Machang Town, Dafang County, Guizhou Province

Town Racecourse

Machang town is located in the west of Dafang County. It is located at 105 ° 29 ′ E and 26 ° 57 ′ n, 37 km away from the county. It is adjacent to Xiaotun Township in the East, Dingxin Township in the west, Nayong County in the South and Gaodian in the north. The highest altitude is 1977 meters, and the lowest altitude is 1026 meters. It has a subtropical humid monsoon climate. The town covers an area of 127.6 square kilometers, and the mountainous area accounts for 96.71%. It is one of the three types of poor towns. The cultivated land area is 34724 Mu and the forest land area is 988 ha. The area of cultivated land above 25 ° is 18326 mu, and the forest coverage rate is 21%. The main crop products include flue-cured tobacco, corn, wheat, rape and potato. Dafang Power Plant Phase II is located here, which started in early 2014, and Liuchong River also flows through here.

Geology and geomorphology

The total area of the town is 127.62 square kilometers, with mountainous area accounting for 96.71%. The highest altitude is 1977 meters, the lowest is 1026 meters, the average altitude is 1550 meters, and the forest coverage rate is 21%. The strata in the territory are mainly limestone and purple sand shale, and the landform type is plateau mountain landform.

Meteorology and hydrology

Machang town belongs to subtropical humid climate zone. Winter is long, summer is short, spring and autumn are similar, rainy weather is more, sunshine days are less, winter is not cold, summer is not hot, rainfall is abundant, with high altitude, low latitude plateau mountain climate characteristics. The annual average sunshine is 1335.5 hours, the frost free period is more than 250 days, the annual average relative humidity is 84%, the annual average temperature is 12.8 Nie's degree, and the annual average rainfall is 1005 mm. Most of the rainfall is concentrated from May to September, accounting for about 85% of the annual rainfall. the water system in the area is developed, and the main rivers are nuduo River, Mukong River, etc., which flow through Minfeng village, Jinlong Village, shuangqun village, etc., and finally enter zhiga Alu lake.

land resource

The total mountainous area of the town accounts for 96.71%, the total area of cultivated land is 33947 mu, the total area of forest land is 21781 mu, the total area of slope farmland above 25 degrees is 12373 mu, and the forest coverage rate is 21%. The main crop products are flue-cured tobacco, corn, wheat, rape, potato and so on, which are suitable for developing characteristic, ecological planting and breeding industry.

Characteristic industry

Planting of characteristic economic fruit forest

the characteristic fruit forest planting base of Machang Town, which was built at the end of 2010, is located at Tangbian (Wujiatang) of Baini village. The investment of the base is more than 700000 yuan, and the person in charge is Xu Li. The base covers an area of more than 2000 mu, radiating and driving more than 50 households and more than 200 farmers. It is estimated that all the investment will be recovered in three years, and more people will join in the planting of economic fruit forest, so as to realize the adjustment of rural economic structure, effectively promote rural development, increase agricultural efficiency and farmers' income.

Traditional Chinese medicine planting

in recent years, the Party committee and government of Machang town actively promote the construction of "one village, one product" project and strive to create one brand for one village. Actively create a good investment environment, and constantly increase the intensity of investment. Since the introduction of Chinese herbal medicine planting project in 2010, we have introduced one Chinese herbal medicine planting project and established a Chinese herbal medicine planting demonstration base in yikeshu village, which has driven more than 60 farmers to develop Chinese herbal medicine planting and become rich. It has laid a solid foundation for rural development, agricultural efficiency and farmers' income increase in Machang Town, effectively promoted the development of rural economy and effectively boosted the social undertakings of the whole town The rapid development of the racecourse has made great contributions to the sound and rapid development of the racecourse economy and society.

Social humanities

There are 11 administrative villages in the town (yikeshu village, shuiluodong village, Machang village, Xinfeng village, Baini village, Qiaoshang village, Minfeng village, shuangqun village, Jinlong Village, Xinying village and Shatian Village), 1 neighborhood committee and 182 villager groups, with a total number of 14302 households and a population of 56170. Among them, there are 17417 ethnic minorities, including Miao, Tibetan, Chuanqing, Bai, Yi and Mongolian, accounting for 36.3% of the total population, 8620 poor people, accounting for 18.9% of the total population, and the population density is 375 people per square kilometer.