Tangqi, located at the southern end of Hangjiahu Plain, is a famous water town in the south of the Yangtze River. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the 09 Provincial Highway run through the town, with superior geographical location and convenient land and water transportation. The town governs 46 administrative villages, 1 1 residential areas, with a total area of 79 square kilometers and a total population of more than 90,000. Rich in products, outstanding people, known as "the land of flowers and fruits, the land of plenty, the house of silk." Tangqi's modern industry started earlier in Zhejiang Province. In the 22nd year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1896), Pang Yuanji, a wealthy businessman from Nanxun, and Ding Bing, a businessman from Hangzhou, founded the "Dalun Silk Factory" near Dongrihui Bridge in Tangqi Town, which was one of the first three machine silk reeling factories in Zhejiang, and initiated the national capital industry. Later, Xianglun (1925), Yuchong (1926), Hua Lun (1929) and other silk factories were successively established in the town, making this water town an important town of silk industry in the province.
During the period of 1929, the Zhejiang provincial government held the West Lake Expo, and the silk products of three silk factories in Tangqi were invited to participate, winning the special prize and the first prize one after another, which made them famous for a while and their products were exported overseas.
1935, according to the survey conducted by the Construction Department of Zhejiang Provincial Government at that time, there were 29 mechanical silk reeling factories and 7,598 mechanical silk reeling vehicles in the whole province, and Tangqi Town accounted for 13.8% and 19.8% of the whole province respectively, making it a famous mechanical silk reeling factory in the whole province. However, in Tangqi Town, except reeling, other industries developed slowly. Some oil factories, rice factories and wineries that appeared in the early years of the Republic of China were only manual workshops at best, and there was almost no mechanization.
By the liberation of Tangqi in 1949, there were only two dying silk mills, a power plant, two oil mills, three rice mills, four printing houses and four sauce mills left in the town. Except for the silk factory, the others are pitifully small. After the founding of New China, the Party and the government vigorously supported private industries, and adopted various measures such as loans, investments, and entrusted processing, so that those enterprises that stopped working quickly resumed work and gradually moved towards normal. Attracted by the party's preferential policies, some private owners have invested in setting up industries, which has enabled the town's industrial production to resume.
By 1960, there are ten state-owned and public-private joint-venture factories in the town, with 1389 employees and an annual output value of15.77 million yuan; There are 0/6 factories and 0/789 employees in the town, with an annual output value of 3,622,500 yuan.
From 65438 to 0978, with the shift of the focus of the Party's work, industrial production showed a momentum of rapid development, and rural industries also gained good opportunities for development. For a time, industrial enterprises and industrial population in the town rose rapidly, and industrial categories gradually improved.
In 2006, the total industrial output value of the town reached 65.438+02.632 billion yuan, an increase of 292.79% compared with 2006.5438+0, with an average annual increase of 365.438+0.47%. The industrial profit was 357 million yuan, reaching 82. 1 billion yuan in five years. In 2005, Hangzhou ranked fourth in the comprehensive evaluation of industrial economic indicators, 8 places higher than in 2004. Adhere to supporting the excellent and the strong, and give play to the leading role of key enterprises. In 2006, the number of large-scale enterprises reached 160, a net increase of 65 compared with 5,438+0 in 2006, of which 10/8 were enterprises with RMB 0.00 billion. Since 1992, Tangqi Town has been listed as a pilot town of 100 small towns by the state, and has successively won "Top 100 Towns with Economic Strength in Zhejiang Province" and "Top 10 Towns with Comprehensive Social and Economic Strength in Hangzhou". In 2000, the total industrial and agricultural output value of the town was more than 3 billion yuan, the total rural economic income was 2.9 billion yuan, and the per capita income of farmers was 5,338 yuan.
Tangqi is rich in rice, cocoon, fish and shrimp, lotus root, and many famous local products, such as loquat, green plum, bayberry and water chestnut. Among them, Tangqi loquat is famous at home and abroad for its thin skin, rich juice and fresh taste. China Tangqi Loquat Festival is held every year, attracting a large number of Chinese and foreign guests.
Tangqi is a strong industrial town in Yuhang, and its economic aggregate is among the best. At present, it has formed four leading industries such as metal products, candied food, pesticides and chemicals, knitting and clothing, and traditional industries such as silk, clothing and building materials. The completed industrial park is about 1300 mu, which is a supporting block for economic development in Yuhang District and enjoys preferential policies for economic development in Zhejiang Province. The characteristic candied garden is planned to be 1500 mu, and 500 mu will be developed in the first phase.
Tangqi is the central town of Yuhang District. In 2009, Tongji University in Shanghai was invited to revise and compile the master plan of urban construction. With a high starting point and forward-looking design concept, the first phase of Guangji Street with an investment of nearly 654.38 billion yuan will be completed soon, and the living environment will become more beautiful, with the goal of lighting, beautifying and purifying, and the taste of the town will be improved. Strive to promote the process of reform, opening up and modernization, and create a bright future for Tangqi.