Shimen is an ancient town in northern Zhejiang. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu and Yue fought, and "Shimen was built as the limit of Wu and Yue" (Volume 1 of "Shimen County Chronicles" by Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), so it was named Shimen. Shimen Post was established in the Tang Dynasty. During the Southern Song Dynasty, a palace was set up in Shimenyi as a palace for the emperor to come and go. There are also wine services and taxation. In the Yuan Dynasty, an inspection department was set up and a taxation bureau was established, which made it an important military location and transportation center on the canal.
After Tongxiang was established as a county in the fifth year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty (1430), the town was bounded by Si Nong. The east was called Shiwan, which belonged to Tongxiang County, and the west was called Shimen, which was under Chongde County.
During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty (1662-1722), Chongde County was renamed Shimen County, and Shimen Town was renamed Yuxi Town.
In the 3rd year of the Republic of China (1914), Shimen County was renamed Chongde County, and Yuxi Town was renamed Shimen Town. During the Republic of China, Shiwan and Shimen were still under the jurisdiction of Tongxiang and Chongde counties. In May 1950, Shimen and Shiwan were combined into one town, called Shimen Town, and belonged to Chongde County.
In October 1958, it was affiliated to Shimen Commune.
In June 1959, it became a town directly under Tongxiang County (Tongxiang and Chongde counties were merged in November 1958).
In February 1987, Shimen Township was merged into Shimen Town and a town-managed village system was implemented.
In October 1998, Anxing Township was abolished and merged into Shimen Town.
There is an ancient village in Shimen called Osmanthus Village. Legend has it that Qianlong's dragon boat once docked here. When Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River, it happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the sweet-scented osmanthus was blooming. As soon as the dragon boat passed Shimen Bay, a delicate fragrance hit his face. The farther south the boat sailed, the stronger the fragrance. Qianlong hurriedly stopped the boat and docked to follow the fragrance. He drank osmanthus wine under the osmanthus tree and refused to go back for a long time. Later, he ordered people to build a camp at Shimen. He would always visit Osmanthus Village every time he visited the south.
Economy
Shimen Town is market-oriented, with "one excellent, two high" agriculture as its goal, with efficient agriculture as its core, and actively promotes "famous, special and high-quality" agricultural products , a number of emerging planting and breeding industries have developed rapidly, and gradually formed the pig farming in Lujiazhuang Village, the osmanthus in Tianxing Village, the grapes in Shimen and Minlian Villages, the saplings in Minlian Village, and the "Wuyang" in Yudun Village. ", a batch of high-yield, high-quality, and efficient agricultural product bases such as four-star chrysanthemums, "one village, one product" have become a prominent feature of Shimen Town's agriculture. Leading agricultural enterprises came into being. Tongxiang Xinxing Hangzhou Baiju Products Co., Ltd. was named a municipal leading agricultural enterprise by the Municipal People's Government and has become the largest domestic processing and export enterprise of Hangzhou Baiju. So far, the town has established 11 agricultural product bases including grain, sericulture, white chrysanthemum, Hu sheep, grapes, pigs, saplings, vegetables, osmanthus, kiwi fruit, and aquatic products.
Shimen Town is the central town in the northwest of Tongxiang City and a distribution center for agricultural and sideline products. It radiates to adjacent towns and Huzhou suburbs. The market trade is very active, and there are Hu sheep, timber and so on. , small commodities, vegetables and non-staple food and other professional markets. Taking the canal shipping reconstruction project as an opportunity, urban construction has entered a stage of accelerated construction and development. Shimen Bridge, Xinnan Gaoqiao, and Xindong Gaoqiao were built one after another. An urban construction center with Zhongxing Road as the axis and focusing on the development and construction of the comprehensive area in the south section of Zhongxing Road, the commercial and tourist area in the middle section of Zhongxing Road, and the economic zone in the north section of Zhongxing Road The pattern is in full swing. The overall urban layout of the first axis (Zhongxing Road as the main axis), the second area (two residential areas on the north and south sides of the canal) and the three areas (the three major industrial storage areas in the northeast, southeast and west of the town) has initially taken shape.
Shimen Town produces more than 700 tons of chrysanthemum annually. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Hangbaiju from Shimen Town had been sold directly to Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia. Nowadays, attention is gradually being paid to the deep processing of white chrysanthemum. Xinxing white chrysanthemum products Co., Ltd. and Shimen Food and Beverage Factory process more than 2,500 tons of white chrysanthemum annually, further increasing their share of the export market.
There are 993 enterprises. Among them, there are 108 enterprises above designated size, an increase of 15 over the previous year, with an output value of 3.31 billion yuan, an increase of 22.48% over the previous year; the output value of enterprises above a designated size accounts for 51% of the total output value of the town, and there are 7 enterprises with a value of 100 million yuan, an increase of 3 over the previous year.
Two new high-tech enterprises at or above the provincial level were established (Tongxiang Leishi Micro Powder Co., Ltd. and Tongxiang Yifeng Machinery Factory). In 2008, the total industrial output value was 6.517 billion yuan, an increase of 22.46% over the previous year, and the industrial added value was 753 million yuan. yuan, an increase of 3.993 yuan; the industrial profit was 318 million yuan, an increase of 4.659 yuan; the foreign trade export delivery value was 357 million yuan, an increase of 4.79 yuan; the investment in technical transformation was 406 million yuan, an increase of 40.5; the comprehensive score of the seven efficiency indicators was 128.06 points, an increase from the previous year 12.12 points, a record high.
The enterprise has outstanding brand creation work, with 1 national famous trademark (Tongxiang Shengdanli Shoes Co., Ltd.) and 2 provincial famous trademarks (Jiaxing Bani Shoes Co., Ltd., Tongxiang Xin and Health Products Co., Ltd.), 9 famous trademarks of Jiaxing City ("Baixifu" of Tongxiang Baixifu Shoes Co., Ltd., "Xinghui" of Tongxiang Xinghui Silk Textile Co., Ltd., Tongxiang Shenhong Lighting Co., Ltd. The company's "Anxing", etc.), 15 famous trademarks of Tongxiang City ("Qiangge" of Tongxiang Fengyi Food Co., Ltd., etc.) accelerate the development and construction of ecological leisure tourism and promote the development of catering and commerce industries. Intensify efforts to renovate Guihua Village, receiving more than 30,000 tourists throughout the year. 9.16 million yuan of domestic investment from outside the city was introduced, the total investment in the service industry was 127 million yuan, and the added value was 376 million yuan. There were 3,802 self-employed households, 78 more than the previous year. The town has built one "chain supermarket" and 19 "Wancun Fangxin Stores", covering 100 people. Start the construction of the leisure and sightseeing agricultural industry belt, and build the Hangzhou Baiju Chrysanthemum Plantation Production Base and the Hangzhou Baiju Museum. The warehousing and logistics project of Zhejiang Aoying Metal Materials Co., Ltd. has officially started.