Shiqiao has convenient transportation and developed communication, including 207 national highway.
(Grade II Highway Standard) runs through the whole town, and the Luozhan Railway Highway, which is about to start construction, passes through the market town, only 53 kilometers away from Wuzhou, the main urban area of eastern Guangxi, and less than 100 kilometers away from Hezhou. Cars and program-controlled telephones reach every village in the town, and GSM and Unicom mobile communications cover the whole town. The famous Longyan Scenic Area and the ancient stone arch bridge in Song Dynasty are located in stonebridge.
Shiqiao is a subtropical semi-hilly area with mild climate and fertile land, commonly known as the northern granary of Cangwu County. It is the main producing area of high-quality grain in Cangwu County, with an annual output of 3,000 tons. The late-maturing litchi planted in this town enjoys a certain reputation both inside and outside the region, and a high-quality late-maturing litchi base of 10,000 mu has been built. Various resources are very rich, including limestone, barite, dolomite, gold, phosphate rock, hematite and so on. Among them, limestone reserves are more than 80 million tons. Rich in forest resources, the forest area is 25 mu, and the timber volume is 654.38+10,000 cubic meters.
Stonebridge's economy is dominated by agriculture, which is rich in high-quality rice with an annual output of more than 34,000 tons. The fruit base, mainly late-maturing litchi, is nearly 20 thousand mu; The main enterprises in towns and villages are 9 lime factories with a daily output of more than 0/0 tons, 5 red brick factories with a daily output of more than 20,000 red bricks, 7 furniture and timber factories, and hydropower stations with a daily output of more than 0/0. There are eleven kinds of mineral deposits in Shiqiao, among which limestone is the most abundant, with a reserve exceeding 1 100 million tons. Stone development is the leading industry of Shiqiao, with 43 gravel yards and 45 stone yards, with an annual output of more than 300,000 cubic meters. Shiqiao goat, Sanhuang chicken, sweet potato residue, famous dish "fish-eye rice", cold water honey and beef spicy sun-dried cigarettes are the main specialties of Shiqiao, with an annual output of more than 0/10,000 goats. 1999, the town's gross national product was 22150,000 yuan, the total industrial and agricultural output value was 280 million yuan, the total income of township enterprises was120,000 yuan, the fiscal revenue was 5.28 million yuan, the deposit balance of banks and credit cooperatives was more than 42 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 2,403 yuan.
Stonebridge is a pilot town for the construction of small towns in the autonomous region, and it is also a civilized town and market in cities and counties. Shiqiao Xuzhen Street covers an area of more than 300 mu, with a building area of10.6 million square meters, more than 560 merchants and a population of nearly 10,000. Weizhen has three markets with an annual turnover of more than 40 million yuan.
Stonebridge has made good achievements in the construction of small towns. 1998 is listed as one of the 32 pilot towns in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and 200 1 is listed as the key town in the Tenth Five-Year Plan. Weizhen covers an area of nearly 2 square kilometers, and the 15 cement hardened street has been built for nearly 2 kilometers. The population of Weizhen is 1 10,000, and there are more than 400 individual and collective industrial and commercial enterprises. The infrastructure of each town is complete, and modern small towns have begun to take shape.
Stonebridge attaches great importance to attracting investment and the development of township enterprises. At present, barite and limestone resources, especially limestone, have been exploited, with an annual mining capacity of more than 400,000 tons, which are sold to Wuzhou and Hezhou in Guangdong for the production of cement, ceramic tiles, wear-resistant bricks and lime. There are also cement plants with an annual output of 654.38+10,000 tons of cement, 100 high-quality lime plants, town-run hydropower stations with an annual output of more than 654.38+10,000 kwh, and more than 40 wood processing plants and food processing plants. In order to speed up the development of township enterprises, increase investment attraction and improve the investment environment, the town party committee and government have not only formulated a series of preferential policies on land use, water use, electricity consumption and taxation, but also won the support of superiors to cooperate with the development of township enterprises, build a 1 10000 V power transmission and transformation station and develop two township enterprise development bases with an area of * */kloc-. Another 90 acres, three links and one leveling have been completed.
