Shuitou, Fujian


Shuitou is a town of Nan'an City, in southern Fujian province, China.
Shuitou is located on the western side of the Shijing River and its estuary, the Anhai Bay. It is connected to its eastern neighbor, the town of Anhai, by the famous ancient five-li-long Anping Bridge, built from large slabs of stone. There is also a modern road to Anhai, which has a much shorter bridge over the Shijing, as the estuary has largely silted up over a thousand of years since the old bridge was built.

Economy

Shuitou, similarly to its southern neighbor, Shijing, has a significant stone-working industry.
There is a fair amount of new economic development in town, some of it connected to the trade with Taiwan.
Aquaculture is practiced on the Anhai Bay. As of ca. 2001, 138.5 hectares of the bay's mudflats and water surface were used for aquaculture; this included 37.5 ha used for raising the blood cockles, 58.3 ha used for the Chinese razor clam, 16.2 ha used for oyster farming, and 26.5 ha used for shrimp farming.
Over 1400 people from Shuitou's Gangnei Village were employed in aquaculture and fishing.