Basic overview of Mengding Town

Mengding means "the place where strings are played" in Dai language. It is the third sister of the Dai family who is about to get married after the eldest sister Xishuangbanna and the second sister Dehong of the Dai family in Yunnan. The earth here is like a piano and the rivers are like strings. It is like summer all year round and is as tender as fire. It is known as the "Golden Port". It is the golden port in the southwest border of the motherland, an important hub of the Yunnan International Highway, and the green pearl of Lincang City. It has jurisdiction over 23 village committees and 273 villager groups. , there is a state-owned farm in the town, with a total population of 100,000. There are 23 ethnic groups in the town, including Dai, Han, Wa, Jingpo, and De'ang. Among them, there are 26,340 Dai people, accounting for 37% of the rural population of 69,987. They are the main Dai minority in Lincang City. Township.

The border between China and Myanmar is 47.35 kilometers long, 730 kilometers away from the provincial capital Kunming, 213 kilometers away from Lincang Airport, 161 kilometers away from Lashio, Myanmar, and 1,162 kilometers away from the Qingshui River Port in Mengding, Myanmar. In October, it was upgraded to a national first-class open port with the approval of the State Council. The foreign trade volume reached a maximum of 592 million yuan. The three star-rated hotels "White Horse Hotel", "Aiye Hotel" and "Menghai Hotel" have reached a large scale, and there are 98 hotels and restaurants. , with 2,300 rooms, can accommodate nearly 5,000 tourists at the same time. The Mengding tourism plan has passed the provincial review, and the national agricultural tourism demonstration site has been accepted by the country.

The natural landscape and cultural landscape are famous both at home and abroad. The mysterious Dongjing Buddhist Temple is the largest pagoda in Lincang and a holy place of worship for Buddhist believers in Myanmar and Southeast Asia.

In 2007, it achieved a GDP of 610 million yuan and a total rural economic income of 278 million yuan. , completing 126 of the planned number; the per capita net income of farmers was 2,363 yuan, an increase of 453 yuan per capita over the previous year; fixed asset investment was 160 million yuan, completing 320 of the planned number; fiscal revenue was 5.09 million yuan, completing 150.6 of the planned number, an increase of 171 Ten thousand yuan; completed fiscal expenditure of 21.99 million yuan; total revenue of township enterprises was 224 million yuan, completing 108 of the planned number; non-public economic turnover reached 110 million yuan, an increase of 44%; total retail sales of social commodities was 257 million yuan, an increase of 35%; border trade entered The total export volume is 196 million yuan, an increase of 4.413 yuan, and the investment attraction is 330 million yuan; financial deposits are 343.1 million yuan, an increase of 102%; the natural population growth rate is controlled at 6.9‰.