Zibo City is located in the middle of Shandong Province, bordering the foothills of Taiyi Mountain to the south, Jiuqu Yellow River to the north, Jinan, the provincial capital, to the west, and Weifang and Qingdao to the east. It is a city in the Shandong Peninsula Economic Open Zone and a "larger city" approved by the State Council. It governs 5 districts of Zhangdian, Zichuan, Boshan, Zhoucun and Linzi and 3 counties of Huantai, Gaoqing and Yiyuan, with a total area of ??5938 square kilometers and a population of 4.13 million, of which the urban population is 2.73 million. Zibo is a typical cluster city, with five urban districts each about 20 kilometers apart. Zhangdian, where the municipal government is located, is the central urban district of the city. The terrain of Zibo is high in the south and low in the north. The southern mountainous area has two national forest parks, Lushan and Yuanshan, as well as Kaiyuan Cave, Qiaolingqian Cave, Yiyuan Cave and other cave groups stretching for dozens of miles; the northern plain is fertile and wild, and the Yellow River meanders along the border. ±47 kilometers.
History Culture
Zibo has a long history and is the birthplace of Qi culture and an excellent tourist city in China. Linzi is the former capital of Qi State, the leader of the Five Hegemons in the Spring and Autumn Period, and is now a national-level historical and cultural city. Zibo has produced many famous figures in its history. Jiang Taigong, Qi Huangong, Guan Zhong, Yan Ying, Sun Wu, Zuo Si, Chunyu Yi, Fang Xuanling, Pu Songling, Zhao Zhixin, Wang Yuyang, etc. are among the outstanding representatives. Zibo City has many cultural relics and historic sites, and 177 are listed as key cultural relics for protection. There are so many cultural relics in the ancient city of Qi in the east that it is known as the "Underground Museum". The horse pit of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is rare in the world. The Chinese Ancient Car Museum is the best in China. In the middle there is the former residence of Pu Songling, the "King of Short Stories in the World"; in the south there is the early The ruins of the Great Wall of Qin are located in the Great Wall of Qi; Zhoucun in the west, as an important historical commercial port town, has the reputation of "the first village in the world".
Infrastructure
Zibo is an important transportation hub city in Shandong Province. The east-west Jiaoji Railway, Jiqing Expressway, 309 National Highway and the north-south Zidong (Ying) Ziba (Deep) Railway, Bin (zhou) Lai (Wu) Expressway, and 205 National Highway form three traffic "ten" The backbone of the font runs throughout the city. The city center is 70 kilometers away from Jinan International Airport and 210 kilometers away from Qingdao Port. Zibo is the telecommunications hub and mail processing center in Central Shandong. Optical cable communications, digital, microwave transmission, program-controlled telephones, and the international Internet are widely used. Modern communication services such as mobile phones, video phones, and international postal express delivery are developing rapidly, and external communications are smooth.
Economic Development
Since the reform and opening up, Zibo City’s economic strength has been increasing day by day. In 1992, it entered the top 50 comprehensive cities in China; in 2003, the GDP reached 100.34 billion yuan, the fixed asset investment of the whole society reached 36.59 billion yuan, the total domestic fiscal and tax revenue reached 10.1 billion yuan, the local fiscal revenue reached 4.03 billion yuan, and various deposits of financial institutions The balance is 82.43 billion yuan, the balance of various loans is 60.51 billion yuan, and the balance of urban and rural savings is 47.93 billion yuan.
Zibo is an important industrial city in Shandong Province and the Bohai Rim region of China. It is an important petrochemical and pharmaceutical production base in the country, one of the five major porcelain capitals and the three major building materials production bases in China. It is also the famous "Silk City". Hometown" and a national-level new material achievement transformation and industrialization base. The territory is rich in natural resources, and more than 50 kinds of mineral deposits have been discovered so far. Among them, bauxite, refractory clay, chemical limestone, ceramic clay, etc. have large reserves and high grade, and are the main producing areas in Shandong. There are abundant oil and natural gas resources in the north. Zibo's industry mainly covers 35 categories including petrochemicals, ceramics, textiles, medicine, building materials, metallurgy, machinery, plastics, and electronics. It has formed a pattern of integrated urban and rural development with heavy industry as the main body, a combination of large and medium-sized enterprises, and urban and rural integration. By the end of 2003, there were 1,416 industrial enterprises above designated size in the city. Qilu Petrochemical Company, located in Zibo, is a large-scale petrochemical complex in my country. Its crude oil processing volume ranks among the top in the country. Zibo has strong advantages in pharmaceutical production. It is an important domestic production base for antipyretic analgesics, oral cephalosporin antibiotic raw materials and preparations, etc. The ceramics, building materials and textile industries have outstanding characteristics, with an annual output of 430 million pieces of daily ceramics and 500 million square meters of architectural ceramics. In recent years, high-tech industries represented by new materials, fine chemicals, and basic electronic components have grown rapidly.
