Xindai Town in Xindai, Pinghu-Township Introduction

Xindai Town

Xindai Town is located in the northern part of Pinghu City and is the "North Gate" of Pinghu City. It is adjacent to Jinshan District of Shanghai to the northeast, Jiashan County to the west, and Pinghu City to the south. Bordering Guangchen and Zhongdai Town, it is only a stone's throw away from the international metropolis Shanghai, only 11 kilometers from Pinghu City, and only 1.5 kilometers from National Highway 320. Since the reform and opening up, Xindai's economy has developed by leaps and bounds, and various social undertakings have flourished. In 2000, the town achieved a GDP of 558 million yuan, a foreign trade export delivery value of 929 million yuan, total fiscal revenue of 45.6988 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers reached 4,848 yuan. Xindai Town is located in the Hangjiahu Plain, with flat terrain, fertile soil, four distinct seasons, sufficient rainfall, and good natural conditions such as light, heat, soil, and air. Moreover, Xindai Town is adjacent to Shanghai to the east and Jiashan to the west. The regional advantages are very obvious. Xindai agriculture provides broad development space.

Xindai Town actively takes advantage of both natural conditions and geographical location, adapts measures to local conditions and takes advantage of the situation, continuously accelerates the pace of industrial structure adjustment, and vigorously develops efficient agriculture. The town now has 59,665 acres of cultivated land, 8,234 acres of mulberry gardens, and 5,700 acres of aquaculture. It has initially formed characteristic industries such as pollution-free high-quality rice, watermelon, sericulture, animal husbandry, famous aquatic products, fruit trees, flowers, and edible fungi. In 2000, the total output of grain reached 36,000 tons, 4,100 tons of oil, 449 tons of silkworm cocoons, 1,500 tons of high-quality aquatic products, 200,000 piglets for slaughter, 117,000 pigs, and 14,400 sows. While accelerating the adjustment of industrial structure and vigorously developing efficient agriculture, Xindai Town has always insisted on investing heavily in agriculture and creating brands in order to adapt to agricultural development and market demand. Xindai Town has also increased the brand building of other industries and established a pollution-free pig breeding base, a high-quality mushroom planting base, and a famous and high-quality aquaculture base, which has promoted the upgrading of the industry and promoted the brand building process.

Xindai Town is one of the provincial key central towns. Its sanitary ware industry originated in the 1990s. Although it started late and was short-lived, it has developed rapidly. The city and town levels have increased their support for this emerging industry and established " China (Pinghu) Sanitary Ware City" has established the Sanitary Ware Industry Association and the "Yangtze River Delta Sanitary Ware Science and Technology Innovation Center". The development of the town's sanitary ware industry has accumulated rich production experience and strong technical strength. The town already has 94 sanitary ware manufacturing companies and more than 50 supporting companies. The annual output value has grown at a rate of 30%, forming a unique regional economy. According to industry association market research, the leading sanitary ware products in Xindai Town include more than 30 products in hundreds of specifications, including luxury integrated shower rooms, computer steam rooms, massage wave bathtubs, and bathroom cabinets. The domestic market share of similar products exceeds 20%, and high-end products Exports have begun, and a sanitary ware industry cluster has gradually formed. In the Yuan Dynasty, Xindai belonged to Huating Township. In the Ming Dynasty, Xindai developed rapidly; there was a saying that "out of the eighteen towns in Jiangnan, there is one town in Xindai; among the eighteen towns in Dongxiang, there is not as many as one town in Xindai."

In the Ming Dynasty, the Xindai Town Market took Yuanhui Bridge (commonly known as Baojiaqiao) as the city center. Business was developed, the market was noisy, and life was stable. There is a poem that goes, "Fish, shrimps and vegetables are shoulder to shoulder, the Yuanhui Bridge is noisy all day long, tea is drunk in the east market and wine is in the west market, and businessmen come and go on the rainbow waist." The development of the market town is centered on Baojiaqiao and develops to the surrounding areas. Because Xindai is a water town, there are many bridges and boats. There are Dongzha Bridge, Nanzha Bridge, Xizha Bridge and Beizha Bridge built around Baojia Bridge. Nanzha Bridge and Beizha Bridge are now preserved, that is, Taiping Bridge and Qingyun Bridge (now listed as Pinghu Municipal level). cultural relics protection unit). Urban development is centered on the river, forming a typical "well"-shaped small town pattern of ancient water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Xindai had East Market, West Market, Zhongshi, Huajie, Shangtang, and Xiatang, and it had become a prosperous commercial town in northern Zhejiang.

