Cao Zhang Xiang, Xinfu District, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province

Cao Zhangxiang

CaoZhang township is located in the northeast of Xinfu District. The northeast is surrounded by Liuhe river, which borders Dingxiang County, Yunzhong River in the south, Yizhong Township in the north, Boming town in the West and Gaocheng Township in the northwest.

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There are state-owned farms (Xinding farm) in the East and Xinzhou prison (Jiecun farm) in the West. it has jurisdiction over 11 village committees with a permanent population of 16860 (2017). The main production is agriculture and animal husbandry. According to legend, when the village was built here, it was first settled by the surnames Cao and Zhang, so it was named Cao Zhang. With the development of economy and population, it can be divided into North, middle and south. When the people's commune was established in 1958, Caozhang, Gaocheng, Boshi and Qincheng merged to form the satellite commune. In 1961, when the commune was stationed in North Caozhang, it was named Caozhang commune. In September 1984, he was transformed into the people's Government of CaoZhang township.

Geography

The terrain of the township is flat, mainly composed of yellow sand soil, with thin ridge, high groundwater level and many saline alkali land. There was once a saying that Xinzhou was "a great wilderness in the north". the total area of the township is 46.92 square kilometers.

Economics

Agriculture

The existing cultivated land is 44882 mu. Since 1952, Daxing irrigation and water conservancy has built a flood diversion and drainage system, vigorously carried out the basic construction of irrigation and water conservancy, and developed irrigated land to 44882 mu. In particular, the government has implemented two comprehensive agricultural development projects in Caozhang Township, which greatly improved the agricultural production conditions. in 2010, the total grain output of the township reached 17562 tons, 60 times of the total output in 1949. In 2010, the township had more than 500 mu (solar energy-saving) greenhouse, more than 200 mu (mobile greenhouse) and more than 400 mu (hot pepper and other economic crops), and successfully applied for certification of four pollution-free vegetable varieties. It has laid a good foundation for local agricultural production and farmers' income.

Aquaculture

After the reform and opening up, relying on xindingnong dairy milk powder factory, CaoZhang township has developed dairy farming year by year, changing the poor and backward trend. The number of dairy cattle in stock is as high as 24000, and at the same time, it has gradually formed the largest dairy trading market in China. The peak period was in the 1990s, and dairy trading spread all over the country (except Taiwan Province) . The development of dairy farming plays an important role in improving soil structure, increasing grain production and increasing farmers' income. at the same time, around the nineties of the 20th century, jute oil processing has made brilliant achievements. The oil houses with Gu village as the center have developed to more than 400 households in the township at most, with an output value of more than 50 million yuan. The products are sold to Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and other regions. Since the beginning of the 21st century, on the one hand, CaoZhang township has changed the traditional mode of courtyard dairy farming, and established more than 30 farmers' professional cooperative organizations. build standard dairy farming community, develop healthy scale breeding industry, on the other hand, develop facility agriculture.

income

In 2010, the total income of rural economy reached 117.38 million yuan. The per capita net income of farmers reached 5093 yuan.