On the north bank of Quanzhou Bay where Luoyang River enters the sea, there is an ancient land. Human beings lived here in BC, which once belonged to Jinjiang, later to Hui 'an County, and later to Chongwu. In the early years of the Republic of China, Dongyuan Town was established. Together with the neighboring Zhangban Town, it is the birthplace of Huian County.
The reason why Huian is the birthplace is that the interview car is driving on the newly-built Xingxiu Highway, enjoying the scenery of the postal road through the window and looking for the East Source. The terrain on both sides of the highway is flat. At first glance, compared with other places in the same county, the slope is gentle and there are few stones, which seems to be beneficial to farming. Is this the root cause of ancestors?
A long time ago, a group of people traveled long distances to the west in order to find a home suitable for survival. When they traveled all over Qian Shan and came here, they were attracted by this flat land, which was not fertile, but easy to cultivate, so they built a stone as a house, lived in a compact community and cultivated it carefully. With the development of human beings, this community gradually increased, but the land was extremely limited, so it migrated and spread to the surrounding areas, so it built a tidal flat cofferdam to improve the soil and replenish the land. According to historical records, in the Tang Dynasty, the coastal ancestors began to reclaim land and build beds, planting She rice and She cane, and lived a life dominated by agriculture.
The sea has always been the blue fantasy of Tohara people. It cut off their trip, but it didn't stop their thoughts. A group of hard-working but hungry farmers stood on the vast seashore, fantasizing about how to cultivate the sea like a field, so they had the first fisherman and then the first canoe ... even in the late Song Dynasty, "seaside people built boats." ...
Let's go back to the above topic. Dongyuan Town has always been dominated by agriculture. Because the land is small and there are many people, the limited space can't carry a large number of people, so it is forced to move to the surrounding areas. When the surrounding areas were overcrowded, the invention of the ship made them realize their desire to cross the ocean, so they drifted overseas to seek survival. Especially in modern times, influenced by objective factors, the number of overseas Chinese increased sharply, so Dongyuan became a famous hometown of overseas Chinese.
Ever since our ancestors laid the foundation of the first house and sowed the first seed in Dongyuan, they have a dream: to build a beautiful home on this flat land. However, Dongyuan has never been given a chance to fly for two thousand years. When history entered the middle of the twentieth century, Dongyuan people were forced to leave their ancestors and wander in tears.
Wandering, wandering, looking forward to staying. And the dream of that beautiful home is a suspended still life, which has never been vivid.
Opportunity, in the early 1980s, for the first time in history, the morning boat knocked on the window lattice of Dongyuan people. 198 1 year, the tide of reform and opening up in new China overflowed the seawall of Dongyuan, and the hardworking and brave Dongyuan people attacked in time and seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to develop themselves.
Agriculture and fishery are the economic pillars of dongyuan people. Reform begins with agriculture. The land returned to farmers again, and with the support of the government, it broke the traditional backward farming methods for thousands of years, implemented high-quality agricultural development, and completed food self-sufficiency in a short time. The land contract system has inspired fishermen in coastal areas. They contracted 9.5 kilometers of the town's coast to households, engaged in beach farming and offshore planting, truly realized the farming dream of "taking the sea as a field", constantly introduced high-quality varieties, promoted the rapid development of fisheries, and obtained affordable fishermen's farming and planting areas.
In Dongyuan, near Quanzhou Bay, Xiutu Port was established very early. Song and Yuan Dynasties were one of the important seaports for foreign trade in Quanzhou Bay, the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road. Ships of more than 1,000 tons dock here, "coastal people build ships" and "businessmen make profits overseas". Navigation has a long history and far-reaching influence here, but due to economic backwardness, it has not been able to form industries such as agriculture and fisheries. With the reform and opening up and the prosperity of regional economy, with the strong encouragement of the government, Dongyuan shipping industry has flourished, and towns have cultivated joint-stock shipping companies such as Anda and Shunda, and opened dozens of domestic and foreign routes. The number of ships is increasing, the tonnage is expanding and new routes are being opened up. ...
As the saying goes, Dongyuan people gradually became rich by land and sea. However, they are not bound by their own achievements. They clearly know that in this coastal town with only 43.5 square kilometers, the space for developing agriculture is very limited. It is not the character of Tohara to have money and security. They gathered their strength and ran for higher goals. Their eyes have already crossed the ocean and seen the outside world.
