Bisha Village is located at the southern foot of Lotus Mountain, north of Han River, neighboring Yanhong Town in the north and Dongli Town in the east. In the 10th year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1250 A.D.), there were three residents with the surnames of Pan, Liu, and Peng, who settled on the southern slope of Lotus Mountain, opposite to the Lotus Temple. Because of the natural white coarse sand all over the ground, it was called "white sand store", and later elegantly called "Bisha".
Bisha is "World War II" period of the old revolutionary village, the village land area of 3.0379 square kilometers, of which the arable land area of 1,283 acres. 2002, the village's total number of households 802, with a total population of 3,488, the village's collective economic income of 13.7778 million yuan, the rural people's income of 2,990 yuan. The village **** has 45 surnames, of which the larger number is Pan, followed by Lin, Chen, Du, Li, Zhang and other surnames.
After 1979, Bisha Village has made great efforts to develop rural economy with local characteristics according to local conditions. By 2002, the village's four major production bases of fruits, vegetables, livestock, and factory-based edible fungus production accounted for 40% of the total arable land area, and their economic income accounted for 70% of the total economic income. The total sowing area of crops in the village is 2,290 mu, and the total output of crops is 4,157.5 tons; the total number of livestock kept is 2,0092. The village has introduced rare fruits on a large scale, and the planted "red leaf lychee" and "Wusu plum" are famous in the village. The village planted lychee, guava, longan and other rare fruits ***300 mu, with a total output of 228 tons. Industrial economy has also developed, to 2002, the village has 20 small enterprises, the main products are paper products, cold fruits, edible fungi, toys, crafts, plastics and so on. Located in the territory of the Lotus Hill, Lotus Hill Hot Spring Resort is a well-known tourist resort.
Village infrastructure construction gradually improved, 1990 to 1999, the new village office site, the elderly activity center, the village main road and public **** alleyway paved with cement. Constructed an area of 200 square meters of two-storey rural health care station, and configure new instruments and equipment; construction of seven harmless public toilets. 1996, invested 3 million yuan to build a new four-storey school building and its ancillary facilities, with a total floor area of 2,200 square meters, improving the school teaching environment, but also the establishment of the Education Scholarship Scholarship Foundation. 1997, the new construction of the agricultural and sideline products trading market. In 1998, the opening up of the fruit area roads and farmland cultivation area roads, laying water supply pipelines, drinking water from the water.
Bisha Village pays attention to environmental protection and ecological construction. Village roads and public **** places are fully afforested and greened. Eliminate the barren mountain traces, and actively develop fruit forestry, so that the village forest coverage rate increased to 53. 1%. The first artificial wetland sewage treatment system in Shantou was built, with a design scale of 1,000 tons of daily sewage treatment. The village's six sewage ponds are filled and remedied, and sewage ditches are built, so that the village's domestic sewage can be discharged after treatment by the artificial wetland sewage treatment project, effectively solving the pollution of domestic sewage. 2001 was awarded the honorary title of the first batch of "ecological demonstration villages in Guangdong Province" by the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Environmental Protection.
Bisha village near the Lotus Hill Hot Spring, Chen Cihong former residence, the famous Yin Yu family temple, Dehua Folk Culture Park, Zhanglin Tianhou Shengmu Temple and other tourist attractions, there are olive groceries, pickles, Dongli pig's feet rice, brined goose, pig head dumplings and other specialties.