As a Diaozhuang immigrant Town, Dazhanchang town has developed from the original immigrant households from Guyuan, Xiji and other places to people from 14 provinces, autonomous regions, 58 counties and cities living together. In the past, the Gobi desert is now a characteristic industry with fertile land, forest network, agriculture, livestock and forestry as the main line of development, and wolfberry, red dates, apples, selenium sand melon as the main industry, which makes the people in the big battlefield completely get rid of the hat of poverty.

In 1985, changshantou township was set up in Zhongning county. Later, two Diaozhuang townships were set up in Guyuan County and Pengyang County, respectively.

In 2000, the two townships of Dazhan and Majialiang were under the jurisdiction of Zhongning county.

In 2003, Zhongning county's former Dachang Township, Majialiang Township and changshantou Township were merged into Dachang township.

On April 18, 2012, Zhongning county's Dazhanchang township was officially set up as a town.

In 2014, the Ministry of housing and urban rural development and other seven ministries and commissions announced the list of national key towns, and a total of 3675 towns were selected. The town of Dazhanchang is one of the 28 selected towns in Ningxia.

administrative division

In 2020, it will have jurisdiction over 14 villages

Division code for statistics urban and rural classification code name

640521105001-220 changshantou community

640521105200 220 malianliang village committee

640521105201 220 Qinghe Village Committee

640521105202 220 Tangquan village committee

640521105203 122 big battlefield village committee

640521105204 121 Hongbao village committee

640521105205 220 huabaowan village committee

640521105206 220 changshantou village committee

640521105207 220 shilaba village committee

640521105208 220 Xingye village committee

640521105209 220 Yuanfeng village committee

640521105210 220 Dongsheng Village Committee

640521105211 220 Qihai village committee

640521105212 220 Ningyuan village committee

640521105213 220 changshanhu Village

economic development

In 2017, the per capita disposable income of farmers in Dazhanchang town exceeded 10000 yuan, reaching 10068.2 yuan, an increase of 9.0% over 2016.

On July 24, 2018, Ningxia's first rural town sewage treatment plant was officially put into operation in the town.