Yakou Village is located in the southeast of Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. This seaside village is very famous because it still implements the people's commune system and lives in the prosperous market economy of the Pearl River Delta. Yakou Village is an administrative village under the jurisdiction of Nanlang Town, Zhongshan, with 8 villagers' groups. Dongbao, Xibao, Pingshan and Xijin are mainly named after Tan, Yangjia Group is mainly named after Yang, Lujia Group is mainly named after Lu, and Huamei Group is mainly named after Xiao.
Tan, Yang, Lu and Xiao are the original four surnames in Yakou Village. After liberation, we accepted some foreigners. There are 53 surnames in the village. Yakou Village is located in the west of the Pearl River Estuary, with developed transportation and well-informed information. Zhuhai in the south, Lingdingyang in the east, and Shenzhen and Hong Kong across the sea. The land is fertile, the climate is mild, and it rains all the year round.
The development of history
Yakou Village has a history of nearly 700 years. The ancestors of the Yakou people migrated here in the Southern Song Dynasty, and developed land by mountains and rivers, with farming as the mainstay for generations. Yakou village developed economically before liberation. This is the logistics base of Wuguishan guerrillas and the old revolutionary base. After liberation, leaders at all levels attached great importance to this village. In 1960s and 1970s, it was the militia point of Guangdong Military Region, Foshan Military Division and Zhongshan Armed Forces Department.
The long-term stationing of the leaders of the third-level troops, the training of militia and the strengthening of coastal defense construction have laid a solid political foundation for the development of the village for more than ten years. The original land of the village is more than 40 square kilometers, about 60,000 mu. Besides forest fruit trees, homestead, roads and rivers, there are more than 40,000 mu of cultivated land. The village is mainly engaged in agricultural planting and breeding, planting 3,000 mu of rice, all mechanized production, and 3,000 mu of freshwater fish ponds.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yakou Village