Shaoguan City is located in northern Guangdong, between 112°50′-114°45′ east longitude and 23°5′-25°31′ north latitude. It borders Chenzhou City in Hunan and Ganzhou City in Jiangxi to the northwest, north and northeast, Heyuan City to the east, Qingyuan City to the west, and Guangzhou and Huizhou City to the south. Known as the North Gate of Guangdong, it has been the most important land passage between northern China and the Yangtze River Basin and the coast of South China since ancient times, and its strategic position has always been important. The Beijing-Guangzhou Railway Artery, Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway and National Highway 106 run through the city from north to south, and National Highway 323 runs through the city from east to west, all passing through Shaoguan City. National Highway 107 and National Highway 105, my country's north-south highway transportation trunk lines, pass through the north and southeast of this city respectively.

Economic Overview

Shaoguan is a heavy industrial city in Guangdong, with a strong industrial foundation and considerable scale in agriculture and tertiary industries. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the state successively built Shaoguan as a heavy industry base in South China and a strategic rear area in Guangdong. It established the Shaoguan Iron and Steel Plant, Shaoguan Smelting Plant, Shaoguan Excavator Factory, Fankou Lead-Zinc Mine, Dabaoshan Mine, A large number of key industrial enterprises such as Quren Coal Mine have established Shaoguan's basic industrial position in the local economy. In the 1970s, Shaoguan had become an important industrial base in Guangdong. Since the 1980s, Shaoguan's industry has developed further. There are now more than 21,000 industrial enterprises in the city, which have formed key industries composed of resource-based industries such as mining, non-ferrous metal smelting, steel industry, castings and forgings, and building materials; machinery manufacturing, light industry, textiles, petrochemicals, and electric power Processing industries based on five major industries; high-tech industries based on electronic information technology, mechatronics, new materials, medicine and other industries. Among them, the annual steel production capacity of Shaogang Group has exceeded 5 million tons, ranking among the top 100 steel companies in the world; Shaogang Group is one of the largest professional manufacturers of castings and forgings in the country; the equipment industry produces large-scale construction machinery and aerial work vehicles , Xinyu Company of large hydroelectric generating units, construction machinery factory and Zhongli Company and other large enterprises.

In recent years, economic development has accelerated, with the growth rate higher than the national average. In 2005, the city achieved a GDP of 35.07 billion yuan, an increase of 12.3% over the previous year. The primary, secondary and tertiary industries increased by 4.8, 14.3 and 13.4 respectively; the ratio of the tertiary industries was 16.6:44:39.4, an increase of 17.5:49.5 in 2004. :33 has been significantly optimized, the proportion of secondary and tertiary industries has increased significantly, and the industrialization process has accelerated. The total added value of all industries was 13.662 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.3%; the added value of state-owned and state-controlled industries above designated size was 11.468 billion yuan, an increase of 14.6%, accounting for 83.9% of the total industrial added value. The quality of industrial products has been significantly improved. 11 products have won the title of provincial famous brand products, 3 products have won the honor of national inspection-free products, and 1,579 registered trademarks. The added value of the city's agriculture has reached more than 5.7 billion yuan. Vegetables, high-quality rice, high-quality livestock and poultry, high-quality fish, specialty fruits, bamboo, tobacco, etc. have been established as the city's seven leading agricultural industries, forming the characteristics and features of Shaoguan's agricultural production. , vegetables have developed into the second largest crop after rice; the area of ??high-quality rice has accounted for nearly 70% of the city's total rice area, with a total output of 530,000 tons; high-quality livestock and poultry such as three-yuan hybrid pigs, mountain chickens, and mountain chickens Sheep, etc. and high-quality fish have been greatly developed; the area of ??characteristic high-quality fruits such as Shatian pomelo, Sanhua plum, Yiliu plum, Nai plum, green plum, large-fruit loquat, etc. has reached more than 220,000 acres, accounting for nearly 50% of the fruit area; clusters of bamboo, Moso bamboo forests and tobacco leaves are developing rapidly; the output value of the seven leading agricultural industries accounts for nearly 80% of the city's total agricultural output value. The fixed asset investment of the whole society was 14.21 billion yuan, an increase of 10.1%. The total retail sales of consumer goods is 14.16 billion yuan, an increase of 14.5%; there are a number of professional wholesale markets for fruits, vegetables, grains, small commodities, cloth, aquatic products, etc., as well as building materials, decorative materials, daily necessities, agricultural and sideline products, motorcycles, game and mountain products, A specialized street for second-hand goods trading, mechanical and electrical products and other commodities. Service industries such as transportation, postal and telecommunications, catering, information, real estate, and intermediary services are developing rapidly.

The number of tourists coming to Shao has grown rapidly year after year. In 2005, the tourism industry received 5.03 million tourists and the total tourism revenue was 2.14 billion yuan. Economic benefits are significantly improved. In 2005, the total fiscal revenue from Shaoguan accounted for 17.7% of the GDP, the comprehensive industrial economic efficiency index was 161, and the financial institution loan occupied by 10,000 yuan of GDP was 4,840 yuan. These indicators are at a relatively advanced level in the province. In 2003, the comprehensive competitiveness entered the ranks of the second-category areas in the province, and in 2005 it rose to the first place in the second-category areas. The people of the city ushered in a new period of accelerated development.