Regional overview of Zitong Town

Zitong Town is located in the west of Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province, 31 kilometers away from the county seat. It borders Qiandao Lake to the east, Dongting, Jiangjia and other townships to the south, Guocun Township to the west, and Nanfu and Jiu to the north. Keng and other townships. Agriculture is mainly based on grain production, with tea, sericulture, dried fruits and other agricultural economies also involved. The industries are mainly silk reeling, textiles, cement, mining and food processing. In 1998, the comprehensive economic strength of the township ranked 7th in the county.

Zitong Town covers an area of ??153.6 square kilometers, with a forest area of ??185,000 acres, 8,775 acres of cultivated land, and a forest coverage rate of 85%. Zitong River is the main stream in the territory. It originates from Shimentang and Yinshan at the source of Zitong. It flows through 30 administrative villages in the territory, with a total length of 26 kilometers, and flows into Qiandao Lake from west to east. Hengyuan River is the main tributary of Zitong River, with a total length of 7 kilometers. In addition, there is Longyuan Creek, which originates from the foot of Tongling and flows through the Fourth Village of Longchuan into Jiangjia Town. The mountains in the town are mainly distributed on the west and north sides. The terrain slopes from west to east. The mountains are connected and the peaks are undulating. Yangjian is the highest peak in the territory, with an altitude of 935 meters. Within the territory, there are natural and cultural landscapes such as Yinshan Nunnery, Shiren Shima, Xianren Cave, and Wenjialing, which have tourism development value.

Zitong Town is a strong agricultural town with high efficiency. By adjusting and optimizing the agricultural structure, vigorously developing benefit agriculture has formed a new pattern of benefit agriculture with "large-scale sericulture, intensification of tea, industrialization of sweet potatoes, and base-based pecans", forming four areas with strong development trends and regional characteristics. Block economies. By 2003, the town had 5,353 acres of mulberry orchards, producing 131.2 tons of famous tea, with an output value of 11.035 million yuan, and 10,000 acres of sweet potatoes. The annual output of starch is 3,500 tons, with an output value of 8.4 million yuan; the pecan area reaches 20,000 acres, becoming Zitong's emerging agricultural leading industry. In 2003, the total agricultural output value was 73.55 million yuan, an increase of 6% over the previous year.

Zitong Town is also one of the nine key industrial towns in the county. There are 93 industrial enterprises, including 3 town-run enterprises, 70 village-run enterprises and 20 private enterprises. There are 450 individual industrial and commercial households. The main industrial enterprises include Zitong Silk Factory, Jindanlai Weaving Factory, Qiandao Lake Tianying Green Food Co., Ltd., Zitongyuan Food Factory, Chun'er Cement Factory, Zifu Mineral Processing Plant, etc. In 2003, the industrial investment was 21 million yuan, 3 new industrial enterprises were established, and the industrial output value was 330 million yuan, an increase of 28% over the previous year. The sales tax was 2.246 million yuan, an increase of 1.1%, and the industrial profit was 5 million yuan, an increase of 66.6%.

Zitong Town has a developed economy and rich products. The main industrial products include white factory silk, silk fabrics, cement and pre-products, mineral products, vermicelli, etc. Zitong is rich in mineral resources. There are gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc and other non-ferrous metal ores in the territory. They are of high grade and are of great mining value. Zitong is an advanced town for efficient agriculture in the county. Silkworm cocoons, famous tea, sweet potato vermicelli, and pecans are the main specialty products.

Zitong has convenient water and land transportation. The highway leads to Qiandao Lake Town, Hangzhou and Anhui She County in the east, and Quzhou and Anhui Huangshan City in the west. It can reach Qiandao Lake and Anhui She County by land and water. Zitong is known as "a country with beautiful mountains and beautiful waters and famous literature" and has a long history and culture. Zitong is the hometown of Chen Shuozhen, the female leader of the peasant uprising in the Tang Dynasty and China's first female emperor, "Emperor Wenjia". There are Chen Shuozhen's former residence in the farm, the ancient battlefield "Wenjialing" and other sites. Hu Gongchen of Cixi Village, Zitong, was a Jinshi during the Zhengtong period of the Ming Dynasty, and was promoted to Minister of Industry. There is Wansui Ridge in Yinshan Mountain, the source of Zitong. Zhu Yuanzhang once stationed his troops here during the late Yuan Dynasty. There are existing ruins such as "Dati Dang", "Army Training Ground" and "Stone Formation". Zitong is also an old revolutionary area. During World War II, Jiemeng Village was the seat of the Zitong District Committee of the Communist Party of China. These humanistic histories are of great value for the development of humanistic landscape tourism and are unique historical resources for Zitong to develop tourism projects and integrate them with Qiandao Lake tourism.