Population: about 750,000 people

Population density: 2172 people/km2

Chen Cihong’s former residence

Qianmei Ancient Village

Chenghai is one of the two birthplaces of "Chinese yarn drawing", and the textile and garment industry has a long history. Since the reform and opening up, Chenghai has made full use of the advantages of being a hometown of overseas Chinese, through "three to one supplement", the rise of "foreign-funded" enterprises, the development of the private economy, and the development of the textile and garment industry on the fast track. In terms of attracting investment in the woolen garment industry, we focus on "project-driven" and use internal and external cooperation to implement industry chain investment that follows market rules. Through cooperative operations, the woolen garment industry can more quickly capture changes and business in the international market. It is necessary to further enhance the industrial grade of Chenghai's woolen garment industry and enhance its industrial competitiveness. A number of products such as "Jinqi Western Suit", "Hongtai Sweater", "Wanfeng Sweater", "Tianhui Sweater", "Xiongye Sweater", "Qunfa Sweater" and so on have emerged, reaching scale and high quality. of leading enterprises. It has become the second pillar industry after the toy and gift industry.

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Chenghai District is located in the eastern part of Guangdong Province. The total area is 345.23 square kilometers. The total population is 750,000 (2008).

The District People’s Government is located at Wenguan Road, Chenghua Street, Postal Code: 515800. Code: 440515. Area code: 0754. Pinyin: Chenghai Qu.

Basic overview

The establishment of Chenghai County began in the 42nd year of Jiajing (1563 AD). Chenghai County was affiliated to Chaozhou Prefecture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was affiliated to the Chaozhou Administrative Inspectorate during the Republic of China. After liberation, it was affiliated to the Chaomei People's Administrative Committee, the Chaoshan District Administrative Supervisory Commissioner's Office, the Chaoshan District Commissioner's Office, the Guangdong Administrative Office, the Shantou Commissioner's Office, the Shantou District Revolutionary Committee, and the Shantou Regional Administrative Office. Since December 1983, Chenghai has become a county under the jurisdiction of Shantou City. On April 18, 1994, with the approval of the State Council, the county was removed and a city was established, and Chenghai City was managed by Shantou City. In April 2003, with the approval of the State Council, Shantou's administrative divisions were adjusted, and Chenghai was removed from the city and established as a district, becoming a district under the jurisdiction of Shantou City.

Chenghai District is located in the lower reaches of the Han River Delta in the Chaoshan Plain in southeastern Guangdong Province. It borders the South China Sea to the southeast, Shantou Special Economic Zone to the southwest, Chaozhou City to the northwest, Raoping to the northeast, and Nan'ao across the sea to the south. The total area is 402.5 square kilometers.

Chenghai District is located in the subtropical zone and has a south subtropical monsoon climate. It is warm and pleasant, with short hot periods, long frost-free periods, and four distinct seasons.

Chenghai is home to outstanding people and is known as the "Zou Lu on the Seaside". The district is located at the outlet of the lower reaches of the Han River in eastern Guangdong, with dense water networks and long sea and river embankments. Historically, there have been many natural disasters such as spring droughts, summer floods, autumn tides, and winter dry spells. The city's total area is 402.5 square kilometers. The total population is 697,900 (registered population at the end of 2000). The area is densely populated and the population density ranks highest among all organized counties in the country (before district change). There are many overseas Chinese living abroad, and it is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese.

Over the past 50 years since the founding of New China, especially after the comprehensive implementation of reform and opening up and structural adjustment, Chenghai has made great achievements in national economic and social development.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chenghai successively served as party and government leaders and agriculture, forestry and water departments. He paid great attention to farmland infrastructure construction, implemented water control and soil improvement, and built "six bridges and two embankments" to fundamentally improve water conservancy conditions and enhance disaster resistance. In 1991, it was rated as an advanced county in national water conservancy construction. Chenghai Tongguo cultivated intensively, scientifically farmed, and increased agricultural input. Finally, in the 1950s and 1980s, it won the honorable titles of the first "Grain County with Thousand Categories" and the first "Tongu County" in the country.

Over the past 20 years of reform and opening up, Chenghai’s industrial production (including township industrial enterprises) has made great progress, its output value has doubled, and the proportion of the “three major industries” has undergone major changes. The added value of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in the GDP increased from 57.6:29.6:12.8 in 1978 to 18.4:48.4:33.2 in 2000.

