Population: about 529,000
Population density: 513 people/km2
Laohekou City is located in the northwest of Hubei Province, on the east bank of the upper reaches of the Han River. The city has jurisdiction over 2 townships, 8 towns and 5 offices. The city covers an area of ??1,032 square kilometers, of which the urban area is 27 square kilometers, with a total population of 529,000. In 1985, it was listed as a city with separate state planning by the Hubei Provincial Government. Laohekou City has a long history and outstanding people. Laohekou has a history of more than 2,000 years. It was named Yangyang in ancient times. It was the hometown of Wu Zixu, a famous general in the Spring and Autumn Period. It was the fiefdom of Xiao He, the founding prime minister of the Han Dynasty. Ouyang Xiu, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, served as the county magistrate here. Shen Kuo, a scientist in the Song Dynasty, wrote poems here. Yun Daiying, the pioneer of my country's communist movement, spent his boyhood here, and the famous poet Zhang Guangnian was a native of Lujia Lane, Laohekou City. During the Anti-Japanese War, famous writers Lao She, Yao Xueyin, poet Zang Kejia, as well as foreign friends Smedley, Rewi Alley, famous Korean performers Jin Changman, Jin Wei and other celebrities gathered in Laohekou.
In addition, Laohekou was also the location of the headquarters of the Fifth War Zone Commander Li Zongren during the Anti-Japanese War.
In October 1938, Wuhan fell, and the Fifth War Zone Commander Li Zongren and the troops he commanded The theater troops arrived at Laohekou via Xiangfan in an extremely complicated and severe situation.
In the six years he spent in Laohekou in northwest Hubei, Li Zongren led the troops of the five theaters to defend a large area of ??land in frontal battles against the Japanese, protecting the people from the ravages of the Japanese aggressors.
When Li Zongren left Laohekou in February 1945, people lined the streets to see him off, and firecrackers sounded for miles from the front of the headquarters to the Han River. Li Zongren got off the car and walked across the pontoon bridge. He looked back frequently and said goodbye to those who saw him off. He left the land of northwest Hubei where he had galloped for several years and bravely resisted the Japanese invasion and remembered it in his heart.
In order to commemorate Li Zongren’s anti-Japanese achievements, Laohekou specially erected an engraved stone tablet in front of the Fifth War Zone Headquarters with the words "The place where General Li De Linggong is stationed".
Now the former site of Commander Li Zongren’s headquarters has become an important patriotic education base and window open to the outside world in Laohekou City.
Laohekou, Hubei Province - Postal code: 441800 Telephone area code: 0710 Administrative division code: 420682
Laohekou is rich in natural resources. There is a natural giant "Liugu Spring" mineral water in the city. According to national identification, the water contains a variety of trace elements that are beneficial to human health. There are also rich reserves of high-quality limestone, open-pit round sand, marble, and several coal belts with high vanadium content. What's even more valuable is that the city is located in the upper reaches of the Han River. There is no pollution from large or medium-sized cities in the upper reaches. The water quality of the Han River is pure. It has broad prospects for the production and processing of pollution-free vegetables and other agricultural and sideline products.
Laohekou has developed transportation and communications and sufficient electricity. The Han River water transport can go up to Shaanxi and down to the East China Sea, and is open to navigation all year round. Two national-level trunk roads, Han-Dan and Xiang-Chongqing railways, and Han-Meng (Wuhan to Laohekou Menglou) and Laobai (Laohekou to Baihe, Shaanxi) pass through the territory. The city's program-controlled telephones and mobile phones both have international and domestic direct dial functions. They are now accessible to major and medium-sized cities across the country and more than 190 countries and regions around the world, and can provide modern communication methods such as telegrams, user faxes, and wireless paging. A new transmission line from Danjiangkou to Laohekou and a Xiguan substation will be built.
Laohekou has complete urban infrastructure and strong load capacity. Since the reform and opening up, urban construction has undergone earth-shaking changes. The urban master planning model was exhibited in Beijing and was well received by leaders at all levels and won the first prize in the province. For more than ten years, Laohekou has consistently built, developed and beautified the city according to this plan, giving the city a completely new look. Urban sanitation has won the best results in the province's urban sanitation inspection and evaluation for many consecutive years, and has been hailed as "a flag for small city construction" by the Hubei Provincial Department of Construction. In 1990 and 1992, it was rated as one of the "Top Ten Sanitary Cities" in the country twice, and has been rated as "National Excellent City for Comprehensive Urban Management" many times. Xianrendu Town under the municipal jurisdiction was awarded the National Hundred Star Township, Menglou Town and Guanghua Office were awarded the "Chutian Star Township".