In the fifth year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty (April 1430), Pinghu County was established, and Xindai was under the jurisdiction of Pinghu. In the thirteenth year of Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Xindai still belonged to Huating Township, with jurisdiction over 4 capitals (22-25 capitals) and 14 squares. According to the "Maoshui Country Song": Xindai is "bordered by the Jinshan River. Mao Lake is full of fields for farming and mulberry farming. The tide comes and goes when irrigating the fields. There are no worries about drought."

Ten of the Republic of China. In November of the seventh year (1935), Xindai District was reduced to 1 town and 9 townships.

In January of the 35th year of the Republic of China (1946), the original 1 town and 9 townships in Xindai District were reduced to 1 town and 3 townships.

On May 11, 1949, Pinghu Xindai was liberated and the Xindai District Committee was established, with 1 town and 3 townships under its jurisdiction.

In 1956, the district was withdrawn and merged into townships. The four villages of Xiuye ??Township, Xiyang Township and Dingqiao Township are combined into Xiuxi Township. Nanshe and Shiqiao Townships were merged into Nanqiao Township. Qianmei and Caogang Townships merged into Qiangang Township. In the spring of 1958, Xindai District and Xindai Township were restored. Xindai Town and Xiuxi Township were merged into Xindai Township. In October, Xindai People's Commune was established.

At the end of 1982, Xindai Town was separately reduced and merged into Xindong and Luxi Neighborhood Committees. Xindai Commune has 13 production teams under its jurisdiction.

In December 1983, the Xindai Commune’s political and social organizations were separated and restructured into the Xindai Township People’s Government.

On May 26, 1987, Xindai Township was demerged and merged into Xindai Town.

In July 1999, the township zoning was adjusted, and Xiuxi and Nanqiao Townships were merged into Xindai Town. It currently governs 18 villages and one community committee. Xindai Town is located in the northern part of Zhejiang Province, at the Hangjiahu Plain, the frontier of the Yangtze River Delta, and the north shore of Hangzhou Bay. It is the north gate of Pinghu City. With a regional area of ??77.3 square kilometers, it is the largest township in Pinghu City. Xindai Town has outstanding location advantages. It is a necessary place for traveling between Shanghai and Hangzhou. It has convenient water and land transportation. The Xingta exit of Shanghai Outer Ring A7 Expressway is connected to Xindai Industrial Functional Zone. You can get on the expressway in 3 minutes and connect Shanghai, Hangzhou and Shanghai. Ning, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Suzhou, Kunshan and other cities are all within an hour's drive. The national fourth-level waterway Shanghai Tang passes through the town, and the sea ports include Shanghai Port and Zhapu Port.

Xindai Town has a north subtropical monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, abundant sunshine and abundant rainfall. Xindai has a mild and humid climate, with short spring and autumn and long winter and summer. The annual average temperature is 15.7℃, the frost-free period is 225 days, and the precipitation is 1186.3 mm. There are 136.3 rainfall days per year, and more than 70% of the rainfall is concentrated in the flood season from May to September. The flood season has three rain periods: spring rain, plum rain, and autumn rain. The relative humidity is 82% year-round, and the average annual foggy days are 31.2 days.

The population of Xindai Town continues to expand. Before liberation, the population of Xindai Town was only 14,400. By the end of 2007, the registered population of Xindai had reached 51,800, 3.6 times that before liberation. The town's population density was 670 people per square kilometer, including 47,265 employed people. . With the rapid economic and social development of Xindai, the size of the floating population entering Xindai continues to expand. According to statistics from the Xindai Police Station, the migrant population in Xindai has reached 32,000.

Xindai has sufficient power supply. It has three power sources: East China Power Grid, Jiaxing Power Plant, and Shanghai Petrochemical Power Plant. It has built a 110KV substation, which has the advantage of multiple power sources. Postal communications are convenient, and two broadband networks, namely telecommunications and radio and television, have been built. The comprehensive economic strength of Xindai Town continues to increase. In 2007, the town achieved a GDP of 1.574 billion yuan, industrial enterprises above designated size achieved an output value of 3.8 billion yuan, a foreign trade export delivery value of 2.7 billion yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers reached 9,969 yuan.

