Started in the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the county school, academy, private schools are complete. Yuan dynasty set up state school, the Qing dynasty to create the government school and Ning County middle school (later changed to the third secondary school in Fujian Province), long for the highest school in eastern Fujian. Republic of 22 years (1933), the provincial third secondary school moved to Ningde Sandu, Xiapu education was affected, to the Republic of 38 years, the county has a county secondary school, 79 elementary school, 340 students in secondary school, primary school students 3548 people. After the founding of new China, the people's government has taken over the primary and secondary schools, 1955, the county kindergarten, elementary school, secondary school education on a large scale. During the "Cultural Revolution", the education cause suffered setbacks, the quality of teaching declined. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Central ****, after the reorganization, advocating "education in the county", capital school and respect for teachers, general, professional, adult education, comprehensive development, public, private and private schools go hand in hand. By 1990, there were 26 kindergartens, 775 elementary school and 15 middle schools in the county, an increase of 7.7 times, 17 times and 14 times respectively compared with 1950; 12,059 children were enrolled in schools, 51,168 elementary school students and 11,645 secondary school students, an increase of 108.6 times, 14.5 times and 56.4 times respectively compared with 1950. Professional education and adult education have made great progress, the cultural quality of the population has been significantly improved, and the county has been awarded the title of advanced county in eradicating illiteracy in the province. Educational facilities have improved significantly, with primary and secondary schools basically realizing "one without two" (no dangerous buildings, classrooms, desks and chairs), and the problem of "difficult school enrollment" basically solved, with the popularity rate of school-age children reaching 97.51%.
In 2012, the county had 125 schools of all types, with 64,076 students enrolled and 18,477 graduates. Elementary school 46, enrollment of 5,082, the number of students enrolled in 26,064, graduates 4,133; 24 general secondary schools, enrollment of 6,301, the number of students enrolled in 20,109, graduates 7,469; with 52 kindergartens, 16,160 children in the park; with a special education school, 112 students. The consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education is 89.8%, and the completion rate of standardized construction of compulsory education schools is 94.2%. In 1952, after the establishment of the county and district agricultural technical guidance organizations, they implemented the "eight-character constitution" of agriculture, set up experimental plots and yield-boosting films, and promoted science and technology in agriculture first. Later, due to the "Cultural Revolution", science and technology suffered a serious setback. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the ***, science and technology as the first productive force has been fully emphasized, science and technology has developed rapidly. By 1990, the county formed a four-level science and technology network, there are 35 county and township (township) level science and technology institutions, 27 academic organizations, science and technology demonstration townships, 95 demonstration villages, consortiums, demonstration households 1090, *** there are 1,137 professional and technical personnel (excluding social sciences), of which 25 people with senior titles, intermediate titles, 236 people, accounting for science and technology personnel, respectively, of 2.2% and 20.76%. Dongguoyang aquatic development technology and other 5 scientific research projects included in the national science and technology research projects, 12 scientific research projects included in the "Spark Plan", 16 scientific and technological achievements have been rewarded at the provincial level or above, of which the "artificial nursery technology of the yellow croaker" has an international advanced level.
At the end of 2012, the county had 8,716 professional and technical personnel of all types, 154 new people during the year. Among them, 684 people in senior positions, 3745 people in intermediate positions. Throughout the year, there are Huamei spark plugs and Dongfu farms of the Conglue green brand of clear water green and other products of two enterprises won the "Fujian famous brand" product title, **** inspection of 91 production enterprises of the product (business), sampling 163 batches of products, batch qualification rate of 93.3%, the mandatory calibration of measuring instruments, 5,932 pieces of time. Newly added 2 famous trademarks in Fujian Province during the year. Xiapu late-ripening lychee and Xiapu squash through the China Agricultural Products Geographical Indication Certification. Literary and artistic creation in the county developed earlier, prose, poetry, calligraphy and painting, generation of masterpieces, but cultural facilities are relatively backward. After the 11th year of the Republic of China (1922), folk theater troupes, county libraries, people's education museums, "Xiaguang Newspaper", "Herald", "People's Newspaper" and so on were established one after another, but the scale was very small and the influence was not great. After the founding of New China, cultural centers, bookstores, broadcasting stations, troupes, cinemas, clubs, archives, newspapers have been established, presenting a "blossoming" situation. "During the Cultural Revolution, traditional culture was often criticized as "feudalism, capitalism and cultivation". Through the "Reform and Rehabilitation", the cultural undertakings were gradually restored, and "Xiapu Newspaper" was founded in 1981, which was the first county-level newspaper in the province. After the reform and opening up, television, radio, news business comprehensive development, the formation of the state, collective, individual diversified cultural network. 1990, the county has county and township cultural halls, stations 13, 17 movie theaters, 43 film teams, county and township television stations, cable TV station 12, satellite ground receiving station 10, TV population coverage of 65%; medium wave radio, cable radio each 1, through Cable broadcasting administrative villages accounted for 74%; there are also libraries, Xinhua Bookstore, "Xiapu Newspaper", Min Opera Troupe, Workers' Clubs, parks and video halls, dance halls, karaoke halls, video game halls, amateur troupes, etc. in the county town and major townships, so that the cultural life of the people in urban and rural areas is rich and colorful.
