Society in Yongtai County

During the Qing Dynasty, the footprints of Yongtai's architectural craftsmen have been all over Fujian. The scale and technology of the Temple of Literature and Liankui Pagoda built by the craftsmen of the county during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty had already reached a considerable level. During the Republic of China in Fuzhou founded more than ten building construction plant, construction of Fuzhou Power Plant, South China Women's College of Arts and Sciences and other first-class construction projects at the time. However, the county's urban and rural construction has long been in a backward state.

After the founding of the country, with the development of the national economy and the improvement of transportation, urban and rural construction gradually improved. 1960, Yongtai County, the construction team is growing, construction technology has gradually improved, has built the county party committee and county government building, Zhangcheng Hotel, the South Gate department store building, theater, Zhangcheng cinema and county stadium and Tashan Park. The urban and rural streets are constantly expanding and the public **** facilities are constantly improving. From 1953 to 1987, the capital construction investment of the county's entire population and collective units amounted to 88.41 million yuan. Due to the development of water and electricity, not only to speed up the speed of industrial and mining construction, lighting and other living electricity has also been a better solution. By the end of 1987, there are 243 villages in the county installed with electric lights.29 Since the 1970s, the county has built a water company, many villages also use running water.

Since the 1980s, it began to tackle environmental pollution due to the development of industry and transportation. Industrial wastewater, exhaust, waste and other pollution was initially controlled. 1982 county real estate development company was established, the pace of construction of residential commercial housing is very fast. From 1982 to 1987 the state for the construction of residential investment amounted to 6,133,700 yuan, residential construction area of 74,599 square meters. The development of urban and rural construction, so that the people's lives, the social environment has a new look.

In 2008, Yongtai County improved the 41 "Double Hundred Project" demonstration villages and remediation of the village new rural construction planning. "Double Hundred Project" pilot village **** 863 new housing, completed the relocation of 139 households 620 people. Completion of 20 administrative villages through the water task, was listed as the fifth batch of primary water conservancy in Fujian Province. Rural road construction has made a historic breakthrough, 254 administrative villages in the county to realize the "village through" cement road, with a total mileage of 739.5 kilometers, a total investment of 265 million yuan. Rural household biogas digester construction annual task 450 all completed; "home cleaning" action 15 townships 155 villages through the acceptance, songkou town was listed as the province's demonstration town. 132 administrative villages village construction fully completed. The construction of 132 administrative village departments was fully completed. 17 new administrative village cement basketball courts and 15 sports and fitness paths were built. New farmers held 495 scientific and technological training, to carry out the rural labor force transfer "Project Sunshine" training 1006 people. Yongtai County has a long cultural history. Song Zhang Yuan Gan's words, Qing Huang Ren's poems, Ke Qi's paintings, all famous for a while. Folk arts and culture have a long history, and folk songs have been sung for a long time. "Poetry societies and poetry meetings have been held for more than a hundred years. In the late Qing Dynasty, there were influential opera groups such as "Shinsukele" and "Qingyunxian". Most of these activities were spontaneous, and the government did not set up a specialized agency to guide and manage them.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the county set up a cultural bureau, cultural centers, mass cultural activities have leadership and management, counseling of the specialized agencies, mass culture, folk arts and culture, art and culture, theatrical performances, books and archives, film and television broadcasting, etc., have had a significant development. 1966, the beginning of the 10-year "Cultural Revolution "

The Cultural Revolution, which began in 1966, dealt a devastating blow to the cultural cause. Traditional culture was regarded as "feudalism, capitalism and cultivation" and was banned, and people in the cultural sector were regarded as "cow ghosts, snakes and gods", and most of them were subjected to varying degrees of impact and destruction.

After 1979, the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the ****, for the cultural cause of the prosperity again opened up a broad road to 1987, the county established 21 township-level cultural stations, 149 village-level cultural room, the mass of cultural activities not only has a place, but also has a management organization; the county held six (14 times before 1978) large-scale cultural and artistic performances and performances. The annual performances of the county Min Opera Troupe were over 200, with the highest number of performances reaching 333. The county set up a literary and artistic creation steering committee, repertoire room, amateur creative group, and actively carry out literary and artistic creation, but also published "Yongtai Literary Arts" (quarterly). The movie projection team developed from 1 team in 1955 to 22 teams in 1987; the number of screenings developed from 292 in 1963 with an audience of more than 130,000 to 6,144 in 1987 with an audience of 3.64 million. The archives all organized the Republic of China records and completed the appraisal of the records of all county organs. The broadcasting rate of rural radio reached 90%; there were 22 large and small TV differential stations, and the area of TV recapitulation reached 65%; there were more than 10,000 TV sets in both urban and rural areas. The flourishing development of cultural undertakings has enriched the spiritual life of the people and created a number of cultural talents, who have been absorbed as members of various associations: 1 member of China Artists Association; 2 members of China Folk Literature Association Fujian Branch; 5 members of China Drama Association Fujian Branch; 1 member of China Opera Association Fujian Branch; 1 member of China Dance Association Fujian Branch; 2 members of China Photographers Association Fujian Branch; 2 members of China Dance Association Fujian Branch; 2 members of China Photography Association Fujian Branch; 2 members of China Photography Association Fujian Branch; 2 members of China Photography Association Fujian Branch; 2 members of China Photography Association Fujian Branch; 2 members of China Photography Association Fujian Branch.

