China Stone Carving City, facing south, consists of stone carving market and stone carving boutique hall, covering an area of 1.8 million square meters. It consists of eight six-story brick-concrete buildings and a wing enclosed on the east and west sides, with a construction area of about 200,000 square meters. The ground floor of each building serves as a stone carving trading shop and workshop with 10 1 room.
The fine stone carving building covers an area of about 1 1,000 square meters. It is a 7-story brick-concrete structure building with a building area of more than 4,000 square meters, which is simple and European.
The first floor of the boutique hall is a stone carving shop, the second floor is a stone carving exhibition room, and the third, fourth and fifth rooms are the personal collections and residences of stone carving arts and crafts masters. China Stone Carving City was built by Wang Zehou, a famous Italian overseas Chinese leader of Qingtian Brigade, with a total investment of 26 million yuan. The exterior of China Stone Carving City is decorated with granite at the bottom, aluminum alloy doors and windows painted in milky white on the front, and paved with red glazed tiles. At the gate stands the boulder of "China Stone Carving City" inscribed by Mr. Ni Dongfang, a national master of arts and crafts. Inscriptions have played a symbolic role, combining local characteristics with modern characteristics.
Yamaguchi village is a famous overseas Chinese village, stone carving village and celebrity village. Located in the southeast of qingtian county, it is the seat of Shankou Town People's Government. The total area of the village is 7.6 hectares, and the per capita arable land is 0. 12 mu. The village has a registered population of 4,953, more than 5,000 foreign residents and 7,000 overseas entrepreneurs.
Today, the village has made clear the development idea of "strengthening party building, living in overseas Chinese hometown and enriching people with stone carving", and has realized the construction of perfect infrastructure, hardening roads, greening villages, lighting street lamps, cleanliness, river purification and "six modernizations". At the same time, the two village committees attach great importance to the development of education, culture and health, and have carried out colorful cultural life, such as legal publicity and education, family planning knowledge contest, fitness activities for thousands of people, and rehearsal of lanterns with hundreds of birds. , and provide venues for the elderly association, the establishment of village reading room.
Shankou Village is the "Stone Carving City of China". In order to strengthen the stone carving industry, the village held many stone carving culture festivals, which improved the skill level of stone carving practitioners, strengthened the stone carving industry, and made the stone carving in Yamaguchi go out of the mountains and go to all parts of the world.
Yamaguchi is the birthplace of Qingtian overseas Chinese, with more than 7,000 people distributed in more than 50 countries and regions in the world, and 80% of Yamaguchi residents are overseas Chinese. Overseas Chinese have special feelings for their motherland and hometown, never forgetting their roots and making positive contributions to the economic development of their hometown. We must also send the next generation back to China and actively cultivate feelings for the motherland. Shankou Village is rich in pyrophyllite ore, accounting for a quarter of the country's reserves, with low content of harmful impurities. The pyrophyllite mining area in Shankou is the only pilot mining area in Lishui City to draw up a master plan. In 2005, the total output value of village industry and agriculture reached 65.438+0.37 billion yuan, the total income of village collective economy was 65.438+0.72037 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 80.65438+0.3 yuan.
Shankou Village is rich in tourism resources and high in taste. There are Qiansiyan Scenic Area with perfect combination of human landscape and natural scenery, simple and elegant ancient houses in the south of the Yangtze River, stone carving city with stone carving as the main line, and Huaqi Street with profound cultural heritage. Due to the continuous beautification of scenic spots in Shankou Village, the integrated construction of Qiansiyan and Stone Carving City has been increased, attracting more tourists and promoting the development of tourism in Shankou Village.
The folk cultural performance art "Hundred Birds Lantern" in Shankou Village was founded in 1930s and is on the verge of extinction. Yamaguchi asked the teacher to organize the staff. After nearly a month of rehearsal, the hundred bird lanterns spread. Due to its outstanding achievements, Shankou Village has been awarded many honors such as "National Model Village of Democracy and Legal System", "All-round Well-off Provincial Model Village", "Zhejiang Strong Village" and "Municipal Model Village of Ecological Environment".