In 2012, the county had 9 cultural and artistic performing groups, 1 cultural center, 1 public **** library. At the end of the year has a radio and television station, the village through the broadcast rate of 100%; radio population coverage and television population coverage rate of 99% and 98%, respectively, at the end of the year, 81,300 cable TV users, the annual broadcast of news 3200 times. During the year, it successfully co-organized the Fourth Strait (Xiapu) Photography Exhibition, attracting photography enthusiasts from eighteen countries and regions. Ningde (Xiapu) International Coastal Film and Television Culture and Creative Industrial Park is listed in the "Fujian Province, the top ten key cultural industry park". Urban and rural people have always relied on traditional Chinese medicine to cure diseases, and there have been many famous doctors over the ages. Qing Guangxu eight years (1882), the introduction of Western medicine, the successive founding of Bo Ji, Bo Ai men and women's medical centers, to the Republic of China in 31 years (1942) merged into the Xiapu Shengjiao Hospital, the majority of rural areas are still in chronic shortage of medicine. Xiapu liberation, the county has a hospital, health center, clinics, pharmacies, 38, Chinese and Western medicine 226 people. early 50s, the government took over the Holy Church Hospital, the organization of the joint clinic, carry out patriotic health campaigns to strengthen epidemic prevention, maternal and child health care. After the communization, the joint clinic, the village individual medical were merged with the communal health hospital and village health station. 1970, the implementation of cooperative medical care, to carry out the elimination of schistosomiasis snail battle. 1979, the restoration of epidemic prevention and health care, the creation of the county hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, the rectification of the rural medical institutions, the reform of the health care system, the opening of the pharmaceutical market, health and medical network throughout the city and the countryside. 1990, the county has a county-level health care units 4 In 1990, the county had 4 county-level health care units, 14 township hospitals, 15 health centers (rooms) in factories and schools, 254 village health centers, and 102 individual medical practitioners, with 1,625 Chinese and Western medicine personnel, of whom 1,004 were health technicians, with senior and intermediate technicians accounting for 2.29% and 19.32%, respectively, and with 598 beds, which basically solved the problem of "difficulty in obtaining medical treatment". The problem of "difficult access to medical care" has basically been solved. Urban and rural health outlook has changed significantly, smallpox, cholera, cholera and other acute infectious diseases such as basic elimination, to achieve the "basic elimination of leprosy county" and "elimination of schistosomiasis county". The average life expectancy of the county's population is 72.33 years, 3.08 years higher than in 1981.
In 2012, there were 78 health care institutions in the county***, including 2 county hospitals and 14 township (township) health centers with 1,377 beds. Various types of health technicians 1864 people, including 608 doctors. The average number of hospital beds per 10,000 people in the county is 30, with 13 doctors. Rural villages set up 261 medical points, 365 rural doctors, 42 rural midwives. Historically, there have been martial arts, swimming, stone trawling, traditional chess and other sports in the territory. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the church elementary school opened physical education classes, and soccer, basketball and table tennis were introduced successively. During the Republic of China, the creation of public **** stadium, once set off a "soccer fever", and in two sessions of the East Fujian Regional Games in a row to win. After the founding of new China, school and mass sports comprehensive development. "Cultural Revolution" at the beginning of the interruption of sports competitions. 1973, the organization of amateur schools, the restoration of mass sports and school sports, and gradually formed soccer, track and field, shuttlecock, Chinese chess four major strengths, was listed as the provincial soccer key counties in 1978, to carry out the "soccer city" activities, has won the "soccer fever", and won the first place in two successive games in the eastern Fujian region. "activities, has won the provincial amateur soccer tournament, the province's first women's soccer tournament, the provincial elementary school students grass-roots team soccer tournament, the provincial children's soccer tournament champion, 6 provinces and 1 city in East China secondary school soccer tournament runner-up and the national "doll cup" soccer tournament fourth place, won the "east Fujian In the 80's, the shuttlecock sport, respectively won the first provincial shuttlecock championship men's and women's team champion. 1985, the establishment of senior sports association, the elderly sports activities. In the same year, the farmer chess player Zheng Naidong won the champion in the provincial chess championship, and successively won the second and third national farmers' chess tournament, and was honored as the "farmers' chess king". 1990, there were 322 athletes and 29 referees in the county, among which there were 80 national second-grade athletes, and 1 national-level track and field referee. The county won 3 national championships and 30 provincial championships, and delivered a number of sports talents to the country.
In 2012, 55 games were held throughout the year, participating in 23,000 athletes, participating in provincial competitions in soccer won 2 bronze, weightlifting won 2 gold, table tennis 1 silver.