Zhangzhou city is located in the southeast coast of Fujian Province,adjacent to Xiamen and Shantou Special Economic Zones and across the sea fromChinese Taiwan. It is a prefecture level city in the southernmost part of FujianProvince. It has one city, two districts, eight counties and 120 townships,towns and streets. The city has a land area of 12600 square kilometers and a seaarea of 18600 square kilometers, with a total population of 4.58 million,including 34 square kilometers of urban built-up area and 340000 permanentresidents.
Zhangzhou, founded in 686 ad (the second year of Tang Dynasty), is a famouscultural city with a long history. It is rich in natural and cultural resourcesand has many places of interest. There are more than 280 revolutionaryhistorical sites and places of interest in the city. Among them, there are 11state-level key cultural relics under protection: Guandi temple in Dongshan, TzuChi palace in Longhai, Eryi building in Hua'an, stone archway in Ming and QingDynasties, Dacheng Hall of Zhangzhou Confucian temple, East Bridge of LonghaiRiver, zhaojiabao in Zhangpu, Yianbao in Zhangpu, tianluokeng Tulou group inNanjing, hegui building and Shengwu building. Zhangzhou has five tourismresources with its own characteristics: beautiful and magical coastal sceneryrepresented by Dongshan and Zhangzhou coastal volcanic landform nationalgeoparks; gorgeous and attractive flower and fruit gardens represented by Huashistreet and Makou Flower Expo; long and splendid cultural relics represented byTulou and Kaizhang holy relic Jiangjun mountain; HUBOLIAO National NatureReserve and Mayang River rafting As a representative of the green ecologicallush, pleasant; to the Millennium Temple Sanping temple as a representative ofthe religious pilgrimage is famous. There are 2 national 4A tourist areas(Dongshan fengdongshi scenic area, Zhangpu Tianfu Tea Museum), 1 NationalGeopark (Zhangzhou coastal volcanic landform National Geopark), 3 NationalForest Parks (Hua'an County, Dongshan County, Changtai Tianzhu Mountain), 2National Nature Reserves (Nanjing Huboliao, Yunxiao Zhangjiangkou Mangrove), 5provincial key scenic spots There are three scenic spots (Dongshan fengdongshi -Lantau scenic spot, Longwen yundongyan scenic spot, Zhaoan Jiuhou mountainscenic spot, Pinghe lingtongyan scenic spot, Zhangpu qianting - Gulei Bay scenicspot). Zhangzhou is famous for its rich culture. In ancient times, there wereChen Yuanguang, Zhu Xi and Huang Daozhou. In modern times, there were LinYutang, Yang Sao and Xu Dishan. Zhangzhou's Xiang opera, Chaozhou Opera, puppetand puppet carving art are well-known at home and abroad. There are rich andcolorful traditional folk arts, such as paper-cut, lantern riddle, drum danceand woodcut New Year pictures.
Zhangzhou is located at 23.6-25 N and 117-118 e. it is a rich land withmountains, rivers and plains. It has superior natural conditions and goodagricultural foundation. The city has 2.5 million mu of cultivated land, 12.3million mu of mountainous areas, and 1.8 million mu of inland waters and shallowsea beaches. The coastline is 680 km, and there are many good natural ports.Zhaoyin port area, Gulei port area and Dongshan port area are deep-waterharbors, many of which can be used to build berths of more than 100000 tons. Thesecond largest river in the province, the 19long River, runs through the wholeprovince. Zhangzhou plain is the largest alluvial plain in the whole province.Zhangzhou has a subtropical monsoon humid climate, with an annual rainfall ofabout 1500 mm, an average temperature of 21 ℃ and a frost free period of 330days. It is a natural "big greenhouse", evergreen in all seasons and rich inproducts. It is known as the "hometown of fish, rice, flowers and fruits". Richin "six famous fruits": citrus, litchi, banana, longan, grapefruit, pineapple,"three famous flowers": daffodils, camellia, orchids, as well as shrimp,grouper, abalone, lobster, scallops and other marine treasures. The beautifulNarcissus, "national treasure medicine" and "light of national products" areknown as "three treasures of Zhangzhou".
Zhangzhou is one of the key hometown of overseas Chinese in FujianProvince. The advantages of Chinese Taiwan Overseas Chinese are outstanding, and it isthe main ancestral home of Chinese Taiwan compatriots. One third of Chinese Taiwan's currentpopulation is from Zhangzhou. There is a close relationship between the folktraditional culture of Zhangzhou and Chinese Taiwan, such as Gezai Opera and lanternriddle. Zhangzhou is located in the golden triangle of Southern Fujian, facingChinese Taiwan and Hong Kong and Macao in the south. It is between Xiamen and Shantouspecial economic zones. Since ancient times, Zhangzhou has been a transportationhub connecting Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces and leading to Chinese Taiwan,Hong Kong and Macao and Southeast Asia. As early as 1985, Zhangzhou was listedas an open area by the State Council. In 1992, Zhangzhou was listed as an openarea by the State Council In 1993, the State Council approved the establishmentof Dongshan Economic and Technological Development Zone. In 1994, the StateCouncil designated Zhangzhou as a national export-oriented agriculturaldemonstration zone. In 1997, the Ministry of foreign trade and economiccooperation, the Ministry of agriculture and the Chinese Taiwan Affairs Office of theState Council jointly approved Zhangzhou as a cross-strait agriculturalcooperation experimental zone. At present, the city has 15 national andprovincial development zones, forming an all-round, wide-ranging and multi-levelpattern of opening up to the outside world. It has carried out economic andtrade exchanges with more than 140 countries and regions in the world, and hasutilized more than 6 billion US dollars of foreign capital.
