Gaoshan Town is located at the southern end of Longgao Peninsula in Fuqing City, with convenient transportation. It covers an area of 40 square kilometers. Due to the dense beaches around the town and the long coastline, it is called Wandi Mountain, with an altitude of 7 1.8 meters, which is like standing out from the crowd, hence the name Gaoshan. The town covers an area of 40.5 square kilometers, with 24,300 mu of cultivated land and 26,200 mu of tidal flats, with a total coastline of 19 km. It has jurisdiction over 23 administrative villages, 1 residential community, with a total population of 64,000 and more than 30,000 overseas Chinese. Fuqing is one of the key hometown of overseas Chinese. It is 39 kilometers away from the county seat, across the sea from Pingtan Island, adjacent to Donghan Township in the east, Sanshan Town in the west and Shapu Town in the south. It was once the political, economic and cultural center of Gaoshan, Sanshan, Donghan, Shapu and other three townships 1 Town. It was once called "Mountain City" in history.
Alpine history
Gaoshan Town has a long history. In the second year of Tang Dynasty (AD 699), Fuqing County was directly under its jurisdiction, and it was called the fifty-nine capital. In the Ming Dynasty, it was renamed Xi 'ou, Nan 'ou and Bayi 'ou. The Qing Dynasty was called Gaoshan Town. 1922 was renamed as the seventh district, and 1943 was renamed as Gaoshan Town. 1949, renamed fourth area Military Academy; 1952 was renamed Gaoshan District, Gaoshan Primary Society and Gaoshan People's Commune respectively. 1983 Restore the name of Gaoshan Town.
Industrial commerce
The mountain is one of the cradles of Fuqing's industrial economy. The famous Fuyao Glass and Tianxiang Petroleum all took off from the mountain. In recent years, Gaoshan Town has further established the great openness consciousness of "you invest and I support, you make a fortune and I develop, you start a business and I find a job" and the great introduction concept of "Dare to be the first in the world and dare to recruit talents in the world". Truth calls for "return", earnestly pays attention to the work of attracting investment, and township enterprises are full of vitality. Town * * *, there are 275 enterprises of all kinds, 2 enterprises have an output value of over 100 million yuan, and 2 enterprises have passed ISO series certification. Nowadays, the industry in mountainous areas is developing in the direction of scale and centralization. After several years of project integration, the three major industries of hardware, aquatic products and light industrial products showed a trend of agglomeration development, and gradually formed three major industrial groups: hardware industry headed by Lin Rong Hardware, aquatic products processing industry headed by Elvis Presley, and light industrial products industry headed by Shengde Plastics and Meimei Knitting. At present, Fenggang industrial concentration area, which is being developed and constructed in Gaoshan, with a planned area of 90 hectares, will become another important platform for Gaoshan to promote industrial development. %n'Gx Ze
Alpine trade has always been relatively developed and has developed rapidly in recent years. The town has formed a "three vertical and two horizontal" commercial street and seven commercial communities with different functions. There are 65,438 wholesale and retail stores in the town, and more than 4,000 people are engaged in commodity distribution activities, initially forming a complete wholesale network of clothing, small commodities, aquatic products, fruits and vegetables, groceries and other categories. With the completion of major supermarkets, small commodity wholesale markets and shopping centers, the retail industry of commodities is gradually changing into a large-scale and intensive business model, and the consumption radiation area is constantly expanding to surrounding areas such as Sanshan, Shapu, Donghan and Pingtan, with more than 200,000 consumers. Under the scientific guidance of the government, the real estate industry is booming, the sales of commercial housing are quite hot, and the store price in the town center continues to rise, reaching a maximum of 35,000 yuan per square meter.
The mountain area is rich in cultural heritage, and the rural folk culture is quite active. Every year, there are nearly 3,000 performances of Fujian Opera, and the "Bench Dragon" with alpine local characteristics organizes performances in major traditional festivals in China, such as the Lantern Festival. In recent years, the construction of mass spiritual civilization has achieved fruitful results. In 2004 and 2006, it was awarded the honorary title of provincial civilized township twice. At present, more than 2,000 people in the town take part in gateball competitions, fitness balls, Taijijian, Qigong, morning exercises and other activities beneficial to physical and mental health. There are 2 civilized villages and civilized households 135 households.