Category: Region gt; gt; Jiangsu gt; gt; Changzhou City

Problem description:

I want to know about the situation in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, in all aspects, Geographical location, climate conditions, economic level, consumption level, traffic conditions, scenic spots... Any aspect will do, the more detailed the better!

Analysis:

Changzhou is an ancient cultural city with a written history of more than 2,500 years (it is also known as "Dragon City" in history). It is also a city full of modern flavor and relatively developed economy. emerging industrial city. Changzhou currently governs two county-level cities, Jintan and Liyang, and five administrative districts: Wujin, New Taipei, Tianning, Zhonglou, and Qishuyan. The city has a total area of ??4,375 square kilometers and a total population of 3.516 million.

Changzhou is located in the beautiful and rich Golden Triangle of the Yangtze River, equidistant from the two major cities of Shanghai and Nanjing, and joins hands with Suzhou and Wuxi to form the Su-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area. Changzhou has very superior location conditions and convenient water, land and air transportation conditions. The urban area is adjacent to the Yangtze River in the north and Taihu Lake in the south. The Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, National Highway 312, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal pass through it. The city's water network is criss-crossed, connecting rivers to the sea. As a national first-class open port, Changzhou Port on the Yangtze River has an annual cargo throughput of more than one million tons. The Civil Aviation Changzhou-Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway Changzhou Section Station has routes to more than 20 domestic large and medium-sized cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Dalian, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Haikou, and Xi'an.

During the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, Changzhou ranked among the top 50 cities in terms of comprehensive strength in the country, the 50 cities in the country with excellent investment environment, the city of "China Human Settlements Environment Model Award", and successfully created a national sanitary city and a national environmental protection model city. Jiangsu Garden City.

Since the reform and opening up, the comprehensive strength of Changzhou’s national economy has been increasingly strengthened, the foreign economy has become increasingly active, urban construction has advanced with each passing day, social undertakings have flourished, and people’s lives have continued to improve. In 2005, the city's regional GDP reached 130.22 billion yuan, an increase of 18.1% based on current prices, and the per capita GDP exceeded US$4,500. This marked a new platform for the city's economic and social development. Total fiscal revenue reached 22 billion yuan, an increase of 25.9%, of which local general budget revenue was 9.5 billion yuan, an increase of 27.4%. The comprehensive agricultural production capacity has been significantly improved, with an agricultural added value of 5.65 billion yuan; the industrial economy continues to grow, with the total industrial output value exceeding 300 billion yuan, and the added value of industries above designated size reaching 60 billion yuan, an increase of 23% at comparable prices. There were 39 new provincial-level high-tech enterprises and 156 new high-tech products, and the output value of high-tech industries accounted for 32.3% of all industries. Service industry The development of the service industry showed a good momentum, with the added value reaching 45.04 billion yuan, an increase of 16.6%; the total retail sales of consumer goods in the society was 42 billion yuan, an increase of 16.3%.

Changzhou now has four pillar industries including agricultural machinery manufacturing, power transmission and transformation equipment manufacturing, engineering machinery, vehicle and accessories manufacturing, new textiles and clothing, as well as electronic information equipment manufacturing and software, biomedicine and fine chemicals, The three major emerging industries, including new materials, are an important domestic production base for small and medium-power diesel engines, electronic information equipment, high-speed internal combustion locomotives, denim and other products. It owns 3 well-known Chinese trademarks of Changchai, Dongfeng and Xinke, 56 Jiangsu famous brand products, and 78 The production scale, market sales volume and technical level of our products rank among the top 5 in the same industry nationwide. Changzhou is focusing on accelerating the strategic adjustment of industrial structure to comprehensively promote the construction of a modern manufacturing base.

Guided by Mao Zedong Theory and the important thought of "***", we conscientiously implement the spirit of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and in accordance with the requirements put forward by the 14th Plenary Session of the 9th Municipal Party Committee, Adhere to the scientific outlook on development to guide the overall economic and social development, closely focus on the "two firsts" and the overall goal of enriching the people and strengthening the city, promote comprehensive innovation, accelerate effective investment, promote urban and rural coordination, achieve an all-round moderately prosperous society, and promote comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable economic and social development , creating a new situation for our city’s rapid and easy development. This is the overall requirement for the city's *** work, and it is also the unified understanding of the whole city.

Adhere to the open economy as an important driving force for the rapid economic development of the city, and further form a strong synergy for the whole city to pay close attention to the open economy. Focus on attracting investment in high-tech industries such as electronic information, biomedicine, and new materials, as well as heavy chemical industry, environmental protection industry and other projects, and strive to form a more advanced industrial structure and related and concentrated enterprise clusters. Continue to expand the areas for utilizing foreign investment and increase the share of foreign investment in agriculture, social undertakings, infrastructure and services. Improve the rapid response, comprehensive coordination and tracking service mechanism for major projects, vigorously carry out joint investment promotion by districts and bureaus, attract internationally renowned companies and their R&D institutions to settle in Changzhou, and strive to achieve new breakthroughs in major investment projects. Paying attention to the actual contribution rate of contracted projects, expanding opening up, accelerating development, and actively promoting integration with the international economy are a major strategy that our city will unswervingly implement. In 2005, the agreed utilization of foreign capital was US$2.85 billion, an increase of more than 30%, and the registered foreign capital actually received US$870 million, an increase of more than 50% year-on-year. Foreign trade and foreign economy have grown steadily, with the total import and export volume exceeding US$8 billion, an increase of 20%, of which exports exceeded US$6 billion, an increase of about 30%; the foreign business volume was US$190 million.

At present, 73 countries and regions have invested in Changzhou, such as General Electric Company (GE), Ashland, Mettler Toledo, German F&G, and Karl Mayer. Company, Mannesmann Rexroth, France's Falino Company, Britain's HP Walls Company, Japan's Toshiba, Komatsu, Bridgestone, Fujitsu, Marubeni, Mitsui, South Korea's Hyundai, Italy's Redis, Taiwan's Guangyang More than 50 multinational companies have invested and settled in Changzhou, and a number of leading industrial chain projects with high technological content, high relevance and strong driving force, such as Texas Instruments of the United States, Charter Cryogenic Equipment, and Saint-Gobain of France, have also settled in the high-tech zone. The completion and commissioning of these large projects have greatly promoted the development and growth of related industries in our city.