In 2008, the rafter board dragon, paper lion, Tiger Zun boxing, Anhai boxing successfully declared as Fuzhou City Intangible Cultural Heritage. Songkou town was named provincial historical and cultural town. Yongtai County in the long historical period before the establishment of the Chinese People's **** and the country, the slow development of education. Five Dynasties followed the Wang Shenzhi into the Fujian Zhang, Huang two family name, its children and grandchildren to avoid the chaos dividing Yongtai, with a family school, family school, to a certain extent to promote the county's educational endeavors. But in the feudal period can enter the official school of the county year but a hundred people up and down. Republic of China period of modern education has some development. Anti-Japanese War period, Fuzhou, Changle and other places there are 7 middle schools relocated Yongtai, from early childhood education to secondary education flourished for a while, training a number of talents with certain achievements. Republic of 37 years (1948) the county has 110 elementary school (including private elementary school), 6359 students, accounting for only 39.3% of school-age children; 2 middle schools, only 253 students. By the eve of the founding of the country, the county illiteracy accounted for 80%.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the number of schools and the number of students of all kinds of great development, but from the anti-rightist in 1957 to the "Cultural Revolution" after 1966, the education business was interfered with and destroyed.

After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the People's Republic of China, Yongtai's educational endeavors were gradually put on the right track. By 1987, the county had 301 kindergartens (classes), in the park children amounted to 7034; 485 elementary school, 43632 students, accounting for 96.12% of school-age children; 13 general secondary schools, 15461 students. As the reform of the education system continues, the quality of education is gradually improving. From 1977 to 1987, the county **** delivered 1,495 high school graduates into various types of colleges and universities for further study; 1,260 junior and senior high school graduates into secondary specialized schools. But since 1985, the social distribution of the "brain and body upside down" phenomenon, affecting the stability of the teaching force, resulting in the spread of the phenomenon of abortion, coupled with the lack of education funding, teacher shortages and other issues have not been resolved in a timely manner, which are adversely affecting the cause of education in Yongtai.

In 2008, Yongtai County, the steady progress of educational infrastructure construction. 16 rural primary and secondary school building renovation projects partially completed, 15 rural elementary school boarding school construction is completed. It was awarded "the first batch of Fujian Province Reading Assistance Demonstration County". With excellent results through the provincial and municipal education supervision and acceptance of the county. Before the Republic of China, Yongtai cities and towns were mostly individual medical practitioners, most of them were traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. Republic of China in 3 years (1914) the Christian Church in the city opened a hospital in Hengtong, lasted 3 years on the closure. To the Republic of 27 years (1938) in January the county government set up a simple county health center. Due to the lack of medicine, hospitals can not play an effective role in epidemic prevention and medical care, so a variety of infectious diseases and endemic diseases are still raging in urban and rural areas for a long time. As for maternal and child health care is even more backward, the county only county health center has a midwife, women are delivered by midwives, or even "self-package", maternal and neonatal mortality rate is alarmingly high.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the county people's government attached great importance to medical and health care. From a simple county health center in 1951, the development of the county hospital in 1981, the county hospital, the county hospital, the county health epidemic prevention station, the county maternity and child health care, the county health school and other five medical and health institutions and 21 townships (towns) health centers (or central health centers), 226 village health centers. The county formed a fairly complete county, township, village three-level medical and health care network. State-run medical units from scratch, established in 1956 county pharmaceutical company, the existing four medical stores, a pharmaceutical factory. 1987 county has 576 health technicians, an average of 1.8 people per dry people with health technicians, of which 0.7 doctors, nurses 0.5 people; 497 beds, an average of 1.58 beds per 1,000 people. medical technology is increasingly improved, eliminated the bubonic plague, smallpox, effectively controlling the occurrence of infectious diseases such as cholera, and reducing the incidence of chronic infectious diseases such as measles, dysentery, whooping cough, B-brain, and tuberculosis. The rate of new law delivery has reached 94.4%, the neonatal mortality rate fell to 27.3 per thousand, the annual birth rate fell to 12.74 per thousand, the natural population growth rate fell to 6.9 per thousand, the people's physical fitness has improved significantly.

