Where is Anxi?

Anxi county, located in southern Fujian, has a history of more than 1000 years. In the long historical development, Anxi is known as the "Dragon and Phoenix Famous Area", a famous hometown of overseas Chinese and the ancestral home of Taiwan Province compatriots. China is the hometown of special oolong tea and the birthplace of Tieguanyin, a famous tea at home and abroad. One of the most important revolutionary bases in southern Fujian. 1985, the State Council was identified as the first batch of counties open to the outside world.

Anxi has a long history, a long history, rich humanities and talented people. From the archaeological excavations in China to the Neolithic cultural sites, it has been shown that people lived and worked here on both sides of Lanxi as early as 4,000 years ago. The Xia and Shang Dynasties gave birth to ancient culture, and the accumulation was quite rich. The rise and spread of its culture mainly comes from the southward migration of Central Plains culture. From the Five Dynasties Tang Dynasty to the Southern Tang Dynasty, many celebrities and poets in Gwangju, Henan Province came to Anxi to live in seclusion. Liu Qi, a famous anti-gold star in the Southern Song Dynasty, died and was buried in Yuantan Village, Shennei Township. Zhu, a Neo-Confucianist in Song Dynasty, saw the picturesque scenery of Anxi and wrote Eight Scenes of Qingxi. They played an enlightening and spreading role in the early culture of Anxi. Especially in the late Tang Dynasty, Liao Yan and Zhan Dunren, the magistrate of Kaixian County in the Five Dynasties, took the lead in giving enlightenment, encouraging and inducing future generations to study, which made great contributions to the exploration and development of Anxi's early culture.

Anxi is a pearl rising in Ran Ran, located in the golden triangle of Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in the south of Fujian. In recent years, great progress has been made in infrastructure construction. The total mileage of existing highways is 265,438+030.46 kilometers, and a transportation network with provincial highways as the aorta and criss-crossing county roads and township roads has covered the whole county. Zhangping, Quanzhou and Xiaocuo Railway, which runs through Anxi from northwest to southeast, has a total length of110 km and has been completed and opened to traffic. With the modernization of post and telecommunications, program-controlled telephones, mobile phones and wireless paging can directly communicate with countries and regions on five continents.

The construction of Anxi county has achieved remarkable results. The development of six residential areas in Xiansheng, Longhu, Liao Wei, Tongmei, Houan and Chengxi has begun to take shape, and the urban area has expanded from 0.8 square kilometers to 6.8 square kilometers now. An 'anxi County takes Lanxi as the central axis, and nine bridges, such as Ximen Bridge, Jinlong Bridge, Yingru Bridge, Xuan Ming Bridge, Fengcheng Cable Bridge, Qingxi Bridge, Yuan Xian Bridge, Lanxi Bridge and Railway Bridge, are used as links to connect the flood control levees along the banks of the river 10 kilometers, showing an increasingly good investment environment with a brand-new look and vigorous posture. Anxi is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China. Anxi people, full of pioneering spirit, began to make a living in Japan, the Philippines and other countries as early as the end of the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, Anxi people went to Southeast Asian countries to explore and develop with their special skills of growing and selling tea and commercial skills such as farming and business. Now it is distributed in more than 20 countries and regions on five continents. There are nearly 800,000 overseas Chinese living in Anxi, especially 223,000 in Indonesia. Followed by Singapore and Malaysia, each with about 200,000 people. Anxi is also the main ancestral home of compatriots in Taiwan Province Province. Since the early Qing Dynasty, many Anxi people moved to Taiwan Province Province. After Anxi people settled in Taiwan Province Province, they still maintained their hometown customs and religious beliefs. There are more than 65,438+050 temples in Taiwan Province Province. Many ancestral temples, houses and place names are the same as Anxi. Now there are more than 2 million Anxi descendants living in Taiwan Province Province, which is more than twice the population of Anxi County. The vast number of overseas Chinese and Taiwan Province compatriots have made brilliant achievements in pioneering and starting businesses in their places of residence, and famous overseas Chinese leaders such as Lin Qingnian, Quan, Liu, A, Tang Yu and Hu Jinzhong have emerged. Xu Shengfa, Chen Songji, Lin Murong, Li Shangda, Li, Lin Shengzhi, Zhong Family, Luo, Lin Xiuqiong, Chen Family, Lin Tianbao and other world famous entrepreneurs and consortia. They not only made great contributions to the local economic development and the prosperity of Fujian, but also made positive contributions to the construction of their hometown and the establishment of public welfare undertakings. The World Anxi Folks Friendship Conference has been held for four times in Singapore, Anxi and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which has had a far-reaching impact on rallying the strength of 4 million Anxi folks at home and abroad and accelerating the social and economic development of Anxi.