Shawan is a famous ancient town in the Pearl River Delta, which was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 800 years.

Shawan ancient town has preserved a large number of ancient buildings in Ming, Qing and Republic of China. The residential buildings are diverse in style, hydrophilic and practical, and are typical representatives of the architectural styles in the Pearl River Delta. There are more than 100 ancient ancestral halls in the town, as well as a bamboo tube, three corridors, bell houses, tall buildings, foreign houses, freestyle houses and other buildings. Among them, Shawan Ancient Village with Chepi Street and Anning West Street as the center is about 24,000 square meters, which is a famous cultural and commercial site.

20 10 Shawan Ancient Town was selected as "Top Ten Cities in Panyu".

Shawan Town is located in the middle of the Pearl River Delta, in Panyu. With a total area of 52.7 square kilometers and a population of 654.38+200,000, it is adjacent to Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao.

Shawan Town is a civilized ancient town with a history of 800 years, and its long history has given birth to splendid culture. Since ancient times, Shawan's literary style has been prosperous, famous artists have come forth in large numbers, and cultural accumulation is rich. In this land, the representative figure of Guangdong music scene "He Sanjie" was born, and famous songs such as "Sailong wins the brocade" and "Rain hits the banana" were born. Shawan Liugeng Hall, Baomo Garden and Sanshan Ancient Temple Group are masterpieces of Lingnan architectural art; The floating colors of Shawan are well-known folk art treasures; There is also a delicious traditional snack-milk and ginger. Shawan therefore enjoys the reputation of "hometown of culture". Since 1998, Shawan Town has been named as the hometown of Chinese folk art, the hometown of Guangdong music, the hometown of Guangdong lions, the hometown of Guangdong floating colors, the advanced sports town in Guangdong province, the high-standard civilized demonstration town in Guangzhou, the civilized demonstration town in Guangdong province, and the "economically strong town" with comprehensive rural strength in 2000.

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Shawan Town Map

Shawan Town is located in the middle of the Pearl River Delta, in Panyu. With a total area of 52.7 square kilometers and a population of 654.38+200,000, it is adjacent to Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao.

Shawan Town is a civilized ancient town with a history of 800 years, and its long history has given birth to splendid culture. Since ancient times, Shawan's literary style has been prosperous, famous artists have come forth in large numbers, and cultural accumulation is rich. In this land, the representative figure of Guangdong music scene "He Sanjie" was born, and famous songs such as "Sailong wins the brocade" and "Rain hits the banana" were born. Shawan Liugeng Hall, Baomo Garden and Sanshan Ancient Temple Group are masterpieces of Lingnan architectural art; The floating colors of Shawan are well-known folk art treasures; There is also a delicious traditional snack-milk and ginger. Shawan therefore enjoys the reputation of "hometown of culture". Since 1998, Shawan Town has been named as the hometown of Chinese folk art, the hometown of Guangdong music, the hometown of Guangdong lions, the hometown of Guangdong floating colors, the advanced sports town in Guangdong province, the high-standard civilized demonstration town in Guangzhou, the civilized demonstration town in Guangdong province, and the "economically strong town" with comprehensive rural strength in 2000.

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Shawan Town, with its unique cultural and historical advantages, reasonable town layout, fast transportation network and superior investment environment, has carefully created an environment suitable for people's life and entrepreneurship.

Economic construction of Shawan town

200 1, 10 Shawan Town was jointly awarded the title of "National Demonstration Site for Creating Civilized Small Towns" by five units including Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China. In 2003, the town achieved a total social output value of 654.38+0 billion yuan, a total industrial and agricultural output value of 8,965.438+0 billion yuan, a gross domestic product of 2.88 billion yuan, and a fiscal revenue of 654.38+0.36 billion yuan, all of which achieved double-digit growth, with a tax revenue of 402 million yuan, basically the same as last year.

Thanks to foreign investment and the growth of private enterprises, the economy of Shawan Town has been developing steadily. Up to now, there are 440 private enterprises and 37 foreign-funded and joint ventures in the town. Enterprises with investment exceeding 6,543,800,000 US dollars include Heinz Delicious Food Co., Ltd., Jiakou Food (China) Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Lu Gang Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., Shawan Jewelry Industrial Park and other large enterprises, which are important economic pillars of Shawan.

Agricultural production and water conservancy construction laid the economic foundation of Shawan, vigorously promoted the "456" agricultural project, actively developed aquatic products, vegetables, animal husbandry, flowers, landscaping and other projects, and formed a "three highs" agricultural production pattern.

Real estate, tourism and other tertiary industries are booming. Panyu Olympic Garden, Debao Garden, Hejing Garden, Jinshawan Garden and New Century Garden provide an ideal place for people to live and work in peace. Guangdong Music, Shawan Piaose, Shawan Lion Dance, Shawan Orchid and Shawan River Buried Milk Food Culture have become the five major brands of civilized ancient towns.

