General situation of Baita town in Jieyang city

Baita Town is an important town in eastern Guangdong, belonging to Jiedong County, Jieyang City, bordering Puzhai, Fengshun County, Meizhou City in the north, facing Nanhe of Rongjiang River and Nanxi Town of Puning City across the river in the south, connecting with Dongyuan, Jingxi and Wujingfu of Jiexi County, and relying on Wei Long in the west. The provincial highway "Jielu Highway" runs through the town center, and Jiefeng Highway, Baihong Highway and Baimian Highway meet with the domestic "Jielu Highway". The town has jurisdiction over 18 administrative villages and 1 neighborhood committees, with a population of 95,330, with a total area of 6 1.3 square kilometers, 35,359 mu of cultivated land and 23,035 mu of mountainous areas. In 2007, the total industrial output value of the town was 2.6/kloc-0.80 billion yuan, and the total agricultural output value was 248 million yuan.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Hong Anding, a scholar, was awarded the master book of Chaoyang County. 1279, Song died. Hong Anding and his wife Huang and Li (China was polygamous in ancient times) moved to Yuta and settled in Pushang Village. Because there are four hills in the northwest of the village, they are connected into jade characters, and there is a small tower in the southeast of the village, and this place has become a jade tower. Because the local water source is very scarce, the surrounding area is called "grain field", and crops are harvested every three years. "No rain for five days, scorched earth for ten days", so the Jade Pagoda is also called White Pagoda.

In recent years, the leadership of Baita Town Committee and Town Government has been far-sighted, determined to reform, pioneering and enterprising, insisting that development is the last word, adapting to local conditions, giving full play to its advantages, insisting on trade, industry and agriculture simultaneously, actively implementing the development strategies of "revitalizing the town through industry" and "revitalizing the town through science and education", and pushing the rural economy of the town to a new level. Due to its outstanding performance, the town has been rated as "Party Committee of Five Good Towns", "Two Advanced Units of Civilization Construction" and "Civilized Small Town of Jieyang City" by cities and counties for many years.

In recent years, the town has invested more than 200 million yuan to build a large number of infrastructure projects that serve economic and social development. Carefully plan and compile the Master Plan of Baita Town, implement orderly construction, and accelerate the pace of urban-rural integration. At present, the township area has reached 5.2 square kilometers; Take the lead in realizing the cement of town and village roads in the county; A central market and a specialized farmer's market will be built, equipped with supporting facilities such as hoses and sewage discharge. Among them, the professional farmer's market, covering an area of 45 mu, is the largest freshwater fish wholesale market in Jiedong and even the whole city, with active trade, and vendors from surrounding counties and towns come here to wholesale fish goods; Building a telecom building with an installed capacity of 50,000 SPC telephones, and opening SPC telephones and digital mobile telephone base stations; A town waterworks with a daily water supply of 6.5438+0.5 million tons and a second-and third-class pipe network along the way will be built, and nearly half of the population in the town will drink sanitary and clean tap water; The power supply station was built, with an investment of nearly100,000 yuan, and the rural high and low voltage power grid was comprehensively transformed and the original 35 kV substation was expanded. L 10 kV power transmission and transformation has been completed and put into use.