Shishi is located in the coastal protrusion of the Southern Fujian Golden Triangle on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait. It is located between the cultural and historical city Quanzhou and the Special Economic Zone Xiamen. The city faces the sea on three sides, with a coastline of 67.7 kilometers and a city area of ??160 square kilometers. With the approval of the State Council in December 1987, Shishi was upgraded from a town to a county-level city under provincial jurisdiction. It was listed in September 1988. It currently governs 7 towns and 2 sub-district offices, with a population of 300,000 and a migrant population of 210,000. In the 16 years since the city was founded, the Shishi Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have held high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory, deeply practiced the important thought of "Three Represents", firmly grasped the top priority of development, been determined to reform, boldly pioneered, took the lead in developing the socialist market economy, and vigorously implemented The development strategies of "building a city through industry, prospering through trade, prospering through tourism, and strengthening through science and technology", "loving the sea, using the sea, nourishing the sea" and "small city, big economy" actively promote the construction of the city's three civilizations, and the economy continues to be fast and healthy. development and comprehensive progress in various social undertakings.

In 2004, the city achieved a GDP of 14.25 billion yuan, a total industrial and agricultural output value of 21.72 billion yuan, a total fiscal revenue of 1.207 billion yuan, and a per capita net income of farmers of more than 8,000 yuan. All major economic indicators were higher than those established in 2004. The market has increased by more than 30 times. It has successively won a series of honorary titles such as China's Famous Leisure Clothing City, National Sports Advanced City, National Science and Technology Advanced City, National Health Advanced City, National Double Support Model City, and Fujian Province Educational Advanced City, Cultural Advanced City, and Spiritual Civilization Construction Advanced City. ?

A famous casual clothing city in China. With the support of industrial city establishment, Shishi has formed a "one city and five pillars" industrial system with textiles and clothing as the leading industry and footwear, sporting goods, food processing, electronic machinery, and plastic hardware as pillars. In 2004, various enterprises in the city achieved The industrial output value is 25.66 billion yuan. The most distinctive feature of Shishi's economy is that it has formed a textile and clothing industry chain covering chemical fiber, textiles, bleaching and dyeing, garment processing, accessories, and marketing. The city has more than 3,600 textile and clothing manufacturing enterprises, and nearly 2,000 registered trademarks focusing on clothing, including a number of nationally renowned brands such as Fuguiniao, Weilanxi, Pinpai, Dipai, Jinxibao, Hadley, and Yebao. brand. The three towns of Kaijiang, Lingxiu and Baogai were respectively awarded the titles of "China's famous trousers town", "China's famous sports and leisure clothing town" and "China's famous clothing accessories town". "Fuguiniao" was awarded the famous Chinese trademark "Pinpai". trademark, Weilanxi won the title of China Famous Brand. ?

Shishi Garment City, which covers an area of ??1,100 acres and has an investment of 1 billion yuan, will officially open in April and will be built into one of the largest professional clothing wholesale markets at home and abroad. The annual turnover of Yuanyangchi fabric market is about 15 billion, ranking at the forefront of the national fabric market, and its radiation and influence on the national fabric market are increasing day by day. The Taqian clothing accessories market and the Yangxia clothing fabric market have begun to take shape. Shishi also holds the Cross-Strait Textile and Garment Expo every year to promote the docking of the textile and garment industries across the Taiwan Strait and enhance the radiation power of Shishi's textile and garment industry. Shishi has established more than 2,000 marketing outlets across the country, and emerging business formats such as e-commerce, franchising, and chain operations have gradually become important ways for companies to expand their markets. ?

Fujian Province Comprehensive Reform Experimental Zone. Since its establishment as a city, Shishi has comprehensively promoted many reforms in administrative institutions, investment, finance, finance and taxation, and modern enterprise systems. It has successively issued "Several Preferential Measures for Encouraging External Introduction and Internal Linkage" and "Several Incentive Measures for Supporting Enterprise Development" , "Several Provisions on Encouraging Investment in Shishi City", "Measures for Supporting the Development of Key Enterprises" and other policies, the institutional environment for economic development has been continuously improved. ?

