Wei Guo Xiang, Xia County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province

Weiguo Township

Weiguo township is located in the middle of Xia County, 5 kilometers away from the county. The land area is 31.57 square kilometers, and the cultivated land area is 25000 mu. There are 18 administrative villages and 22 natural villages in the township, with a permanent population of 25056 (2017). Wenxia highway (Wenxi Xiaxian county) and nianpei highway (nianzhang town Peijie town) run through the north and south of the township, with convenient transportation.

With the spring breeze of the party's reform and opening up, successive Township Party committees and governments have led the people of the whole township to carry out industrial restructuring, grain and cotton production has increased year after year, people's life has been continuously improved, and public welfare undertakings have developed rapidly. Oil, telephone and cable TV have been connected in all villages, and 70% of villages have been hardened. Forest network of field roads, mechanization of agricultural production, household electrical life, modernization of transportation and communication. As there are more people and less land, the number of people doing business abroad accounts for about 30% of the population of the township. The traditional pastry processing, clothing processing, vermicelli processing and breeding businesses account for about 15% of the total number of households in the township, and the population engaged in the tertiary industry is increasing. Education is booming, and the county has won the fourth place in a row in the quiz. Xiyin village is said to be the hometown of Leizu. Leizu is said to be the daughter of the Xiling family and the wife of the Yellow Emperor. He is the inventor of sericulture and silk weaving in China. In 1925, Tsinghua University excavated a rich Neolithic cultural site here. During the Japanese occupation, they also excavated and stole cultural relics. It is now a cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level.