The tin field in Jiedong County is adjacent to Jieyang City, Putian and Xinheng Town, and faces Yuecheng Town across the river. The tin field covers an area of 48.75 square kilometers and governs eleven administrative villages, including Jiang Bin, Wang Tan, Tancai, Dongcang, Daliao, Shiyang, Huaqing, Xixi, Xi Zhong and Xinzhizhai, with a total population of 1 08551. The tin field is surrounded by mountains and waters, and its geographical location, climatic conditions and human environment are quite superior. The town's industrial and agricultural production, commercial activities and cultural construction have also made remarkable achievements. First, the agricultural tin field is located in the subtropical zone, with abundant sunshine and rainfall. At the same time, there are mountains and rivers, fertile soil, criss-crossing ditches and unique agricultural production conditions. Tin field has always been a land of plenty. As an old saying goes, "The Golden Canal is west and Silverstream is long. Cai, out of rice. " In recent years, with the adjustment of agricultural industrial structure, the rice planting area has been reduced year by year, some "three high" agriculture has been vigorously developed, and the rural landscape has undergone tremendous changes. 1, the commodity rate of agricultural products has greatly increased. Since the reform and opening up, the rural commodity economy in this town has developed vigorously, breaking through the limitation of self-sufficiency in traditional agriculture, realizing the transformation from product agriculture to commodity agriculture, and laying the foundation for the development of agriculture to a higher level. Tankui grain self-sufficiency base in the town, vegetable base and bamboo shoot base in Huaqing are all typical commodity agricultural bases. The development of commodity agriculture has greatly promoted the construction of agricultural products circulation market and circulation team. Five related comprehensive markets have been built in the whole town, and the transportation team has a certain scale. 2. "Three highs" agriculture developed rapidly. The "three highs" agriculture characterized by high yield, high quality and high efficiency emerged in the early 1990s. The continuous expansion of new varieties has effectively promoted the transformation of agriculture in this town from quantitative type to quality type and from traditional type to modern type. The "three highs" agriculture in this town is mainly represented by vegetables, bamboo shoots, high-quality fruits and flowers, and each village develops its own characteristic agriculture according to the actual situation. Huaqing Village has made great efforts to develop bamboo shoot planting and vegetable planting by taking advantage of sloping land, and has now formed more than 7,000 mu of bamboo shoot bases and 2,727 mu of vegetable bases. Xixi village uses ponds to develop three-dimensional agriculture such as "fruit trees+ducks+freshwater fish farming"; The villages such as Tancai and Daliao in the south are flat, and on the basis of consolidating food self-sufficiency, vegetables and flowers are gradually planted. Practice has proved that "three highs" agriculture has become the pillar industry of rural agricultural economy in this town, which has greatly promoted the development of rural economy. However, there is a bottleneck in the development of "three highs" agriculture in this town-the lack of strong "leading" enterprises to protect and drive it, which is very passive and blind, and the lack of more suitable and high-tech technology to support it. 3. Great changes have taken place in the rural labor structure. Tin mines are sparsely populated, and a large number of rural surplus laborers have found their own way out and quickly moved to secondary and tertiary industries. Most rural young and middle-aged laborers go out to do business or work. The most typical example is Huaqing Village, with 20,378 villagers. Now about one third of the population goes out, and the remaining middle-aged and elderly people become the main force of agricultural production. Township enterprises in Xichang have developed rapidly, and many rural laborers have become managers and workers. At the same time, Xichang's commerce and transportation industry has also developed by leaps and bounds, and many individual business owners, drivers and mechanical maintenance workers have appeared. The labor force engaged in agricultural production has gradually decreased, the labor structure has changed significantly, and the pace of rural urbanization has accelerated. Second, the industrial tin field industry started in the early 1980s and developed rapidly in the mid-1990s. In recent years, the proportion of industry in the town's total economic output has been rising. 1998, the town's total industrial and agricultural output value1558.54 million yuan, of which industrial output value1473.6 million yuan, accounting for 94.55%. In 2004, the above three indicators were 2.705 billion yuan, 2.587 billion yuan and 95.6% respectively. There are many kinds of industries in tin field, covering a wide range, including food, clothing, hardware processing, machinery, building materials, chemical industry and so on. The first three are the pillar industries of the town, and the latter is a new industry developed in recent years. 