General situation of Huyang Town

Huyang Town is located at the border of Henan and Hubei, 35 kilometers away from the county seat, and the national highway 234 runs through the north and south, with convenient transportation. The town covers an area of 15 square kilometers, of which the eastern part is a shallow mountain area, which belongs to the remaining vein of Tongbai Mountain, with an area of 6 square kilometers; The west is a buffer plain, 9 square kilometers, with fertile land, rivers everywhere and criss-crossing buildings. The arable land covers an area of 114, mu, and there are 26 village (neighborhood) committees, 167 villagers' groups and 62, people, including 5,8 Hui people.

Huyang Town has a long history. According to the textual research of the cultural relics unearthed in Yingkeng, it is a village site from Qujialing to Longshan (about 455-395 years ago), and it is an ancient Huyang site. Huyang was named after Xia Dynasty, because there is Huizi Lake (now called seven weirs) one kilometer south of Huyang Town, and the water is Yang in the north, so it is named Huyang. Shu' an soothed the flood and controlled the water, enfeoffed the country of Guo, and set up Huyang; Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period and Korea in the Warring States Period; There are 24 counties in Qin, and Huyang is one of them. After Liu Xiu proclaimed himself emperor in the Eastern Han Dynasty, she gave her sister Liu Huang the title of Princess Huyang, known as "Jinhuyang" and "the land of imperial seal". Since Han, Tang and Song dynasties, they have all been counties. Before the May 4th Movement to the founding of New China, it had successively belonged to Tongbaishan revolutionary base area and Henan-Hubei revolutionary base area. Deng Xiaoping, Li Xiannian, Wang Shusheng, Wang Zhen, Huang Huoqing and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation engaged in revolutionary activities here for a long time, which lit the revolutionary flame for the founding of New China. After liberation in December 1947, Huyang Commune was established, then changed to township, and the town was established in October 1985.

Huyang Town has a long history. The ancient Guo civilization is the most brilliant. According to historical records, unearthed cultural relics and word-of-mouth introduction, the ancient Guo governs the southern part of tanghe county, the northern part of Zaoyang City, Suizhou and a part of Tongbai. The capital is in Huyang Town, and the ruins of the ancient Guo still exist. People take the country as their surname, Liao, and it is the world's Guo. Dongda Temple (Longquan Temple) is located 9 kilometers to the east of the town. It was built in the Jin Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. Surrounded by jiusan, the temple is surrounded by mountains and waters, with a magnificent momentum. It is surrounded by nine hills and is 13 steps long. The existing ruins are known as "Beijing Race".

Huyang Town is rich in mineral resources. Twelve kinds of metal and nonmetal minerals have been proved, among which copper-nickel ore, quartz stone, marble, refractory stone, limestone and so on have large reserves and high taste. In particular, the copper-nickel ore reserves reach 1 million tons, which is the largest nickel mine discovered in Henan Province at present, and its economic value reaches 13 billion yuan. It was mined by tanghe county Times Mining Co., Ltd., which was invested and built by Inner Mongolia Xingye Group in 27. After the project is completed and put into operation, it is estimated that the annual sales revenue will be 7.5 billion yuan and the annual profit will be 1.5 billion yuan. Tanghe Huyang will become the second nickel capital in China after Jinchuan, Gansu.

In recent years, under the correct leadership of the county party committee and government, and under the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, the town party committee and government have made great efforts to develop the industrial economy focusing on attracting investment, the tertiary industry focusing on tourism, and the new agriculture focusing on the construction of grain core areas and animal husbandry, which has achieved sound and rapid economic and social development. It has been successively determined by the Ministry of Construction as "National Pilot Town for Small Town Construction" and "National Model Town for Comprehensive Economic Reform"; It was established by the provincial party committee and the provincial government as "pilot towns along the border", "1 key towns in Henan Province", "advanced units for grass-roots political power construction", "six good" township party committees and "advanced towns for developing township enterprises"; It has been named as "star town for urban construction" and "three-star" town by the municipal party committee and municipal government.