Changzhou is located in the south of Jiangsu Province, in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with latitude 3 1 09' ~ 32 04' north and longitude11908' ~12012' east. It borders Taihu Lake in the east, Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, Nanjing and Zhenjiang in the west, Anhui in the south and the Yangtze River in the north.
Changzhou landform belongs to the high-sand plain where hills and plains coexist. Tianmu Mountain in the south, Maoshan Mountain in the west, Ningzhen Mountain in the north, and vast plains and polder areas in the middle and east. The territory is slightly higher in the southwest and lower in the northeast, with a difference of about 2 meters.
Changzhou is located in the beautiful and rich Yangtze River Golden Triangle area, which is treated equally with Shanghai and Nanjing. It has superior location conditions and convenient land, sea and air transportation conditions. The urban area is bordered by the Yangtze River in the north and Taihu Lake in the south, and the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, 3 12 National Highway and Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal pass through the territory. The city's water network criss-crosses, connecting rivers and oceans. As a national first-class open port, Changzhou Port of the Yangtze River has an annual cargo throughput of over one million tons. Changzhou Railway Station has air routes to more than 20 large and medium-sized cities in China, including Beijing, Guangzhou, Dalian, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Haikou and Xi 'an.
General situation of municipal construction.
In the early days of liberation, the urban area of Changzhou was only 12 square kilometers, the urban layout was messy and scattered, the municipal and public facilities were incomplete, and there were few buildings with more than 4 floors. Roads are mainly dirt roads, stone roads and gravel roads, and the bridges are dilapidated and narrow. The task of urban reconstruction and construction is extremely arduous. 1949 Changzhou Municipal People's Government started the comprehensive transformation of the old city after its establishment on April 28th. Before 1957, there were public buildings such as the First Department Store Business Building and Red Star Theater, and before 1964 ~ 1965, there were non-staple food buildings, Changzhou Hotel, Xinhua Bookstore and post and telecommunications buildings. The real large-scale transformation of the old city in Changzhou began after the reform and opening up. Changzhou Hotel, Finance Building, Changxin Building, Posts and Telecommunications Building, Wujiaohua Building and other high-rise buildings have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. Completed the reconstruction along the river in the urban section of the canal and the reconstruction along the street in Yanling West Road, Dongxi Hengjie, Boai West Road and the northern section of Guanghua Street, and successively built Tongji Bridge, Chengzheng Bridge, Chaoyang Bridge, Qishuyan Bridge, Wuxing Bridge, Huaide Bridge and Guanghua Bridge. The expansion of the Cultural Palace Square will add a landscape to Changzhou.
In 2000, the city's infrastructure investment was 328 million yuan, an increase of 12% over the previous year, and1key projects were completed. Among them, the road reconstruction of Yanling East Road, the intersection reconstruction of Cailing Road and Yongning Road and the second phase of Jingchuan Park have been completed and put into operation; Project targets such as Chengzhong North Road, Tielu Boxiao Interchange, Qingtan Sewage Treatment Plant Expansion, Longyou River tributary and Guanhe River regulation, and bus Lingjiatang parking and maintenance yard will also be completed within this year; Road network maintenance and transformation completed a number of projects such as Beizhi Street, Changxin Bridge, Cailing Bridge, Wujiaochang East Road, Qingtan Road and Heping Road. Among them, according to the goal of building a historical and cultural block, the reconstruction of Yanling East Road entrusted experts to design the overall urban landscape of the road, land development on both sides and Dongshi River, giving full consideration to the combination of history, culture, tourism and commerce. On the basis of the high-quality completion of the road reconstruction project, the landscape improvement of Dongshi River is accelerating according to the requirements of high quality, which will be basically completed this year, and the land development on the north side has also been officially launched. This marks a new leap in the quality and taste of urban transformation in our city.
In addition, a number of environmental protection projects have been built, and the regulation of municipal rivers has been carried out in an orderly manner. The new village ponds, such as the tributary of Hengtangbang in Hongdong, Jiangjiabang in Qingtan and Houtanghe in Huayuan, have been gradually treated. Completed urban flood control projects such as Xianbei New Village and Workers' New Village 18, which improved urban flood control capacity; Complete greening projects such as Central Park and China Dinosaur Park in the new area, and build five green spaces with 3,000 square meters, with 6 1.5 hectares of new green space in the urban area, including public green space 17.2 hectares; Complete the lighting project of Qianju Street and the renovation of street lamps such as Yanling West Road, Huaide Zhongbei Road and Wanfu Road; 18 the renovation of dry toilets was completed, and 500 sets of fruit boxes were added to the main sections of the urban area, which significantly improved the urban environment.