How to explore new economic fields and seek broader development space? Dongyuan people set their sights on the industry.
Although Dongyuan was poor and backward in the past, it was outstanding, and most of the 60 thousand overseas Chinese were successful. There are more than 300 outstanding people from all walks of life in Dongyuan. Dongyuan took this as a breakthrough, made extensive contact with them through various channels, won their support, and fulfilled the dream of building a home. These wanderers, who were wandering around because of poverty in those years, have a childlike heart that loves their hometown. They either invest and set up enterprises in their hometown to provide information, or provide services in policy and science and technology. Dongyuan takes advantage of this advantage to create a good investment environment, increase investment attraction, and encourage township-run, village-run, joint-stock enterprises, individual enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises to develop together. Give preferential policies and have a green light all the way. After several years of hard work, they have successively developed and built four industrial parks, namely Yulong, Dongyuan, Jinfeng and Jiangxiu, to guide and support enterprises to implement the strategy of rejuvenating enterprises through science and technology and creating famous brands. Among these enterprises, a number of famous products such as "rich king", "King Hunter" leather shoes and "Libao" air compressor have emerged. It has supported a number of large-scale, high-efficiency and high-grade backbone enterprises such as Xinhua Fiona Fang and Packaging and Bagging Co., Ltd., and initially formed five pillar industries, namely hardware machinery, clothing, shoes and hats, light industry knitting, packaging and bagging, and shipping, and has become one of the most dynamic and attractive coastal towns in the county. By 1999, the town's total social output value was 2.089 billion yuan, and its fiscal revenue reached15.07 million yuan, which were 522 times and 28 times of 1978 respectively. The total economic output and main economic indicators jumped to the forefront of the county, 1996 entered the "Top 100 Towns", 1999 entered the "Top 100 Towns", "Provincial Industrial Satellite Towns" and "Science and Technology Demonstration Towns".
With the development of industry and the prosperity of economy, Dongyuan people have not stopped moving forward and have not forgotten their original dreams. In order to fundamentally change the face of their hometown and create a beautiful home, they invested 23.6 million yuan to build public facilities on a large scale. 42.8 kilometers of secondary roads have been built, and projects such as Cangshan secondary road, Ganyuan road and Yuemao road in the town are under intense construction, and all the main roads in the town have been hardened. Communication facilities have opened more than 1 10,000 program-controlled telephones, realizing village-to-village telephone service and direct dialing to more than 80 countries and regions around the world. Cangshan 1 10000 volt substation has been built, which can provide power resources for Xiutu Port under development and construction while ensuring the electricity consumption of the whole town. The daily output is 5000 tons, and a waterworks is under construction. In the near future, families in the main villages of this town will use tap water.
In order to build a beautiful home, while vigorously building hardware facilities, Dongyuan people also make great efforts to improve the soft environment, green streets, pay close attention to environmental sanitation, advocate social morality and customs, plan and transform old residential areas, and plan new residential areas. At present, the reconstructed Hougang New Village has wide streets, complete living facilities, and villagers' villa-style foreign buildings are neatly arranged. It is no longer the old appearance of the old village "the road is difficult to walk, the car is difficult to enter the village", and it has become a beautiful landscape of the green village.
Wandering in the wide streets and quiet and beautiful parks of modern new villages, and entering the luxurious courtyard decorated with farmhouses, Curie, endless feelings arise. Many ancestors searched hard for many years and finally their dreams came true one day. Dongyuan people, in the dawn of 2 1 century, opened the curtain of happiness.
Facing the new century, Dongyuan has put forward higher requirements for building a beautiful home: continue to implement the first axis (development on both sides of Xingxiu Highway), do a good job in the construction of the second district (new city construction and old city reconstruction), promote three industrial expansions (aquaculture, planting and tertiary industry), and consolidate four bases (Daxin industrial high-tech base, Yulong export-oriented economic base, Jinfeng hardware machinery industrial base, Jiang Xiu shoes, hats and clothing). Cultivate and strengthen the economic development ideas of five pillar industries (clothing, shoes and hats, hardware and machinery, light industry knitting, packaging and shipping), solidly promote various social undertakings, and strive to bring a new East Garden with the characteristics of overseas Chinese into the 2 1 century with economic extroversion, scientific and technological progress, rich people, beautiful environment and prosperity.