Shishi is located on the southeast coast of Fujian, across the sea from Taiwan, between the cultural and historical city of Quanzhou and the special economic zone Xiamen. The city faces the sea on three sides, with a coastline of 67.7 kilometers, and the city covers an area of ??160 square kilometers. It was established as a city with the approval of the State Council in 1988. It currently governs 7 towns and 2 sub-district offices, with a registered population of nearly 310,000 and a migrant population of more than 200,000. Since the establishment of the city, Shishi has benefited from the good opportunities of reform and opening up and the new mechanism of the Comprehensive Reform Experimental Zone. It has given full play to the humanistic spirit of "love to fight and dare to win", been determined to reform, boldly innovated, comprehensively promoted economic and social development, and its comprehensive strength has increased. Nearly 30 times. In 2005, the city's GDP reached 17.033 billion yuan, an increase of 16%; the total fiscal revenue reached 1.485 billion yuan, an increase of 23.05%, of which local-level revenue increased by 21%, and the fiscal revenue of 5 towns (streets) exceeded 100 million yuan; cities The per capita disposable income of residents is 16,508 yuan, with an average annual real growth of 6.2%; the per capita net income of farmers is 8,523 yuan, ranking first in the province, with an average annual real growth of 4.8%; during the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, the cumulative actual investment from foreign investors was 850 million US dollars, Self-operated exports amounted to US$830 million, with average annual growth rates of 18.9% and 32.6%; cumulative fixed asset investment was completed at 13.39 billion yuan, 2.4 times that of the Ninth Five-Year Plan period. The urban built-up area increased to 23 square kilometers. The comprehensive economic strength ranks 24th in the "Top 100 Counties (Cities) in the Country", has maintained the second place in the province for eight consecutive years, and ranks first among the "Double Excellent Counties (Cities)" in the province. It has successively won titles such as China's Famous Casual Clothing City, National Hygiene Advanced City, National Sports Advanced City, and National Cultural Advanced City. It has won the title of National Science and Technology Advanced City for eight consecutive years and the National Double Support Model City for the second consecutive time.

This is a famous city for casual clothing in China. Shishi is famous for its clothing and is the production base and distribution center for textile and clothing in China. The textile and garment industry here has a long history and a solid foundation. After more than 20 years of careful cultivation, a textile and garment industry chain with garment processing and production as the core has been formed, covering various fields such as textile, bleaching and dyeing, garment processing and production, auxiliary material production, and marketing. , industrial clusters have obvious advantages. The city now has more than 5,000 enterprises in the clothing and supporting industries, and more than 4,000 registered trademarks focusing on clothing. With Shishi as the center and connected to the Fujian garment sector in Jinjiang, Quanzhou and other surrounding areas, there are 10,000 textile and garment enterprises. With an annual output value of 50 billion yuan, it is an important clothing sector in my country and even the world. At present, our city has 2 Chinese famous brand products, 7 Chinese well-known trademarks, 1 Chinese export famous brand, 60 Fujian Province famous trademarks, 15 Fujian Province famous brand products, and 13 national inspection-free products. Fengli Subdistrict Office was awarded the title of "China's Famous Children's Clothing Town", Baogai Town was awarded the title of "China's Famous Clothing Accessories Town", Kaijiang Town was awarded the title of "China's Famous Trousers Town", and Lingxiu Town was awarded the title of "China's Famous Sports and Leisure Clothing Town" "title. It has formed a good pattern of "a collection of high-quality products with special features, and famous brands everywhere in famous cities". The stone lions and surrounding areas were integrated into the stone lion clothing section, and then developed into a "Fujian style" clothing square with the stone lion section as the center. 50% of Shishi clothing is exported to the international market. Many internationally renowned clothing brands, such as Crocodile, Woodpecker, Zhou Zhi, Cardano, etc., purchase raw materials and order production in Shishi, becoming an important part of the global clothing processing and trade industry chain. Today's stone lion costumes have transcended the scope of administrative regions and formed a pan-stone lion concept. In 2003, Shishi started construction of Shishi Garment City with a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan and a land area of ??1,110 acres. It is known as an international clothing logistics and distribution center and one of the largest professional clothing markets in Asia. The first phase of the project (including four clothing trading areas, an exhibition art center and a leisure square) has been completed and was opened to the city during the 2005 Eighth Cross-Strait Textile and Clothing Expo and Leisure Clothing Expo. Shishi Garment City continues to develop and prosper, and is currently one of the top ten clothing wholesale markets in China with absolute advantages. With the China Maritime Expo as the platform and Shishi Garment City as the center, it connects Yuanyangchi Fabric Market (one of the four major fabric markets in the country), Taqian Garment Accessories Market, Yangxia Garment Accessories and Fabrics Comprehensive Market and Taqian Garment Machinery Market. The textile and clothing trade area continues to improve.

This is an industrial, trade, port and tourist city. Shishi is rich in marine resources, including port resources, coastal tourism resources, and marine biological resources. In recent years, Shishi has adhered to the principle of simultaneous development and conservation of marine resources, and equal emphasis on marine utilization and protection, vigorously developed advantageous marine industries, and promoted the coordinated development of marine industries.