200 1 In accordance with the general requirements of urban design of Yanling East Road, we will continue to do a good job in the construction of Taiping Square and Chaoyang Square, comprehensively develop buildings and scenic spots on both sides of the road and improve supporting facilities, so as to form a tourist scenic zone that reflects the image of the city. Do a good job in the overall landscape design and construction of Chengzhong North Road, Taoyuan Road Riverside Green Space and other projects with high standards, as well as the preparatory work for pedestrian streets and other projects, and strive to build several quality projects every year. Design bidding shall be carried out for key landmark facilities and image projects, and the best choice shall be made to improve the artistic and cultural taste of the design. Through several years' efforts, the taste of the city has been greatly improved, and the image of the city has been further improved.
Continue to increase investment in urban management. Combined with the goal of creating an excellent tourist city in our city, in terms of hardware construction, in 200 1 year, we will transform a number of dry toilets, upgrade the level of flush toilets, update and increase 7-8 sprinklers and closed transport vehicles, build and transform 2-3 compressed garbage transfer stations, and update a number of garbage bins; Complete the roof lighting of new key roads, squares, green spaces, Xiaoheyan, Guanghua Street and Jiangnan Shopping Mall with high quality and high grade, improve the lighting facilities around Chengzhong Road and Huaide Bridge, and clean up and transform the lighting facilities along the street and high-rise buildings. Strengthen the design and production of lighting, so as to achieve novel design, beautiful shape and modern atmosphere.
General situation of tourism.
Changzhou is located in the south of Jiangsu Province and the center of the Yangtze River Delta. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and beijing-shanghai railway pass through the city, and the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway and National Highway 3 12 run through the city. Changzhou Airport has direct flights to more than ten cities including Beijing, Guangzhou and Xiamen. It is a famous land of fish and rice in Jiangnan. It now governs Wujin, Jintan and Liyang, with an area of 4,375 square kilometers and a population of 3.34 million.
Changzhou is located in the beautiful and rich Yangtze River Golden Triangle area, which is treated equally with Shanghai and Nanjing. It has superior location conditions and convenient land, sea and air transportation conditions. The urban area is bordered by the Yangtze River in the north and Taihu Lake in the south, and the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, 3 12 National Highway and Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal pass through the territory. The city's water network criss-crosses, connecting rivers and oceans. The 10,000-ton wharf of Changzhou Port of the Yangtze River can be connected with foreign ships and has the function of container transit. Changzhou Railway Station has air routes to more than 20 large and medium-sized cities in China, including Beijing, Guangzhou, Dalian, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Haikou and Xi 'an.
Changzhou has a history of more than 2500 years, rich in humanities and numerous historical sites, and is a tourist attraction in history. In recent years, Changzhou's tourism industry has developed rapidly, and six scenic spots have been built and begun to take shape: Changzhou ancient city cultural tourism area; Modern tourist area of Changzhou New District; Wujin Spring and Autumn Yancheng Site and Gehu Tourist Area; Wujin Hengshan Scenic Area; Jintan Maoshan Scenic Area; Liyang Tianmu Lake Tourist Resort.
General economic situation.
Changzhou is an ancient cultural city with a recorded history of more than 2,500 years (there is also another name of "Dragon City" in history), and it is also a new industrial city full of modern flavor and relatively developed economy. Changzhou has jurisdiction over two county-level cities, Jintan and Liyang, and five administrative districts, namely Wujin, Xinbei, Tianning, Paris and Qishuyan, with a total area of 4,375 square kilometers and a total population of 34 1.48 million, of which 1.473 and 1.000.
Changzhou is located in the beautiful and rich Yangtze River Golden Triangle area, which is treated equally with Shanghai and Nanjing. It has superior location conditions and convenient land, sea and air transportation conditions. The urban area is bordered by the Yangtze River in the north and Taihu Lake in the south. Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, 3 12 National Highway and Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal pass through the city. The city's water network criss-crosses, connecting rivers and oceans. As a national first-class open port, Changzhou Port of the Yangtze River has an annual cargo throughput of over one million tons. Changzhou Railway Station has air routes to more than 20 large and medium-sized cities in China, including Beijing, Guangzhou, Dalian, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Haikou and Xi 'an.
Changzhou is a pilot city for comprehensive reform of the national economic system and one of the earliest open areas in the Yangtze River Delta. Won the title of Top 50 Comprehensive Strength and Top 40 Investment Environment.
