Quwo County governs 5 towns and 2 townships: Lechang Town, Gaoxian Town, Shicun Town, Qucun Town, Licun Town, Yangdan Township, and Beidong Township. ***158 administrative villages.
Expand the map of Shanxi Province and follow the Qianli Fen River down to the southern end of Linfen Basin. The Fen River turns west and flows into the Yellow River. Just on the side of this roundabout, there is a place "a hundred miles east of Hefen". This is Quwo County, one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation.
Within the territory, Qiaoshan Mountain and Jiangshan Mountain confront each other from the north to the south, forming a god-given barrier, like a long historical scroll; the Huihe River and the Fuhe River run from east to west, just like two silver belts, floating in the green wilderness of 437.9 square kilometers. The climate here is mild, the sunshine is abundant, the four seasons are distinct, and the soil is fertile, suitable for growing wheat and cotton. The transportation here is convenient and extends in all directions. Even though there are Tongpu Railway and Beikun Highway running through the north and south; there are Shanxi-Korea Highway and the Houyue Railway under construction running parallel to the east and west. It has given Quwo, a beautiful place with ancient civilization, the wings of economic development. Quwo County has jurisdiction over 5 towns and 2 townships: Lechang Town, Shicun Town, Qucun Town, Gaoxian Town, Licun Town, Beidong Township and Yangtan Township.
The Xigou site in Neili Village in the county belongs to the same cultural layer as the world-famous Dingcun site, which proves that ancestors have been living and working here as far back as 100,000 years ago in the Paleolithic Age. Nowadays, an ancient ginkgo tree in Nanlinli Village has gone through many vicissitudes of life, but still has lush branches and leaves, rising transcendently. It is known as the "living fossil" of the flora and has left a historical relic. The people of Quwo are loyal and docile, courteous and courteous, industrious and frugal, and cultivate and pass down family traditions. Born here, raised here, generation after generation create material and spiritual wealth with their own hands.
Quwo is "a majestic place in Tianfu and an important place in the Three Jin Dynasties". The mountains, rivers, plains and pleasant natural environment here became the conditions for the Jin Dynasty to establish its capital 2,800 years ago. Duke Wu used it to prosper the Jin Dynasty, and Duke Wen relied on it to dominate. There was a peaceful scene in which "the Jin State was not the strongest in the world". As the ancient capital of Jin State, Quwo's ??agriculture at that time already cultivated wheat, soybeans and millet, using shovels, iron plows and plowing oxen. Handicraft industries include smelting and casting, textile printing and dyeing, tanning and pottery making, etc. In commerce, there are wealthy businessmen who "have money to match their cars, and clothes to match their clothes". The prosperity of the Jin State should have had a beneficial impact on the economic development of Quwo. However, with the change of the political center, Quwo was established as a county in the 11th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 487); it has gone through a long period of more than 1,400 years under the constraints of the feudal system and frequent wars.
History has given a chance, and the people of Quwo have seized this opportunity. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Shiying, a county resident, introduced tobacco seeds and cultivation techniques from Fujian. After gradual planting and promotion, the county's tobacco planting area reached a maximum of more than 170,000 acres, accounting for about 27% of the cultivated land area, with an annual output of more than 7,000 tons of tobacco leaves. Dry tobacco workshops came into being along with tobacco cultivation. There are as many as a hundred dry tobacco workshops, with an annual output of more than 5,000 tons of cut tobacco. Its quality armor was produced in the Three Jin Dynasties and is well-known at home and abroad. It has been exported to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, Moscow, Siberia and other places in the Soviet Union. When one industry prospers, all industries prosper. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, merchants gathered in the county, with numerous shops and nearly a thousand merchants, including 72 bank accounts and banks, which rose and fell in conjunction with the dry tobacco industry. Tobacco cultivation and early tobacco production have become the pillars of Quwo's ??economic lifeline. over time. Dry tobacco processing gradually gave way to cigarette production. At this turning point, because tobacco farmers failed to master the technology of flue-cured tobacco leaves, the economic benefits were not high, resulting in tobacco cultivation being in a depressed position.
In the past century, due to the oppression of the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, Quwo's ??economy was on the verge of collapse on the eve of liberation.
"The green mountains cannot cover it, and it will flow eastward after all." After the birth of New China, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, Quwo's ??economic development entered a new period of comprehensive revitalization. The great achievements made in the 40 years since the founding of the country far exceeded the historical process of thousands of years.
