Belongs to: Songyang County, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province
Songyang is located in the mountainous area of ??southwestern Zhejiang, on the upper reaches of the Oujiang River, and belongs to Lishui City. The county covers an area of ??1,406 square kilometers, has a total population of 240,600, and governs 3 streets, 5 towns, 11 townships, and 401 administrative villages. The county has "eight mountains, one water and one farmland". The Songgu Plain in the center of the county is the largest intermountain basin in southwest Zhejiang. The main river Songyin River runs through the entire territory from northwest to southeast and merges into the Oujiang River. The characteristics of the county can be summarized in five sentences:
Songyang is a famous historical and cultural city. Songyang County is a famous historical and cultural city in Zhejiang Province. It was founded in the fourth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 199). It has a history of more than 1,800 years and is the earliest established county in Lishui City. Songyang used to be the economic, political and cultural center of Chuzhou in history. Its agricultural economy led the ten counties in Chuzhou. It has a profound agricultural culture. It is the most complete system of historical and cultural cities, towns and villages in East China and the best inheritance of local culture. one of the regions. There is one national historical and cultural town (Xiping) in the county, and 50 villages have entered the "Traditional Chinese Villages" protection list. It is one of the national demonstration counties for the protection and development of traditional villages. In the county, there are a large number of historical buildings such as the Yanqing Temple Tower and Puji Bridge, which are national key cultural relics protection units, the Huang Family Courtyard, Jinshi Archway, the Three Temples (Confucian Temple, Wu Temple, and City God Temple), the gate tower of Liu's ancestral home, and Shicang vernacular buildings, which are provincial cultural protection units. Cultural relics remain. Songyang has flourished in humanities since ancient times, with outstanding figures emerging in large numbers, including Ye Fashan, the Duke of Yue in the Tang Dynasty, a Taoist heavenly master, and the originator of health preservation, Zhang Yuniang, one of the "four great female poets of the Song Dynasty", Ye Mengde, the left prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang Jing, the chief editor of "Yongle Dadian" in the Ming Dynasty, and other outstanding figures. , which preserves many intangible cultural heritages including Songyang Gaoqiang, one of the first national intangible cultural heritages, known as the "living fossil of opera". Songyang is also an old revolutionary base county. In 1935, Liu Ying and Su Yu led the workers' and peasants' Red Army advance division to establish the revolutionary base area in southern Zhejiang with Andaihou as the center. It was one of the only eight remaining areas during the first civil revolutionary war. One of the base areas, Andaihou Village is known as "Jinggang Mountain in Southwest Zhejiang".
Songyang is a Taoyuan resort in southern Zhejiang. Songyang is a component of the National Ecological Demonstration Zone and the National Ecological Civilization Pilot Demonstration Zone. It has been known as the "Peach Blossom Land" since ancient times. Wang Wei, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a moving poem "Going down to Songyang according to the festival, the clear river is ringing with cymbals". Shen Hui, the champion of the Song Dynasty, even expressed his sincere admiration when he first arrived in Songyang, "There is only this peach blossom garden, there is no other danger in the four obstacles", and From then on he settled in Songyang. The county's forest coverage rate reaches 75.5, the number of days with good air quality exceeds 310, and the water quality standard rate is 100. It is an ecological county, a garden city in Zhejiang Province, and a forest city in Zhejiang Province. The county has beautiful mountains and rivers, beautiful countryside, thousands of hectares of fertile farmland, and abundant products, forming a beautiful scenery of "hundreds of miles of countryside and hundreds of miles of tea, with mountains and rivers all the way." The unique natural ecological environment has also made Songyang the "granary of Chuzhou", attracting countless Central Plains aristocratic families and Fujian and Guangdong ethnic groups to move and settle, making Songyang a county with 11 surnames including Lai, Huang, Qu, Lao, Feng and Jiang. Wangzhi is the main birthplace of the descendants of the Ye surname and Bao Zheng in Jiangnan. Shicang is also the largest Hakka community in Zhejiang Province.
