At the end of the Tang Dynasty, after the construction of Linyin Five Weirs in the upper reaches of Zhongjiang River, Pingping Lake and Santa Lake in Shezhu Zhongjiang River Basin became beaches. Because the beach can open up polder fields, immigrants gradually moved here. "Family Tree of the King of Shechuan" records: "The return of Sanhuai to Ze was passed down in the Song Dynasty, because Guan Anqing moved to the Jin Dynasty and adopted a son-in-law from Kong to raise Shechuan." This means that Kamei, a scholar of Shechuan at that time, was an official in Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province. He had no children under his knees and took Wang Songgang as his son-in-law. Since then, he has migrated from Anqing to Wang and multiplied in Shechuan. This shows that at that time, Shechuan had Jinshi House, which was already a civilized village. The three sons and eight grandchildren of Yu Chongwen, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, have been bred in Shezhu for 44 generations.
According to the History of Zhijian County in Liyang County, Liyang County was located in the north of Gulishui in Qin and Han Dynasties, and the water in the north was called Yang, hence the name "Liyang". Guli Water, also known as Laishui and Jiang Lai, is also known as Nanhe and Xu He in the upper reaches, with its main stream flowing through the estuary and its tributaries flowing through Shezhu. According to this, Shechuan existed in the Qin Dynasty with a long history.
According to the Records of Liyang County, in the sixth year of Jiayou in the Northern Song Dynasty (106 1), there is a record of "Shezhu Town" in Liyang.
During the Yuanfeng period of the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1078- 1085), the National Geographic book Yuanfeng Jiu Yu Zhi clearly recorded "Shezhu Town". So in the Northern Song Dynasty, Shezhu Town had become a regional market town, and it was actually a "Millennium ancient town".
During the reign of Huizong Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty, Shezhu belonged to Liyang Jinyuan (that is, Jiang Lai area), which was called Shechuan at that time.
According to Ming Hongzhi 1 1 (1489) County Records, there are only two towns in Liyang, one is Jushan Town (now Daibu) and the other is Shechuan Town, which was called Shezhu Town at that time.
Shezhu is the ancient city of Laizhu (now Gaochun ancient town). In the 26th year of Qin Shihuang (22 1 year BC), Laizhu was changed to Liyang County, and Shezhu belonged to Liyang County.
During the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, a captain's wasteland and Yongping, Yongshi and Pingling counties were successively set up in the territory. Shezhu has belonged to it.
In the third year of Wude in Tang Gaozu (AD 620), Yongshi County was abandoned, and the land east of Lishui was restored to Liyang County. Since then, Liyang has been used as an administrative domain name. Shezhu belongs to it.
In the second year of Xuantong (19 10), the district system was changed to the city and township system, and Liyang County set up 3 cities and 4 townships, and Shezhu set up Shoushan City.
In the first year of the Republic of China (19 12), municipal and township autonomous offices were established. Shezhu is the first mountain city and the seat of the autonomous office.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the New Fourth Army set up a military station in Shezhu. The Special Service Regiment of the 24th Army of the Kuomintang Army, the 7th New Division of the 50th Army, the 2nd Column of Jiangsu Security, the 2nd Division of the Puppet Army 1 Army, the 4th District of peace preservation corps County and the Japanese aggressors have all stationed troops in Shezhu successively, and built a large number of military facilities such as bunkers, trenches, headquarters and parks.
In the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), Shezhu was the seat of the seventh district, which governed Shezhu Town, Heping Township, Xiao Zhong Township, Zhoucheng Town, Hekou Town, Dingshanqiao Township and Renai Township.
On May 7th 1949, Liyang County People's Government was established and Shezhu District was established.
1950, Shezhu was divided into 12 townships;
1957 withdraw the area and merge into the township, and Xintang, Yuba, Chengqiao, Hilly and Shezhu merge into Shezhu Township;
1958, Shezhu established the People's Commune and named it Dongfeng People's Commune.
1983, Shezhu Commune was changed to Shezhu Township;
1984, Shezhu withdrew from the township to build a town;
June 5438 +2000 10, Hekou Township, Hexin Township, Yinqiao Township and Shezhu Town merged into Xinshezhu Town;
In March 2007, Shezhu Town and Zhoucheng Town merged into Xinshezhu Town. The town government is located at Renmin Road 1 Shezhu Town. The administrative division covers an area of 207.07 square kilometers with a total population of 76,000.