Quwoxiang is a grain-deficient county. After the founding of New China, successive governments attached great importance to farmland construction, water conservancy construction, and scientific management, and grain and cotton production continued to increase. In 1988, the average grain yield per mu was 209kg, and the average cotton yield per mu was 47kg, which were 3.07 times and 1.62 times higher than in 1949 respectively. From 1978 to 1987, 134,800 tons of commercial grain were sold to the country, and it became the province's commercial grain production base county. Nationally famous labor models Wang Dehe, Chang Xiuwen, Yu Xiaopeng and Zhang Xiaolan also emerged. Industry developed rapidly after the founding of New China. By 1988, the county had mining and metallurgy, machinery, cigarettes, chemicals, tanning, building materials, auto repair, agricultural machinery, hardware, cotton spinning, clothing and processing industries. Among them, Quwo Cigarette Factory is one of the two cigarette factories in the province. It pays nearly 10 million yuan in profits and taxes every year, accounting for more than half of the county's fiscal revenue.
Its product Feihongta brand cigarettes were exhibited at the first China Food Expo in Beijing in 1988; Fenshui brand liquefied petroleum gas cylinders produced by the Mechanical and Electrical Plant were rated as ministry-excellent products; Shantie (?) The concentrate powder produced by the mine has a grade of over 66% and is all sold to Taiyuan Iron and Steel Company; the product of the marble factory, "black jade", is of high quality and is a precious building material. The county's total industrial output value was 102.81 million yuan, accounting for 62.52% of the total industrial and agricultural output value, an increase of 36.66 times compared with 1949.
In 1988, there were 2,328 commercial outlets, and the retail sales of social commodities were 95.74 million yuan, an increase of 8.28 times compared with 1949. In 1988, local fiscal revenue was 20.72 million yuan, 5.42 times that of 1972. The average annual salary of employees is 1,162 yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers is 439 yuan, an increase of 1.27 times and 7.61 times respectively compared with 1978. The per capita purchase of consumer goods by urban and rural residents is 353 yuan, and the savings balance is 327 yuan. Economic prosperity brings cultural development. The earliest collection of poems in China, "Book of Songs·Tang Feng", is folk poetry popular in the Quwo area during the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period, leaving a trace of the culture at that time. From the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Quwo had more than 100 Jinshi scholars and was known as the hometown of the Three Jin Dynasties. There are many writings by county people in the past dynasties. Xu Guozhen, a famous doctor in the Yuan Dynasty, wrote the "Royal Medicine Hospital Prescriptions". During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Wei Zhouzhao, a scholar at the Baohe Palace, edited the "Da Qing Code". Jia Han, the Minister of the Ministry of War, edited and revised the "Henan Tongzhi". Cui Zhiyuan, the chief official of the Ministry of Personnel, wrote the "Yi Zhu". 》. There is also the famous scholar Gu Yanwu, who lived in Yiyuan, a village in East Korea, and wrote the huge book "Rizhilu", leaving behind the eternal famous saying "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world." The long-standing Jin culture has left a large number of cultural relics treasures in Quwo, earning it the reputation of "underground museum manager". The ancient "Xintian Site" is a national key cultural relics protection unit and there are 5 provincial key cultural relics protection units. More than 50,000 cultural relics have been unearthed. Among them are the "earliest soybeans in the world", the "harmful square tripod" given to Shu Yu by King Cheng of Zhou Dynasty when he unified the fiefdom, the Zhongwei father's dowry unearthed from the Western Zhou tomb in Qucun, and the beautiful bronze chimes of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. , there are brick-carved stages and dramatic pottery figurines from the Jin Dynasty. These national treasures embody the wisdom of our ancestors and mark the trajectory of history. After the founding of New China, cultural and educational undertakings have developed further. In 1984, he was awarded the “Promoting Education and Educating People” gold plaque by the Provincial People’s Government. The county library and cultural center were rated as advanced units in the national cultural system by the Ministry of Culture. In 1988, the county had 43 people with senior technical titles and 459 with intermediate technical titles. There are 73 Quwo-born chief engineers, professors, writers, editors and reviewers, scholars and cadres above the deputy department level (associate division division) from all over the country. There are 52 model workers at or above the provincial level.
