Shuyang County is located in the northern part of Jiangsu Province and belongs to Suqian City at prefecture level, with 35 townships (farms) under its jurisdiction, covering an area of 2,298 square kilometers, arable land of 2,040,000 acres, and a population of 1,760,000, which makes Shuyang the most populous county and the largest county in terms of land area in the province.
Shuyang has a long history and a rich cultural heritage. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Shuyang belonged to the state of Lu; during the Warring States Period, the state of Tancheng was built; during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, Houqiu County was set up; and during the seventh year of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Shuyang County was set up. Yanji Town in Shuyang County is the hometown of Yu Ji, a woman of great beauty, and the story of "Farewell My Concubine" has been recited for thousands of years. Shen Kuo, a great scientist in the Song Dynasty, was the chief official of Shuyang and led the people to control Shu River and Liutang River, and his political reputation spread far and wide. Yuan Mei, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, was the magistrate of Shuyang County and left behind many poems and good stories. The wisteria planted by Yuan Gongteng still spits out its green color today. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Liu Qingyun, a talented Shuyang woman, traveled to the south of the Yangtze River with her 10 books of legends, which were so popular that they became the talk of the town. In the late Qing Dynasty, Li Yinggeng, a scholar who served as a minister in the Suzheng government, created the first military music score in China. Before and after the founding of the PRC, Shuyang has nurtured such outstanding talents as photography master Wu Yinxian, famous journalist and writer Baiyao, Peking Opera artist and "Living Red Queen" Song Changrong, Lu Xun research expert Wang Shijing, famous historian Ye Geelsheng, academician of the two academies Li Deyi, and the "Living Leifeng" Zhang Zixiang, all of whom contributed to the liberation of the motherland and the construction of the country, and won honors for the people of Shuyang. The deep cultural heritage of Shuyang has become a valuable spiritual wealth for the modernization of Shuyang today.
Shuyang is well connected by transportation. The Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, Xinchang Railway, National Highway 205, Provincial Highways 245, 324 and 326 intersect in Shuyang. It takes 40 minutes to get to Lianyungang Baitabu Airport in the east and 1 hour to get to Xuzhou Guanyin Airport in the west. Shuyang County is well connected by waterways, with Xinyi River running east to west and Huashu New River running north to south. Shuyang Port, one of the top 20 river ports in the province, has an annual throughput of more than 3 million tons, and is connected to the Yangtze River by the Huashu River, and reaches the port of Lianyungang through the Shuxin River, the Qiangwei River and the Gupo River.
Shuyang is rich in resources. Shuyang is one of the top ten commercial grain base counties in China, one of the first advanced plains greening counties, one of the commercial pig base counties and one of the advanced science and technology counties. The annual output of grain is 1 million tons, oilseeds 62,300 tons, cotton 0.51 million tons, and the annual output of commercial pigs is nearly 2 million heads. Shuyang is famous for its flowers and trees, with a total area of 310,000 mu, more than 3,000 varieties of flowers and seedlings, and more than 830,000 pots of various kinds of bonsai, making Shuyang the largest flower and tree base in China, and is also known as the "Flower Capital of the Orient". 2005 saw the county realizing RMB 2.2 billion in revenue from flower sales. In 2005, the county realized 2.2 billion yuan of revenue from flower sales, and the Suzhou North Flower and Bonsai Company, which is regarded as the leading flower sales company in the province, has the national second-grade qualification of garden design. Xinhe Town in Shuyang was awarded the Hometown of Flowers and Trees by the Provincial Association of Flowers and Trees in 2000, and Yenjie Town was awarded the Hometown of Flowers and Trees of China by the China Association of Flowers and Trees in 2001. Shuyang is a traditional forestry county, with 615,600 mu of poplar forests, 2.32 million mu of forest network, 3.8 million cubic meters of standing trees, and a forest coverage of 46.5%. Shuyang has obvious advantages in aquatic resources, with a total water area of 622,000 mu and 120,000 mu of usable aquaculture water, producing freshwater fish such as bluegill, carp and silver carp. Shuyang is rich in mineral resources, containing 9 types of non-metallic minerals and 1 type of energy mine, among which blue crystal, crystal, phosphorus, mica ore, as well as yellow sand and potter's clay are of high mining value
Social undertakings
Since the liberation of the country, and in particular since the reform and opening up of the country, social undertakings in Shuyang, such as culture, education, and health, have seen great development. In recent years, the county party committee and the county government have insisted on taking the market as the guide and vigorously promoted the process of industrialization of social undertakings so that they have become real market players and have gained unprecedented development in market competition. At present, the county *** there are all kinds of educational institutions 963, of which the national model high school and provincial key middle school each 1. There are 326 new private educational institutions, with fixed assets of 140 million yuan, and a number of private schools with advanced teaching facilities have emerged. Urban and rural hospitals and health centers are reasonably configured, and the county people's hospital and the county hospital of traditional Chinese medicine in the urban area are equipped with advanced equipment and strong technology. All township hospitals in the county have completed the privatization and restructuring process, and more than 10 private hospitals have been set up, giving birth to a number of large-scale and high-grade privately-run medical institutions such as Shuyang Ophthalmology Hospital, Renji Hospital, Pentacenter Hospital, Cardiovascular Hospital and Ping'an Hospital. The funeral industry has seen new development, with the privately-invested Tianfu Park Cemetery and the Wanfu Funeral Hall, the only star funeral hall in northern Jiangsu Province. Local colorful Huaihai opera, boy opera, Huaihai drum and gong, qin book, flower boat, fast board and other forms of literature and art rapid development, literature, drama, music, music, painting, calligraphy, photography, carving, as well as radio, television and other arts unprecedented prosperity, county, townships, villages and the three-level cultural network is gradually formed.