Therefore, after the establishment of Chenghai County, the national economy has experienced a long-term production pattern of "cultivating three, fishing and seven" and "mainly agriculture", which has become the trajectory of the historical era. Industry, electric power, transportation, post and telecommunications are developing rapidly. The living standards of urban and rural people, including income, consumption, housing, and savings, have been greatly improved. The Engel coefficient of the whole region decreased year by year, from 48.2 in 1995 to 44.85 in 2000. Commercial trade showed a boom in both purchases and sales; the total foreign trade import and export volume, contracts and actual utilization of foreign capital increased continuously. Science and technology, education, culture and art, health, sports and tourism are changing with each passing day. The construction of socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization has achieved remarkable results.

Physical geography

It is located at 116.80° east longitude and 23.48° north latitude

The terrain of the entire region slopes from northwest to southeast, and is known as "one mountain and one water divide the land into eight parts" called. The total area of ??the region is 345.23 square kilometers, including 322 square kilometers of plains, accounting for about 80%; hills and slopes of 42 square kilometers, accounting for about 10%; and water areas accounting for 9.6%.

The soil in Chenghai is distributed in the red soil zone. The soil fertility of the cultivated land is medium, but the terrain is flat and contiguous, with paddy soil accounting for 80%. The degree of maturity is high, and drainage and irrigation are very convenient, so it can be used for crop rotation. , great production potential.

Population status

Chenghai District is the county (district) with the highest population density in the country. The region has a total population of 750,000 and a total area of ??345.23 square kilometers. On average, there are about 2,056 people per square kilometer.

Chenghai has a good cultural foundation. Since the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1978, a total of 15,243 students have been sent to various colleges and universities. The district now has 35,100 college graduates and various professional and technical talents.

The population aged 15-64 in Chenghai District is more than 560,000, accounting for 66% of the total population. The labor resources are abundant, the working-age population is young, and the cultural quality is good, so the quality of the labor force is good.

With the reform and opening up and the continuous economic development, the migrant population in Chengdu has increased year by year. Now, the year-round migrant population remains above 100,000.

Chenghai is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in Guangdong Province, with about 750,000 overseas Chinese.

Chenghai has outstanding people, prosperous culture and education, and numerous talented people. This land has successively nurtured Lu Tong and Zhang Kui among the eight sages of Chaozhou, Tang Boyuan among the seven sages of Chaozhou, Weng Wanda, the Minister of War in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Puzhi, the printmaker of the Republic of China, the mathematician Huang Jiyu, and the historian There are a large number of famous scholars such as Wu Guanyin, philosopher and historian Du Guoxiang, calligrapher Wang Dingxin, contemporary Chinese painter Zhao Shiguang, sculptor Tang Daxi, famous essayist Qin Mu, and former Hainan Provincial Party Committee Secretary and poet Xu Shijie.

Economic Overview

Industry

Since the reform and opening up, Chenghai’s industrial economy has developed rapidly. Especially in recent years, a series of preferential policies and measures have been adopted, such as reducing land prices, electricity prices, regulatory fees, etc., as well as optimizing services, to attract domestic and foreign customers to invest and set up industries in Chenghai. At the same time, various ownership types such as state-owned, collective, foreign-funded, joint-stock, and private individuals are encouraged to work together to promote the rapid development of the industrial economy.

The region has initially formed a new industrial pattern with the light processing industry as the main body and supporting supporting industries such as plastic toys, textiles and clothing, food processing, arts and crafts, and building materials. There are more than 5,600 industrial enterprises in the district, including 13 enterprises with an output value of more than 100 million yuan, such as Yihua Group Company. 44 kinds of industrial products fill the domestic gaps, and 55 products have won the titles of ministerial and provincial excellence. Plastics, crafts, toys, Nanjin and other products are sold well in Europe, America, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions. Especially in the plastics industry, Japan has nearly a thousand (registered) plastic production companies with nearly 100,000 employees. There are only 10,000 automatic and semi-automatic injection molding machines (sets), producing plastic toys, plastic crafts, plastic daily necessities, plastic The five major categories of products, accessories and plastic building materials, have an annual value of more than 2 billion yuan, and it is known as the Plastic City at home and abroad.

Professional Town——

Dongli Town (Professional Town for Hardware Tools in Guangdong Province)

Dongli Town, Chenghai District, Shantou City is located in Chao, Cheng and Rao San At the junction of the city and the city, water, land and air transportation are very convenient, and the location advantage is outstanding.

Dongli Town is the political, economic and cultural center in the northern part of Chenghai District, Shantou City. It is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in the Chaoshan area. The town has complete supporting infrastructure such as roads, water, electricity, communications, and environmental protection, and the investment environment is very good. It is one of the 500 urban demonstration sites in the country.

