Caoxi Town is located in the north of Yiyang County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, adjacent to Leping Zhongbu Town, Wannian Dayuan Town, and Dexing Huangbai Township. It is located in the central area at the junction of the four counties (cities) of Yi, Wan, Le, and De.
40 kilometers from Yiyang County.
Caoxi Town has a total area of ??183 square kilometers, with more than 26,000 acres of cultivated land, including 21,000 acres of paddy fields.
The total number of households in Caoxi Town is more than 5,900, with a population of more than 25,000.
Caoxi Town has convenient transportation, with the Provincial Lejiang Line and Yiwan Highway running through Caoxi Town.
The concentration of human settlements makes it the economic, cultural and trade center of Beidamen in Yiyang County. The trade in the market town of Caoxi Town is very complex, with merchants gathering there. The annual commodity transaction volume is more than 30 million yuan. It is a distribution center for commodity trade with a population of nearly 200,000 in the surrounding area.
Caoxi Village, where the town government is located, has an original market town area of ??0.76 square kilometers and a market town population of more than 3,500 people. The current planned market town area is 2.1 square kilometers.
Caoxi is rich in mineral resources, mainly limestone and china clay. The limestone reserve reaches more than 5 billion tons. The main raw material for refining calcium carbonate, calcium hydrogen, is large in reserves and high grade.
There is also a small amount of coal, Baiyun ore, etc.
With the rise of the industrial economy, these resource advantages gradually transformed into economic advantages.
The specialty agricultural products are mainly forestry and fruit farming and breeding, mainly including thunder bamboo, watermelon and citrus.
There are thousands of specialized households raising pigs, ducks, rabbits, river crabs, etc.
Caoxi is an old revolutionary area with rich red tourism resources. It once gave birth to a group of revolutionary martyrs. There are more than 960 revolutionary martyrs by name. It is also the hometown of the governor. Shao Shiping, the first governor of Jiangxi Province, was born.
In Shaoban Village in Caoxi, Shu Shengyou, the previous governor of the provincial government, also spent his childhood in Shaoban Village. They all made positive contributions to the liberation and socialist construction of New China.