Throughout the history of Quwo, its glorious achievements have been recorded in the annals of history. However, looking at the state and making horizontal comparisons, there is no room for complacency and complacency. To compose the future history of Quwo, we still need to use our strengths and avoid our weaknesses, redouble our ambitions, use our horses and whips, and constantly strive for self-improvement. Sun Tzu's Art of War says: "Know yourself and your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger." In fact, economic construction is not based on this principle. Confidant, where is the gap? Generally speaking, there are two main reasons: Although Quwo is a fiscally surplus county, there are very few surpluses, and it cannot make much money to run industries; education is relatively developed, but there are only more than 800 people with college education. To be honest, The quality of the population is still relatively poor. It is difficult to imagine how we can accelerate the pace of economic construction with a lack of funds and talents? And these two are precisely not easy for people to understand. Therefore, in order to forge ahead, we must break with the traditional concept of being satisfied with the status quo and liberate ourselves from the shackles of the small peasant economy. We must squeeze out some money to provide education and improve the quality of workers; we must do everything possible to increase revenue and reduce expenditure and accumulate funds. With more financial resources and a certain number of people with both ability and political integrity, it is not difficult to revitalize Quwo and make the economy take off again!
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In order to start the economy, we must proceed from the actual situation of the county and study and solve the two issues of comprehensive agricultural development and mineral resource extraction. The territory is rich in agricultural resources. There are still grasslands, tidal flats, hot springs, and water surfaces that need to be developed, as well as medium- and low-yield fields that account for 2/3 of the existing cultivated land that need to be transformed. In addition, there are nearly 60,000 acres of forest-friendly area that need to be utilized. Secondly, it is also rich in mineral resources, with coal, apatite, bauxite and other minerals that have not yet been exploited. From the perspective of in-depth development, if we organize the deep processing of agricultural and sideline products, the potential will be even greater. This is the "road of hope" for the first step of Quwo's ??economy to take off.
Today is the development of yesterday, and tomorrow is the continuation of today. Yesterday, the people of Quwo once wrote a glorious poem on this land. Today, as long as we are good at understanding the county's conditions, make scientific decisions, and give full play to the ingenuity of the 190,000 people, we will surely be able to create a more glorious tomorrow.
Historical evolution
Quwo is the capital of Kuching. The name Quwo began in the early Western Zhou Dynasty. The Kingdom of Kuching takes Jiangshan as its ancestor. Jiangshui (today's Feiquan) comes out of the south of Jiangshan, boils and flows to the east, turns north through Qingyu Gorge, flows eastward to Baishi Mountain, and hangs as Woquan (today's Jingming Waterfall). It makes nine turns and enters Hui in the north, lingers and circles, and flows into Fen in the west. Take its music and its fertility, so it is named Quwo. In 745 BC, the Marquis of Jin Zhao (Huan Shu) was granted the title of Master (Huan Shu) here, named "Wo Country", and passed through the three generations of Huan Shu, Zhuang Bo and Wu Gong. In 678 BC, Wu Gong destroyed the Jin Dynasty and established its capital in this place. this. In 661 BC, Duke Xian of Jin built a city for the crown prince Shensheng, also known as Prince City, which is now Quwo City. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was called Jiang County, and in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was changed to Jiangyi County. In the 11th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (487), Quwo County was established. The name of the county has not changed since then. At that time, the county site was "Quwo Ancient City" (1 kilometers southwest of the present county seat).
In November 1958, Houma City was formed from Quwo, Xinjiang, Fencheng and Guanwangmiao Township in Xiangning County; in May 1963, Quwo County was restored, and the county government was stationed in Houma; 1971 In August of that year, five communes were separated to build Houma City, Quwo County was separated from Houma, and the county seat was moved back to the new city.
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? In 2017, Quwo County governed: Chengguan Town, Gaoxian Town, Shicun Town, Qucun Town, Yangtan Township, Licun Township, Xichang Township, Xiapei Township, Beidong Township, Sucun Township, and Anju Township.
In 2000, the total population of Quwo County was 222,391, and the population of each township was: Chengguan Town 33,767 Shicun Town 21,585 Qucun Town 24,380 Gaoxian Town 14,940 Licun Town 18,414 Su Cun Township 17,014 Xia Pei Township 14,959 Beidong Township 21,366 Xichang Township 20157 Yangtan Township 23643 Anju Township 12166 (according to the fifth census data; unit: person)
Quwo County has jurisdiction over 5 towns and 2 townships: Lechang Town, Gaoxian Town, Shi Cunzhen, Qucun Town, Licun Town, Yangdan Township, and Beidong Township. ***158 administrative villages.
In 2007, the entire county of Quwo underwent large-scale road reconstruction. I believe that Quwo’s future will become even better. Iran added