Taiping Township, Taiping Town, Hefeng County, Hubei Province

Taiping Township

Taiping Township belongs to Taiping Town, Hefeng County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province.

Geographical location and administrative division

Taiping Town spans 109 ° 54 ′ e to 110 ° 03 ′ E and 29 ° 49 ′ n to 29 ° 55 ′ n. It is 16 kilometers away from Hefeng County in the East and connects with Rongmei town in the county; it is adjacent to Shadao Township in Xuanen County in the West; it is connected with Sangzhi County in Hunan Province in the South and 150 kilometers away from Zhangjiajie, a world natural heritage scenic spot; it is also connected with Zhongying Township in the north, known as the "west gate" of Hefeng County. It is one of the key border trade towns in Hefeng County. Yalai line and Sanghe line meet here, with a transit length of 35 km. The town covers an area of 295.3 square kilometers, with 18 administrative villages and 85 villager groups. The total population is 16477, including more than 14600 agricultural population, 4347 rural households and 7397 rural laborers. The forestry land is 244.5 square kilometers, and the cultivated land area is 19447 mu, including 8158 mu of paddy field.

Climate and natural resources

The average altitude of the town is 1100 meters, the highest point is 1945 meters in Zhujia village, the lowest point is 428 meters in shuitianbao village, and the government station is 927 meters. The second mountain is 229300 mu, accounting for 51.4% of the total area; the high mountain is 183900 mu, accounting for 41.2% of the total area; the low mountain is 33000 mu, accounting for 7.4% of the total area. The temperature is low, the average temperature is 13.5 ℃, the rain is more, the frost free period is 210 days, the average annual precipitation is 1955 mm, which is a typical subtropical monsoon humid climate. the warm and humid natural environment provides unique conditions for the growth of various economic crops, food crops and other animals and plants. The territory is rich in biological resources and has a lot of products. The volume of standing trees is 2.6 million cubic meters, and the forest coverage rate is 80.5%. The pollution-free dense tea is 10000 mu, and the annual output of dry tea is 400000 kg. The seven villages along the Longtan Qiguan highway are one of the important grain producing areas in the county. The rural area is rich in rice, corn, rape, potato, beans and other food crops. Besides tea, oil crops, economic crops are also abundant It is rich in tobacco and Chinese herbal medicine. With Guofu Chinese herbal medicine company as the leader, there are more than 10000 mu bases of Chinese herbal medicine, such as papaya, Fritillaria, Dipsacus asperata, Huanglian, Atractylodes macrocephala, Gastrodia elata, etc., with complete varieties and many categories. Superior climate conditions make more than 100 kinds of poultry, livestock and wild animals suitable for growth.

Mountains, rivers and energy minerals

Taiping town is the birthplace of the two largest mountains in Hefeng, laotujie mountain range and qinggangling mountain range. Both of them originate from Shayuan watershed and run across the whole area from west to East. The terrain is high in the West and low in the East. Guanzhuang River, Wangjia River, Luosha River and kongwangxi river flow into loushui River from west to East, which is rich in water resources and convenient for farmland irrigation. The landform is the intersection of Pingba, mountains and river valleys. Between qinggangling and laotujie is the mountain corridor Bazi terrain, which is the main rice producing area. The north side of laotujie and the south side of qinggangling are the low mountain and river valleys with large drop and rich hydraulic resources, which provide favorable conditions for the construction of small and medium-sized power stations. The completed kongwangxi power station has an annual power generation of 1.5 million kW / h, and the Qiguan power station has an annual power generation of 550000 kW / h; the wenjiahe power station under construction has an annual power generation of 1 million kW / h, which has entered the installation stage and will be put into use soon; the shuitianbao baishuipiao power station is to be developed, with an installed capacity of 1000 kW / h and an annual power generation of 8.76 million kW / h, and the water source is stable It can be used for peak load regulation in dry season. Abundant water conservancy and hydraulic resources provide power guarantee for industrial and agricultural production in the township. most of the mountains in the territory are fault mountains with obvious fault subsidence. The unique geological environment creates unique conditions for the mineralization of the deposit, which makes the natural mineral resources rich in types, large reserves and shallow deposits. Among them, pyrite, limestone, kaolin and so on have the conditions for open-pit mining. The proven mineral resources include the copper lead zinc associated mine in Sancha Gaoping, the open-pit coal mine in zhujiameiya and the sedimentary rock marble deposited by paleo marine organisms, the open-pit pyrite in Shayuan is more than 3 million tons, and the highest grade can reach 53%, the kaolin (corundum mud) in Maoba is more than 4 million tons, which is the first-class raw material for ceramic products, and the limestone is everywhere, which is cement products Raw materials have created favorable conditions for Changhong cement plant to settle in Taiping. In addition, mineral resources such as coal drill stone, vanadium, silicon, barium and selenium are rich, high grade and easy to exploit.

