Changle Town is located in the southwest of zhongwei, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, with mountains in the south and the Yellow River in the north, and it is 10 km away from the urban area. The total area is about 9 18 square kilometers. Changle Town has jurisdiction over 15 administrative villages and 1 neighborhood committee, with a total population of 2 10000, including 290 Muslims, with an area of 29,000 mu of cultivated land. Changle Town is one of the irrigation areas with a long history. There are abundant mineral resources, such as coal, gypsum, limestone, timely, clay, copper and so on. Raw coal reserves reach 200 million tons. Since the 1970s, Changle Town has given full play to its resource advantages and vigorously developed township enterprises, becoming a pillar industry of Changle Town. In the 1990s, we actively promoted the "second venture" of township enterprises and implemented the reform of the property right system of township enterprises. The number and scale of industrial enterprises have grown rapidly, forming an industrial pattern dominated by magnesium metal, cement, ceramics, brick making, mechanical casting, coal and gypsum. It is an important magnesium production base in the western region. Kehao Ceramic Company is the largest high-tech ceramic enterprise in the western region. There are 286 township enterprises in Changle Town with 5200 employees. Among them, there are 4/kloc-0 industrial enterprises, 2 enterprises with annual output exceeding 100 million yuan, 5 enterprises with annual output exceeding100000 yuan, 3 enterprises with annual output exceeding 5 million yuan and 6 enterprises with annual output exceeding100000 yuan. In 2004, the town's total rural social output value reached 446.23 million yuan, of which the total output value of township enterprises was 395.4 million yuan, accounting for 89% of the total social output value. The per capita net income of farmers in township enterprises reached 2258 yuan, accounting for 67% of the per capita net income of farmers.
Changle Industrial Base was founded in 1987, and 1996 was named "Industrial Base of the Autonomous Region" by the autonomous region. In the same year, it was awarded the "National Demonstration Zone of East-West Cooperation" by the Ministry of Agriculture. The industrial base covers an area of 5055 mu and is divided into two communities, east and west, which are located in the southeast of town 1 km and the southwest of town 12 km respectively. Enterprises 162, including 4 industrial enterprises, 2 enterprises with annual output exceeding 100 million yuan, 5 enterprises with annual output exceeding 100 million yuan, 3 enterprises with annual output exceeding 100 million yuan, and 6 enterprises with annual output exceeding 100 million yuan 16. The main industries are magnesium metal, ceramics, cement, coal, cast steel processing and brick making. In the past two years, the expansion project of cement production line of Zhongwei Taiqingshan Cement Company180,000-ton rotary kiln, the technical transformation of Kehao Ceramics Company and the expansion project of external wall brick with an annual output of 4.5 million square meters, the technical transformation of Jinyi Magnesium Company and the magnesium alloy project have been completed successively; Huayu Brickmaking, Xinlong Iron and Steel Plant and other new industrial projects 15. In 2004, Changle Town invested 365,438+10,000 yuan to harden 8.04 kilometers in 9 townships. * * * 87 bridges and tailwaters were built, 60,000 cubic meters of earth and stone were laid, and the hardened area was 480,000 square meters.