Niba Town is located in the southeast of Nanhui District. It was named Mud Town because there was Wei Zi in the Qing Dynasty. Mud city has a glorious history of revolutionary struggle. 1930, brothers Shen Qianxiang and Jiang organized the famous "Peasant Armed Forces in Mud City-"in Shanghai, 1000, with the participation of more than 100 poor people and salt people, gathered reactionaries and set up the Second Squadron of peace preservation corps in Nanhui County, which was the first anti-Japanese armed force in Pudong and fired the first anti-Japanese gun in Pudong. Since liberation, until 2004, Mud Town has been a traditional agricultural town in Nanhui. From 65438 to 0999, the former Peng Zhen was named "the hometown of green lentils in China" by the Ministry of Agriculture. In 2002, the original Mud Town and Peng Zhen Town merged into a new Mud Town.

At present, the total area of the town is 6 1.5 square kilometers, with 26,042 mu of cultivated land, and there are 1 community, 4 neighborhood committees and 13 administrative villages under its jurisdiction. As of May 2008, there were 23,766 households in the town, with a registered population of 58,752 (including non-agricultural population of 3,8431person) and a floating population of 2 1 person. Mud City enjoys a superior geographical position, bordering the main urban area of Lingang New City and Yangshan Bonded Port Area (Logistics Park) in the southeast and Lingang Heavy Equipment Industrial Zone in the southwest. With the development and construction of Shanghai Lingang New Town, Mud Town plans to use 36 square kilometers as the land for Lingang Heavy Equipment Industrial Zone, 8.25 square kilometers as one of the four sub-zones of Lingang New Town (the other three sub-zones are Luchaogang, Shuyuan and Vientiane, also collectively referred to as "Lingang Four Towns" or "Nanhui Dongsi Towns"), and the rest 17.25 square kilometers as the basic farmland protection zone.

Mud city has convenient land and water transportation. It is only 10 km east of Dishui Lake in Lingang New Town, and about 30 km north of Pudong International Airport. Hulu expressway (A2), Lu Nan Highway and Pudong Railway intersect, and the domestic cement road and asphalt road intersect each other to connect villages. Due to its proximity to Yangshan International Deepwater Port, the location advantage of Mud City has become increasingly prominent, and it has become a treasure-house for economic development. In 2007, the town's gross domestic product reached 65.438+0.33 billion yuan, the town-level fiscal revenue reached 65.438+0.44 billion yuan, the tax revenue reached 36.5438+0.00 billion yuan (including 55.03 million yuan from Hong Kong-based funds and 247.8 million yuan from registered enterprises), the investment in fixed assets reached 65.438+0.9 billion yuan, and the per capita net income was 7 million yuan.

On July 29th, 2020, the national patriotic health campaign committee reconfirmed Mud Town as a national health township (county).