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Shawan Town Farmland Water Conservancy

Shawan Town has a reasonable production layout and a balanced development of diversified agriculture. By 2002, the distribution of agricultural production in the town was as follows: the area of early rice was 24 10 mu; The perennial vegetable area is 8764 mu (including 3337 mu of leek, which will be reduced due to planting years and land fertility problems); The area of flowers is 4884 mu, which is four times that of 2000 (orchids account for about10-15%);

Other cash crops are 2765 mu (mainly lemons, sugar cane and bananas); The aquaculture area is 8727 mu (of which the area of four major fishes accounts for 56.5%, the area of Monopterus albus accounts for 19.3%, and the high-quality fishes such as fork tail, mandarin fish, mola fish and soft-shelled turtle account for 24.2%).

Shawan Town regards the flower industry as a new growth point of agricultural economy and vigorously promotes flower planting, which is a favorable opportunity for the development of flower industry. The planting area has greatly increased compared with previous years, and it is thriving. Shawan Town formally registered and established "Shawan Town Flower Association" on September 15, 2002 with the strong support of the District Agriculture Bureau and Civil Affairs Bureau. Now it has more than 350 registered members, radiating Shiqiao, Huangge and Hualong Town. On this basis, Shawan Town strengthened the macro-control of the flower industry, adjusted production in time according to market information, and actively adapted to the market, so that the flower industry could develop rapidly. 2002 was a bumper year for orchids in Shawan Town. Orchids are growing well, developing rapidly and rising in price, which has played a very good role in promoting radiation. They have won numerous awards in many large-scale competitions and won unanimous praise from the outside world. Experts estimate that the value of orchids in Shawan town is 80 million yuan, and Shawan town is called "the hometown of orchids" by the outside world.

While vigorously developing the flower industry, Shawan Town continuously exerts the original advantages of the animal husbandry industry, taps the market potential, strengthens the inflow and outflow management, and establishes a multi-level detection and monitoring system and rules and regulations, so that the animal husbandry industry is further marketized, industrialized and standardized. The town closely contacts, cares, supports and guides large livestock breeders, and at the same time pays attention to its radiation demonstration role to comprehensively promote the development of animal husbandry. According to the favorable conditions of each village, we also conducted livestock breeding experiments such as night cranes, turkeys, peacocks, guinea fowl and fine young pigeons. Strive to build a new brand of agriculture and drive farmers to increase their income.

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Shawanzhen Shawan power supply office

The north of Shawan Town is separated from Panyu City by a river, and there are Shiqiao No.1 Bridge, No.2 Bridge and No.3 Bridge connected with Shawan. A good highway south of the city and miles away passes through the town.

Now the village road network in the town extends in all directions and the traffic is very smooth. Shawan is 27 kilometers from Guangzhou, 2 1 km from Foshan, 0/30 km from Shenzhen/kloc-0, and 64 nautical miles from Hong Kong and Macao. Panyu substation and waterworks are located in Shawan. Shawan has two waterworks with a daily water supply of 800,000 tons. High and low voltage power grids and large and small water pipes are distributed all over the town, which greatly exceeds the needs of the town's economic development and residents' main activities.

The unique levee of Shawan Water Town is not only a levee against typhoon and flood control, but also a road leading to villages without embankments. People call it "the Great Wall of Water Town".

Shawan Bridge is one of the important bridges in Guangzhou, with a total length of1168m. It is the only way from Guangzhou to Nansha Economic and Technological Development Zone, from Guangzhou to Dongguan and Shenzhen via Panyu, and from Guangzhou to Zhuhai via Panyu.

Shawan's infrastructure construction, including banking, telecommunications, medical care, water supply, power supply, public security, etc. , to meet the needs of workers, farmers and businessmen in various production and operation.

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Strengthen the town through education

Shawan Town insists on giving priority to education, constantly increasing investment in education, improving school conditions and teachers' living conditions, and forming a good atmosphere of respecting teachers and attaching importance to education and vigorously developing education in the town. In the past three years, the investment in education at all levels in the town has reached more than 65.438+0.5 billion yuan, and 654.38+00 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, such as Xiang Jun Middle School, Central Primary School, Shakeng Primary School and Central Kindergarten, have been built successively, and a number of primary and secondary schools, such as Yingxian Middle School and Xiangda Middle School, have been expanded and rebuilt, and the living conditions of teachers have been greatly improved. The town government was rated as an advanced unit of "Double Basic" work in Guangdong Province by 1997, and as an advanced collective of respecting teachers and valuing education in Guangzhou by 1998. From 65438 to 0998, a number of primary and secondary schools were rated as first-class schools in Guangzhou and Panyu, and Xiangxian Middle School ranked first in town-level schools for three consecutive years. 1999 was designated by the provincial education department as one of the top ten experimental passes for promoting educational modernization in Guangdong province. In June, 2002, it successfully passed the evaluation of "Strong Education Town in Guangdong Province" and became the first "Strong Education Town in Guangdong Province" in Panyu District and even Guangzhou.

