The Origin of Qingfeng Town in Fangxian County

Qingfeng Town is an important town in the east of Fangxian County, Shiyan City. The town government is located in Qingfeng Street, with a total area of 4 15 square kilometers and a total population of 3.53 million, including 8,000 people in the urban area. It has jurisdiction over 24 village committees: Qingfeng Street, Longwangping, Lou, Garden, Yuheng, Zhang Jiahe, Yuping River, Xiahe, Fengjiapo, Doukou, Meihuashan, Xishan, Baimagou, Taikou, Liu Jiahe, Zhongyanhe, Shuangping, Woniuguan, Yangjiayuan, Longwanggou, Dongxidian, Yangping, Qinghe and Bali. Qingfeng Town is located in the middle of the great fault in Asia, so the famous geologist Li Siguang named this great fault "Qingfeng Fault Zone". Qingfeng Town was built during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, and it was named after Qingfeng Mountain and Ziyang Cave fairyland described in the classic fairy tale "Romance of the Gods". 193 1 year, He Long led the Red Army to establish the earliest Soviet regime in the northwest of Hubei Province in Qingfeng, which is one of the 27 key old towns in the province. Qingfeng Town has an obvious three-dimensional climate and is rich in lint products such as black fungus, mushrooms, tung oil, oranges, chestnuts, kiwifruit, tea and Chinese herbal medicines. Provincial Highway 305 runs through the east and west, and there are more than 10 county and township highways leading to the towns and villages in the east of Fangxian County via Qingfeng. It is a shortcut from Fangxian County to the provincial capital Wuhan and Hanjiang Plain, and also a highway exchange hub and commodity circulation center east of the county. Qingfeng's economy has developed by leaps and bounds, and has set up more than one township enterprise 10, such as brewery, brick and tile factory and fruit tea company, with state-owned assets of more than 60 million yuan. Through the adjustment of rural structure, four pillar industries, namely, fruit tea industry with citrus as the backbone, edible fungus industry with auricularia auricula as the backbone, Chinese herbal medicine industry with turmeric as the backbone and animal husbandry with goats as the backbone, have been formed. There are Qingfeng Winery, Liu Lixia Power Station, the largest orchard base, Qingfeng Tangju Farm, the largest Chinese herbal medicine base and the largest Pleurotus ostreatus forest base in Fangxian County. In 2002, the town's gross national product reached 65.438+0.96 billion yuan, the comprehensive financial income reached 5.8 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers reached 65.438+0.91.3 yuan. The material and cultural life of the people in the town has generally reached a well-off level. In recent years, Qingfeng Town has cherished the development opportunities of "key central towns" in the whole province, "demonstration towns" in the whole city and the first batch of industrial park construction units in Hubei Province, adhered to the private economy as the main body, accelerated industrialization, industrialization and urban construction, and promoted the economic development and social progress of Qingfeng Town. It has been rated as "Red Flag Unit" in Fangxian County and "Red Flag Township" in Shiyan City for 6 consecutive years. Qingfeng Town Party Committee was awarded the honorary title of "Six Good Township Party Committees" by Hubei Province. As an "economically strong town", Qingfeng Town is rising in the east of Qian Lifang County.