History of Zhouzhuang Town

Zhouzhuang Town, Jiangyin City is a regional town with unique location and transportation advantages. The town covers a total area of 78.9 square kilometers, governs 15 villages and 1 sub-district offices, with a total population of 200,000, including 654.38+10,000 new citizens. It is a national health town and a beautiful town in the country. It is a big economic town with a number of large enterprise groups such as Sanfangxiang Group, Hua Hong Group, Jiangdong Group and Nijiaxiang Group. In 20 12, the town's industrial and commercial billing exceeded 1000 billion yuan, its self-operated export volume was15.57 million US dollars, its regional GDP was 241360,000 yuan, and its full-caliber fiscal revenue was16.74 million yuan. China has 6 well-known trademarks, 4 listed companies and 3 national postdoctoral research centers. It is a demonstration town of industrial cluster economy in China, a famous chemical fiber town in China, a famous cotton textile town in China, a demonstration zone of high-quality chemical fiber products production in Jiangsu Province, a demonstration base of new fiber industry in Jiangsu Province, a professional town of special materials innovation in Jiangsu Province and the first batch of innovative towns in Jiangsu Province.

Zhouzhuang Town, known as "a country with three golden belts, a meeting of hundreds of ships and cars", has a long history, and Zhong Ling is beautiful and has a long history. Our ancestors settled here more than 6000 years ago. They fished, hunted, bred and thrived, creating a splendid ancient civilization. 2450 years ago, Yan Yan, one of the 72 sages of Confucius, came to Zhouzhuang. Seeing that people here are fishing, hunting, farming and spinning in peace, they decided to settle here and give lectures, and introduced the Yellow River civilization to Zhouzhuang. Male ploughing and female weaving is a traditional production mode formed in Zhouzhuang since ancient times. In the Ming Dynasty, folk homespun was quite prosperous. In the Qing dynasty, it reached its peak, producing thousands of bumpkins every day and selling them to the north and south of the country and Southeast Asia. It has become a famous textile town and has the reputation of "Jiangnan Cloth Wharf".