Heping town, heping town is located in the northwest of tengxian, adjacent to Mengjiang Town in the east and south, Danzhu Town in Pingnan County in the west and Taiping Town in the north. Before 1957, it was under the jurisdiction of District 9 (once called Mengjiang District). Heping Township was founded in 1958, also known as Peace Commune. 1963 was renamed Heping district, 1968 was renamed Heping commune, 1984 was renamed Heping township, 1990, 10 was renamed Heping township. So far, it is named after its resident. The town government is located 55 kilometers away from tengxian County, 85 kilometers away from Wuzhou City and 360 kilometers away from Nanning City, with convenient land and water transportation. Population area There are 17 village committees, 1 community neighborhood committees and 682 village (neighborhood) groups with a total population of 75,223. The total area of the jurisdiction is 172.95 square kilometers, and the cultivated land area is 44 1 4 1 mu, including 32,208 mu of paddy fields. Natural Environment heping town is a hilly region with two small basins, Heping and Shiqiao. The land is relatively flat and fertile. Located in the subtropical zone, it has a mild climate and abundant rainfall. Tunjiang (Mengjiang), which originated in mengshan county, enters from Anfu Village of Taiping Town, flows through eleven village streets such as Xinliang, Mu Yi, Shiqiao, Tunjiang, Zhicheng, Xinping, Zhu Ping, Ram and Dupo, and then flows into Mengjiang Town, with a domestic flow of 25 kilometers. There is the Emperor's Hall in the north of the higher mountain, with an altitude of 414.4m; There is Keelung Cliff in the west, with an altitude of 438.9 meters. The water conservancy projects of large-scale water conservancy facilities include Heping Power Station and six generators, with an installed capacity of 6,750 kilowatts and a power generation capacity of 7,000 watts/hour. There is also the "July 1st" pumping station in the stiff neck beach, which was built at 1970. The effective irrigation area of the two stations is 1 1000 mu, and the storage capacity of Zuo Dong Reservoir is 3150,000 cubic meters, which can irrigate 7 villages including Tunjiang, Zuo Dong, Zhicheng, Xinping, Tang Chen, Longtang and Shuangdong. There are 43 Shantang Reservoirs in Tiantou, with 1760 wells. Economic situation Agriculture is the main source of the town's economy. In the middle and late 1990s, the agricultural industrial structure was adjusted, the traditional planting mode was broken, the planting structure was optimized, the "three-dimensional planting technology" was adopted, and the "10,000-acre and 100-million-yuan project" was implemented, so the whole town's agriculture achieved great development. The main cash crop is rice, which has wide planting area, high yield and good quality. In 2006, the rice planting area in the town was 4 1.600 mu (double cropping), the total output reached 2080 tons, and the proportion of high-quality rice planting reached over 80%. There are also special agricultural products such as taro, kudzu root, ginger and watermelon. Taro is big and thin, with tender meat, rich nutrition and sweet and mellow taste; Pueraria lobata meat is smooth and delicate, fragrant and refreshing, nutritious and healthy; Meat ginger has bright color, tender meat, spicy mika, crisp and delicious; Seedless watermelon is beautiful in appearance, juicy and less residue, crisp and has the taste of honey. These four major agricultural products enjoy a high reputation in domestic and foreign markets, forming a brand of peace. In addition, Tunjiang fry, Jizuipo turtle culture, Shuangyangtao, Pingxi radish, Liancun wax gourd, Guanluomi orange and so on. They also have their own characteristics and are deeply loved by customers and businesses. Animal husbandry mainly focuses on raising pigs, cattle and poultry. Sanhuang chicken with yellow mouth, yellow hair and yellow feet raised by thousands of families in heping town has beautiful appearance, moderate weight and sweet and delicious meat. They are famous products in peacetime, delicious food on the table of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and the main export base of live chickens in tengxian. Heping town pig industry has excellent varieties, guaranteed epidemic prevention, proper feeding, appropriate fatness and sufficient pig sources, which are well received by customers. Every year, 30,000 to 40,000 pigs are purchased by local grain stations, animal husbandry stations and individuals for outdoor transportation to Guangdong and other places. In recent years, animal husbandry has