Shezhu Town, the ancient Middle River from the southwest to the north down through the territory. In the early years, this is a waterfront terrace in the ancient Middle River Basin, because the local people worship the land god and the god of grain, the place name "Shezhu". As early as 7000 years ago, there have been clans of the first people in this area, living a life of slash-and-burn farming and fishing, hunting and animal husbandry, the excavation of the Shendun site was listed as one of China's top ten new discoveries in archaeology in 2006.
After the five weirs were built in the upper reaches of the Middle River at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Lee Ping Lake and the Three Pagodas Lake in the Middle River Basin within the territory of Shezhu were turned into dangtan, and the immigrants were gradually relocated here because dangtan could be reclaimed as dike fields. Shechuan Wang's genealogy" records: "three acacia return to the Ze since the Song transmission, because the official Anqing migrated Jin Yuan, into the family of the Kong's that is the reproduction of Shechuan." This means that at that time the Shechuan scholar Kong Shimei because of the official in Zhejiang Province, Jinyu County. Knee childless, so the Wang Songgang for his son-in-law, since then by the Anqing migrated to the Wang's that is reproduced in the Shechuan. It can be seen at that time the Shechuan scholar house, has been a civilized township. The Southern Song Dynasty Chancellor Yu Chuangwen's three sons and eight grandchildren in the Shezhu reproduction, now 44 generations.
According to "Liyang County Records", it is recorded that during the Qin and Han Dynasties, Liyang County was located in the north of the ancient Lishui, and the north of the water was called Yang, so it was named "Liyang". Ancient Lishui is also known as Seshui and Seshiang, and the upstream is also known as Nanhe and Xuhe, with the main stream flowing through Hekou and the tributaries flowing through Shezhu. According to this, we know that Shezhu was in the Qin Dynasty, and its history can be said to be of long origin.
According to Liyang County Records, in 1061, the sixth year of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a record of "Shezhu Town" in Liyang.
Yuanfeng Jiuwei Zhi, a national geography book compiled and published during the Yuanfeng period of the Northern Song Dynasty (1078-1085 AD), clearly recorded "Shezhu Town". Thus, in the Northern Song Dynasty, Shezhu Town has become a regional market town, the actual "millennium ancient town".
During the Xuanhe period of Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Shezhu belonged to Jinyuan of Liyang (i.e., the area around the Set River), and was called Shechuan at that time.
Ming Hongzhi 11 years (1489) county records: Liyang territory has only two towns, one of which is Jushan town (now Daibu), the other is Shechuan town, which was already called Shezhu town.
Shezhu is an ancient part of Setzhu Eup (now Gaochun Gucheng Town). In the 26th year of Qin Shihuang (221 BC), Sezhu was changed to Liyang County, and Shezhu belonged to Liyang County.
Since the Three Kingdoms, the two Jin dynasties, the North and South Dynasties, the territory has been set up in the Tuntian Lieutenant and Yongping County, Yongshi County, Pingling County. Shezhu belonged to it successively.
Tang Gaozu Wude three years (620 AD), the abolition of Yongshi County, and the eastern part of Lishui land reset Liyang County, since then Liyang as the name of the administrative region has been used continuously. Shezhu belongs to it.
In the second year of Xuantong (1910), the district system was changed to city and township system, Liyang County set up 3 cities and 4 townships, and Shezhu set up Shoushan City.
Republic of China in the first year (1912), the establishment of the city, township autonomous public office. Shezhu is Shoushan City, the seat of the autonomous public office.
During the war, the New Fourth Army set up a military station in Shezhu, the Kuomintang 24th Group Army Special Forces, the 50th Army, the new 7 Division, Jiangsu Province, the 2nd column of security team headquarters, the pseudo army on the one hand, 2 divisions, the county defense corps 4 and Japanese invaders, etc. have been stationed in the Shezhu troops, and built a large number of bunkers, trenches, command headquarters, parks and other military facilities.
Republic of China twenty-six years (1937), Shezhu for the seventh district office in the land, jurisdiction Shezhu township, peace township, Zhongxiao Township, Zhou Township, Haikou Township, Dingshanqiao Township, Renai Township.
On May 7, 1949, the People's Government of Liyang County was established, and Shezhu District was set up;
In 1950, Shezhu District was divided into 12 townships;
In 1957, the district was withdrawn and the townships were merged into Shezhu Township by combining Xintang, Yuba, Chengqiao, Shanqiu and Shezhu;
In 1958, Shezhu set up a people's commune named Dongfeng People's Commune.
