Shiqiao Town is located in the northeast of Sichuan, (107 degrees east longitude, latitude 31 degrees north) is located in Dazhou City, west of Tieshan, 61 kilometers away from the city, south of Quxian, west of Yingshan, north of Pinchang, Dachuan District, "the west gate" reputation. There are "Ba Peng" provincial highway east and west through the town, is the district of the western town and the distribution of materials. Baidu Map: The town covers an area of 56.33, jurisdiction over 20 administrative villages, 5 community committees, 222 villagers groups, 9221 households, with a total population of 70,000 people, of which the town population of nearly 40,000 people, in 2005 the town's GDP exceeded 180 million yuan of income mark, the per capita net income of 3,135 yuan.
In the western part of Dachuan District, Dazhou City, there is a beautiful ancient town, where the mountains are clear and beautiful, people, forests and lush vegetation, idyllic scenery. The village has many ancient courtyards, and the ancient buildings are characterized by the prominent characteristics of Sichuan East. It is the only Dazhou into the first batch of provincial key construction demonstration town of Sichuan Province, Shiqiao Town. Shiqiao Town is located west of Tieshan, the western gate of Dachuan District, 61 kilometers from Dazhou City, 45 kilometers from Pingchang County. Provincial Highway 202, Bada Railway through the town, location advantages and transportation advantages are obvious, radiation driven Dachuan District, the western part of the southern Pingchang more than 20 township development. Ancient style and ancient charm to create a happy and beautiful livable town Strolling in the old streets of Shiqiao ancient town, as if through the time tunnel, in another world. Lenin Street, a group of stone plaques and Red Army slogans, as if people back to the era of war. On Lenin Street, there are four pagodas, the first one is located about 30 meters inside the east entrance of Lenin Street, which was built by Xu's wife, Ma Chun's wife, in the sixth year of the Tongzhi period; the second pagoda was built by Guo's wife, Ma Zhou, in the twenty-first year of the Jiaqing period; the third pagoda was built by Li's wife, the wife of the late landowner, Xu Wenzhuan in the ninth year of the Tongzhi period; and the fourth pagoda was built by Wang's wife, Xu Dingguo, the wife of the martial arts student in the twenty-sixth year of the Guangxu period. The four pagodas are all green stone material, three layers of arch, flying eaves and wings, beautifully carved and engraved, on the five dragons holding the purpose (hollow carving), the following flowers and characters, opera stories, *** carved figures 480, 16 animals, all lifelike. In September 1933, the Red Army from Bazhong, Pingchang swung south to the town of stone bridge, in the stone bridge four pagodas and stone walls engraved with revolutionary slogans, the original Lujiaping Street was renamed Lenin Street, and therefore known as "China's first red street". In the center of the second pagoda, engraved with "Leninism Street" 5 big words, and "the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army Fourth Front Thirtieth Army Political Department," the inscription. On the whole street, there are more than 30 slogans such as "Down with Imperialism". These slogans are still glittering, in full view, fully demonstrated that period of fire in the heady days. Therefore, it is both a monument, but also rich in the spirit of the times, a street with four pagodas, the integration of ancient and modern in one, is rare. In the town of Shiqiao, a local resident told reporters, Shiqiao in addition to the town area has "inverted stone bridge, filial piety festival pagoda, Lenin Street, Lenin Park, the Red Army monument carving stone forest, the high temple Zhai quotations monument, picking the river, Raccoon Flower Stream" and other tourist attractions, the town's tourist attractions there are "nine layers of Zhai Mountain, Fairy Hill, Gaoqiao Reservoir, Li pure tomb, three teachings Temple The town's tourist attractions include "Nine-layer Zhai Mountain, Fairy Lady Mountain, Gaoqiao Reservoir, Lichun's Tomb, Sanjiao Temple Cliff Statue, and Weiwuzhai Ancient Courtyard. Beautiful scenery, beautiful neighborhoods, is a beautiful, happy and livable place. According to Xia Huayong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shiqiao Township, Shiqiao Township has a long history and culture, and pure folk customs. Traditional culture has Kongming lanterns, clown play, playing drums, money board, sedan chair, stilts, etc., of which "burning fire dragon" and "over the mountain hinge" has been identified as a key provincial intangible cultural heritage. New town Dachuan western economy and trade center Out of the old town streets, a modern new town atmosphere. Street traffic, stores. Xia Huayong said, Shiqiao town is Dachuan District, in addition to the suburbs of the first town, the town population of 46,000 people, the built-up area of 2.1 square kilometers, with the old street and the new area of the size of 41 streets and alleys, trade and prosperity, there are five large-scale supermarkets on a large