Zhangzhou is an important transportation hub in the south of FujianProvince: Yingxia railway passes through the area and national highway passesthrough the area Lines 319 and 324 run across the north and south, XiamenZhangzhou Expressway and Zhangzhao expressway have been completed and opened totraffic, and Zhanglong expressway is speeding up construction; the distance fromthe urban area to Xiamen airport is less than 50 km, and it takes only half anhour to one hour from several counties in the South to Shantou airport;Zhangzhou Port is listed as one of the first batch of pilot ports for directflights to Chinese Taiwan by the state, and Zhaoyin port and Dongshan port are twonational ports Class a ports have been opened to the outside world, and thethroughput capacity of the city's ports exceeds 13 million tons. Houshi PowerPlant, the largest Chinese Taiwan funded project in China, has been built and connectedto the power grid, making Zhangzhou an important power base in Fujian. The postand telecommunication facilities are advanced and the development is ahead oftime. The city has perfect infrastructure and superior investmentenvironment.
After the reform and opening up, especially in recent years, Zhangzhou'snational economy has been developing rapidly and healthily, and itscomprehensive economic strength has been significantly enhanced. According tothe argumentation of relevant national departments and experts, 12 of the 13indicators of agricultural development in Zhangzhou are higher than the nationalaverage. The comprehensive development of agriculture has achieved remarkableresults. The city has formed eight export bases of fruits, flowers, vegetables,edible fungi, aquatic products, livestock and poultry, drinks and spices. Amongthem, fruit, aquatic products and vegetables are the top three agriculturalproducts in China. At present, there are more than 4000 agricultural productsprocessing enterprises in the city, and a number of national and provincialleading enterprises have emerged. The city has built the largest green foodproduction base in Fujian, with a total of 11 categories and 99 productsobtaining the right to use the green label, accounting for more than 45% of theprovince. "Zhangzhou Narcissus", "Zhangzhou citrus", "wangguanxi pomelo" and"Tianbao banana" are famous at home and abroad. The city has cultivated andexpanded a number of key industries, backbone enterprises and famous brandproducts, and formed an industrial system dominated by food, electric power,machinery, electronics, household appliances, pharmaceuticals and otherindustries. There are three listed companies including Zhangzhou Development,Longxi shares and Pianzihuang pharmaceutical. They have two national famoustrademarks, 22 provincial famous trademarks and 36 famous brand products. Thecity's utilization of Chinese Taiwan capital is in a leading position at the municipallevel. As of April 20__, 1664 Chinese Taiwan funded projects have been approved in thewhole city, of which 6.63 billion US dollars were contracted and 3.43 billion USdollars were actually utilized, accounting for 47.2% of the total number ofthree funded enterprises, 54.3% of the contracted foreign capital and 57% of theactually utilized foreign capital. The number of large projects and megaprojects with Chinese Taiwan investment is increasing, of which 94 have invested morethan 10 million US dollars and 3 have invested more than 100 million US dollars.Among the 100 large enterprises and listed companies in Chinese Taiwan, FormosaPlastics, cankun, uni president, Taishan and Tianfu have invested and set upfactories in our city. The total number of Chinese Taiwan funded agriculturalenterprises introduced in the city is 731, accounting for 1 / 10 of the totalnumber of the whole country. The actual utilization of Chinese Taiwan fundedagricultural enterprises is 635 million US dollars, accounting for 1 / 3 of theprovince's total.
While firmly grasping the center of economic construction and acceleratingeconomic development, Zhangzhou city has always adhered to the principle of "twohands" and "two hands". The construction of the party and spiritual civilizationhas achieved actual results, and a number of influential advanced models haveemerged in the whole province. Zhangzhou 110 has become a banner of the nationalspiritual civilization construction; the party branches of Xikeng village andDongshan primary school in Pinghe county have been rated as the nationaladvanced grass-roots party organizations; the construction of "three-level corenetwork" of rural Party organizations has been fully affirmed by theOrganization Department of the Central Committee; it has taken the lead incarrying out the construction of organ efficiency in the whole country, andestablished the municipal administrative service center of "one window, one-stopservice" in the whole province It has been awarded the honorary titles of"national advanced city of building spiritual civilization", "national modelcity of double support" and so on, and has been rated as "national advanced cityof landscaping" and "China's excellent tourism city".
Today's Zhangzhou is standing on the starting line of the new century. Inaccordance with the goal of building an "ecological industry and Trade City", itis speeding up the implementation of the central city development strategy of"building a new area, developing along the river, and improving the old city",striving to build an ecological brand, improve the urban quality, and create ahigh living environment. A new Zhangzhou with rapid economic development,comprehensive social progress and people's living and working in peace andcontentment is rising on the West Bank of the Straits!