City Building
In the old days, Shuyang had built many streets along the river and opened up alleys along the streets. In the seventh year of Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty (1512), an earthen city was built, and in the forty-fourth year of the Wanli Calendar (1616), a brick city was reconstructed. Rural market towns were built in the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming and Qing Dynasties gradually scale, regular collection and distribution. Urban and rural buildings are simple, and the roads are dusty and muddy. After the founding of new China, gradually remodeling the old city. 1956 city south expansion, 1981 to expand east and west. By 1987, the area of the urban area was 6 square kilometers, 20 streets were built, and the per capita living area was 5.91 square meters. In recent years, Shuyang has fully implemented the strategy of "the rise of towns to stimulate domestic demand, the pulling of horses to enhance radiation, the arching of stars to form a system, and the integration of urban and rural areas to promote development", and adhered to the principles of high standard of construction, high requirement of management, and high speed of development, which has resulted in a historic breakthrough in urban construction. By the end of 2005, the urbanization rate of the county's population had reached 35.8%, and the area of new buildings in the county was 4,196,000 square meters. The area of urban infrastructure has expanded to 51 square kilometers, with 89.1 kilometers of new concrete roads paved; 23 sections of East Nanjing Road, Guangzhou Road and Shanghai Road have been transformed into pole-less roads; 90 kilometers of natural gas mains and 20 kilometers of branch networks have been laid; 132 public toilets have been newly built and renovated; 40 squares have been constructed; and the area of urban green space is 9.46 million square meters, with a greening coverage rate of 45.2%. Today, Shuyang is a spacious city with spacious streets, rows and rows of buildings, patches of green areas, flourishing flowers, beautiful environment, orderly management and flourishing popularity, which has basically achieved the goals of hardening, greening, beautifying, purifying and brightening, and the framework of a medium-sized city is becoming more and more prominent, presenting a brand-new situation of vigorous development.
Natural Geography
Shuyang is located in the northern part of Jiangsu Province, downstream of Yishu and Surabaya waters, and belongs to the transition zone between Lunan Hills and Jianghuai Plain. The county lies between 33°53′ and 34°25′ north latitude and 118°30′ and 119°10′ east longitude, 60 kilometers from east to west and 55 kilometers from north to south. It is bordered by Lianyungang in the east, Huai'an in the south, Suqian in the west and Xuzhou in the north, and is the combination of Xu, Lian, Huai and Su cities. The topography of the county is in the shape of an irregular square, the terrain is high in the west and low in the east, and most of the ground elevation is 7-4.5 meters. The highest peak in the county is Mount Han, which is 70 meters above sea level. Except for Tongyang, Maoxu, Liuzhi, Yuelai and other townships, which have some mountain ranges, the land is flat, and the river network is dense, with 29 rivers, such as Xinyi River and Huashu River, crisscrossing the territory.
Shuyang has a warm temperate monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, abundant sunshine and rainfall. The average annual temperature is 13.8℃, with an annual maximum temperature of 14.3℃ and a minimum of 13.3℃. The highest temperature of the calendar year is generally between 35℃ and 38℃, and the lowest temperature is around -4℃ to -5℃. The average annual sunshine hours are 2,363.7 hours, the average annual relative humidity is 75%, the average annual wind speed is 2.8 meters per second, and the average annual precipitation is 937.6 millimeters.
