Houxi Town, Houxi Town, jimei district City, Xiamen City

Houxi Town is located in the northeast of jimei district, bordering Qiaoying Street in the east, Bantou Forest Farm and Xiamen No.2 Farm in the west, Guankou Town in the southwest, tianmashan, Damaoshan, Yenneishan and Tongan in the north, and Garden Expo Park and Xinglin Bay in the south. It is an important part of Jimei industrial zone, cultural and educational zone and new town.

Houxi Town covers an area of 44. 1 km2, and governs 9 administrative villages and 3 "village-to-residence" communities, with a permanent population of 32,226 and a floating population of 2 1.709.

Houxi has a long history, Zhong Ling is beautiful, and the land is rich, which has given birth to unique resource advantages and profound cultural heritage.

Yan Baihu in the jurisdiction is spectacular and steep, with many strange stones; Millennium Zhuxi Bridge, the ancient post road, goes down in history; Dijing, Huangdu Temple, Shengguoyuan and Shoushiyan left ancient legends. The ancient kiln site of Wanyao in the Southern Song Dynasty and the inner city built by Shi Lang in the Qing Dynasty all record the civilization of Houxi.

Houxi attaches importance to literature and advocates education. In ancient times, there were Shengguoyuan Academy, Nanfeng Academy and Zhuxi Academy, which gave birth to many literati and modern builders. Wang Guozhen, a famous obscure poet, and Wang Dingchang, the first elected president of Singapore, both have their ancestral homes in Houxi Town.

Houxi is also one of the famous hometown of overseas Chinese in southern Fujian. There are 2293 overseas Chinese in the town, distributed in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and other 18 countries and regions. In addition, Weishan Overseas Chinese Friendship Association and Yingcun Overseas Chinese Friendship Association have been keeping close contact with overseas Chinese and passing on the changes and progress of their hometown to overseas folks in a timely manner.

Since the reform and opening up, Houzhen has been committed to economic development and improvement of people's livelihood with the spirit of being able to work and trade, diligent and hardworking, and honest and trustworthy. Especially since the 2 1 century, with the formulation of the grand blueprint for the construction of the economic zone on the west side of the Taiwan Strait and the steady progress of the integration construction inside and outside the island, Houxi has ushered in unprecedented development opportunities, and historical opportunities are bound to become the focus of attention again.

In 2002, in order to actively respond to the major strategic deployment of the provincial party committee on the construction of the economic zone on the west side of the Taiwan Straits, the municipal party committee on the construction of an important central city of the economic zone on the west side of the Taiwan Straits, and the Jimei district committee and government on accelerating the construction of three development platforms, Houzhen put forward the development idea of "project-driven, subdivided development, brand-building and characteristic-building" and clarified the industrial development principle of "retreating one into two and strengthening three". At this point, Houxi entered the golden period of large-scale development and construction, the economic development quickly entered the fast lane, and the appearance of the jurisdiction has undergone earth-shaking changes.

In 2005, according to the demand of expanding the development space of industrial zone in jimei district, Houxi Industrial Group, a Jimei industrial cluster with a total planned area of 7 square kilometers and a total investment of about 200 million yuan, came into being. After nearly five years' efforts, Houxi Industrial Group has become an important gathering place of machinery, electronics, textiles and other industries in jimei district and a new bright spot of industrial growth in Jimei and Xiamen. At the same time, due to the rise of industrial groups, the industrial development of Houxi has made a historic breakthrough. The total industrial output value increased from 252 million yuan in 2002 to 3 billion yuan in 2008, an increase of nearly 1 1 times; The local fiscal revenue exceeded 1 billion yuan in 2008 from 5.32 million in 2003.

In April of 20 10, the Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway was officially opened to traffic. The Xiamen (North) Station with a total land area of 5.51.36 hectares and a total investment of over10 billion yuan was officially opened, and Houxi officially ushered in the "high-speed rail era". Relying on the agglomeration effect and radiation effect of people flow, logistics, business flow, capital flow, information flow and other factors in the northern railway hub, a number of large-scale projects such as the new station operation center, Shengguoyuan commercial center and Haixi automobile city were started, and infrastructure facilities such as municipal facilities, water and electricity supply, post and telecommunications financial services were improved one after another. A comprehensive new urban area with logistics, comprehensive service and life as its main functions is ready to emerge.

On September 20 10, Xiamen College of Arts and Crafts of Fuzhou University moved to Houxi Cultural and Educational Zone and officially opened to the outside world. At present, there will be 8 colleges and universities in the cultural and educational zone, with the number of teachers and students reaching 654.38+10,000, initially forming a number of colleges and universities with a certain scale and a perfect talent training system. Together with primary and secondary schools and technical secondary schools within their jurisdiction, these institutions of higher learning have formed a perfect educational network in Houzhen, which not only enhances the taste of Houzhen city, but also provides high-quality talents for the economic development of the town, laying a good foundation for the integration and promotion of Industry-University-Research.

The ancient fertile soil is pregnant with a beautiful new city, and the beautiful picture scroll is presented in a three-dimensional posture. Under the background of Xiamen's "two firsts" in the tide of Haixi construction, Houxi is accelerating the urbanization construction according to the principles of high starting point, high standard, high level and high level. With the combination of the three platforms and reasonable industrial layout, Houxi has made great strides towards a new city with interactive development of leading industries such as modern industry, commerce and logistics industry and cultural tourism. With the continuous expansion of Xiamen city, Houxi's unique location advantages, complete investment environment and long-term accumulated strong potential will enable it to achieve new development and new take-off.