scale, 320 department stores, convenience stores, 510, hotels, 22, can receive tourists at the same time more than 500 people to stay in the centralized trade market, two, where the shopping is very convenient. It is very convenient. The streets of the town are very clean, every day there are sprinklers for dust removal, relative to other townships, Shiqiao Township, the residents of the streets of the pace of life seems to be a little faster, most of them have their own stores, through labor, accumulating wealth. At the same time, Shiqiao Town, a unique geographical location, radiation driven by the development of the western Dachuan District, southern Pingchang area, the transportation is very convenient. Shiqiao Township is a wider area, the climate, soil suitable for the comprehensive development of agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry, a variety of agricultural products. Since then, Shiqiao Town has been focusing on the development of specialty farming industry. Focusing on hogs, grass-fed livestock and aquaculture. Shiqiao town has a solid economic foundation, strong development potential, is the western part of Dachuan District, the economic and trade center, characteristics of agriculture, ecotourism and red tourism development is better, the main industries are grain, oil, vegetables, fruits, livestock and poultry breeding, etc., its financial income and residents' income ranked the top of Dazhou City. In recent years, the province, the city, the county introduced a lot of preferential policies, and investment in the town of stone bridge focus on building. 2009 on the ancient town of Lenin Street comprehensive maintenance, the new Lenin Park, Lenin Lake, Lenin Square, for tourists from all directions and the local residents to provide a place to visit, tourism, leisure, recreation, fitness. Every year in the first month of the Lantern Festival, the traditional "burning fire dragon" custom unprecedented scale, attracting a lot of domestic and foreign tourists to watch. Future planning four major advantages to boost the development of stone bridge Talking about future planning, Xia Huayong said, in the entire Dachuan District of the future tourist attractions in the project planning, stone bridge town occupies an important position. Tourism development in the region to "1 belt, 5 areas, 10 scenes" of the basic structure of the overall layout, which, "Shiqiao style vacation sightseeing tourism area" occupies an important position. Next, Shiqiao will create a natural ecological scenery and prehistoric remains as one of the well-known domestic tourism brand. In the future development, Shiqiao Town has its own advantages, first of all, location advantages, Shiqiao Town is located in the western Dachuan District, 61 kilometers from Dazhou City, 45 kilometers from Pingchang County, 178 kilometers from Bazhong City. It is the center town of the combination of Dazhou and Bazhong, radiating the development of the western part of Dachuan District and the southern part of Pingchang. Location advantage is obvious, integrated into the Bada City Economic Zone, built Dachuan (Sichuan) Pingchang (Chang) Drainage (County) of the city's sub-center, radiation driven the economic development of more than 20 surrounding townships. Secondly, the transportation advantage, if the location is the innate conditions for the development of the town, then the improvement of transportation conditions will further expand the town's location advantages. Provincial Highway 202 (Bapeng Highway) passes longitudinally from the east of Shiqiao Town, east to Dazhou and Kaijiang, connecting Dazhou to Dayu Expressway and 210 National Highway, and Bada Railway, which is under construction, passes through the town, connecting to Xiangyu Railway, and there is a railway station in Shiqiao Town, which makes the transportation very convenient. In addition, Shiqiao Town is a typical agricultural town and ecotourism town, with rice, wheat, corn and rape planting as the mainstay, farming, fruits and vegetables as the leading economic development, and eco-tourism with history and culture and Red Army culture as the carrier, which has made the GDP of the whole town reach 312 million yuan, and the per capita net income reach more than 7,500 yuan. Shiqiao town is blessed with a long history, rich culture, in the future development, tourism will shine. Here, you can swim in the "Lenin Ancient Street", feel the heritage of China's first red street; you can enjoy the traditional custom of "burning fire dragon", witness the perfect combination of power and beauty; you can also stroll in the stone bridge more than a dozen old streets, experience the Ming and Qing dynasties of the ancient street style. Development Ideas Building trade and tourism new towns Talking about the future development of Shiqiao, Shiqiao town party secretary Xia Huayong believes that the road to urbanization should be roughly experienced by the dispersed to agglomeration, and then to the dispersed three stages, urban and rural development in general is an inverted U-shaped curve state. It is necessary to attract production factors to gather in towns, promote the adjustment of industrial structure