Administrative divisions
In ancient times, Shuyang had towns such as Houzhen, Qutou and Liuzhuangkou, which were destroyed by fire. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the number of towns increased to 36. During the period of the Republic of China, 9 cities and 1 township were set up as townships, which were later changed to 162 townships in 10 districts, with large and small townships scattered all over the city. After the founding of new China, the district townships have repeatedly changed, to the 1980s relatively stable, counting 35 townships (field), and more than 10 markets. Now has jurisdiction over 29 townships, 5 townships, 1 farm, 472 administrative villages (neighborhood) committees, more than 1.7 million people, is the province's most populous county.
Cultural Life
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As an ancient city on the Huanghuai Plain, Shuyang is located at the crossroads of north and south. Since ancient times, Shuyang has been an important place for the collection and distribution of goods, and has been known as "the place where merchants gather". Over the centuries, the merchants from the south and the north have not only driven the economic development of Shuyang and brought about its prosperity and affluence, but also facilitated the exchanges and fusion of cultures between the north and the south in Shuyang, which has given rise to the distinctive local folklore and personalities of its inhabitants. Shuyang people are warm and generous in their daily interactions, polite in their speeches, with the bold hospitality of the Northerners and the emotional subtlety of the Southerners; Shuyang's folklore is characterized by the boldness and hardness of the North and the freshness and elegance of the South. In the early years of the Republic of China (R.O.C.), the new wind of modern civilization blew into Shuyang. After the founding of the new China, with the development of politics, economy and culture, traditional and healthy folklore was preserved and passed down, and stereotypes were discarded, and new styles of customs were gradually formed in the whole county. According to records, the following folk customs with Shuyang's characteristics have been preserved: festivals such as the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, winter solstice, and the Zaosai festival; food and drink, such as "no wine without a banquet" and "dog meat without a banquet"; folklore, the main house facing the south is known as the "tang house"; rituals and ceremonies, such as the old people celebrating their birthdays in the past nine years but not ten years, and celebrating their birthdays one year in advance; and cultural practices, including the old opera varieties of Huaihai Opera and Boys' Opera as well as folk songs and folk dances such as stilt walkers, rice-planting songs and waist drums, and so on. Culturally, there are old plays such as Huaihai opera, folk songs and folk dances such as stilts, rice-planting songs and waist drums. With the further emancipation of people's minds since the reform and opening up, western and Hong Kong-Taiwan cultures have entered the lives of Shuyang people, and more modern contents have been incorporated into Shuyang's ancient folklore, making it more modern in character.
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Shuyang's Economy
Shuyang is the hometown of flowers and trees in China, one of the top ten base counties for commercial grain, a major county for agricultural and sideline products, an advanced county for greening of the plains, and a nationally renowned base for the production of vegetables, emerging edible fungi, timber processing, and a famous center for the collection and distribution of books.
In recent years, Shuyang County Party Committee and County Government have been adhering to the "One and Two Wings" development strategy of taking project promotion as the main body of development, and investment promotion and national entrepreneurship as the two wings of development, and grasping the two major opportunities of industrialization, urbanization, and real estate development, to fully accelerate industrialization, urbanization and development. Comprehensively accelerate industrialization, urbanization, marketization of the three processes, the county's economic and social development has maintained a rapid and steady momentum. Economic operation initially entered a virtuous cycle stage, in 2005, the realization of the gross regional product, financial income, per capita net income of farmers increased by 14.79%, 55.1% and 9.8%, respectively, were "Ninth Five-Year Plan" at the end of the 1.9 times, 2.8 times and 1.29 times; the general budget revenue accounted for the proportion of total financial revenue in the province Counties and cities in the forefront of the increase in the province's 66 counties and municipalities in the 6th place. Industrial breakthroughs have been effective, in 2005, a net increase of 57 enterprises, totaling 272; textiles, clothing, shoes, hats, toys and other industries to the cluster situation, the modern textile industrial city prototype has been presented. Entrepreneurship is in full swing, the annual tax of more than 100,000 yuan private households reached 344, the private economy, direct tax revenue growth of 38.3%, accounting for about 80% of the state and local tax revenue. City construction highlights, the construction grade and grade is constantly upgrading, medium-sized city framework is increasingly emerging, the county infrastructure supporting area has expanded to 51 square kilometers, the population of 390,000, "a heart of multi-point" big trade, big logistics pattern initially formed. Realistic innovation has become a trend, the implementation of the "first-line work method" and work will be done system, the implementation of "immediately on the office" and no excuses for the work of the law, the establishment of a sound project help service system, and continue to improve the "seven grasp "Stabilization work mechanism. Not long ago, the county was named by the provincial party committee, the provincial government as "Jiangsu Province, social security security county".