You can't see the valley of Gulong, but you can't see the bamboo in Cheung Chau. This is a portrayal of Gulong Town before liberation. Gulong Town is a typical mountain city with outstanding people, rich resources and beautiful scenery. In recent years, Gulong Town has given full play to its location advantages and made great efforts to build a characteristic economy dominated by octagonal, with rapid economic development. On the basis of stabilizing grain production, we have vigorously optimized and adjusted the agricultural structure, forming a characteristic economy with Gulong characteristics: ① As a pillar industry, the planting area of Illicium verum reaches10.4 million mu, and the per capita Illicium verum forest is 3.5 mu, including 65,000 mu of fruit-bearing forest, with an annual output of 9 million kilograms. The Illicium verum nursery has a planting area of more than 2,000 mu and can supply 65.438+0.2 billion Illicium verum seedlings every year. It is the largest Illicium verum production base and high-quality Illicium verum seedling base in the local area. (2) Gulong has been planting watermelons for a long time, and it is one of the largest watermelon planting bases in tengxian. 200 1 year, the watermelon planting area in the town reaches 7200 mu, with an annual output of watermelon tons. In recent years, the Gulong people not only planted watermelons in the fields, but also turned their eyes to the continuous mountains. 200 1, the town * * developed more than 2000 mu of mountain watermelons, and the per capita income of mountain watermelons increased by 6500. Famous fruits such as longan, litchi and persimmon also have their own scale: the planting area is 5000 mu. (4) Ecological agriculture has developed vigorously, and two biological civilization bases, Zhonglongtang Village and Jinfeng Liupo, have been formed successively. Zhonglongtang Village is also listed as a demonstration village of ecological civilization in the autonomous region.
32 1 National Highway passes through the town, 70km away from Wuzhou, a Millennium commercial port, and 90km away from the county seat, with Guangshen in the east and Guilin in the north. In recent years, the Party committee and government have continuously improved the infrastructure construction, invested 800,000 yuan to build the town waterworks, and established a large number of infrastructure such as the octagonal professional wholesale market with 25 mu of shops 150. The old city has undergone a brand-new transformation, and 40 acres of new city development has been put into use. Every village has roads, telephones, televisions and lighting. Every village has office buildings and teaching buildings, and Gulong is rich in agricultural products such as star anise, watermelon, longan and litchi. All these have created a good investment environment for Gulong.
Gulong Town has a long history and simple folk customs. This is a place full of treasures and outstanding people. It is the hometown of Mo Naiqun, the former vice chairman of the people's government of the autonomous region, and has the Suihua kiln site, a cultural relic protection unit in the autonomous region. There are well-preserved ancient buildings "Shousangong Temple" in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, as well as ancient bronze drums and big iron clocks unearthed in Tianxin Village 1973. There are magical folklore, such as the story of Tai 'an Gong, the legend of Qin Tianhu, the origin of "Northern Emperor Festival" and "Dance Festival", and the myths of Xianhe Mountain and Xianluo Mountain, all of which are full of myths. In particular, the Northern Emperor Festival (March 3rd of the lunar calendar every year) and the Leopard Dance Festival (July16th of the lunar calendar) have a history of more than 200 years, and these two magical historical festivals have evolved into this year's economic and trade festivals.