Dongli Town currently has nearly 1,000 large and small industrial enterprises, and has gradually formed five key industries, including hardware products operation, knitted clothing bleaching and dyeing industry, craft toy industry, rubber and plastic industry, and printing and packaging industry. , one of the more distinctive ones is the hardware products industry. In 2005, it was identified as a provincial hardware products professional town by the Provincial Department of Science and Technology.

Lianxia Town (a professional town for daily chemicals in Guangdong Province)

Lianxia Town is located on the north side of the central urban area of ??Chenghai, Shantou City, with the Lianyang River, a tributary of the Han River, in the south and the South China Sea in the east. , leaning against Fengming Mountain to the west, is an important industrial town in Chenghai. Known as the "Hometown of Overseas Chinese", it has outstanding people, prosperous humanities and numerous businessmen. National and provincial highways run across both wings, and it takes less than half an hour to reach Shantou International Airport, Shantou Port, Chenghai Laiwu Wharf, and Shantou Railway Station. The location advantage is particularly prominent. It currently governs 30 administrative villages with a population of 106,100. The area covers an area of ??56.09 square kilometers, of which the built-up area is 9.31 square kilometers. It is listed as the central town of Guangdong Province. In 2006, it was designated as a provincial specialized town for daily chemical industry by the Provincial Department of Science and Technology. In recent years, it has been awarded by the national and provincial ministries and commissions as "National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization", "Advanced Unit in Creating National Civilized Villages and Towns", "National Advanced Unit in Mass Sports" and Guangdong Province's "Advanced Township Party Committee", "Civilized Villages and Towns", and "Civilized Demonstration" "Town", "Top 100 Towns with Township Enterprises" and other honorary titles.

In order to implement the scientific concept of development and build a harmonious society, the Lianxia Town Committee and Town Government are committed to implementing the sustainable development strategy based on the development idea of ??"promoting the town through science and technology and strengthening the town through industry". In recent years, a number of infrastructure facilities have been built and put into use, the investment environment has been improving day by day, and the planning and construction of the park and the cultivation and development of special industries have demonstrated its position as an important industrial town. In 2006, the industrial output value was 6.56 billion yuan; the tax revenue was 142 million yuan. An industrial pattern has emerged in which the export-oriented economy is the mainstay and several pillar industries such as daily chemicals, wood products, craft toys, papermaking, printing and packaging, woolen clothing, and food processing develop simultaneously.

Daily chemical industry is an industry that has emerged and developed rapidly in recent years. There are now more than 80 large and small companies. Guangdong Mingchen Cosmetics Co., Ltd. is one of the best. Its "Dihuazhixiu" cosmetics and daily detergent series have been recognized as "China's Famous" trademarks and "National Inspection-Exempt Products." Enterprises are exerting a leading social effect. The developing Linxia daily chemical industry shows the following distinctive features: a wide range of products, high technological content and high added value, high-grade hardware facilities, and a socialized production industry chain: the entire industry has entered a healthy development track. While Lianxia is now building a characteristic professional town, it is also delineating a three-year development plan for technological innovation and striving to achieve leap-forward development.

Fengxiang Street (Specialized Toy Town in Guangdong Province)

Chenghua Street (Specialized Sweater Town in Guangdong Province)

Yanhong Town (Specialized in Packaging Materials in Shantou City) Town)

Agriculture

Chenghai agriculture is known for its intensive farming and has the reputation of "farming is like embroidery". It is a famous agricultural high-yield area. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the parties and governments at all levels in Chenghai attached great importance to increasing investment in agriculture, carrying out land reclamation and water conservancy projects. Five major joint flood and tide control embankments and irrigation and drainage systems in six irrigation areas have been built. Four bridge gates have been built to retain water and regulate water levels, achieving self-flowing drainage and irrigation.

The Hanjiang embankment fully meets the fortification standard for a once-in-20-year event, and partially meets the fortification standard for a once-in-50-year event; the seawall has the ability to withstand Category 11 typhoons and storm surges. As early as 1957, Chenghai became the first county in the country with a double-cropping rice yield of 1,000 kilograms per mu, and won the title of "the best grain yield per mu in the country". Since the reform and opening up, while continuing to improve agricultural production conditions, we have fully implemented the household contract responsibility system, gradually improved the two-tier management system that combines centralization and decentralization, and broken through the single model with grain as the key link, developed diversified operations, and comprehensively Invigorated the rural economy.