developed rapidly due to the government's vigorous promotion of scientific feeding methods and the support of professional farmers. In 2006, there were 78,000 pigs, 3,000 cows and 284,000 poultry, and the annual output of aquatic products was 2 175 tons. Forestry is dominated by pine and fir trees. By the end of 2006, there were 93 16.8 hectares of forests and mountains in the whole town, with a forest stock of1/7500 cubic meters, a forest coverage rate of 6 1.8% and an annual output of130,000 Jin. Bamboo is mainly planted with bamboo poles, with an annual output of 65,438+10,000. The planting area of longan and litchi is more than 28,000 mu, and longan and litchi 1.6 thousand Jin are abundant every year. Township enterprises Before the 1970s, township enterprises were mainly collective enterprises such as forest farms, red brick factories and canneries. Since 199 1, with the rise of construction, breeding and transportation, collective enterprises such as farming and animal husbandry companies, feed factories, construction companies and gas stations have been established, and foreign capital has been introduced to rebuild red brick factories and develop barite mines. At the same time, vigorously develop non-public enterprises such as individual economy and private enterprises, actively guide farmers to engage in the tertiary industry, and the commodity circulation team continues to grow. At present, an agricultural and sideline food manufacturing industry with practical oil, soybean milk and water wine as its main products has been formed; Agricultural and sideline products processing industry with pueraria lobata, dried ginger, dried longan and dried cabbage as the main industries; Barite-based mining; Building materials industry, mainly producing red bricks; A commodity circulation enterprise mainly dealing in taro, watermelon, kudzu root, ginger, pigs and other bulk agricultural and sideline products as well as building materials, department stores, groceries, hardware, cloth and clothing. There are large sand brick factories, red brick factories, bamboo and wood factories, electronic factories and four stone yards in the town, and commerce, catering, service and processing industries are in the ascendant. Traffic heping town is criss-crossed by provincial roads, county roads and township roads, and the land and water traffic is prosperous. Rong (County)-Tai (Ping) third-class oil road runs through the north of China, and Meng (Mengjiang Town)-Da (Dapingling, Zhicheng, heping town) highway runs through the town center. Since the 1990s, the whole town has made great efforts to develop transportation. Up to now, 6.5438+0.25 million yuan has been invested and 66,000 man-days have been spent on road construction. Three * * * 2 1.5km four-level highways and five * * * 26.5km external highways have been built in the whole town, thus realizing every village with highways and cars. Waterway traffic is mainly a cross-water ferry connecting the two sides of Tunjiang River. There are nine ferries *** 16 boats in the town. Yidu has four boats: Liancun, Dupo, Guangcun and Wutun. There is also a joint ferry terminal in Zhucun, which can carry the following motor vehicles across the river. A satellite TV ground receiving station was built in Posts and Telecommunications 1992, and cable TV was launched in Heping Street, with a total investment of more than 700,000 yuan, covering 80% of the total, with a penetration rate of over 60%. By the end of 1999, every village will be covered by radio and television, with 65.5 kilometers of TV trunk lines and 16 1 amplifiers, and more than 2,000 cable TVs will be developed. 1993, program-controlled telephone and wireless paging began. 1994 has cell phone communication. By 1999, the whole town had realized the program-controlled telephone service for every village. By 2006, the mobile communication network has covered the whole town; There are 7054 fixed telephone users in the town; Telecom broadband users have also reached158; Most villages in the town have opened broadband Internet service. Before the liberation of science, education, culture and health, there was only one central primary school in the town-Heping Central Primary School, which governed Heping, Xinping, Tang Chen, Longtang, Shuangdong, Xintang, Dupo, Lanbao and Zhuping Primary Schools. The primary schools in the village are generally located in dilapidated temples or houses. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/969, all primary schools in each village were completed. There are three central primary schools in the town, namely Heping Central Primary School, Shiqiao Central Primary School and Xintang Central Primary School. 