Since the reform and opening up, the comprehensive strength of Changzhou's national economy has been increasingly strengthened, its foreign economy has become increasingly active, its urban construction has changed with each passing day, its social undertakings have flourished, and people's lives have been continuously improved. In 2002, the city's GDP reached 76.03 billion yuan, per capita GDP exceeded 20,000 yuan (US$ 2,690), fiscal revenue exceeded 654.38+0 billion yuan, contracted foreign investment exceeded 2.5 billion dollars, and state-owned assets investment exceeded 25 billion yuan. The city presents a gratifying scene of prosperity in all walks of life, urban and rural prosperity and political harmony. Changzhou has four pillar industries such as agricultural machinery manufacturing, power transmission and transformation equipment manufacturing, construction machinery, vehicles and accessories manufacturing, and new textiles and garments, and three emerging industries such as electronic information equipment manufacturing and software, biomedicine, fine chemicals and new materials. It is an important production base of small and medium-sized diesel engines, electronic information equipment, high-speed diesel locomotives, denim and other products in China. It has 3 well-known trademarks in China, 56 famous brand products in Jiangsu and 78 Changchai, Dongfeng and Xinke products. Changzhou is making great efforts to speed up the strategic adjustment of industrial structure and comprehensively promote the construction of modern manufacturing base.
Deng Xiaoping Theory and Three Generations? Quot Under the guidance of important thoughts, we should fully implement the spirit of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, closely focus on the overall goal of enriching the people and strengthening the city and taking the lead in basically realizing modernization, hold high the development theme, highlight the main line of adjustment, open up development, build a higher platform, create stronger vitality in the system and mechanism, show a new look in urban construction and urban management, and achieve faster promotion in rural agriculture. Vigorously promote the construction of three-level development parks and realize the utilization of foreign capital and private capital in by going up one flight of stairs; Vigorously promote market-oriented reform and fully complete the task of reform and transformation of state-owned collective enterprises; Vigorously promote the construction of modern megacities and further increase management and investment; Vigorously promote the rapid development of county economy, accelerate the pace of enriching the people and strengthening the city, strive to achieve sustained, rapid and healthy economic development and all-round social progress, and win new victories in the city's reform, opening up and modernization. This is the general requirement of the municipal government's work and the unified understanding of the whole city.
Adhere to the open economy as an important driving force to promote the rapid economic development of the city, and further form a strong joint force for the city to pay close attention to the open economy. The municipal government proposes to focus on attracting investment from high-tech industries such as electronic information, biomedicine and new materials, and projects such as heavy chemical industry and environmental protection industry, and strive to form a more advanced industrial structure and centralized enterprise clusters. We will continue to broaden the fields of utilizing foreign capital and increase the proportion of foreign capital in agriculture, social undertakings, infrastructure and service industries. Improve the rapid response, comprehensive coordination and tracking service mechanism for major projects, vigorously carry out joint investment promotion by regional bureaus, attract internationally renowned enterprises and their R&D institutions to settle in Changzhou, and strive to make new breakthroughs in major investment promotion projects. Pay attention to the actual contribution rate of contracted projects and the assessment of start-up and completion, and constantly improve the effectiveness of attracting investment. At the same time, we will further open wider to the outside world, take the initiative to accept Shanghai's economic radiation and actively participate in it? Quot Expo economy ",strengthen horizontal cooperation and collaboration with brother cities and large domestic groups.
Expanding opening up, accelerating development and actively promoting integration with the international economy are major strategies that our city will unswervingly implement. According to the goal of internationalization, modernization and urbanization, Changzhou has successively established/kloc-0 national high-tech industrial development zones and 9 provincial development zones. In 2002, the city's total foreign trade import and export amounted to $3.92 billion, of which $2.66 billion was exported and the dependence on foreign trade was 42.3%. At present, there are 205 new batch of self-operated export enterprises, including 44 enterprises that export more than $100000, and 6 enterprises that export more than $50 million. Shinco Electronics, Chenfeng Group, Black Peony Group and Planet Electronics ranked first, fourth, sixth and ninth among the self-operated export enterprises in the province. In 2002, Changzhou successfully held the World SME Congress and the 7th China International SME Fair. In the whole year, 363 new foreign direct investment projects were signed, and the actual utilization of foreign capital was 980 million yuan. In 2002, 82 large-scale projects with total investment exceeding100000 USD were approved, including three super-large projects such as Lian Xin Semiconductor, Wanda Paper and Xinhai Iron and Steel.
At present, 73 countries and regions have invested in Changzhou, and 22 of the world's top 500 multinational companies have successively invested in 24 projects including General Electric Company (GE), Ashland, mettler toledo and German F&. More than 50 multinational companies such as G Company, Callmeyer Company, Rexroth Company of mannesmann, Farinaud Company of France, Hayworth Company of Britain, Toshiba Company of Japan, Komatsu Company, Bridgestone Company, Fujitsu Company, Marubeni Company, Mitsui Company, Hyundai Company of Korea, Italian Radish Company and Taiwan Province Yangguang Company have invested and settled in our city. The completion and commissioning of these large projects have greatly promoted the development and growth of related industries in our city.
We sincerely hope that investors at home and abroad can focus on the new century and come to share the fruits of Changzhou's rapid economic development and the joy of successful investment in this fertile land.
Changzhou will create a better environment for investors at home and abroad.