1983, Shezhu Commune changed to Shezhu Township;
1984, Shezhu Township township;
January 2000, Hekou Township, Hexin Township, Yinqiao Township, and the town of Shezhu merged with the new Shezhu town;
March 2007, Shezhu Township and the town of Zhoucheng merged with the new Shezhu town. Township government in shezhu township people's road 1. Administrative division area of 207.07 square kilometers, with a total population of 76,000 people.
Shezhu town is now under the jurisdiction of the Shezhu neighborhood, Zhoucheng neighborhood and Shezhu Village, Yixiang Village, Xintang Village, Wangjia Village, Song Village, Xinshan Village, Yinqiao Village, Daitian Village, on the Chiang Village, Kong Village, Huxi Village, Yao Lane Village, under the West Village, the Bayou Village, by the Horse Weir Village, Dongsheng Village, Zhoucheng Village, Jinshan Village, Jinfeng Village, Jinzhuang Village, Meishan Village, Dingshan Village. The market town is located in the lifeblood of the Suzhou-Anhui transportation, and the transportation is convenient. There are 106 buses directly to Liyang city, as well as Shezhu-Changzhou, Shezhu-Nanjing, Shezhu-Wuxi, Shezhu-Shanghai and other round-trip buses, which can reach the neighboring large and medium-sized cities in two hours, and can reach all over the country in five hours.
Shezhu town village roads to achieve cement, the first to open the town and village bus in 2008, convenient for the surrounding people, has become a national model. Existing town and village buses, Shezhu - farms, Shezhu - Hekou, Shezhu - Hexin, Shezhu - Yinqiao, Shezhu - Qingshuitang, Yinqiao - Hexin, Zhoucheng -Meishan, Zhoucheng - Dali Beach, Haikou - Zhoucheng, Haikou - Tangqiao, Shezhu - Daijia Village, Yinqiao - Daijia Village, Shezhu - Shangjiang and so on. Shezhu town existing Shezhu Center Primary School, Zhoucheng Primary School, Hekou Primary School, Hexin Primary School, Yinqiao Primary School, and Shezhu Junior High School, Zhoucheng Middle School.
Shezhu town existing health care, Liyang city, the fifth people's hospital that is shezhu health hospital (a class A) through the renovation of the second level hospital, Zhoucheng health hospital (a class A), Yinqiao Orthopedic and Traumatology Hospital (a class B), Hexin Health Center, Hekou Health Center, and shezhu home for the elderly, Zhoucheng home for the elderly, and a number of home retirement nursing home. Yixiang Village, Xiamaxu Village and Huxi Village in Shezhu Township have been successfully created into national, Jiangsu Province and Changzhou City level ecological villages respectively. It has become a successful model of new socialist rural construction in Liyang.
Shezhu closely around the construction of "ecological towns, shrimp towns, livestock towns," the center of the work, to farmers to increase income as the goal, to build a modern agriculture as the main line, ecological civilization as the basis for the reform and innovation as the driving force, and continue to promote the work of agriculture and rural areas. Existing arable land area of 118,000 acres, of which 108,000 acres of paddy fields, green shrimp farming area of 45,000 acres, Liyang green shrimp has become a very distinctive local industry, but also one of the pillars of the rural economy of the town of Shezhu, vigorously cultivate and develop the green shrimp industry, the implementation of the brand-driven strategy to accelerate the pace of the vast majority of rural areas in our city to get rich and run to affluence and promote the construction of a new socialist countryside is of great significance. With tea, pollution-free sausage, mutton hot pot, salted goose, green shrimp, seedless cucumber and other high-efficiency and high-quality agricultural and sideline products are famous all over the world, the market is booming merchants gathered, the town's industrial and commercial enterprises more than 1,000, the infrastructure is fully functional.
Shezhu's modern agriculture is booming, from the hilly mountainous areas of comprehensive development of breakthroughs, shezhu new high-efficiency agriculture of 34,900 acres, of which 14,500 acres of fisheries, forest, tea and fruit 0.86 million acres of pastoral 0.19 million acres of sightseeing agriculture 0.79 million acres of greenhouses 0.2 million acres.
Shezhu Town has been identified by the Jiangsu Provincial Government, "Jiangsu Province, the key center of the town", "Jiangsu Province, health towns", "Jiangsu Province, a new model of small towns", "Jiangsu Province, the township of cultural characteristics", "Jiangsu Nuo cultural ecological protection pilot area", 2010 was named "national ecological town", 2014 included in the "national key center town", "the national key center town", "the national key center town", "the national key center town", "the national key center town". "National Key Center Town" list, the establishment of China Nuo cultural research base, become China's folk culture and art township (Nuo culture).