The Historical Evolution of Camel City

Camel Township, located 20km southwest of Gaotai County, is named after the ancient site of Camel City, with a total area of 276.4km2, elevation 1362- 1596m, soil thickness of 2-6m, frost-free period 149 days, annual average rainfall of 79mm, annual average temperature of 7.6℃ and sunshine of 36546.

"Camel City" is the birthplace of Beiliang State established in Qumengxun 0/600 years ago, with Jiankang County in Tang Dynasty as the main channel for ancient western exchanges and cultural exchanges, and it is an important hub of the Silk Road. With the historical changes, after several wars, the water source was abandoned after it was exhausted. In the early Ming Dynasty, it became a "Longmo area" and a natural pasture for camel herders to graze. Over time, it was called Camel City.

A thousand years of deep sleep, once awakened. In the early 1970s, under the leadership of Ding Hongyou, then Party Secretary of Jacky Commune, and members of the team, the cadres and the masses built "underground nests", plowed yellow sand and leveled fields, which started the development of Camel Beach. With the success of the first cone well test, more than 70 farmers in Jacky Commune moved to Camel City, becoming the earliest owners of Camel City Development Zone. Since then, farmers have moved and developed one after another, and their scale has been expanding day by day. Jacky Farm, Xuanhua Farm and Lane Farm have been built successively. 1983, the county organized some farmers from Xinba and Hongyazi to move to the former army farm, and merged Jacky, Xuanhua and Lane farms to form eight natural villages named by Xia Peisheng, then secretary of the county party committee, namely: Jianquanzi Village, Wu Tong Village, Xinlian Village, Hong Xin Village, tuanjie village Village, Jiankang Village, Yongsheng Village and Qianjin Village.

Camel Town and Country was formally established in July, 1984, and the office address of the township government is located in Wu Tong Village. At the beginning of the township, there were 672 households with 3 168 people and cultivated land1147 mu. Agricultural production is mainly based on animal husbandry, mainly planting wheat, corn, flax, soybeans and other crops. From 65438 to 0984, the total rural economic income of the township was 149438+0400 yuan, and the per capita net income was 225 yuan.

1993 the township government organs moved to the present site (Yongsheng village). In the same year, he took over the sainfoin base (Fruit Tree Village) and the sprinkler irrigation station (Xinmin Village). Since then, under the leadership of previous party committees and governments, the cadres and masses of the township have launched a great campaign of hard work and building their homes: building/kloc-0 substation, 2 power supply stations and 3 1 0 km rural power lines; 1997, the people of the whole town raised funds to build 7.5 kilometers of Tuanjie Road; 1998 to 2000, the west main canal and seven 52km branch canals were built successively, with a total lining of bucket canal120km and u-shaped canal170km. The agricultural production in the township has entered the benign development stage of "double insurance" for canal irrigation and well irrigation; Then, the rural power network reconstruction project was successfully completed, and TV microwave transmission and program-controlled telephone were opened; Cooperate to complete the construction of Wu Zhi Road, paving 47 kilometers of gravel roads in rural communities; Complete the transformation of 30,000 mu of medium and low yield fields. During this period, in 2000, it took over three villages: Xinjian, Camel City and Xitan. So far, there are 13 administrative villages in the township, with 276 1 household and 10947 people. Farmers come from 26 counties and cities in 5 provinces, 8 districts, and are composed of five ethnic groups: Han, Hui, Tu, Tibetan and Yugur. The actual cultivated land area is 58,000. By the 20th anniversary of the founding of the township in 2004, the total rural economic income of the township reached 61328,800 yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers reached 3,300 yuan.