Grain production has once again reached high levels. In 1989, the average annual rice yield per mu was 1,075 kilograms, making it the first county in the country to have double-cropping rice with a high yield exceeding 1 ton of rice. In 1991, it was awarded the title of Advanced Unit for Grain Production by the State Council. Since then, through hard work, it has maintained the honor of being the "Tongu City (County)" in terms of yield per mu for twelve consecutive years. The annual vegetable planting area is 247,300 acres, with a total output of 723,500 tons; the fruit planting area is more than 40,000 acres, with a total output of 49,800 tons; the "Three Birds" breeding volume is 22.9518 million, and the pig breeding volume is 238,800; the aquaculture area is 46,400 mu, with a total output of aquatic products of 60,900 tons. The region's "four major bases" of aquatic products, fruits, livestock and vegetables have a total revenue of 2.64 billion yuan. Chenghai's agricultural specialties such as Zhanglin Ringo, Xincheng Watermelon, Laiwu Seaweed, and Baisha Lion Head Goose are well-known at home and abroad.

External introduction and internal communication

Since the reform and opening up, Chenghai District has made full use of the advantages of overseas Chinese hometowns to carry out external introduction and internal communication through multiple channels and forms, and has achieved remarkable results.

The region has introduced customers from nearly 20 countries and regions including Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Japan, and the United States to settle in Chenghai. 475 foreign-funded enterprises and 312 processing enterprises with supplied materials were established, with a cumulative actual utilization of US$602 million in foreign capital. Investment projects involve more than 20 industries such as clothing, crafts, woolen fabrics, chemicals, plastics, food and hospitality, and real estate development. Among the introduced projects, industrial projects account for more than 80%.

A number of key leading enterprises of large scale and high grade have been established, such as Fanhai Wood Industry Co., Ltd. and Huaxiang Plastic Co., Ltd. While doing a good job in attracting foreign investment, we will also actively strengthen technological exchanges and economic cooperation with large and medium-sized cities, universities and scientific research units in the mainland. Currently, Chenghai has established trade relations with 126 countries and regions.

Business Tourism

In accordance with the idea of ??"big market, big commodities, big circulation", Chenghai District focuses on building professional markets and multifunctional comprehensive markets, and has successively built and expanded a number of A large-scale professional comprehensive trade market. The district has 50 professional comprehensive markets for aquatic products, plastics, clothing, vegetables, fruits, grains, etc., with a total operating area of ??477,500 square meters. These markets connect villages and towns throughout the region and are open to the whole country. They not only better serve the lives of local people, but also enhance the radiation function of local industrial products and agricultural and sideline products.

Chenghai Plastics Professional Market operates hundreds of series and nearly 10,000 varieties of plastic products, which are exported to many provinces and cities across the country. In 2000, the turnover was 1.725 billion yuan, an increase of 13.5 times compared with 1980; market The trade turnover reached 1.1 billion yuan, an increase of 31 times compared with 1980. At the same time, Chenghai District takes advantage of the favorable conditions of being adjacent to the Special Economic Zone and close to Hong Kong and Macao to actively expand foreign trade channels and vigorously organize product exports. By 2004, the region's total foreign trade import and export value reached US$496 million, of which total export value was US$437 million, an increase of 873 times and 10.4 times respectively compared with 1980.

The tourism industry in Chenghai District is booming. There are 60 hotels, guest houses and hostels in the district, of which 2 have been rated as two-stars, 4 are equivalent to two-stars, and three-stars. There is one hotel with a first-class rating and one with a four-star rating; there are approximately 1,712 guest rooms and 3,036 beds. In addition, there are 67 commercial dance halls.

At present, Chenghai’s tourism resources have been initially developed and utilized, and there are 5 large-scale scenic spots***. Namely: Laiwu Tourist Area, Chen Cihong’s Former Residence, King Zheng’s Tomb, Tashan Scenic Area and Guanshan Scenic Area. In 2004, Chenghai District *** received 988,000 tourists to Chenghai, and various travel agencies organized 43,000 group trips, with total tourism revenue of 460 million yuan. At present, there are 8 tourism companies in the country, and various travel agencies have opened 68 domestic tourism routes.

Administrative divisions

Chenghai District governs 3 streets (Fengxiang, Chenghua, Guangyi) and 8 towns (Lianxia, ??Lianshang, Lianhua, Dongli, Xinan , Yanhong, Shanghua, Longdu). It has jurisdiction over 180 neighborhood committees (village committees). There is also the Laiqian Economic Development Zone Management Committee, which is an agency dispatched by the district people's government.