In 2003, the city's total industrial output value reached 141.329 billion yuan, and the added value, sales revenue, profits and taxes, and profits of industries above designated size reached 44.11 billion yuan, 139.39 billion yuan, 13.87 billion yuan, and 6.58 billion yuan respectively. The output value of high-tech industries above designated size accounted for The proportion of total industrial output value reached 24. Zibo has 3 well-known Chinese trademarks, Xinhua Medicine, Huaguang Ceramics, and Lanyan Clothing, and 69 Shandong Province famous trademark products. 102 types (categories) of products from 72 companies have won the title of Shandong Province Signature Product and Shandong Famous Brand. There are 12 companies and 14 stocks listed domestically and overseas in the city.
Zibo has distinctive agricultural characteristics and has built ten characteristic economic zones including high-quality special grains, vegetables, fruits, silkworms, animal husbandry, and freshwater breeding. The degree of agricultural mechanization reaches 70. Linzi District is a national standardized agricultural demonstration area; Yiyuan County is a national pollution-free fruit production demonstration base county. The city currently has 1 national-level leading agricultural industrialization enterprise and 9 provincial-level leading enterprises. In 2003, the city's output of grain, vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, and milk reached 1.107 million tons, 3.529 million tons, 452,000 tons, and 391,000 tons respectively.
Zibo’s circulation and service industries are relatively developed and it is an important regional logistics center for ceramics, building materials, chemicals, mechanical and electrical products in Shandong Province. It has large-scale professional wholesale markets such as Zichuan Garment City, Zichuan Building Materials City, Zhoucun Textile World, Boshan Ceramics Glazed Grand View Garden and a number of commercial and trade enterprises. China Fortune Ceramics City, China Ceramics Science and Technology City, Zibo Yiwu Small Commodity City, etc. are under construction.
Opening up to the outside world
Zibo City has continuously expanded foreign economic and technological exchanges and cooperation in recent years, forming an all-round and multi-level opening up pattern. It has formed sister cities with more than 30 Chinese and foreign cities, and established economic, technical cooperation and trade relations with more than 70 countries and regions around the world. A number of multinational companies such as Siemens, Asahi Glass, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Morgan, Samsung, Citizen, PPG, Prigo, and Kenfu have come to invest. The national-level Zibo High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Qilu Chemical Industrial Zone, and six provincial-level economic and technological development zones have complete infrastructure and strong industrial supporting capabilities, and have become the highlands of the city's economic development and industrial agglomeration. In 2003, the city introduced 11.73 billion yuan in foreign investment, of which US$350 million was actually utilized, and foreign trade exports reached US$1.01 billion.
Social undertakings
Zibo is one of the first batch of pilot cities in the country to develop cities through science and technology and a national-level spark technology intensive area. It has more than 960 scientific research institutions of various types and 250,000 professional and technical personnel. It is an important scientific research base in silicate, chemical industry, medicine, silk, metallurgy and other fields in Shandong Province. Six districts and counties are among the "Top 100 Counties in National Science and Technology Strength". Zibo is an advanced area in the country's education "two basics" work. It is the first in the country to realize "school-to-school access" to the Internet for primary and secondary schools. It has a number of higher education institutions such as Shandong University of Technology, a provincial key university, Wanjie Medical College, a private university, and Zibo Vocational College. Zibo has successively won the titles of National Sanitary City, National Double Support Model City, Advanced City for Revitalizing the City through Science and Education, and Cultural Model City.