1, Pillar Industry Development (1) Food and food manufacturing are the pillars of tin field industry. Tin field has been rated as "strong industrial town", "top 100 industrial towns", "township enterprises rushing to town with 10 billion yuan" and "scientific and technological innovation pilot" in the province for many years, which are mostly the contributions of food manufacturing industry. There are more than 120 food production enterprises in Xichang, among which the larger ones are Shengfeng, Gangrong, Yufeng, Jiashifa, Yuchang and Xiangle. Xichang's food factory mainly produces biscuits, sweets, jelly cakes, egg yolk pies and corrugated noodles. After more than ten years of survival of the fittest, the overall quality of products has been significantly improved and recognized by consumers. Products are no longer simply sold to inland provinces and cities such as Jiangxi, Hunan and Guizhou. Some products have entered the markets of developed countries, put on the shelves of supermarkets and participated in high-level competition. The development of food factories has led to the rise of related enterprises, such as Yin Wei Food Machinery Factory, Reed Color Printing Factory, various carton factories and paper cup factories. (2) Hardware Processing The hardware processing in the tin field is centered on Shiyang Village and spreads to surrounding villages. There are more than 200 hardware processing plants in Shiyang Village, most of which have been replaced by old houses. They are small in scale, simple in equipment and fragmented. As long as you enter Shiyang Village, you can always hear the sound of a punch on the metal. Products are mainly gaskets, audio accessories, heat sinks, door and window components, etc. , low technical content. (3) The clothing industry started late and generally has the characteristics of strong strength and high quality. Major manufacturers, such as Qiling Knitting Factory, Lianfa Knitting Garment Factory, Tianfu Garment Factory, etc. Hiring more local women workers has effectively eased the employment pressure of local labor force and obviously promoted the development of individual clothing stores in this area. 2. Development of emerging industries In recent years, the town has continuously increased its efforts to attract investment, and a number of new enterprises have settled in the town. At the same time, in the face of the depressed food market, some food factories decided to change their products, so the horizontal industrial development of our town was completely changed and the product structure was constantly optimized. The products of the new industry mainly include PVC pipes produced by Gangrong Plastic Factory, automobile glass of Jiantong Automobile Glass Co., Ltd. and complete sets of equipment of Yin Wei Food Machinery Factory. These enterprises are characterized by large scale and high technology content, which represent the development direction of enterprises in this town. Third, the commercial service tin field is close to the urban area because of convenient land and water transportation. Historically, it has always been a place where merchants gather and distribute. In recent years, with the rapid development of industry and agriculture, the increase of foreign population, the rapid expansion of commodity circulation and the rapid development of business service industry. There are five large-scale comprehensive markets in the town: tin market, tin west market, tin middle market, tin east market and Huaqing market. Other rural commercial outlets are all over the town, and commodity circulation is prosperous. As a fashionable shopping place in the city, supermarkets are gradually emerging in this town, including Piaoya Supermarket and Xinjia Supermarket. In the catering industry, the tin market is very famous, and it has won a good reputation from Shengfeng Hotel, Qiongzhuyuan Restaurant to Huaqing snacks, and then to the fast-fried fruits in the north. Four. Infrastructure construction: the southeast of Xichang borders Jieyang City, only 5 kilometers away from the city center, and National Highway 206 passes through the territory, and Meishan Expressway and Pu Jie Expressway meet in the territory; Guangmeishan Railway runs through the north of the town; Rongjiang Beijiang runs through the south, and there are many ferries along the river, so the land and water transportation is very convenient. At the same time, there are 10 kilometers of town roads and 30 kilometers of village roads, all of which are fully cemented and have a width of 12 meters. From 65438 to 0995, Xichang hired Wuhan Urban Planning and Design Institute to make an overall plan for the town's 48.75 square kilometers of land. In recent years, tin field has invested a lot of money to speed up infrastructure construction according to the plan. The first stage of the waterworks with a daily output of 30,000 tons has delivered 7,500 tons of daily water. On the original basis, recently invested150,000 yuan to transform the power supply lines in the town, and the power grid has spread all over the villages in the town; The construction of communication facilities has also been greatly strengthened recently. The total capacity of program-controlled telephones reaches 17500. Both China Mobile Communication Company and China Unicom Company have set up relay stations in the town, and the mobile communication business has gradually become civilian. As early as 1997, the whole town opened cable TV. Tiantian's educational infrastructure is highly valued. There is a high school, four junior high schools, eleven primary schools and two comprehensive libraries in the town. Health construction has also been gradually improved. There is a health center and a family planning service institution, and each village has medical stations and different levels of medical stations.