In 2008, the construction of outpatient buildings in three township health centers, Changqing, Gaiyang and Linglu, was completed. Comprehensively launched free marriage examination services, since the resumption of marriage examination county-wide marriage examination rate of 85%. Before the Qing Dynasty, Yongtai's sports had folk traditional programs, such as martial arts, swimming, dragon boat rowing, lion dance and dragon dance. In addition, there are shuttlecock, rope skipping, knocking machine and other children's games sports, as for playing chess is ancient. After the Republic of China, the school began to set up physical education classes, sports activities gradually developed. 40's, due to the Japanese invasion, from Fuzhou and other places to move a lot of schools, some people in the sports world also avoided the chaos in Yongtai, Yongtai's sports activities have flourished for a while. Republic of 27 years (1938), held the first county-wide games, and then respectively in the Republic of 28 years, 30 years, 31 years held two, three, four county-wide games. After the victory in the war, the internal relocation of schools have moved back to the original place, foreigners also more than leave Yongtai, sports activities are relatively reduced.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many organizations and groups have part-time sports staff, and publicity, to promote sports activities and a flourishing trend. Especially radio gymnastics activities, in the institutions, schools, enterprises and institutions to carry out better. Table tennis has also become a popular project, basketball, volleyball and other activities in the county generally. 1951, held the first after the founding of the county Games, held annually thereafter, to 1958 **** held eight county Games. 1959 ~ 1961 "difficult times" county Games stopped, to the first of January 1967 and held the first county Games. In January 1967, the 9th county-wide games were held. Later, due to the "Cultural Revolution", it was stopped until 1978, when the 10th All-County Games was held. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Central ****, Yongtai's sports undertakings have been restored and developed, but the popularity of the level of competition with the level is still not high. Only the martial arts are famous, originated in Yongtai's "Tiger Zun" boxing has now spread to Japan and some countries in Western Europe.

In 2008, a team was organized to participate in the Sixth National "Hometown of Wushu" Wushu Competition, and won the first and second prizes for each of the two. Since the 8th century, Yongtai people in the production of labor practices, and gradually appeared some skilled craftsmen. For example, the bronze bells of Chongguang Temple in the county town and Nengren Temple on Xianguji River were cast in the Tang Dynasty. From Yuanfeng of Song Dynasty to Daoguang of Qing Dynasty, silver mine of Taiyuan Silver Field, zinc mine of Leshan and molybdenum mine of Putian were successively mined. The research results of Lijun, a medical doctor in the Qing Dynasty, were honored by the medical profession. Ming and Qing dynasties in this county on the plum fruit processing has been renowned, into the 20th century after the 1980s processing of chemical nuclear Jiayingzi is famous at home and abroad. However, due to the location of mountainous areas, transportation is inconvenient, long-term closed state, in general, the county's scientific and technological development is relatively slow.

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Yongtai gradually carried out groups of scientific and technological research and experimental work. In the early years of the founding of the country, focusing on the development of agricultural science and technology, has established the Beidou farm (seed farm), meteorological stations, seed stations, veterinary stations, hydrological stations, agricultural science and technology institutions. It also focused on water conservancy, agricultural technology guidance, soil improvement, introduction of good seeds, promotion of chemical fertilizers, chemical pesticides, and pest control. Industrial science and technology activities, in the late 1950s and into the 1960s gradually strengthened. 1959 March established the county science and technology committee, as the management of science and technology in the county as a functional government agencies. Afterwards, the county's science and technology team expanded year by year, with more and more specialties and higher technical levels. However, due to the influence of the "left" tendency, especially in the "Cultural Revolution" period, scientific and technological activities were seriously interfered with and destroyed, to restore the Science and Technology Commission in March 1975, after crushing Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary group, Yongtai science and technology work gradually On the right track, in 1978, the establishment of the County Science and Technology Association, since then the townships have also set up science and technology associations, while a variety of professional societies have also been established to promote the development of science and technology work in the county.

1974 to 1985, the county's more effective development projects are 50, of which: 12 industrial, agricultural 22, forestry 6, 4 resource census, mountainous areas, the comprehensive development of resources 6. 1986 began the implementation of the "Spark Plan" to 1987, two years *** development of science and technology projects 37, is the "Spark Plan". 37 projects, belonging to the "Spark Program" has 31, of which 2 national, 1 provincial, 4 municipal, 24 county-level.

In 2008, the organization and implementation of scientific and technological projects at the provincial level, 7 municipal, county-level 21. Yongtai three science and technology practice activities in the subject of "protection of the famous mountain room research" won the twenty-second National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition second prize.