Stonebridge Party Committee and government team have made some achievements in the construction of two civilizations through unity and cooperation, pioneering and pragmatic innovation. 200 1 year, the town's GDP reached 15 1 10,000 yuan, and the fiscal revenue was 4.92 million yuan. In recent years, it has been awarded by Wuzhou Municipal Committee, Municipal Government, Cangwu County Committee and County Government respectively: "
1997— 1998 advanced grass-roots party organizations in Wuzhou 1998 two civilized units 1999 rural grass-roots organizations in Wuzhou build Liuhao Township Party Committee 1999 Cangwu County. In the new century, Shiqiao is committed to speeding up the construction of small towns, promoting the process of urbanization and industrialization, and vigorously adjusting the rural industrial structure. Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Guangdong merchants have successively set up "Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Demonstration Park" in our town to set up enterprises. We warmly welcome businessmen and people from all walks of life to invest directly or attract investment to set up industries in Shiqiao. At present, the main investment projects are: (1) the construction of a rotary kiln cement plant with an annual output of 600,000 tons; (2) Deep processing and development of lime industry; (3) Construction of sightseeing agriculture demonstration park in Longyan Scenic Area; (4) The large-scale development of sweet potato squeezing, a traditional specialty of Shiqiao; (5) 100 mu commercial and residential real estate development.
Shiqiao is a hometown of culture and a tourist attraction. There are traditional arts such as Dong 'an tea-picking opera, lion dance, dragon dance, carp dance, deer jumping and Dong 'an folk songs. Every year, the "March 3" cannon in Longyan Courtyard will spread to five towns in Dong 'an, and the newly established folk "Dong 'an Poetry Society" enjoys a high reputation in Guangxi and even outside the region. Every village has basketball courts, including six light courts, and cultural and sports activities are very active. There are ten tourist attractions in Shiqiao, including Longyan, Zhupodong, Xiang Si Shiren, Maanshan, Baoyatang, Millennium Stone Arch Bridge, Tianhou Palace, the former site of China Underground Branch, the Monument to the Martyrs of Mr. Shi and the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Memorial Hall. Longyan, known as Cangwu Scenic Area in ancient times, is located about 700 meters west of the end of Shiqiao, and is a limestone cave. The cave is 100 meters long and 60 meters wide, which runs through the north and south and can accommodate more than 5,000 people. There is a hole in the cave that reaches the sky, "looking up at the bright moon and birds singing in my ears", so it is also called Tongtianyan. Stalactites hang grotesquely in the cave, including natural statues of stone horses, sheep, rabbits, turtles, snakes and Guandi, as well as the singing platform of Sanjie Liu. The rock walls inside and outside the cave are engraved with poems by Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Huang Xu and other national dignitaries and writers. Zhong Zhong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Autonomous Region, now vice-chairman, chairman of Guangxi Calligraphy Association and president of Poetry Society, visited Longyan many times and wrote poems. "Millennium Stone Arch Bridge" is located in the south of the end of Shiqiao, and the inscription is "Built in Song Dynasty". According to legend, the stone bridge is named after this stone arch bridge. This bridge is a semicircular single-hole stone arch bridge, which forms a full moon with the reflection in the water. The bridge is over 30 meters long, 4 meters wide, with an arch span of 10 meter and a height of 7.5 meters. This bridge is made of limestone and bluestone (bluestone specifications are 0.8m× 0.3m× 0.3m, 1.5m or 1.2m×0.8m×0.65, 438+05m, etc.). ). bonding mortar is not needed during construction, and the joints of each bluestone are even. There are bluestone railings with a width of 0.3m and a height of 0.3m on both sides of the bridge deck. Although this stone arch bridge has experienced nearly a thousand years of wind and rain vicissitudes, it is basically intact, the bridge body is safe and self-sufficient, and there is no sign of inclination or subsidence. It's just that some bluestone slabs on both sides of the pier have changed slightly and cracks have appeared, which is very valuable for us to study ancient architectural technology. The "Pig Cave" is located in the west of Longyan, and only one person can enter and exit. It enters about 100 meters along the entrance and has a "small world" of more than 100 square meters. Re-entering the darkness, there is a feeling of difficulty breathing. How long and wide the hole is is still a mystery. "In the * * * stonebridge underground campus, located in stonebridge Central Primary School, a two-story building with brick and wood structure, with a five-arch hole on the facade. In 32 years of the Republic of China, in 65438+ 10, party member Yang, Qin Shunen came here to teach, engaged in revolutionary work under the cover of teachers, and established a party organization. In August of the same year, Guangxi Provincial Working Committee sent Zhuang and Wei Liren to give lectures in Guangxi. Zhuang served as secretary of the Party branch, and took stonebridge as the preparatory base for the establishment of the provincial working committee to carry out secret revolutionary activities. Later, due to the attention and suspicion of the Kuomintang authorities, in the spring of 1933, Zhuang and other five comrades left stonebridge in batches. There are also their bedrooms, studios, desks and chairs, and pictures of their revolutionary activities (exhibition rooms).
"Longyan", "Millennium Stone Arch Bridge" and "Former Site of Underground Branch Line of Zhong * * * Stone Bridge" are all key cultural relics under protection in Cangwu County.
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