Hongzhou Town in Hongzhou

Hongzhou Town is located at the junction of the three provinces (districts) of Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi. It is the east gate of Liping County in Guizhou Province from Guizhou to Hunan and Guangxi. It borders Boyang Town in Tongdong County, Hunan to the east, and Guangxi to the south. Dutong Township in Sanjiang County is adjacent to Dupo Township in Tongtong County, Hunan Province. It borders Shuikou Town of this county to the southwest and Deshun Township to the northwest. It is 68 kilometers away from Liping County, 42 kilometers away from Zhiliu Railway County Creek Station, and 40 kilometers away from National Highway 209. The town covers an area of ??301 square kilometers and governs 23 villages (residences). Committee, with a total population of 28,100. It is the "golden port" for border trade between the three provinces (districts), the birthplace of the Dong pipa song, and the first town where the Red Army entered Guizhou during the Long March. In 2006, the town achieved a gross national product of 328.63 million yuan, of which the primary industry was 59.67 million yuan, the secondary industry was 247.69 million yuan, and the tertiary industry was 21.27 million yuan. The annual per capita net income of farmers is 1,718 yuan.

Hongzhou Town has a humid mid-subtropical monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, which is suitable for the comprehensive development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fish. It mainly produces high-quality rice, rape, yellow flowers, Chinese medicinal materials, fruits, bamboo, etc. The town is rich in resources, with large and high-grade reserves of silicon ore and kaolin, which are of great development value; navel oranges, tangerines, bamboo shoots, poria, rosin, and river fish have long been famous; the Dong people have simple and honest customs, and Hongzhou Pipa Song is famous at home and abroad.

Hongzhou Town is a pilot town for the "Double Hundred" construction and comprehensive system reform in Guizhou Province. It is an important industrial town and a demonstration town for small town construction in Liping County. It has successively introduced 7 silicon smelting companies and 1 industrial oxygen production company, built 19 6300KVA-8000KVA silicon smelting furnaces, and achieved an industrial output value of 229.95 million yuan in 2006; the construction of small towns has developed rapidly, the area of ??urban built-up areas has further expanded, and functions have gradually evolved. Perfect, the first and second phases of the East Ring Road project, the immigration pedestrian street, 35KV and 110KV substations, gas stations, Hongzhou Town administrative complex building, agricultural and animal husbandry station office building, Hongzhou Hotel, Carome supermarket, bus station, Projects such as the reconstruction and expansion of farmers' markets have been completed and put into use, and communications such as program-controlled telephones, China Mobile, China Unicom and PHS have been opened. Residential communities in the East Ring Road Development Zone and relocation and housing projects for relocated immigrants are currently under construction.

Hongzhou Town will continue to seize opportunities and make every effort to transform its location and resource advantages into economic advantages to achieve leap-forward development of Hongzhou's economy and society.

Introduction to the resources of Hongzhou Town

1. Mineral resources

Hongzhou Town is rich in mineral resources. The most representative mineral resources are silicon ore and kaolin. The proven silicon ore reserves are more than 5.9 million tons (excluding river ore), which can support the normal production of 20 6300KVA silicon smelting furnaces for 20 years at the same time, and the grade is extremely high, with a silicon content of more than 99.8%. The reserves of kaolin exceed one million tons, which can supply a ceramic factory with an annual production of 400,000 pieces for 150 years.

2. Forest resources

Hongzhou Town is rich in forest resources, rich in fir, pine, bamboo, etc. The rare tree species mainly include red heart pine, oil fir, beech, five-cornered maple, etc. The town's forest area reaches 317,000 acres (including 4,766 acres of bamboo), with a forest coverage rate of 65%. The total forest volume is 1.05 million cubic meters, with 43.8 million living bamboo roots and an annual output of 45,000 kilograms of bamboo shoots.

3. Tourism resources

1. Ethnic customs tourism resources

The Dong people in Hongzhou Town have profound cultural accumulation, and their original folk customs, folk customs and ecology are intact and unique. Characteristic. It mainly includes flat-frame pipa songs, reed instruments, butter tea and long table rice, Dong and Miao marriages, ancient buildings, wind and rain bridges and village gates and other Dong buildings. Among them, the Hongzhou pipa song is the most representative. The pipa song has an elegant, crisp and cheerful tone, and is favored by people from all walks of life. It is known as "Bel Canto Dong Song", "One of the Best Dong Songs" and "One of the Great Dong Songs". "Qi Pai" is unique in the field of Dong songs, famous at home and abroad for its unique singing form, and has become a shining point in the development of characteristic tourism in our county.

2. Red tourism resources

In December 1934, the main force of the Red Army entered Guizhou from the Hunan Passage. Hongzhou Town was the first town for the Red Army’s Long March out of Hunan and into Guizhou. The red tourism resources were very Rich in value for protection and development, such as the Red Army Bridge, Red Army slogans, Red Army wells, Red Army bridges, Red Army ancient buildings, battlefields for fighting local tyrants, tombs of Red Army martyrs, stories of Red Army transit figures, transit sites, etc.

3. Water energy resources

Hongzhou Town is crisscrossed by rivers and streams, belonging to the Yuanjiang River system, with a high water level difference and abundant water energy resources.

Hongzhou River is the main river in the town, with an average annual flow of 15.4 cubic meters per second and a water energy resource reserve of approximately 11,000 kilowatts.

Specialties of Hongzhou Town

Navel orange, small tangerine, fungus (fine fungus, black fungus), pine tuckahoe, butter tea, etc.