1958, the first middle school-Heping Agricultural Middle School was established. 1960 autumn, Heping junior high school was established, 1969 Heping agricultural middle school was transformed into Heping senior high school, 1979 Heping commune junior high school. 198 1 Add Heping United Middle School, Shiqiao United Middle School and Xintang United Middle School. In order to be more conducive to the "nine-year consistent system" and the cultivation of talents, Heping No.3 Middle School and Heping No.4 Middle School were abolished with 1997 and 1998 respectively, and only two junior high schools were opened, namely Heping No.1 Middle School and Heping No.2 Middle School. There are 2 full-time junior high schools, 8 primary schools 1 school, adult center school1school, more than 4,000 students in junior high schools, and primary school-age students14,000. The enrollment rate of school-age children reaches 100%. There are 824 teaching and administrative staff in primary and secondary schools, including 58 with bachelor's degree, 275 with junior college degree and 475 with technical secondary school degree or above. Through multi-channel financing, 43 teaching buildings and 7 dormitory buildings in primary and secondary schools have been built, covering an area of more than 50,000 square meters and 52 teaching points in the town. 1979 literacy work passed the acceptance in Wuzhou, and 1986 achieved universal primary education. 1April 1998, Zhenpujiu passed the acceptance of the autonomous region;1February 1999, Zhenpujiu passed the acceptance of the autonomous region again. Before the liberation of health, most people sought medical treatment from private doctors. Peace Health Center was established in 1958. At that time, there were 0/2 employees/kloc, and the assets were about 3,000 yuan. At present, heping town Health Center has Shiqiao Branch and Street Clinic Branch, with 28 employees, including doctors 17, nurses, technicians 1 person, pharmacists 1 person and workers. There are medical, pre-hospital first aid and maternal and child health care departments, such as internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatric clinic, medical technology department (including laboratory, B-ultrasound room, electrocardiogram room and X-ray room), injection room of preventive medicine department, Chinese and Western medicine library and pharmacy. Clinics have been set up in 0/8 villages and streets in the town/Kloc, which has improved the medical and health network at the county, township and village levels, and the vaccination rate of children's "five vaccines" has reached over 90%. Since the implementation of rural cooperative medical insurance, the number of farmers in our town has increased year by year. In 2005, the number of farmers insured was 42,308, accounting for 60% of the rural population in the town. By 2006, the number of farmers participating in rural cooperative medical insurance in our town reached 5 1752, accounting for 82% of the rural population in the town. Traditional folk arts such as lion dancing, tea picking, folk songs, ox songs and puppet shows are extremely active, with more than five amateur folk drama teams. There are 1 cultural station and 1 radio station in the whole town, and there are cultural rooms in each village. There are basketball courts, billiards rooms, table tennis tables and other cultural and sports venues in the town and village. Every year during the Spring Festival, New Year's Day, National Day and other festive festivals, basketball matches, table tennis matches, cultural evenings and other activities are held, which greatly enrich the people's spare time. There is a Dubo Wenbi Pagoda, which is located in Liancun Village, Dupo Village. This tower is shaped like a brush, so it is called Wenbi Tower, which is the only well-preserved tower cultural relic in the county. Built in 1783 (Qing dynasty), the tower is 6 meters high. It is a three-story spire pagoda with blue brick and wood structure, which is a major landscape in heping town, and it has the feeling of "great achievements in literature and great talents in brushwork". The inscription "Hong Wenyuan Kai" on the first floor of the tower, "Wenchang Pavilion" on the second floor and "Kuixing Building" on the third floor are all equipped with couplets. There are murals painted in the carved beams and painted buildings in the tower, and each floor has a flying angle and double eaves, which is elegant and chic. This tower stands by the Tunjiang River and enjoys a unique feeling.