Flower market is a famous town in the south of the Yangtze River with a history of 3000 years. Since ancient times, Zhong Ling has been beautiful and rich, and once had the reputation of "Suzhou with a small Chinese teacher". According to legend, Taiqing Temple, a thousand-year-old temple built by Wu Guotai, the mother of Sun Quan in the Three Kingdoms period, is still ringing. Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu, famous soldiers in the Song Dynasty, are particularly prominent in their military cave sites against gold and Tibet. Fish basket, shrimp drum, Zhao woodcarving, brick carving, paper horse, etc. were selected into the intangible cultural heritage list of provinces and cities. Famous contemporary economist Jiang Junchen, acupuncture expert Cheng Tan 'an, oil painter, art educator Lv Sibai, former chairman of Shanghai Writers Association, famous literary artist Xu Zhongyu and other China experts, professors and scholars are all over the world.
Huashi is a strong economic town, an important industrial town, one of the first 100 million towns in Jiangsu and one of the birthplaces of township industry in southern Jiangsu. In 2008, the sales of industrial and trade invoices in the whole town reached 70.2 billion yuan, with a GDP of 654.38+05.78 billion yuan and a per capita GDP of more than 25,000 US dollars. There are more than 1 000 industrial enterprises in the town, forming an industrial pattern with metallurgy and textile as the mainstay, solar energy, wind energy and other new energy and new materials as the latecomer advantages. Color spinning, aluminum-plastic board, table tennis and valve core (mouth) series products have become national "singles champions". Huaxi Village and Haida Brand became well-known trademarks in China. There are 1 groups with annual business income exceeding 50 billion yuan, 3 with industrial invoice sales exceeding 2 billion yuan, 5 with 1 billion yuan and 5 with 500 million yuan. At the same time, there are 2 listed companies and 2 provincial high-tech and private technology enterprises in the town, and 8 16 patents are registered annually, including 36 invention patents. Huashi Town is a new commercial town. In 2008, the sales of service industry in the town reached 6.9 billion yuan. Huashi Town is a model of modern agricultural development. At present, the town's land scale management area reaches 1.67 million mu, and the 10,000-mu Huaxi High-tech Agricultural Demonstration Park integrates tourism and shows its unique charm.
Huashi Town is positioned as a business town, a tourist town and an ecological town, and strives to build a central business city in the east of the city. A central town construction pattern with one center and two groups has been constructed. In recent years, the town has invested a total of 2 billion yuan in urban construction, speeding up the construction of new towns and new countryside, simultaneously promoting the transformation of old towns and the development of new districts, and simultaneously promoting the pace of urban-rural integration. More than 300,000 square meters of commercial housing are developed every year, and more than 0/0 residential quarters such as Xinhuayuan and Ningxiu Huating are built. Every year, cities rise in the ocean, and the "new building with land in the air" in Huaxi under construction is 328 meters high and 74 stories high, ranking15 in the world; Construct a perfect high-grade highway network, connecting one expressway and four provincial highways; Invest 654.38+0.2 billion yuan to build national demonstration high schools and provincial demonstration experimental schools to realize large-scale running; We will continue to intensify environmental construction. The takeover rate of industrial wastewater is 65,438+0,000%, and the treatment rate of domestic sewage in the township is over 90%. The investment in water environment improvement of Huashi River "one river and two banks" exceeds 70 million yuan, and the green coverage rate of the whole town exceeds 33%.
The development achievements of Huashi Town have always benefited the people. In 2008, the per capita net income of farmers reached 14735 yuan; The town has solved the worries of 32,000 landless farmers, and 30,000 employees have joined the city insurance; 70,000 farmers joined the new rural cooperative medical system; Rural community health service centers (stations) 13 were built to provide free health checkups for 56,000 farmers.
In recent years, Huashi Town has successively won more than 90 honors at or above the municipal level in Wuxi, such as the national demonstration town for small town construction, the national health town, the national town with beautiful environment, the 30 most concerned towns in China in the past 30 years of reform and opening up, the national demonstration town for new socialist countryside construction and the provincial civilized town.