Xi Township is close to Youxi County, with a unique location advantage. In recent years, the economy and social undertakings of Xicheng Township have made significant development, and it has been awarded the honorary titles of provincial "civilized township", municipal "top ten townships in forestry work" and "advanced townships in culture". It has become a strong agricultural town and a big industrial town in Youxi County. By the end of 2007, the annual industrial and agricultural gross output value of the town completed 729 million yuan, of which the industrial gross output value completed 387 million yuan, the agricultural gross output value completed 342 million yuan.
In 2000, the town's total industrial and agricultural output value amounted to 235.66 million yuan, of which industrial output value of 126.81 million yuan, agricultural output value of 108.85 million yuan, the town's total financial income of 2.59 million yuan, the village total financial income of 6.85 million yuan, the per capita net income of farmers 3416 yuan.
Western Township's rapid development of industrial enterprises, has now founded three industrial district and settled in a provincial industrial park. Three industrial districts are Panshan industrial district, Yu Chi industrial district, seven feet industrial district, **** planning area of 4,000 acres. There have been 28 enterprises into the park, the annual output value of 467 million. Youxi Industrial Park City West Park, is a provincial industrial park, located in the western town of Xiejian Village, Yu Chi Village, after the junction of the Yang Village. Xicheng Township has formed four major industrial systems, including electric power, textile, building materials, and bamboo and wood processing.
Culture, education and health are progressing. Town seat cultural facilities are mainly "a building, a station, a center, a hospital, two parks," that is, a cultural activities center building, with a floor area of 1,800 square meters, with books, art, reading, folk paper-cutting four rooms; a radio and television stations, villages have been connected to the cable TV, to achieve full coverage of the county network, the location can receive 32 sets of television programs, broadband users have reached more than 300 households; an activity center for the elderly; a movie theater; a street park, there are more than a dozen kinds of cultural and sports equipment; a government backyard garden, there are basketball courts, throwing courts, gateball courts. Priority development of education, the town has a senior high school, a junior high school. In accordance with national education planning, elementary school for the withdrawal and school, the town government to increase financial investment, improve the middle school and the central elementary school teaching buildings, student dormitory buildings and other infrastructure. Medical and health facilities are better, with a town health center, county hospital branch. Has established a rural cooperative medical system, more than 90% of the township's farmers are protected by the rural cooperative medical system.
Agricultural production is developing steadily, with little change in internal structural adjustment. The town's total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries is 108.85 million yuan, the total sown area of crops is 31,758 acres, of which 48,815 acres of grain is sown, with a total grain output of 242,188 tons, a total tobacco output of 191 tons, a tea output of 420 tons, a fruit output of 8,200 tons, an aquatic product output of 975 tons, a meat, egg and milk output of 2,034 tons, and a production of edible fungi of 1,046 tons.
(1) regeneration rice: 1987 Beizhai village trial planting 300 mu, mu yield 854.8 kilograms (of which the first season mu yield 627.4 kilograms, regeneration rice mu yield 227.4 kilograms), create mu yield "double outline" (800 kilograms). 1991 city, county, town jointly implemented in Wenfeng Village, 2,022 acres, the implementation of the "four early three strict". The implementation of "four early three strict two hard" supporting technology, regeneration rice mu yield of 1088 kilograms (of which the first season rice mu yield 683.4 kilograms, regeneration rice mu yield 405 kilograms), regeneration rice yields jumped to the world's advanced level. 1999 by the Ministry of Agriculture as the National Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Harvest Prize Second Prize.
(2) low-yield field renovation: from 1990 to 2000, Xicheng Township is a provincial-level commercial grain base town, is the implementation of the national comprehensive agricultural development project town, there are nine villages to carry out low-yield field renovation and tons of grain field construction, renovation of the drainage, flood control ditch 15.11 kilometers, water-saving "U" channel 30.1 kilometers, 4.5 kilometers of mechanized cultivation roads (4.5 kilometers), and the "U" channel. 4.5 kilometers of plow road (including 2.4 kilometers of cement road), the town transformation area of 8623 mu, a total investment of 3.944 million yuan.
In 1986, the total area of the township was 439,364 mu, and the forestry land area was 357,589 mu, of which 281,602 mu were forested and 22,394 mu were unforested, with a forest coverage rate of 64.75%. 2000, the forestry land area was 358,815 mu, of which 330,611 mu were forested and 12,173 mu were unforested, with a forest coverage rate of 76.5%. In June 1997, the implementation of forestry production responsibility system, there are 21 villages, 214876 acres of forest, of which 6047 acres of paid transfer, paid use of forest land 2401 acres, 29810 acres of moso bamboo contracted, 508 acres of economic forests, the township of moso bamboo forest area of 37,000 acres. 1998 was listed as the city of 5,000 acres of moso bamboo yielding forests demonstration bases, was rated as a municipal level of the top ten moso bamboo township. From 1994 to 2000, 2618 mu of bamboo were newly planted in the town, and the town was awarded the title of "National Advanced Forestry Station" by the Ministry of Forestry of the People's Republic of China in 1992, and "Advanced Unit of Forestry Station Management" by the Provincial Department of Forestry of the People's Republic of China in 1991 and 1995; In 1989, 1992, 1997 by the province of the third forest protection joint defense area as "forest protection joint defense" advanced unit; 1998 to 2000 by the province's scientific and technological development of forest demonstration townships; in 1998 by the province's forestry system of socialist spiritual civilization demonstration window title.