Where is Shizhai located in Feng County, Jiangsu Province?
Shizhai Town, Fengxian County, a famous town in Jiangsu, is located at the junction of Shandong and Shandong provinces. It has jurisdiction over 36 administrative villages, 84,000 people, a cultivated land area of 90,000 acres, and a town area of 104 square kilometers. With a superior location, rich resources, convenient transportation and prosperous economy, it is known as the "big sericulture town and the hometown of foundry".
Shizhai Town is a large agricultural town, a strong industrial town, and a famous town in Jiangsu. In recent years, the town party committee and government have vigorously developed characteristic agriculture and efficient agriculture with the goal of enriching the people and strengthening the town. The economic aggregate continues to expand, and the GDP exceeds 900 million yuan. Agricultural industrialization is beginning to take shape. The six famous and high-quality agricultural products "vegetables, fruits, fungi, melons, silkworms, and cotton" are well-known in the Huaihai Economic Zone. The town has formed a landscape of "ten thousand acres of lakes and mulberry trees, ten thousand acres of special vegetables in one line, and ten thousand acres of fruits." In the new pattern of agricultural industrialization, wild boars, Boer goats and sika deer have become new highlights in the town's breeding industry. Industrial specialization is rising rapidly. The town and village industries have formed a pattern of five leading industries: "casting, timber, cocoon, cotton spinning, and salt chemical industry". There are nearly 100 private enterprises and nearly 1,000 individual industrial and commercial households in the town. It is an advanced town in Xuzhou City that has developed the private economy for many years. With Jiangsu Pengju Group as the core enterprise, it has built 15 foundries and has developed into one of the three largest export bases for foundry handicrafts in the country. High-quality silkworm cocoons are favored by customers across the country. There are 11 cocoon processing companies, and high-quality cotton and yarn are in short supply. There are 20 billion cubic meters of underground salt resources, which need to be further developed and utilized, with broad development prospects. The wood processing industry products, led by Yasen Wood Processing and Shengmei Crafts Co., Ltd., are sold nationwide. Craft casting and antique gilded picture frames, mirror frames, etc., are sold well in European and American markets.
Historically, Shizhai Town was home to a rich collection of people, natural treasures, and rich cultural heritage; today, the people of Shizhai Town have a new spirit, are pragmatic and innovative, and enrich the people and strengthen the town. With the most preferential policies and the most superior environment, the 80,000 people in the town sincerely welcome people of insight at home and abroad to come to set up factories and start businesses and join Shizhai, to draw great plans and create great achievements.
In order to further accelerate the pace of rural economic development in the town and promote agricultural work to a new level, so as to increase agricultural efficiency, increase farmers' income, comprehensively realize moderate prosperity and initially achieve modernization, the overall situation is market-oriented and based on Benefit is the center, science and technology is the support, the focus is on improving the market competitiveness of agricultural products, the main approach is to promote agricultural industrialization through manual labor, and the purpose is to adjust the structure of agricultural varieties, optimize the quality of varieties, and increase benefits.
(1) While focusing on 25,000 acres of high-quality, strong-gluten special wheat, we will also focus on developing Humulberry sericulture, with administrative villages such as Wangtun, Huayuan, Lizhuang, Liuzhuang, and Xudikou 16,000 acres will be planted as the center, forming the first town of mulberry planting and sericulture in northern Jiangsu.
(2) Based on the actual situation of the town with more people and less land, the town has intensified efforts to develop the edible fungi industry since 1998, forming a cluster centered on 9 villages including Zhangzhai, Guoyuan, Liulisan, and Shixiaoqiao. The black fungus production base in the town has an annual production of 25 million bags and a total dry fungus production of 5 million kilograms. And a 300,000-square-meter production base for Agaricus bisporus, Coprinus comatus, and high-temperature straw mushroom has been built in Huangdikou, Huayuan, Lixinzhuang, Jiazhuang and other villages, forming the first town in Shizhai to produce and process pollution-free edible fungi.
(3) Establish a facility vegetable base to form a white promenade on both sides of Fengsha Road. The town government invested tens of millions of yuan to build 2,000 high-standard solar greenhouses and greenhouses. The greenhouse mainly produces seasonal vegetables, eggplants, gourds and edible fungi, Agaricus bisporus, Coprinus comatus and cantaloupe. A high-standard 100-shed high-quality grape demonstration base was built in Jinzhuang Village. The products are exported to large and medium-sized cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Zhengzhou, etc., and have been rated as standardized pollution-free seasonal fresh vegetable production bases by provinces, cities and counties.
(4) Construction of special vegetable production and open-field vegetable production bases: Due to the suitable climate conditions and soil quality of this town and complete water conservancy facilities, it is conducive to the development period of special dishes and open-field vegetables. In 2002, more than 10,000 acres of the new asparagus variety Grande were planted in the town and a production and cultivation base was built. The town party committee and government have intensified their efforts to seize the leading industry of asparagus, and strive to plant 20,000 acres in 2004 to expand and strengthen the asparagus industry and form a one-stop production and processing system. The field vegetable planting area is 28,000 acres, and the main products are early-maturing yellow-skinned onions, white-skinned garlic, overwintering cauliflower, autumn cauliflower, radish, and Japanese big-leaf spinach. The total annual production is 30,000 tons, forming a production model that integrates the cultivation of special vegetables and the production, processing and sales of open-field vegetables.
(5) Develop the town’s fruit industry with the eight-character policy of creating specialties, expanding excellence, suppressing inferiority, and improving efficiency. In fruit production, our town vigorously develops famous and high-quality products. The area of high-quality fruit trees is 12,000 acres. The main varieties are Red Fuji, Chinese longevity peaches, nectarines, table grapes, etc. Due to the attention of leaders at all levels and technical guidance in place, fruit farmers work hard to manage fruit production and The quality ranks first in the county, among which the Shiyuedi Red Fuji Demonstration Garden was rated as a high-quality, high-yielding and pollution-free production demonstration garden by Jiangsu Province. The garden’s high-quality fruits have won gold medals at the National Agricultural Exposition many times.
2. Breeding Industry:
In order to increase the income of farmers, the town party committee and government have issued a series of documents and measures many times to increase publicity and investment in the development of the breeding industry. The town produces 68,000 pigs annually, including Boer hybrids. There are more than 100,000 sheep, more than 300,000 laying hens, more than 200,000 broiler chickens, and more than 5,000 rabbits, including more than 100 special breeding deer and more than 110 wild boars. 10 thousand-head pig farms and 5 sheep farms have been built. There are 5 chicken farms with 10,000 chickens each.
In order to support farmers in each village to improve breeding, special land has been allocated to build breeding communities to facilitate management of epidemic prevention and disinfection. The town government has allocated special funds to assist and actively coordinate with credit cooperatives for small loan support. In terms of breed improvement, more than 85% of the three-yuan hybrid pigs and more than 90% of the hybrid Boer sheep have been produced. The epidemic prevention density of pigs, cattle and sheep has reached 100%, and the epidemic prevention target rate has reached 100%. Due to the measures in place, the town's breeding industry has developed from small families to dozens of professional large households in each village, and the town's large breeding households From more than 100 households to more than 550 households now, the quantity and quality of breeding have increased several times. It brings new opportunities and development space to the secondary and tertiary industries. The income from the breeding industry accounts for 30% of the annual per capita income.