Laohekou’s economy is developing rapidly. In recent years, focusing on the goal of "a small city with a large territory and a big economy", we have emancipated our minds, seized opportunities, deepened reforms, and expanded opening up, and the city's social economy has achieved considerable development. Laohekou is a national high-quality wheat production base and wheat commercial grain base. The main crops are wheat, rice, cotton and oilseeds, and its wheat yield ranks first in Hubei Province. In recent years, Laohekou has vigorously adjusted its agricultural industrial structure and focused on comprehensive agricultural development, forming a new pattern based on grain production and comprehensive development of forestry, animal husbandry, sideline production, and fishery. Township enterprises have developed rapidly and become a new growth point of Laohekou economy and an important pillar of rural economy. Laohekou has a complete range of industrial categories and a complete system. At present, a new industrial pattern has been formed with the five major industries of chemical industry, machinery and automobiles, textile and clothing, building materials, and metallurgy as the pillars, and guided by emerging industries such as fine chemicals, precision machinery, new building materials, non-ferrous metal smelting, and electronics, producing more than a thousand kinds of products. product. In recent years, a large number of key enterprises have emerged rapidly by continuously adjusting the industrial product structure, promoting technological progress, developing horizontal connections and vigorously developing emerging industries. In recent years, Laohekou has strengthened its awareness of opening up to the outside world, and its export-oriented economy has flourished. Obtained self-operated export rights in July 1994.
The export products include 204 products including wood carvings, jade carvings, citric acid, claw hammers, hacksaw frames, cotton yarn, cotton cloth, cement, fiberglass yarn, etc., which are exported to 17 countries and regions including the United States, Japan, Pakistan, and Russia. Laohekou has active circulation and prosperous market. It has always been an important commercial town in northwest Hubei and is known as "Little Hankou". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, commerce in Laohekou developed rapidly.
Chengdong Industrial Zone in 2006
Hubei Laohekou Economic Development Zone is a provincial-level development zone approved and announced by the National Development and Reform Commission. The planned area is 15 square kilometers. The starting area of ??the development zone is located in the eastern part of the central city of Laohekou, with a planned area of ??4.23 square kilometers.
According to the requirements of “based on the present, long-term perspective, outstanding characteristics, and comprehensive supporting facilities”, the industrial zoning, functional zoning and land use planning of the development zone have been improved. According to the overall idea of ??focusing on construction with one hand and investment promotion with the other, the development The district concentrated on attracting investment and project settlement. At present, the development zone has formed a "three vertical and three horizontal" road grid layout, namely Hankou Road, Guangnian Road, and Chengdong Avenue in the vertical direction, and Airport Road, Hanjiang Avenue, and Huansan Road in the horizontal direction. With the improvement of the road network and supporting projects, a good environment has been created for enterprises and projects to settle in. The total number of enterprises in the development zone has reached 56, including 22 enterprises above designated size. An electromechanical automobile characteristic park has been formed, mainly composed of Dongfeng Chuangpu, Boda Vehicle, Suzhou Renhe, Oriental Golden Dragon and Guanghua Combined Machinery, with Hong Kong-owned Cathay Worsted, Junyi Worsted, Fulihua Worsted and Jinsheng Weaving It is a textile specialty park mainly based on cloth, and a high-tech park for deep processing of agricultural products, mainly Huasong Capsaicin, Aoxing Cereals and Oils, Xianxian Fruits and Vegetables, Taiwan Capital Potatoes and Lihua Lake Food.