Famous hometown of overseas Chinese and 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 nearly 500 million yuan to 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 did a good job in economic and trade with Taiwan.

In 2004, the total output value of foreign-funded enterprises was 11.98 billion yuan, with export sales revenue of 318 million US dollars, becoming the main force in Shishi's economic development. ?

Infrastructure is improving day by day. As an emerging city, Shishi firmly grasps the leading role of planning and conceives and builds a city as a city. The city has built two 220KV power transmission and substations, and is about to build three 110KV power transmission and substations, realizing the establishment of double-circuit power supply lines to Fuzhou and Xiamen. It has built one water plant with a daily water supply of 200,000 tons and a water plant of 70,000 tons, realizing the goal of supplying water to Fuzhou and Xiamen. Water supply for the whole city. A water diversion project with a total investment of more than 200 million yuan has been completed. The per capita water supply volume ranks first in the province and the daily water supply volume ranks third in the province. A national first-class port, Shihu, with a capacity of 10,000 tons and a 35,000-ton wharf have been built. A 50,000-ton expansion of the Shihu Terminal is under planning and construction. Once completed, it will become the most important container hub port in South China. 33 kilometers of cement concrete roads with a width of 38 meters and 26 meters have been built in the urban area, and more than 60 kilometers of cement concrete roads with a width of 38 meters and 26 meters from the urban area to coastal towns have basically achieved hardening of roads between towns and villages in the entire city. A reliable postal and telecommunications network has been built. The city has more than 200,000 local telephone users, more than 163,000 mobile phone users, 32,000 cable TV users, and more than 20,000 Internet users. In addition, key projects such as Shishi Avenue, coastal thoroughfare, power building, communication hub building, public office building, and coastal tide and flood prevention projects have been basically completed, and urban functions are being continuously improved. ?

A good place for traveling and shopping. Shishi has many famous mountains and scenic spots, and is rich in human resources and coastal natural tourism resources. It is not only a shopping paradise, but also a wonderful place for tourism. Shopping tourism: Shishi attracts tens of thousands of merchants from all over the country and abroad every day; tourist attractions: historical site tourism, mainly including the famous Gusao Pagoda, Liusheng Pagoda, Linluandu, Zhenhai Stone, etc., Huxiu Temple, Religious tourism focusing on Chaotian Temple, Chenghuang Temple, and Luojia Temple; coastal tourism: Shishi faces the sea on three sides, with rolling beaches, islands and reefs, and a poetic fishing village style. The Golden Coast of southern Fujian has become a tourist hotspot for tourists at home and abroad; leisure tourism : Shishi has not only beautiful mountains and waters, but also cultural landscapes such as Baogai Mountain Scenic Area, Lingxiu Mountain Scenic Area, People's Square, Turtle Lake Park and so on. ?

Comprehensive and coordinated development of social undertakings. 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 deeply carries out the construction of "Integrity Shishi". Vigorously develop education, science and technology, culture, health, sports and other social undertakings. At present, the city has 3 higher vocational schools, 1 technical secondary school, 14 middle schools, and 89 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 Municipal Productivity Promotion Center, accelerate the construction of "Digital Shishi", and fully implement the four major Internet projects of government, enterprises, schools and families; cultural and sports undertakings With vigorous development, a large number of public facilities such as the city library, cultural center, gymnasium, overseas Chinese hospital and "120" emergency center have been built. A new overseas Chinese town with a modern and civilized atmosphere has gradually been formed. ?

Looking to the future, there is a long way to go. The people of Shishi will keep pace with the times, adapt to new situations, meet new challenges, develop in competition, compete in development, and take overall control of the overall situation by building a well-off society in an all-round way and taking the lead in basically realizing modernization, so as to enhance the comprehensive economic strength and Focusing on the overall competitiveness of the city, we will continue to deepen reform, expand opening up, accelerate development, maintain stability, fully promote the coordinated development of socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization, and strive to build Shishi into a city that is strong and prosperous, has a clean government, and is honest and civilized. Modern industry, trade, tourism, ecology and port city. ?

Busy Terminal: Shihu 10,000-ton Terminal is a national first-class port and has become the "Central Port of Quanzhou Bay" and the "Domestic Container Hub Port in South China."