Historical culture and tourism prospect

Taiping town has a long history. Tujia, Miao, Han and other ethnic groups live together in harmony for generations. All ethnic groups integrate with each other, creating a rich and colorful folk culture and forming a unique regional cultural resource with a long history. There are beautiful mountains and rivers, rich tourism resources, such as sister tree, Gaoping ancient Chinese fir, Gongmu mountain, Qingtian cave, Qinglong cave, gonggu circle and other natural landscapes, qifengguan Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasty ruins, Heying martyrdom, Taiping martyrs cemetery, Maoba meeting site of the Western Hunan and Hubei Branch of the Communist Party of China, yingfangping Red Army Qiying tomb and other cultural landscapes, which have great potential for the development of tourism resources. Qingtian cave is located in Dongshan, the old street of Taiping town. It is said that it is the place where the chieftains of the Qing Dynasty collected soldiers. There are stone tables, stone boxes, stalactites, underground rivers and other landscapes in it. Books, pottery, weapons and other cultural relics have been excavated. The cultural landscape and natural landscape are both valuable historical materials for the study of Tujia culture. In xiaojiaping, near the Yalai line, there are two 150 year old giant trees of Fagaceae - "Quercus brevifolia", which are called sister tree by the local people. The two trees are more than 10 meters apart, with deep roots and luxuriant leaves and branches, which are regarded as "protection gods" by the local residents. The ancient Chinese fir trees in Gaoping have a history of more than 300 years, with a height of more than 40 meters, a crown diameter of 20 meters and a trunk chest It's 2.5 meters in diameter, and it's more than two feet short of four people. The tree is still green and leafy. From a distance, it looks like a towering ancient pagoda standing on a high hill. Luoguquan is a typical karst terrain with many stone pillars and beautiful scenery. It has been highly praised by French cave experts. It is an ideal place for the construction of karst landscape garden.

Social development and investment environment

At the beginning of the tenth five year plan, Taiping town's rural power grid and road network were comprehensively upgraded, and program-controlled telephone, mobile and Unicom communication services were opened. At the end of June, the existing base stations of China Unicom in Yangjiaping street, Yangjiaping street and laojiaqi Street will be put into operation. At present, there are more than 800 program-controlled telephones in the township, and the base station of village to village communication has been put into use, which will be popularized in the township by the end of the year. Optical fiber broadband cable TV has achieved provincial, state and county level networking, and the completion of 35kV high-voltage power transmission and transformation project has provided power guarantee for the industrial park to settle in Taiping. In 2004, the total industrial output value of the town was 47.499 million yuan, the total agricultural output value was 41.581 million yuan, the average net income of farmers was 1688 yuan, the average grain was 504 kg, and the local financial revenue was 1.669 million yuan. There are Shenglong tea group, Guofu traditional Chinese medicine company, Huaxin Cement Co., Ltd., Xingfa animal husbandry, Kunlun traditional Chinese medicine, Qiangsheng animal husbandry and a large number of advanced private enterprises in the township Changhong Cement Co., Ltd., the most typical one, is a new dry process cement production line with a daily output of 1000 tons. Its annual output is 400000 tons. It can be put into operation at the end of 2004. After putting into operation, it can increase sales revenue by 81.32 million yuan / year, profit by 22.3 million yuan / year and tax by 1021 million yuan Ten thousand yuan per year is the life project of the whole township. Its completion can promote the development of related industries and resettle more than 300 employees, which has good social and economic benefits.