Shezhu Town now governs Shezhu Neighborhood Committee, Zhoucheng Neighborhood Committee and Shezhu Village, Xiangyi Village, Xintang Village, Wang Jiacun, Song Cun, Xinshan Village, Yinqiao Village, Datian Village, Shangjiang Village, Kongcun Village, Huxi Village, Yaoxiang Village, Xiaxi Village, Hekou Village, Chengmawei Village, Dongsheng Village, Zhoucheng Village Village, Jinshan Village, Jin Feng Village, Jinzhuang Village and Meishan Village. Market town is the lifeline of Jiangsu and Anhui, with convenient transportation. There is a 106 shuttle bus directly to Liyang city, and there are shuttle buses from Shezhu-Changzhou, Shezhu-Nanjing, Shezhu-Wuxi and Shezhu-Shanghai, which can reach the surrounding large and medium-sized cities in two hours and all parts of the country in five hours.
Village roads in Shezhu Town have been cemented. In 2008, the town and village bus was first opened, which facilitated the surrounding people and became a national model. The existing town and village buses include Shezhu Farm, Shezhu Hekou, Shezhu Hexin, Shezhu Yinqiao, Shezhu Qingshuitang, Yinqiao Hexin, Zhoucheng Meishan, Zhoucheng Dalitan, Hekou Zhoucheng, Hekou Tangqiao, Shezhu Daijia Village and Yinqiao Daijia Village. Shezhu Town has Shezhu Central Primary School, Zhoucheng Primary School, Hekou Primary School, Hexin Primary School and Yinqiao Primary School, as well as Shezhu Junior Middle School and Zhoucheng Middle School.
Shezhu town has existing medical care. The Fifth People's Hospital of liyang city, namely Shezhu Health Center (Grade III A), has been upgraded to Grade II Hospital, Zhoucheng Health Center (Grade III A), Yinqiao Orthopedic Hospital (Grade II B), Hexin Health Center, Hekou Health Center, Shezhu Nursing Home, Zhoucheng Nursing Home and many home-based institutions for the aged. Shezhu Town Xiangyi Village, Chengmawei Village and Huxi Village were successfully established as national ecological villages, Jiangsu ecological villages and Changzhou ecological villages respectively. It has become a successful model for Liyang to build a new socialist countryside.
Shezhu closely revolves around the construction of the work center of "famous ecological town, famous shrimp town and famous animal husbandry town", with the goal of increasing farmers' income, taking modern agricultural construction as the main line, taking ecological civilization as the starting point and reform and innovation as the driving force, and constantly promoting agricultural and rural work. The existing cultivated land area is 1 1.8 million mu, of which paddy field area is 1.8 million mu, and shrimp culture area is 45,000 mu. Liyang Shrimp has become a local characteristic industry and one of the pillar industries of rural economy in Shezhu Town. It is of great significance to cultivate and develop the shrimp industry and implement the brand-driven strategy to accelerate the pace of becoming rich and well-off in the vast rural areas of our city and promote the construction of a new socialist countryside. With high-efficiency and high-quality agricultural and sideline products such as tea, pollution-free sausage, instant-boiled mutton, salted goose, shrimp and seedless cucumber, the market is prosperous and merchants gather. There are more than 1000 industrial and commercial enterprises in the town, with perfect infrastructure and complete functions.
Modern agriculture in Shezhu is developing vigorously, and the comprehensive development of hilly areas is a problem. Shezhu has added 34,900 mu of efficient agriculture, including 6,543,800 mu of fishery, 8,600 mu of forest tea and fruit industry, 0,654,380 mu of animal husbandry, 0,790 mu of sightseeing agriculture and 0.2 million mu of greenhouse.
Shezhu Town has been successively designated as "Central Town of Jiangsu Province", "Health Town of Jiangsu Province", "New Small Town of Jiangsu Province", "Hometown of Jiangsu Province's Characteristic Culture" and "Experimental Zone of Jiangsu Province's Nuo Culture Ecological Protection" by the Jiangsu Provincial Government. 20 10 was named as "National Ecological Town" and 20 14 was listed as.