History of Pingdong Town, Haifeng County, Shanwei City

Pingdong Town is located in the northeast of Haifeng County, Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, adjacent to Lufeng and Luhe, 24 kilometers away from the county seat. It belongs to the location of "Jiulong Cave" in the old revolutionary base area. 1974 was divided into organizational towns in terms of equity. It has jurisdiction over 89 natural villages, with 4,260 households, 23,500 people and 9,500 laborers. The town covers Fiona Fang 126 square kilometers, including: woodland 10000 mu, cultivated land of 25,000 mu, development and utilization of sloping land of 28,000 mu and water surface1000.

In recent years, the town committee and the town government have determined the development path with highway construction as the leading factor and planting as the leading factor, and conscientiously implemented the strategic deployment of "one kind of two kinds of cultivation, three kinds of processing, four kinds of development and five kinds of investment attraction", aiming at laying a foundation, promoting development and stepping up. 1998, the total industrial and agricultural output value of the town was 65.438+0.5 billion yuan, the total agricultural output value exceeded/kloc-0.2 billion yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers reached 2,000 yuan. Grain planting is 30,000 mu, with a total output of 8,500 tons; Sugarcane planting is 6,543,800 mu with a total output of 45,000 tons; Fruit planting/kloc-0.5 million mu, fruit hanging 0.5 million mu, total output of 2000 tons; Watermelon is planted at 5,000 mu, with a total output of 1.25 million tons, fast-growing eucalyptus is planted at 1.5 million mu, cattle are raised at1.00 million heads, pigs are raised at 30,000 heads, and three birds (chickens, geese and ducks) are raised at 200,000 heads.

With the rise of township enterprises, a number of large-scale and high-grade breeding households have emerged.

There are two medium-sized reservoirs, Nanmen and Ping Long, with a total storage capacity of 28 million cubic meters, which can solve the problem of irrigation water for agricultural production. There are hydropower stations with installed capacity of1.250kw, which are incorporated into the county power grid, and each village has sufficient electricity and lighting. The first phase of Huazhaolou Reservoir has been completed, and the second phase is under preparation. Telephone programming, BP machine service desk setting, analog and digital mobile phone differential dial setting. The town has installed 600 telephones and 2,500 BP machines, which makes people's drinking water clean and convenient. The 654.38+ 10,000-square-meter Japan-China Economic Community has begun to take shape, commercial and residential buildings, office buildings and dormitory buildings have mushroomed in the ascendant, and the transformation of the old areas in Japan and China has been continuously improved; Provincial Highway 1924 Haifeng-Liuhe Highway passes through the town, and Pingdong terminal is a transfer station. The 9.76 km gravel subgrade project in Pingtung has been completed and opened to traffic, and the cement pavement project is being stepped up. The highway is an important communication channel between the mountainous areas in eastern Guangdong and the coastal areas of Meixian, Wuhua, Jiexi, Liuhe and Zijin.

The "Jiulong Cave" in the town has famous rare specialties such as ginger, taro and Liuyang. It has been exported to Hong Kong, Japan and other places. There are the "South Gate Hanging Cave" excavated by the Tunjun Army in the Ming Dynasty, the "General Monument" established in the Song Dynasty, and the newly developed "Shangtang Ferry Dam".

Pingtung Town can enjoy preferential policies such as old areas, mountainous areas, poverty-stricken areas, immigrant areas and coastal areas. Its greatest advantage lies in its vast mountains, rich labor force and rich mineral resources. It has unique advantages to establish ten commodity production bases such as grain, sugar cane, fruit, watermelon, vegetables, cattle, pigs, "three birds", freshwater fish and high-yield forests, establish agricultural and sideline products processing industry and develop township enterprises.