Weiyuan Town, Jinggu Dai and Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province

Weiyuan town

Weiyuan Town, located in the county seat, is the political, economic, cultural and transportation center of Jinggu County. It is a dam area with an administrative area of 1127 square kilometers and a permanent resident population of 100096 (2017).

General situation of villages and towns

Weiyuan town governs three community residents committees of Bailong, Weiyuan and township, two villager committees of mangmao and Weiyuan streets, and 20 villager groups. The resident population was 100096 (2017). There are Dai, Yi, Lahu, Hui and other ethnic minorities, accounting for 27%. The highest altitude is 1727m, the lowest is 913m, the average altitude is 1320M, the annual average temperature is 20.8c, and the average rainfall is 1554.9mm.

economic development

In 2003, the total economic income of the town was 184.74 million yuan, the total rural economic income was 21.74 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 2586 yuan; the town level finance realized 4.75 million yuan of income, 4.98 million yuan of expenditure, and the financial self-sufficiency rate was 95%. The total grain output is 1747 tons, and the farmers have 369 kg of grain per capita. There are 2183 individual and private enterprises with 3860 employees, including 33 private enterprises and 2150 individual industrial and commercial enterprises, with a total operating income of 163 million yuan and 7.64 million yuan of taxes paid.

Education status

There are 1 primary school, 23 teaching classes, 1020 students, the enrollment rate of school-age children is 100%, the consolidation rate is 100%; there is 1 kindergarten, 7 teaching classes, 229 children in the kindergarten.

natural resources

The town has 6333 mu of arable land, including 2159 mu of paddy field and 4174 mu of dry land. There are 3128 mu (49%) of arable land, 6333 mu of hot area, 6330 mu (99%) of developed land, 1040.8 ha of woodland, 36.18% of forest coverage, and 877 million cubic meters of standing trees. At the end of 2003, all the village groups in the town realized "three links".

folk culture

Weiyuan town is a hometown of overseas Chinese with a strong ethnic cultural atmosphere. In Dazhai guanfo temple, there is a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit "Tabao tree and Shubao tower", which is known as "a unique talin in China". The first Ivory mango ancestor tree introduced and planted by mangmao village in Dai village from Chiang Mai, Thailand, is still luxuriant. The ancestor stele is located next to Mangxiang Avenue, which is in connection with the Dai cultural entertainment center of mangmao village ）Corresponding, self-contained. After the completion of the Dai culture and entertainment center, it will become an important scenic spot on the east gate of Jinggu and a Dai Architectural Complex with ethnic characteristics. In 2002, the town was rated as the hometown of folk art in China - the hometown of Xiangjiao drum dance, and a provincial cultural demonstration base of overseas Chinese hometown was set up in Dazhai. Mengwo mass art troupe was established in 2000. There are 13 performing teams, more than 500 amateur actors, 475 sets of various performing costumes, 2 dragon lanterns, 90 drums of elephant foot drum, and a number of performance props. Every year, the town holds a grand "water splashing and flower picking Festival" and "Torch Festival" to celebrate the carnival activities, with strong national characteristics. In response to the call to create a large county with national culture, we should develop folk customs, tap folk culture, and focus on the development of scenic spots such as "tree wrapped pagoda" and "tree wrapped pagoda", so as to promote the development of rural tourism economy.