Shishi is one of the six major domestic trade container transportation hub ports in the country. The port has always been the most active economic area in Shishi. In accordance with the idea of ??"building a large port, developing large industries, building a large urban area, and achieving great development", it has continuously promoted the interactive prosperity of ports, industries, and cities, forming a national-level system. The port-like Shihu Port is the leader and the export-oriented port economic zone focuses on the Shihu Port Industrial Zone covering an area of ??20 square kilometers. Shishi has three deep-water ports: Shihu, Xiangzhi and Yongning. Among them, Shihu Port has built one 50,000-ton, 35,000-ton, 10,000-ton, and 3,000-ton berths. In 2005, its cargo throughput was 4.812 million tons, an increase of 16.7% year-on-year, and its container throughput was 252,000 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 16.7%. increased by 23.9%, accounting for half of the total container throughput in Quanzhou. Shishi is one of the "Top 100 Fishery Counties (Cities)" in the country and the "Top Ten Fisheries Counties (Cities)" in Fujian Province. The aquatic product processing output value ranks second in the province. There are more than 200 kinds of main seafood, and the shallow beach area is 8183 hectares, with Xiangzhi Fishing Port (national first-level fishing port), Meilin, Dongpu Fishing Port (national second-level fishing port) and other excellent fishing ports, forming a blue industrial base led by Huabao Chemical and Mingxiang Food, covering an area of ??110 acres , the Xiangzhi Aquatic Products Wholesale Market, with a total investment of over 100 million yuan, has built a number of famous and high-quality aquatic product breeding bases such as the Xinshadi Abalone Nursery Base and the Yongning Sea Cage Fish Cage Demonstration Base. Shishi is a famous coastal tourist city with a long cultural history and numerous monuments. The gorgeous coastal scenery composed of waves, beaches and sea erosion landforms, as well as characteristic cultures such as Maritime Silk Road culture and costume culture, as well as lion dance, lantern riddles, Nanyin, Water Splashing Festival, ball dance, etc. The folk culture is integrated with each other; shopping tourism based on Shishi Garment City, and coastal tourism based on the Southern Fujian Gold Coast and Hongta Bay Seaside Scenic Area have attracted two consecutive national sailing championships to be held on the Southern Fujian Gold Coast. Scenic tourism, mainly Gusao Pagoda, Liusheng Pagoda, Linluandu, Huxiu Temple, Chaotian Temple, Chenghuang Temple, and Luojia Temple, and leisure tourism mainly including Lingxiu Mountain Forest Park and Baogai Mountain Ecological Cultural Park complement each other and form Shishi’s unique tourism system.

This is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in the country and a window to Taiwan. The towering Gusao Tower and Shihu Tower were the symbols of maritime navigation in those days. From here, Shishi people followed Zheng Chenggong to develop Taiwan, and traveled with foreign ships to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries. Today, there are nearly 300,000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao in the city, and more than 300,000 Taiwan compatriots who borrowed stone lions from their ancestors. The vast number of overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have a fine tradition of patriotism and love for their hometown. They are enthusiastic about the construction and development of their hometown. In the past few years, they have donated 630 million yuan in public welfare undertakings such as education, medical and health care, and infrastructure. After the establishment of the city, Shishi gave full play to the advantages of overseas Chinese in Taiwan, vigorously developed the export-oriented economy, and made economic and trade work with Taiwan prosperous. By the end of 2005, Taiwanese businessmen had invested in a total of 242 projects in our city, with a total investment of 2.62 billion yuan.

The infrastructure here is improving day by day. The city is undergoing a new round of urban master plan revision and shoreline planning, with the urban built-up area reaching 23 square kilometers. The city has built 2 220KV substations, 5 110KV substations, and 3 110KV substations, realizing the erection of double-circuit power supply lines to Fuzhou and Xiamen; one water plant with daily water supply of 200,000 tons and 70,000 tons has been built. , realizing water supply to the entire city. The water diversion project with a total investment of more than 200 million yuan has been completed and the total water supply capacity has reached 350,000 tons/day. The per capita water supply volume ranks first in the province and the daily water supply volume ranks third in the province. 76 kilometers of cement concrete roads with a width of 38 meters and 26 meters have been built in the urban area, and more than 120 kilometers of cement concrete roads with a width of 38 meters and 26 meters from the urban area to various towns have been basically hardened in all towns and villages. Basically, every village in the city has access to buses and tap water. A reliable postal and telecommunications network has been built. There are more than 300,000 urban and rural telephone users in the city, nearly 270,000 mobile phone users, 54,000 cable TV users, and more than 20,000 Internet broadband users. In addition, key projects such as Shishi Avenue, coastal thoroughfare, power building, communication hub building, public office building, coastal tide and flood prevention projects, and urban waste incineration treatment plants have also been basically completed, and urban functions have been continuously improved.

All social undertakings here develop in a comprehensive and coordinated manner. Shishi adheres to people-oriented and always focuses on improving people's quality, vigorously strengthens the construction of spiritual civilization, promotes the construction of the "three major creations" carriers, and carries out in-depth "Shishi Integrity" creation activities. Vigorously develop various social undertakings such as education, science and technology, culture, health, sports, and environmental protection.

The city has 3 higher vocational schools, 1 technical secondary school, 15 middle schools, and 70 primary schools. Among them, Shiguang Middle School and Shishi No. 1 Middle School are provincial first-level key middle schools, and their educational level ranks among the advanced ranks in Quanzhou City. Implement the strategy of revitalizing the city through science and education, fully launch the "Shishi Social Development Comprehensive Experimental Zone Plan", build the city's productivity promotion center, start the construction of cross-strait science and technology incubation bases, accelerate the construction of "Digital Shishi", and comprehensively implement the plan for the government, enterprises, schools, families Four major Internet projects; cultural and sports undertakings are booming, and the city library, senior citizen activity center, youth extra-curricular activity center, cultural center, stadium (venue), swimming pool, overseas Chinese hospital, maternal and child health hospital and "120" emergency center have been built successively. Waiting for a number of public facilities. Build a postdoctoral workstation, speed up the introduction of talents, and continue to care for foreign employees. The pace of building a harmonious society has been accelerated, democracy and the legal system have been continuously improved, and "safe stone lion" building activities have been carried out in depth. The comprehensive management of social security has achieved remarkable results, and the society has maintained stability and stability.