Xinxing County
Overview Xinxing County is located in the west of central Guangdong Province, adjacent to Gaoyao, Gaoming, Heshan, Kaiping and Enping cities in the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone to the east, and Yun'an County to the northwest Bordering Yangchun City in the southwest, the county has a total area of ??1,502.7 square kilometers and governs 14 towns, 196 village (neighborhood) committees, and 1,113 natural villages. The county seat is located in new towns. In 2002, the county's total population was 446,000, including more than 150,000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
Xinxing County belonged to Xiang County during the Qin Dynasty. In the seventh year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 351), Linyun County was divided into two counties, Xingxing County and Dandou County, which belonged to Xinning County. After that, from the Yuanjia Period of the Southern Dynasty (424-453 AD) to the Tianxi Fourth Year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1020 AD) for about 590 years, it was successively called Xincheng County, Xinzhou County, and Xinchun County. After liberation, it successively belonged to the Central Guangdong Administrative Office, Jiangmen Administrative Office, Zhaoqing Administrative Office, and Zhaoqing City. In 1994, it was placed under the jurisdiction of Yunfu City. The county has a history of more than 2,100 years since its establishment. Xinxing County is rich in natural resources. Located in the subtropical zone, the climate is mild and humid all year round. It is a famous "land of fish and rice" and "land of fruits" in the Xijiang River Basin. In 2002, it was named the "Hometown of National Fruit Processing". There are more than 30 proven mineral species, mainly tungsten, tin, molybdenum, copper, lead, zinc, granite, potash feldspar, kaolin, monazite, uranium, etc.
Xinxing County is the hometown of the famous Buddhist Zen master Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch. It is the birthplace and death place of the Sixth Patriarch, and is "the birthplace of Chinese Zen." Famous tourist attractions such as Longshan Hot Spring, thousand-year-old lychees planted by the Sixth Patriarch, and Guoen Temple, a Buddhist holy site, are famous at home and abroad. Longshan Hot Spring Tourist Resort is a provincial-level tourist resort. The unique natural landscape and profound Zen culture have enabled the emerging tourism industry to form a unique tourism culture that integrates tourism, pilgrimage, vacation, health care, and cultural exchanges.
The industrial economy further developed. In 2002, the quality and efficiency of Xinxing County's industry improved significantly. The total output value of industries above designated size in the county was 5.03 billion yuan, an increase of 8% over the previous year, and the sales rate of industrial products reached 96.8%. The scale of the six pillar industries including stainless steel products, forest products and chemicals, clothing, preserved fruit processing, leather goods, and umbrella making has continued to expand and their market competitiveness has improved. Among them, the total output of stainless steel products was 50,897 tons, an increase of 18.72%, and the total output value reached 3 billion yuan; the forest products chemical industry developed rapidly, with a total output value of 86.314 million yuan, an increase of 38%; the preserved fruit processing industry has developed to more than 260 companies, with a total output value of 1 billion yuan . The county's investment in science and technology has increased. Industrial enterprises alone have invested 78 million yuan in science and technology, with an annual output value of 330 million yuan, taxes and profits of 43.5 million yuan, and foreign exchange earnings of 29.2 million US dollars. Four private enterprises including Guangdong Lingfeng Group Co., Ltd. were rated as provincial-level private technology enterprises, with an annual output value of 3.3 billion yuan.
Agricultural industrialization continues to strengthen. In 2002, Xinxing County made efforts to adjust the agricultural and rural economic structure and agricultural industrialization management, and the rural economy developed steadily. The county's grain planting area is 24,400 hectares, with a total output of 155,500 tons; fruit planting area is 12,000 hectares, with a total output of 29,100 tons, an increase of 9.42%; vegetable planting area is 11,300 hectares, with a total output of 29,100 tons, an increase of 4.55%; flowers There are new developments in planting, with a total area of ??242 hectares. The development of the breeding industry has accelerated. The county's broiler chicken breeding volume is 81.496 million, an increase of 11.18%; the number of live pigs raised is 820,000, and the number on the market is 517,000, an increase of 7.21% and 7.75% respectively; the output of aquatic products is 17,400 tons, an increase of 6.75%. By the end of the year, there were more than 260 leading agricultural enterprises in the county, including 1 national-level leading agricultural enterprise, 4 provincial-level enterprises, and 5 municipal-level enterprises. Leading agricultural enterprises such as Wen's Group have driven more than 60,000 households and more than 120,000 farmers, accounting for more than 1/3 of the county's rural population.
The tertiary industry has developed steadily and the tourism industry has developed rapidly. It received 1.01 million tourists throughout the year, an increase of 12.2% over the previous year; total tourism revenue was 102 million yuan, an increase of 5.2%. Tourist attractions such as Zangfokeng, Sanbao Temple, and Zhuyuan Temple have been repaired and expanded, and the overall plan of Longshan Scenic Area has been expanded and improved. The first phase of the planned investment of more than 20 million yuan and the "Mingjing Square" covering an area of ??56,000 square meters has broken ground. The county's urban and rural market trade turnover was 283 million yuan, an increase of 2.98% over the previous year.
Various reforms continued to deepen. In 2002, Xinxing County merged and adjusted its administrative areas in accordance with the requirements of the province. The original Xincheng Town and Dongkou Town merged to form a new Xincheng Town in December. The entire county consisted of 15 towns were changed to 14 towns. Another 12 state-owned enterprises in the county have undergone property rights reform. The reform of the medical security system for urban employees has been continuously improved, and rural cooperative medical care and rural residents' health insurance have been fully launched. Medical and health reforms have been gradually promoted, unified bidding for pharmaceutical equipment has been implemented, and the pharmaceutical supervision mechanism has been strengthened. The educational management organization has been streamlined, the town education office has been abolished, educational resources have been optimized and integrated, primary and secondary school fees have been implemented as a "one-fee system", and school management has embarked on a standardized and institutionalized track. The reform of the rural power system has achieved results, improving the quality of power supply and reducing the burden on farmers. The electricity price burden on farmers in the county has been reduced by 568,000 yuan. We will do a good job in institutional adjustment and establishment, and reduce the original 12 major system party committees to the 10 major system party committees.
The effect of initiating private capital to operate the city has been significant. By activating private capital, the preliminary work of the county system planning and county overall planning has been completed, forming a county center with the Xinxing River as the central axis and around "one river and two banks". layout. The garden-style residential community Xiangshun Garden and the second phase of Henghui Garden have been developed successively, and various supporting facilities are improving day by day. A number of industrial parks operated by private investors with investments exceeding 100 million yuan, such as Lingfeng, Huashi Rosin, and Phoenix Liangguo Processing, continue to grow and develop. Garden-style urban living environment and industrial parks have taken shape, and the county seat area has expanded to 19 square kilometers.