Huashi is a famous town in the south of the Yangtze River with a history of 3,000 years, which has been rich and prosperous since ancient times, and was once known as "Little Huashi Sai Suzhou". Legend has it that by the Three Kingdoms of the Eastern Wu Sun Quan's mother, Wu Guotai built a thousand-year-old temple of Taiqing Temple, still ringing, Song Dynasty general Han Shizhong, Liang Hongyu couples against the Jin Zangjun Cave site is still especially in the fishing basket shrimp drums, Zhao's wood carvings, brick carvings, paper horses, etc. Selected by the provincial and municipal lists of intangible cultural heritage. Contemporary famous economist Jiang Junchen, acupuncture expert Cheng Tanan, oil painter, art educator Lvsbai, former chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Association of writers, famous literary artists such as Xu Zhongyu Huashi experts, professors, scholars at home and abroad.
Huashi is a strong economic town, industrial town, one of the first batch of billion yuan townships in Jiangsu, one of the birthplaces of township industry in southern Jiangsu. 2008, the township completed 70.2 billion yuan of invoiced sales of industry and trade, the gross domestic product of 15.78 billion yuan, per capita GDP of more than 25,000 U.S. dollars. There are more than 1,000 industrial enterprises in the town, forming an industrial pattern dominated by metallurgy and textile, with new energy and new materials such as solar energy and wind energy as the later advantages. Color spinning yarn, aluminum composite panels, table tennis, valve core (mouth) series of products, become the national "singles champion". Huaxicun, Haida brand has become China's well-known trademarks. The town has a group annual operating income of more than 50 billion yuan, 3 village enterprises industrial invoicing sales of more than 2 billion yuan, 5 more than 1 billion yuan, 5 more than 500 million yuan. Meanwhile, the town has 2 listed companies, 21 provincial high-tech, private technology enterprises, annual declaration and registration of 816 patents, including 136 invention patents. Huashi town is a new business town. 2008, the town's service industry invoiced sales of 6.9 billion yuan. Huashi Town is a model of modern agricultural development. At present, the town's land scale management area of 16,700 acres, built 10,000 acres of high-tech agricultural demonstration park in Huashi, tourism, sightseeing is equal to one, showing a unique charm.
Huashi town to trade town, tourism town, ecological town as the positioning, to build the Chengdong area of the center of the business city. Constructed a center, two groups of the center of the town construction pattern. In recent years, the town's town construction has invested a total of 2 billion yuan to accelerate the construction of new towns and new rural areas, synchronize the transformation of old towns and the development of new areas, and synchronize the pace of urban-rural integration. The annual development of more than 300,000 square meters of commercial housing, built more than 10 high-quality residential areas, such as Xinhua Court, Ningxiu Huating, the city every year in the ocean up, high up, in the construction of Huaxi, "the air to increase the land of the new building" is 328 meters high, 74 floors, ranking the world's fifteenth; constructed a perfect network of high-level roads, and a high-speed, four provincial highways communicate; invested 1.5 billion yuan to build a new town, and simultaneously promote the transformation of the old town and the development of new urban and rural integration pace. Provincial highway communication; invested 120 million yuan to build a national model high school, provincial model experimental school, to achieve the scale of school; continue to increase environmental remediation efforts, industrial wastewater takeover rate of 100% and the town's domestic sewage treatment rate of 90% or more, the Huashi River, "both sides of the river," the water environment remediation investment of more than 70 million yuan, the town Greening coverage rate of 33%.
Huashi town has always been the fruits of development to benefit the people of a party. 2008 per capita net income of farmers reached 14,735 yuan; the town cumulative total of 32,000 landless peasants to solve the worries of 30,000 employees to join the city insurance; 70,000 farmers to join the new rural cooperative medical insurance; the completion of the 13 rural community health service centers (stations), 56,000 farmers for free health checkups.
In recent years, Huashi Town has won the national small town construction demonstration town, the national health town, the national environmentally beautiful townships, China's reform and opening up 30 years 30 of the most concerned about the townships, the national socialist new countryside construction demonstration town, the provincial civilized townships, such as Wuxi, Wuxi City, above the level of more than 90 honors.