and the optimal allocation of resources, break the dual structure of urban and rural areas, and coordinate the coordinated development of urban and rural areas through the comprehensive enhancement of development concepts, development paths, development dynamics and quality of development, in order to narrow the urban-rural difference faster and better, and accelerate the development and construction of new towns integrating commerce and trade, and tourism. On how to promote the rapid development of new urbanization, Secretary Xia put forward six "outstanding": the first is to highlight the planning leadership, build a scientific urban system. Planning is the leader to guide the overall work, Shiqiao Town will strive to ensure that the town planning and land use planning and economic and social development planning to achieve "three rules in one"; second is to highlight the implementation of land use planning, to achieve healthy and orderly development. Secretary Xia believes that land use planning is important, the implementation of the same need to be strong, in order to better promote the development of the town of stone bridge; and then is to highlight the foundation first, enhance the town's comprehensive carrying capacity. The development of the town cannot be separated from the support of infrastructure. Once again, it is to highlight industrial support, accelerate the development of modern agriculture and service industry, and promote the new industrialization, so as to reach a balance; in addition, it is also necessary to highlight the service guarantee, solve some problems faced by farmers in the construction of new towns and cities, solve the source of their livelihood, cultivate the basis of their vocational skills, and help them re-employment, and ultimately enable them to achieve a smooth transition; and finally, it is necessary to highlight the reform and innovation, and decentralization of government. Secretary Xia said that the establishment of a level of grass-roots government that truly enjoys the relative equivalence of human, material and financial rights and administrative and law-enforcement powers in the field of land-use construction and town management is particularly important in the process of promoting urbanization. Town Profile
Shiqiao Town was formerly known as "Shiqiao River", named after the 15 stone arch bridges in the town. The town has a long history and culture, and the folk customs are pure and thick, and the famous 4 stone pagodas built in the Qing Dynasty are standing at the beginning and the end of Lenin Street. 1933, the Red Army engraved revolutionary slogans on the 4 pagodas and they are still well preserved, and the Lenin Street is therefore known as the "China's First Red Street". Lenin Street is known as the "First Red Street of China". The traditional folk culture of Sichuan opera, sedan chair, stilt walkers and waist drummers is widely spread. The "burning dragon" has been listed as a key intangible cultural heritage of the province, and was named the township of "burning dragon" by the Ministry of Culture; in 1991, it was listed in the first batch of famous historical and cultural towns by the Provincial Department of Construction; in 2013, the stone plaques and slogans of the Red Army in Lenin Street were listed in the national key cultural relics protection units; the inverted stone bridge in the territory is known as the "First Red Street of China". Cultural relics protection units; the inverted stone bridge, three temple rock statues, Lichun tomb and other cultural relics have been protected; in 2000 was approved as a provincial pilot town of small town construction; in 2004 as a national key town; in 2005, the National Tourism Administration and the Sichuan Provincial Government will be included in the "Lenin Street" in the Sichuan, Shaanxi, Chongqing red classic scenic spots, Lujiaping Village Listed as a national traditional village; in 2013, Shiqiao Town was identified by Sichuan Province as the first batch of provincial key town construction demonstration town. Town features "burning fire dragon": provincial key intangible cultural heritage. In ancient times, Shiqiao was a famous dry dock, the ancient Shiqiao people in order to pray to heaven to bless the wind and rain, a bumper crop, every year the Spring Festival from the first month 11 to the first month 15 (Lantern Festival), five consecutive nights, the whole town and a hundred miles in the vicinity of the 100,000 people burning fire dragons to create a new year, so the Dachuan Shiqiao ancient town has been known as the "hometown of the fire dragons," the reputation, and for more than 100 years It has never been interrupted. The "mountain hinge": the provincial key intangible cultural heritage. Shiqiao turning mountain hinge by the Qing Xianfeng years Daxian Shiqiao town folk artist Feng Bailin first, after five generations of inheritance, so far has a history of more than 150 years. "It is a dance of waving and hitting the hinges (small copper cymbals). According to the "Chinese folk dance integration - Sichuan Volume" records, Sichuan Han folk dance has 39 kinds of 85 programs, "over the mountain hinge" is one of them.