Songyang is the hometown of ecological green tea. Songyang is “Zhejiang’s first ecological green tea county” and “China’s green tea distribution center”. Songyang has been rich in tea since ancient times, and it became a tribute in the Tang Dynasty. In 1929, it won the first prize at the West Lake Expo. In recent years, through the implementation of the tea industry chain development project, Songyang has become one of the top ten counties in the country in the tea industry. The county has 117,300 acres of tea gardens, forming a good pattern in which "40% of the county's population is engaged in the tea industry, 50% of farmers' income comes from the tea industry, and 60% of the agricultural output value comes from the tea industry". It is the hometown of famous tea in China and a national tea industry development demonstration county. , the hometown of Chinese tea culture. "Songyang Silver Monkey" is one of the top ten famous teas in Zhejiang Province and a famous Chinese cultural tea. It is a nationally well-known trademark and a regional famous brand in Zhejiang. It has become one of the top 100 regional public brands of agricultural products in the country and the most competitive brand in the market. The tea market in southern Zhejiang is the "No. 1 green tea market in China", a national green tea price index release market and one of the top 100 commodity trading markets in the country. The tea industry has become a model whole industry chain in Zhejiang Province.
Songyang is a cultural and health resort. Songyang is "China's best health, leisure and tourism county".
In accordance with the goal of building a "Yangtze River Delta pastoral leisure tourist resort", we have built the Ruoliao Primeval Forest 4A tourist attraction, Songyin Stream National Water Conservancy Scenic Area, Maoshan National Forest Park and other high-end tourist attractions based on the pastoral provincial tourist resort. Grade tourist attractions. Songyang is also an artistic creation resort with the theme of photography and sketching, attracting hundreds of thousands of artists, photographers and students every year for artistic creation and social practice. Siduzhaitou Photography and Leisure Park is the first photography-themed leisure park in China. Rural 798 Cultural and Creative Park has established cooperative relations with 200 universities across the country. The county has built 8 photography and sketching routes and a number of painter villages and photography villages.
Songyang is a happy and beautiful home. Songyang comprehensively promotes the construction of "Pastoral Songyang", actively implements the development strategy of "establishing an ecological county, strengthening the county with industries, becoming a famous cultural county, and opening up the county", actively promotes the development of pastoral economy, cultivates pastoral cities, builds pastoral villages, and protects pastoral ecology. , manage pastoral scenery, promote pastoral culture, and accelerate the construction of pastoral Songyang with affluent life, beautiful homes, and humanistic harmony. Songyang has become a basically balanced county in the development of national compulsory education, an advanced county in the construction of the national rule of law, a demonstration county in the construction of the provincial rule of law, a provincial civilized county, a provincial health county, a provincial strong county in education, a provincial intellectual property demonstration county, and a provincial dual support model city. It has become a provincial-level safe county for ten consecutive years, and the people's happiness in life has steadily improved.
In April 2021, Songyang County ranked 24th on the 2021 Top 100 Most Beautiful Rural Counties and Cities in China list.
In April 2021, the 2021 comprehensive indicator rankings of 53 counties and cities in Zhejiang were released, and Songyang County ranked 49th.
In January 2021, Songyang County was listed among the "Top 100 Demonstration Counties and Cities in China's Social Governance in 2020", ranking 57th.
In January 2021, Songyang County was ranked 26th on the list of China's Top 100 Demonstration Counties and Cities for Business Environment in 2020.
In December 2020, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the second batch of national all-region tourism demonstration zones, and Songyang County was on the list.
In November 2020, the ranking of the top 100 counties in China's tea industry in 2020 was released, with Songyang County ranked 16th.
In July 2020, the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee reaffirmed Songyang County as a national health town (county) in 2020.
In July 2020, the Ministry of Commerce announced the list of comprehensive demonstration counties for e-commerce in rural areas in 2020, and Songyang County was selected.
In March 2015, Songyang County won the honor of the third batch of advanced units in the national rule of law county and city creation activities.