The industrial economy of Xindai Town has achieved a good trend of sustained, rapid and healthy development. It has formed a city with clothing and luggage as the leaders, construction and building materials, hardware machinery, sanitary ware, grain and feed processing, and luxury private yachts. In an industrial structure that develops multiple industries simultaneously, industry associations for clothing, luggage, sanitary ware, and construction machinery have been established. Among them, the clothing and luggage industries are the two pillar industries of Xindai, accounting for 71.21% of the town's total industry. Sanitary ware is an emerging industry in Xindai Town and one of its characteristic industries. The town already has 94 sanitary ware manufacturing companies and more than 50 supporting companies, and has gradually formed a sanitary ware industry cluster. In 2002, Taiwan Dongge Co., Ltd. established a wholly-owned yacht manufacturing factory in the Xintai Town Industrial Functional Zone, making private luxury yachts another characteristic industry of Xintai Town.

In 2007, the 540 industrial enterprises in Xindai Town achieved an output value of 4.6 billion yuan, a sales revenue of 4.48 billion yuan, a total profit and tax of 330 million yuan, and an industrial added value of 1.2 billion yuan. 85 enterprises above designated size achieved an output value of 3.725 billion yuan, a total profit and tax of 202 million yuan, and an industrial added value of 918 million yuan. There were 37 industrial productive investment approval projects throughout the year, and a financial investment of 670 million yuan was completed in technical transformation; the contracted foreign investment achieved through investment promotion was 20.1339 million US dollars, the actual foreign investment in place was 6.0364 million US dollars, and 60.78 million yuan of domestic investment from outside the city was introduced.

The developed export-oriented economy and the high degree of economic export are the distinctive features of Xindai Town’s economy.

Pinghu City ranks first in the utilization of foreign investment and foreign trade exports. More than 90% of Xindai Town's traditional industries, clothing and luggage, are exported. Xindai Town's emerging industry, sanitary ware, has gone abroad and is exported to Europe and the United States. The town's industrial functional zone, Sanitary Ware Industrial City, and the three-level industrial park of Xingge Industrial Park have become the main areas for investment and business development by merchants from inside and outside the city. The Xindai Town Industrial Functional Zone is a division of the Pinghu Economic Development Zone and enjoys the same preferential policies as the Pinghu Economic Development Zone. The Sanitary Ware Industrial City is a special industrial park set up by Xindai Town to develop and expand the sanitary ware industry to develop sanitary ware and sanitary ware. Mainly supporting industries. 1. Sanitary ware The sanitary ware manufacturing industry is not only an emerging industry in Xindai Town, but also one of the characteristic industries in Xindai Town. Now it mainly produces bathtubs, wash basins, ordinary shower rooms, luxury shower rooms, computer-controlled steam rooms, massage rooms and other products, which are sold well all over China and exported to Russia and other countries and the Middle East. There are more than 80 manufacturing enterprises with an annual output value of 365 million yuan. Among them, Pinghu Aonisi Sanitary Ware Co., Ltd. and Pinghu Owen Sanitary Ware Co., Ltd. are the leading enterprises in the sanitary ware industry of Xindai Town.

2. Building materials

There are more than 10 building materials companies in Xindai Town. The main products are cement, bricks, cement colored tiles, porous boards, etc., which are sold well in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. Zhejiang Xingge Building Materials Group Co., Ltd., a backbone enterprise in the industry, is a national medium-sized enterprise and one of the largest enterprises in the industry in Zhejiang Province.

3. Luggage

The luggage manufacturing industry, one of the pillar industries in Xindai Town, currently has more than 80 luggage manufacturers, which produce handbags, leather bags, travel bags, soft boxes, and trolleys. boxes, EVA boxes and other products, with 13,459 employees. Leading enterprises include Jiaxing Xinyu Luggage Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Pinghu Zhongcun Luggage Co., Ltd., Pinghu Nanqiao Luggage Factory, Pinghu Xinyu Luggage Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Ginza Luggage Co., Ltd., etc.

IV. Clothing

There are 112 clothing companies in Xindai Town, with products including cotton clothes, jackets, jeans, leather clothes, cotton clothes, down products, etc. Xindai Town's clothing has been exported to five continents, four oceans and all over China. A number of companies have emerged, such as Zhejiang Jiaxing Tongxin Garment Co., Ltd., Jiaxing Guangyue Garment Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Lemeisi Textile Co., Ltd., Pinghu Kunmengda Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Clothing Co., Ltd., Pinghu Huajie Garment Co., Ltd., Pinghu Baili Garment Co., Ltd. and other leading key enterprises.