Economic overview of Changle Town

Changle Town is located in the southwest of Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, with mountainous areas to the south, the Yellow River to the north, and 10 kilometers away from the urban area. The total area is approximately 918 square kilometers. Changle Town has jurisdiction over 15 administrative villages and 1 residents' committee, with a total population of 21,000, including 290 Muslims, and a cultivated land area of ??29,000 acres. Changle Town has rich mountains and rivers and is one of the Yellow River Diversion Irrigation Areas with a long history. The area is rich in coal, gypsum, limestone, quartz, clay, copper ore and other mineral resources, with raw coal reserves reaching 200 million tons. Since the 1970s, Changle Town has given full play to its resource advantages and vigorously developed township enterprises, which have become the pillar industry of Changle Town. In the 1990s, we actively promoted the "secondary entrepreneurship" of township and village enterprises and implemented the reform of the property rights system of township and village enterprises. The number and scale of industrial enterprises expanded rapidly, forming a business mainly engaged in magnesium metal, cement, ceramics, brick making, mechanical casting, coal, and gypsum. industrial structure. It is an important magnesium metal production base in the western region. Kehao Ceramics Company is the largest ceramic enterprise with high technological level in the western region. Changle Town has 286 township enterprises with 5,200 employees. Among them, there are 41 industrial enterprises, 2 enterprises with an annual output value of more than 100 million yuan, 5 enterprises with an annual output value of more than 10 million yuan, 3 enterprises with an annual output value of more than 5 million yuan, and 16 enterprises with an annual output value of more than 1 million yuan. In 2004, the town's total rural social output value reached 446.23 million yuan, of which the total output value of township enterprises was 395.4 million yuan, accounting for 89% of the total social output value. The per capita net income of farmers from township enterprises reached 2,258 yuan, accounting for 67% of the per capita net income of farmers. .

Changle Industrial Base was founded in 1987. In 1996, it was named an "autonomous region-level industrial base" by the autonomous region. In the same year, it was awarded the "National East-West Cooperation Demonstration Zone" by the Ministry of Agriculture. The industrial base covers an area of ??5,055 acres and is divided into two communities, located 1 km southeast and 12 km southwest of the town. There are 162 existing enterprises, including 41 industrial enterprises, 2 enterprises with an annual output value of more than 100 million yuan, 5 enterprises with an annual output value of more than 10 million yuan, 3 enterprises with an annual output value of more than 5 million yuan, and 16 enterprises with an annual output value of more than 1 million yuan. The main industries are magnesium metal, ceramics, cement, coal, steel casting processing, and brick making. In the past two years, it has completed the 180,000-ton rotary kiln cement production line expansion project of Zhongwei Taiqingshan Cement Company, the technical transformation and expansion project of exterior wall tiles with an annual output of 4.5 million square meters of Kehao Ceramics Company, the technical transformation and magnesium alloy project of Jinyi Magnesium Company; 15 new industrial projects have been launched, including Huayu Brick Manufacturing and Xinlong Steel Plant. In 2004, Changle Town invested 3.1 million yuan to harden 9 town and village roads of 8.04 kilometers. *** Construction of 87 bridges and tailwaters, 60,000 cubic meters of earth and stone paved, and 480,000 square meters of hardened area.