List of names of towns (streets) and neighborhood committees (village committees) under their jurisdiction in Chenghai District

Population (people) of towns (streets) Non-agricultural population (people) Area (KM2 ) Village committee (number) Neighborhood committee (number)

Fengxiang Street 212589 14200 34.00 19

Chenghua Street 125369 15200 17.10 8

Guangyi Street 92582 3462 16.79 11

Lianshang Town 52147 4313 29.63 8

Lianshang Town 68523 18391 58.73 30

Lianhua Town 28596 1156 19.91 20

Dongli Town 45258 23450 34.92 19 3

Xinan Town 35632 1406 40.66 21

Yanhong Town 252961444 37.74 8 1

Shanghua Town 33596 871 21.81 18

Longdu Town 32020 3976 33.84 14 1

Total 751608 345.23 138 43

Historical evolution

April 18, 1994 , the Ministry of Civil Affairs approved (Minxing Approval [1994] No. 56) to abolish Chenghai County and establish Chenghai City.

On January 29, 2003, the State Council approved (Guohan [2003] No. 11): the county-level Chenghai City was abolished and Chenghai District of Shantou City was established. The administrative area of ??the original county-level Chenghai City (excluding Waisha Town and Xinxi Town) is the administrative area of ??Chenghai District. The District People's Government is located on Wenguan Road (formerly the seat of the Chenghai Municipal People's Government). The two towns of Waisha and Xinxi in the former Chenghai City were placed under the jurisdiction of Longhu District.

In 2000, Chenghai City had 3 streets and 12 towns under its jurisdiction: Fengxiang Street, Chenghua Street, Guangyi Street, Lianxia Town, Lianshang Town, Xinan Town, Dongli Town, and Longdu. Town, Yanhong Town, Lianhua Town, Waisha Town, Xinxi Town, Wantou Town, Batou Town, Shanghua Town. The total population is 860,003, and the population of each town is: Fengxiang Street 83325 Guangyi Street 44148 Chenghua Street 71656 Shanghua Town 31188 Wantou Town 34341 Lianxia Town 72431 Lianshang Town 54144 Xinan Town 64100 Dongli Town 76721 Yanhong Town 43222 Lian Huazhen 24807 Longdu Town 74431 Batou Town 46923 Waisha Town 78776 Xinxi Town 59790 (according to the fifth census data; unit: person)

In 2002, Chenghai City had 3 subdistricts (Fengxiang , Chenghua, Guangyi), 12 towns (Lianxia, ??Lianshang, Lianhua, Dongli, Xinan, Yanhong, Wantou, Batou, Xinxi, Waisha, Shanghua, Longdu), 177 36 village committees and 36 neighborhood committees.

In 2002, with the approval of the Provincial People's Government, it was agreed to cancel the establishment of Batou Town and Wantou Town in Chenghai City, and merge the administrative areas under their jurisdiction into Fengxiang Street and Lianxia Town respectively. The newly established Fengxiang Subdistrict has an area of ??41.46 square kilometers and a population of 130,300 people. The newly established Wantou Town has an area of ??56.09 square kilometers and a population of 106,750 people. (January 2002?)

In 2003, Chenghai District governed 3 streets and 8 towns, with 43 neighborhood committees and 137 village committees.

The total number of households is 174,483, and the total population is 706,239: Fengxiang Street has 35,030 households and 136,863 people; Chenghua Street has 13,061 households and 53,356 people; Guangyi Street has 9,137 households and 39,921 people; Dongli Town has 19,677 households and 75,379 people; Lianshang Town has 12,926 Households, 53,067 people; Lianxia Town, 25,009 households, 104,953 people; Lianhua Town, 6,434 households, 26,021 people; Shanghua Town, 7,742 households, 33,804 people; Longdu Town, 18,720 households, 74,391 people; Yanhong Town, 10,488 households, 4,350 people; Xinan Town has 16,225 households and 64,805 people; there are 34 households and 178 people in units directly under the jurisdiction of the district.

As of December 31, 2005, Chenghai District had jurisdiction over 3 streets (Fengxiang, Chenghua, Guangyi) and 8 towns (Lianxia, ??Lianshang, Lianhua, Dongli, Xinan, Yanhong, Shanghua, Longdu).

In September 2020, Alibaba Research Institute released the "Top 100 Taobao Village Counties in 2020", and Chenghai District was on the list, ranking 27th.

In July 2020, the 2020 China’s Top 100 County Smart Cities list was released, with Chenghai District ranking 76th.

In June 2020, Chenghai District was included in the second batch of districts and counties for the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics (Guangdong area).

In February 2016, Chenghai District was listed on the list of counties (cities, districts) with basically balanced development of compulsory education nationwide in 2015.