Xiangxian Middle School is located next to Dishuiyan Nature Reserve, covering an area of 103 mu. The school stands on the mountain, with rows of buildings, magnificent momentum, pavilions and sculptures, lush green grass and a garden scenery, which is worthy of being a good place to study. After 60 years of running a school, many scholars have emerged, such as academicians of the Academy of Sciences, members of academic departments, university presidents, mayors and mayors. In recent ten years, the quality of school education has quadrupled. He won the first prize of Guangzhou College Entrance Examination twice, the second prize four times, and delivered qualified students to Beihang University four times. In 2000, Liu Pengjian, the champion of an xiang College Entrance Examination, won the national champion of geosciences, and the enrollment rate of senior high schools reached 85%. The qualified rate and excellent rate of taking the provincial high school graduation examination exceed the provincial average.

Xiangxian Middle School has a team of cadres and teachers with noble morality, modern ideas, rich background, fine business and high quality, and the qualified rate of full-time teachers is 100%. At present, there are 2 on-the-job graduate students, 56 teachers with middle and senior titles, provincial "famous teachers" 1 person, Guangzhou "famous principals" 1 person, Panyu "famous teachers" 1 person, and 5 judges with intermediate titles of Panyu teachers, with a group of influential backbone teachers or academic leaders in Guangzhou and Panyu.

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Baomoyuan

Baomotang

Built in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, it only occupied 3 mu at that time. Now it has been expanded to 160 mu, with the main line of promoting Baogong culture and honest official culture, with the architectural style of Lingnan gardens and the characteristics of southern water towns. Art is dazzling. In the past, the beautiful scenery of Guangzhou Lizhi Bay and the Pearl River Zidong Boat in Qing Dynasty are all reproduced in miniature in the garden.

Heshi Grand Ancestral Hall

(that is, Liugengtang) was built in the positive year of Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1275), more than 700 years ago. The biggest expansion and reconstruction was in the 60th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 172 1), with a total area of more than 3,000 square meters. This is an ancient building composed of blue bricks, stones, wood and oysters. The last renovation in Qing Dynasty was earlier than that of Chenjia Temple in Guangzhou 170 years. It is the Ho Ancestral Hall in Panyu District, with a long history, grand scale, exquisite art and high style. Its characteristics: it is famous for its many columns, including 1 12 wooden columns and stone columns. It brings together different styles of architectural art in Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, condenses the sweat and wisdom of working people, and shines the brilliance of ancient oriental architectural art with exquisite brick, wood and stone carving crafts. 1986, velvet was trimmed again and restored to its original appearance. 1989 has been listed as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit in Guangdong, and has been open to the outside world for tourists to visit.

On the front, "Poetry is the splendor of the world" and on the back, "Three Phoenix Immortals" were inscribed by Chen Xianzhang (Chen Baisha), a philosopher in the Ming Dynasty. The woodcuts of "Liugengtang" and "Dazong Bo" were written by Chen Baisha and Zheng Yuncheng, a Guangdong scholar in Ming Dynasty in China.

Kuixinglou

Kuixing Building, Shawan Town

The "Kuixing Building" in Shawan, also known as "Shuilvshan Qingge". This is from the legendary "carp yue longmen" and "Wen Kui is the best" to conceive the building. It was founded in 60 years of Kangxi, more than 280 years ago. Ancestors He used this to inspire future generations to work hard and win the first place.

"Liang"-Liu Gengtang's architecture is famous for its many beams, which may mean that he hopes to have more beams.

Aoshan ancient buildings

Located at the foot of Aoshan Mountain in San Shancun, Shawan Town, it consists of Baoshi Temple, Aoshan Ancient Temple, Sheji Temple, Shixian Ancient Temple, Shenlong Ancient Temple and Kannonji. This is a unique ancient temple group, which belongs to the Qing Dynasty and is well preserved. Baosi Temple was built to commemorate the disadvantage of Wang Lairen, the governor of the early Qing Dynasty, who moved to the sea after taking office, and advocated lifting the ban and returning it to the people, saving countless lives and making the people grateful. Shixian Ancient Temple, commonly known as "Luban Temple", once had many statues of Luban holding rulers, moments, axes and rulers, reflecting that local villagers were mostly engaged in the construction industry. Other buildings also have their own characteristics. The layout of the whole building is full of Lingnan local colors, and the mural art, whether it is flowers and birds, landscapes or figure paintings, is vivid and exquisite.