In April 2006, the first phase of the road network construction project in Laohekou Economic Development Zone was launched, with a total investment of 120 million yuan. The project includes the construction of the northern section of Guangnian Road, the eastern section of Hanjiang Avenue, and Chengdong Avenue, as well as the renovation and blackening of Hankou Road, Huansan Road, and Airport Road. The entire project presents five major characteristics: First, the construction scale is large. The three newly built roads have a total length of 4,288.8 meters. After completion, they will form an industrial concentration area of ??4.23 square kilometers, providing 2,300 acres of land for industrial project construction, attracting more than 2 billion foreign investments, and adding 4 to 6 billion yuan in annual output value, while stimulating related industries. development and place a large number of labor force in employment. Second, the design is of high quality. Whether it is the main project or the supporting greening, street lights, and landscapes, they are all planned with a long-term perspective, high standards, and a high starting point. Among them, the entry of weak electricity into the ground and the diversion of rainwater and sewage reflect the latest environmental protection design concepts. The green landscape was designed by Sichuan Yiyuan Group Co., Ltd., which has the national first-class qualification for landscaping. Third, the supporting facilities are complete. In accordance with the requirements of urban development planning and the construction of new economic development zones, the supporting facilities are complete with public pipe ditches, weak current pipe culverts, water supply pipe networks, rainwater and sewage diversion pipes, high pole street lights, traffic police signals, safety islands, green belts, and bus stops. Wait for public facilities. Fourth, the advancement speed is fast. The project started on April 21, and the demolition of 152 households and the acquisition of 262.6 acres of land for 16 groups in 4 villages were completed within 20 days, and compensation was paid in time according to the policy; road construction was implemented on June 16, and the main project was completed in October Completed on the 16th. Fifth, the construction effect is good. At present, the development zone has formed a "three vertical and three horizontal" road grid layout. It has received more than 100 merchants for consultation and inspection. There are 25 projects included in the settlement plan with a total investment of 2 billion yuan. Currently, 8 new projects have been started. Home.
Topography
The city is located at the end of the southern branch of Funiu Mountain, a branch of the Qinling Mountains. It is located on the east bank of the upper reaches of the Han River and on the edge of the Nanyang Basin. The landforms are diverse. The terrain is high in the north and low in the south, sloping from northwest to southeast, with a number of "chicken claw"-shaped hills extending to the southeast, forming three types of terrain: hills, flat hills and plains. The elevation of flat land is between 100 meters and 150 meters, accounting for 42.94% of the total area; the elevation of hilly land is between 150 meters and 450 meters, accounting for 39.17% of the total area; the elevation of plain land is between 100 meters Up and down, its area accounts for 17.89% of the total area. The Zhulian Mountains in the north of the border cross from east to west and are separated from Jianchuan County and Deng County in Henan Province. They are the highest mountains in the territory; from west to east, Gaozhuangzhai is 346 meters high (Yellow Sea elevation, the same below). Pengjiazhai is 451 meters high, Meitieya is 402 meters high, Qinggangpa Beiling is 462 meters high (the highest point in the territory), Wujiazhuang East Ridge is 408 meters high, Dashhanzhai is 393 meters high, and Liuguying Beiling is 239 meters high meters, and further east is the hilly slope area with an elevation of less than 200 meters. The hills south of Zhulian Mountain all run from north to south. Its main ridge runs from Erpi Mountain to the south through Yuguanmiao, Huangzhuang, Sunjiawaxiling, Lianggang, Yuanchong, Haogang, Yangchenpa, Hanjiadayan, Shibeigang, Jiuligang, Zhanggang, Jingong Temple, Tutu Ridge, Xizhangwan Xiling, Yangjiashan, and then southward into Xiangyang County. The ridge is 57 kilometers long, and the ridge height along the line is between 186 meters and 159 meters. This hilly ridge divides the water system within the territory into two parts. The western part of the ridge has a undulating terrain and is a hilly area, with large and small rivers directly flowing into the Han River. The eastern part of the ridge belongs to the pinggang zone, and its rivers merge into Paizi respectively. River, Heishui River, then Xiaoqing River, and then to the Han River in the north of Xiangfan City. The branch ridges west of the main ridge of Zhulian Mountain all run from east to southwest, from the main ridge to the Han River.
In January 2021, the Central Civilization Office determined the list of nominated cities for national civilized cities in the 2021-2023 creation cycle, and Laohekou City was on the list.
On May 8, 2020, the second batch of food safety demonstration counties in Hubei Province was released, and Laohekou City was on the list.
In March 2020, CCID Consulting released the 2019 Top 100 County Economy List in the Central Region, with Laohekou City ranking 63rd.
On January 2, 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs identified Laohekou City as the fourth batch of demonstration counties (cities, districts) in the country that have taken the lead in basically realizing the full mechanization of major crop production.
In March 2019, Laohekou City was included in the first batch of counties and counties for the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics (western Hunan and Hubei areas).
On February 16, 2016, Laohekou City was listed on the list of counties (cities, districts) with basically balanced development of compulsory education nationwide in 2015.