Taipingdian town west of the Han River, east of 316 State Road and the Xiangyu Railway, 37 kilometers southeast of Xiangfan city, 34 kilometers north of the city of Laohekou, the land and water transportation in all directions. It is one of the main distribution centers of agricultural and sideline products in Northwest Hubei, known as the small Fancheng. Before liberation, Taipingdian market town of more than 350 residents, the size of the line, stacks, stores, pavilions, stores, stalls handicrafts 277 (a), a single day for the set, every set day near and far merchants gathered. The town has two halls (Catholic Church Gospel Hall), three museums (Jiangxi Pavilion, Shaanxi Pavilion, Da Lu Pavilion), a Palace (Wenchang Palace), a Pavilion (Three Kings Pavilion), six temples (Yang Si Temple, Mars Temple, Huangzhou Temple, Anlu Temple, Hanyang Temple, Wuchang Temple), the Palace and the temples are full of incense, whenever the festival period, festivals, and a steady stream of men and women of faith. The three religions and nine streams, the pear garden monks and Taoists also come to this meeting, and another seven opium museum, three gambling halls, gambling stalls three, three brothels.
Republic of China period, "with the good society" will be the head of Li Dongshan (town Xiao Ba village people), a wide range of believers more than 300 people. He was good-hearted, evil, for the wrongdoing, the faith in women into the club, need to first "test color". At the beginning of the liberation period, he self-appointed commander, spreading demonic words, rampant anti-***, and the people as the enemy, spread to Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi Province. 1953 spring was suppressed.
Guangxu years, Italian clergy in the town to build Catholic Church, parishioners more than a thousand people. American clergy Miss White, Lan Dade also followed. Built the Evangelical Church, attracting more congregations, close to liberation, Catholic Church priest Tang Daqing (Chinese name), Evangelical Church pastor Liu Qian (Chinese name) are missionaries in the town, and then returned to China. The site of the present Catholic Church has been crashed into the river by the Han River. After liberation, the town hospital was set up in the Evangelical Church, which has been demolished due to the development of the hospital. Three pavilions, a palace, a pavilion, six temples have also been demolished one after another after liberation without surviving.
After the founding of the country, in 1953 statistics, Taipingdian town commercial households more than 420, employing more than 3,200 people. Properly operated lines, stacks, stores, pavilions, stalls for 258 (a). After the transformation of private capitalist industrial and commercial industries, part of the cooperative, part of the co-operative society, a small part of the nationalization. From then on, a kind of material is operated by the state or supply and marketing cooperatives, and the market has been stabilized since then. During the "cultural revolution" period, the capitalist tail was chopped off and changed to five-day and seven-day fairs, which drove the people to the streets, and once the market was in an uproar. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, at present, the built-up area of the town developed to 4.6 square kilometers, the town population of 45,800 people, the urbanization rate of 40.2%, the built-up area of the road pavement rate of 98%, drainage coverage rate of 100%, the water supply penetration rate of 95%, the electricity rate of 100%, 100% of the television penetration rate of 100%, the gas penetration rate of 75%, the greening coverage rate of 34%, every 100 people have a telephone It has 25 telephones per 100 people and 2.1 hospital beds. Has won the "China Township Star", "Chutian Star Township", "National Advanced Unit of Small Town Construction", "National Advanced Unit of Creating Civilized Villages and Towns Advanced Unit of National Small Town Construction", "National Advanced Unit of Creating Civilized Villages and Towns", "Civilized Towns of the Province", "Xiangfan Small Town Construction Demonstration Town", the second "Chutian Cup" creation of excellent units and other honorary titles. The town has been honored with many honors. Zhujiapo market town is eight kilometers away from Taipingdian market town to Xiangyang. During the Republic of China period, there were about 80 households and 300 people living in the town. They were mainly engaged in agriculture and commerce. There were about 30 commercial households and 50 agricultural households. There are 10 grain and cotton houses, 7 Jingguang grocery stores, 1 mountain goods house, 7 oil houses and pharmacies, and 5 tea and wine and restaurants, and the bi-daily set.
The agrarian reform (1950), industry, agriculture and commerce 110 households, 360 people. Among them, there were 4 commercial and local households, 3 small land rental households, 5 middle-peasant households, and 98 poor peasant households. 1953, after the transformation of capitalist industry and commerce, the supply and marketing cooperatives unified management of a class of substances, at the same time, the organization of public-private partnership stores, restaurants, each one.
In 1981, the whole Zhu Po town 109 households, 480 people. Among them, 29 commercial grain households, 80 agricultural grain households.
Since 1987, Zhu Po market town construction from the original one street, built for four streets, a variety of stores, stores, stalls, halls, developed to 139, 324 enterprises. Among them, the township run 12, the township initially formed a multi-functional service network of agriculture, industry, trade, purchasing and marketing, aquaculture, agricultural and sideline specialties processing, business, catering, chemical industry, science and technology, health and so on.
At present, the cumulative investment of more than 20 million yuan, to the cultural road, Yingxu Road, Fumin Road, Han ten road as the framework of the "well" zigzag street has been formed. Installation of street lamps 180, the construction of 5800 meters of sewerage pipes, hardening of cement pavement 28,000 square meters, greening area of 3200 square meters, planting a variety of flowers and trees more than 80,000 plants. There is a water plant with a daily water supply of 12,000 tons. Another investment of 3 million yuan to build a new TV station, the tower height of 98.7 meters.