Introduction to Sun Country

Taiyang Township, Jishan County, Shanxi Province is located at the southern foot of Taiyue Mountain and at the foot of Jiwang Mountain. It is the birthplace of Houji’s people farming, the birthplace of China’s primitive agriculture, and the national health model village - Taiyang Village. It is the seat of the township government. 10 kilometers away from the county seat. It has jurisdiction over Taiyang Village, Wudui Village, Miaocha Village, Xiaoyangpo Village, Xiaoyangbao Village, Xiaoyang Village, Xunzhong Village, Dongli Village, Xili Village, Dongjiazhuang Village, Jun'an Village, Junhe Village, and Xixiaohao Village. Village, Baichi Village, Baixin Village, Sanbao Village, Baijiazhuang Village, Wuduipo Village, Xiushan Village, Dingzhuang Village, Xinglongzhuang Village, Dongwang Village, Xiwang Village, Beiwang Village, Sanpo Village, Yangjiazhuang Village , Shangwangyin Village, Changling Village, Liujiaping Village, Shifogou Village and Xiawangyin Village, 31 administrative villages, 167 residential groups, 11,427 households, 50,000 people. The cultivated land area is 114,167 acres, of which 25,000 acres are guaranteed to be irrigated. Sun Village is the pride of Shanxi. In November 1958, at the National Advanced Conference on Rural Socialist Construction, Premier Zhou Enlai personally issued a certificate of award to Sun Village. In November 1959, the Ministry of Health held a national health work on-site meeting in Jishan County. Taiyang Village made a typical speech. At the meeting, Taiyang Village was awarded the banner of health model village. On March 18, 1960, Chairman Mao Zedong gave personal instructions to the report of the national health work meeting in Jishan, Shanxi Province. After that, party and government leaders and health workers from all over the country came to visit in an endless stream. Party and state leaders Hu Yaobang, Xie Juezai, Tao Shi, etc. successively inspected and wrote inscriptions. In 1959, 1970, and 1974, Beijing, Shanxi, and Xi'an film studios filmed the exemplary health deeds of Sun Village into movies and screened them across the country.