Mashan Township in Hengxian County is located in the east of Hengxian County and is the east gate of Hengxian County. It borders Gangnan District of Guigang City, Pubei County of Qinzhou City, and Lingshan County. It is 33 kilometers away from the county seat. Hengpu Secondary Road runs through the territory, and there is a county road connected to Gangnan District. It has a total area of ??142 square kilometers, mainly mountains and hills, and governs 17 village committees with a total population of 64,000, mainly Han, Zhuang and other ethnic groups. Mashan Township is a hilly area. Around 2000, *** owned 105,000 acres of forest land and 24,000 acres of cultivated land, including 17,000 acres of paddy fields, less than 0.3 acres of paddy fields per capita. There are more people and less land. Most of the young and middle-aged laborers go out to work all year round. There are 20,000 migrant workers.
Agriculture is mainly based on planting rice, cassava, corn, mulberry cocoons and yams. The handicraft industry is dominated by bamboo weaving industry. There are 9 bamboo weaving enterprises in the township, with a total annual output value of about 35 million yuan. The township is rich in mineral resources, including iron, uranium, gold, etc. Among them, the iron ore reserve reaches more than 300 million tons, ranking at the forefront of Guangxi. Education has achieved great results again. In the 2012 township high school entrance examination, 87 candidates were admitted to Hengxian Middle School, 10 of whom entered the experimental class; mass cultural activities flourished, and rural rural operas represented by Xizhu and Longmian Shigong Opera emerged. Amateur cultural performance group. There are two markets in the township, Mashan and Shuangqiao. The prospects for urbanization are promising. The Mashan Development Zone has completed the "three connections and one leveling". The new market town has begun to take shape. The socio-economic development of the township is stable, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. In 2012, the fixed asset investment in the township was 271.27 million yuan; the total fiscal and tax revenue was 9.608 million yuan; the total agricultural output value was 216.11 million yuan; the total industrial output value was 1.19 billion yuan; and the per capita net income of farmers was 4,761 yuan.