Shaxi Town is located in the west of Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, covering an area of ??55 square kilometers and governing 15 village committees and 1 residents committee. The registered population is 61,000, the non-registered population is more than 80,000, and there are more than 80,000 folks living overseas and in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese and a "hometown of culture" in the Pearl River Delta. It is also a national comprehensive economic development demonstration town, a central town in Guangdong Province and a pilot professional town for science and technology innovation in Guangdong Province. In recent years, it has won the titles of "China's Famous Leisure Clothing Town", "National Sanitary Town", "National Town with Beautiful Environment", "National Home of Folk Art", "National Advanced Unit of Mass Sports", "Guangdong Province Civilized Town", " It has won many awards including "Guangdong Province's Strong Educational Town", "Zhongshan City's Strong Industrial Town" and "Zhongshan City's Civilized Town".
In 2006, the town's total social output value was 15.516 billion yuan; the regional GDP was 3.665 billion yuan, and the per capita GDP was 58,900 yuan; the total industrial and agricultural output value (current price) was 11.9 billion yuan; exports The total product value is US$244 million. The per capita annual income in rural areas is 9,050 yuan. The proportions of the three major industries are 3.5:60.5:36 4:61:35.
Shaxi Town’s industrial products are famous for their “casual clothing” and “Shaxi herbal tea”. Since the reform and opening up, Shaxi has established an industrial system with textile and clothing as the pillar and the simultaneous development of electronics, chemicals, furniture, home appliances, pharmaceuticals, food, beverages and other industries. There are 155 industrial enterprises above designated size in the town, 29 enterprises exceeding 100 million yuan, and the industrial output value above designated size is 10.2 billion yuan, accounting for 88% of all industries.
Shaxi is an important casual clothing production base in China. In the clothing industry, it has the reputation of "looking at Shaxi in casual clothing". In 2006, there were 1,300 garment enterprises, employing 41,500 people, with an output of 23.78 million dozen, production and sales of more than 7 billion yuan, and foreign exchange earnings of US$180 million. Shaxi Town has many national-level clothing designers and more than 70 private clothing brands. Among them, the town has 3 national inspection-free products, 8 Guangdong Province famous brand products, and 6 Guangdong Province famous trademarks. At the same time, it also provides processing and production services for a number of well-known casual clothing brands at home and abroad. Shaxi has more than 5,300 franchise stores and specialty stores in China, accounting for about 7% of the domestic market share. Shaxi's casual clothing production has formed an industrial cluster effect, with more than 6,000 acres of clothing industrial zone; more than 200 clothing-related supporting enterprises such as textiles, bleaching and dyeing, printing, washing, woven labels, buttons, and mechanical accessories; Professional markets such as the production and sales of supporting cloth fabrics market, garment machinery market, accessories market, cloth scrap market, etc.
Shaxi is the venue for the "China Casual Clothing Expo". Since 2000, the annual "China Casual Clothing Fair" (CHCW) has been successfully held for seven sessions. CHCW is the only expo in China with the theme of casual clothing. Its modern exhibition concept, professional operation mode, distinctive business functions and rich activity content have won the recognition of exhibitors and professional buyers, and has been rated as the "China Clothing Industry". One of the top ten most influential clothing fairs.
Shaxi’s agriculture is characterized by suburban agriculture. The town’s agricultural land area is 37,000 acres, making it an important “vegetable basket” base in Zhongshan City. A structure is formed with "rice as the basis, vegetables as the leader, and aquatic products, animal husbandry, and fruits developing simultaneously." Aquatic macaroni and watercress are agricultural products with traditional characteristics and advantages in Shaxi Town, with an annual output of 10,000 tons.
The tertiary industry is an important part of Shaxi’s economy. There are more than 6,900 industrial and commercial enterprises in the town. In 2006, the added value of the tertiary industry was 1.3 billion yuan. Shaxi Town has professional markets such as Yunhan Cloth Market, Longrui Small Commodity Market, and Longdu Furniture City; it also has the Xingbao International Exhibition Center with an area of ??15,000 square meters, as well as commercial features such as Ligang Commercial Pedestrian Street and Xingbao Fashion Avenue. street. There is one three-star hotel and three large and well-known restaurants. There are a number of large department stores and chain stores settled here.
Shaxi Town is a gathering of humanities and is known as the "Hometown of Culture". There are already historical traces to be found 800 years ago. Cultural relics and historic sites include: Longrui's "Tanhuajidi" archway, "Wenchang Tower", Huxun's "Rock Stele", Holy Lion's "Welcome to Old Age Together" archway, "Shengping Renrui" archway, Haotu "Longshan Academy", etc.
Folk art has formed three major series of art varieties: crane dance, crane song, dragon dance, phoenix dance, and lion dance. It has participated in performances at large-scale provincial and municipal events, and the "Crane Dance" has been performed in South Korea. Shaxi has established eight major associations including literature, art calligraphy, music and dance, folk art, poetry society, photography, philately, and folk art.
In the future, Shaxi will aim to build an "innovative Shaxi, a harmonious Shaxi, and a charming Shaxi", conscientiously implement the scientific concept of development, and strive to build a strong casual clothing town and a modern central town in China to achieve Economic and social coordinated development, social harmony and progress.