The economic development of guxiang.

Gu Xiang Town vigorously implements the development strategy of "building the town by industry, prospering the town by science and technology and stabilizing the town by agriculture", takes development as the first priority, vigorously supports private enterprises, and takes a new road of industrialization. The economy develops rapidly and healthily, social undertakings flourish, and its comprehensive economic strength leaps to the top three in the county. In 2002, the total industrial and agricultural output value of the town was10.50 billion yuan, including/kloc-0.30 billion yuan and/kloc-0.50 billion yuan. The business income of the enterprise is 2.46 billion yuan, the total value of foreign trade exports is 70.55 million dollars, the industrial and commercial tax is 23.28 million yuan, and the per capita income is 4,860 yuan. Since 1998, it has successively won the titles of well-off rural town, top 100 provincial township enterprises, advanced foreign trade export town, advanced private enterprise development town and six advanced township party committees.

The infrastructure is improving day by day, the urbanization process is accelerating, and cement pavements are basically realized for urban roads, rural roads and industrial roads. There are waterworks with daily water supply of 1 10,000 tons/seat, first-class and first-class central hospitals 1 seat, complete middle schools 1 seat, 3 junior middle schools, primary schools 1 seat, and comprehensive cultural buildings 1 seat. There are three comprehensive markets in Guzhu Street, Fengyang and Fuzhong. The town's power supply layout is reasonable, the annual electricity consumption is nearly 65.438+0 billion kWh, and the total installed telephone number is 65.438+0.42 million.

Gu Xiang Town used to be a high-yield agricultural town. The cultivated land in the plain area is mostly tons of grain fields, mainly producing rice, sweet potatoes and peanuts. There are various famous fruits such as olives, oranges, pineapples, lychees and longan planted on the hillside. In recent years, agricultural production has been transformed into industrialization, and special aquaculture, rare poultry breeding and sightseeing agriculture have been actively developed, taking the road of large-scale and comprehensive development. The agricultural structure was further optimized and the production level was further improved. Huahai Group was rated as the key leading enterprise of national agricultural industrialization.

The ceramic industry developed with the unique porcelain clay resources has promoted the vigorous development of private economy in Gu Xiang town. There are 786 industrial enterprises in the town. The main industries are sanitary porcelain, craft porcelain, daily-use porcelain, preserved fruit processing, eel roasting and paper making. It is one of the largest ceramic sanitary ware production bases in China, and the sanitary ware industry has become the pillar of Gu Xiang Town's economy. There are 2 10 ceramic sanitary ware enterprises in the town, with 70 10 cubic meters of kilns and 25,000 sets and 75,000 pieces of sanitary ware per day, with an annual output value of 680 million yuan. 20 products have won awards or promotion certificates at or above the provincial or ministerial level, 2 enterprises have been certified for export to the United States, and 48 and 25 enterprises have passed the ISO-9000 international quality system certification of the Ministry of Agriculture respectively, with registered trademarks of 180. The sales network is all over the country, and some products are exported to Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

Gu Xiang Town, located in the southwest of Chaozhou, is about 8 kilometers away from the urban area and covers an area of 63.4 square kilometers. Gu Xiang Town now governs Gu Xiang Village 1, Gu Xiang Village 2, Gu Xiang Village 3, Gu Xiang Village 4, Gu Xiang Village 5, Fengyang Village 1, Fengyang Village 2, Fengyang Village 3, Fengyang Village 4, Qitou Village, Fuzhong Village, Fuqing Village, Xigang Village, Yonganzhai Village, Hengxi Village, Donggang Village and Pujun Village. The population of China is all Han nationality.