Shishi is a young and small city. When mentioning Shishi, people always associate it with such titles as "China's Famous City of Casual Clothing", "Comprehensive Reform Pilot Zone of Fujian Province", "Window to Taiwan" and "National Famous Overseas Chinese Hometown". "and" the national famous hometown of overseas Chinese "and other titles linked together.
Shishi is located on the southeastern coast of Fujian, across the sea from Taiwan, between the cultural and historical city of Quanzhou and the special economic zone of Xiamen, with three sides of the city facing the sea, a coastline of 67.7 kilometers, and a city area of 160 square kilometers.
In 1988, the State Council approved the establishment of the city, which now has seven towns and two street offices under its jurisdiction, with a population of 300,000 people and 210,000 migrant workers.
Since the founding of the city, Shishi has benefited from the good opportunities of reform and opening up, the new mechanism of the comprehensive reform pilot zone, and given full play to the human spirit of "love to work hard and dare to win", reformed and innovated, and pushed forward the economic and social development in a comprehensive manner, with the comprehensive strength increasing by nearly 30 times.
In 2006, the city's gross domestic product (GDP) of 20.05 billion yuan, an increase of 15.3%, the first time to exceed the 20 billion mark.
Total revenue and local-level income amounted to 1.8 billion yuan, 942 million yuan, an increase of 21.2% and 25%, both doubled over 2003.
Per capita GDP and per capita revenue ranked first in the province.
Comprehensive economic strength ranked 22nd among the top 100 counties (cities) in the country, to maintain the province's top ten counties (cities) No. 2.
- China's famous city of leisure clothing.
Shishi is famous for its clothing, and is the production base and distribution center for textile and clothing in China.
The textile and garment industry here has a long history and a strong foundation. After more than 20 years of careful cultivation, a textile and garment industry chain has been formed with garment processing and production as the core, covering various fields such as textile, bleaching and dyeing, garment processing and production, accessory production, marketing and so on, and the advantage of industrial clusters is obvious.
The city now has more than 3,000 apparel and supporting industry enterprises, clothing-based registered trademarks amounted to more than 2,000 to Shishi as the center, connecting Jinjiang, Quanzhou and other surrounding areas of Fujian apparel plate, *** more than 10,000 textile and apparel enterprises, with an annual output value of 50 billion yuan, is China's and even the world's important apparel plate, emerged Fugui Bird, Weilanxie, Kabin, Spelling brand, Aidenberg, Bin Yinu, Jian Jian, Emperor brand, Hadley and a number of other famous brands, forming a "boutique collection of characteristics of the suit, the famous city everywhere are brands," a good pattern.
Shishi and the surrounding areas integrated into the Shishi clothing plate, and then developed into a Shishi plate as the center of the Fujian school of clothing square.
50% of Shishi garments are exported to the international market, and many internationally renowned clothing brands, such as Crocodile, Woodpecker, Zhou Weaving, Cardano, etc., are sourcing raw materials and producing orders in Shishi, which has become an important link in the global garment processing and trade industry chain, and one of the five largest multinational garment sourcing bases in China.
Now the Shishi clothing, has transcended the scope of the administrative region, the formation of a pan-Shishi concept.
In 2003, Shishi began construction of a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan, an area of 1,110 acres, known as the international apparel logistics and distribution centers, one of Asia's largest clothing market Shishi Garment City.
The first phase of the project (including four garment trading area and exhibition art center and leisure plaza) has been completed, and opened in 2005, the city of melting market, the second phase of the project is currently accelerating the construction.
Shishi Clothing City continues to develop and prosper, and now has rapidly become one of China's top ten wholesale clothing market.
With the Cross-Strait Textile and Clothing Expo and Leisure Clothing Expo as the platform, and Shishi Clothing City as the center, connecting with Yuanyang Pond Fabric Market (one of the four largest fabric markets in China), Taqian Clothing Accessory Market, Yangxia Clothing Accessory and Fabric Comprehensive Market, and Taqian Clothing Machinery Market, Shishi Textile and Clothing Trade Zone is constantly improving.
- Industry, trade and tourism port city.
Shishi has rich marine resources, including port resources, coastal tourism resources, marine biological resources, the city's marine economy accounts for about 40% of the GDP.
Shishi is one of the six major transshipment hub ports for domestic trade container transportation in China.
The port has been Shishi's most active economic zone, according to the "construction of large ports, the development of large industries, the construction of large urban areas, the realization of large-scale development" idea, and constantly promote the port, industry, the city's interaction with the **** glory, the formation of a national class of ports Shihu Port as a leader, covering an area of 20 square kilometers of Shihu Port Industrial Zone as the focus of the export-oriented port economic zone.
Shishi has Shihu, Xiangzhi, Yongning 3 deep-water port, of which Shihu Port has built 50,000 tons, 35,000 tons, 10,000 tons, 3,000 tons of berths each one, in 2006, Shihu Port cargo throughput of 8.983 million tons, container throughput of 432,000 TEU, accounting for half of the total container throughput in Quanzhou, among the top five ports of the Chinese port of the domestic trade container terminal.
Shishi is one of the "top 100 fishery counties (cities)" and "top 10 fishery counties (cities)" in Fujian Province, and the output value of aquatic products processing ranks second in the province, with more than 200 kinds of major seafood, and an area of 8,183 hectares of shallow mudflats. Fishing port (national level fishing port), Meilin, Dongpu fishing port (national second level fishing port) and other good fishing port, the formation of Huabao chemical, Mingxiang food as the leading blue industrial base, built covering an area of 110 acres, with a total investment of more than 100 million yuan of Xiangzhi wholesale market of aquatic products, built the new Shadai abalone nursery bases, Yongning seawater net-pen aquaculture fish demonstration bases, such as a number of high-quality aquatic products breeding base.
Shishi is a famous coastal tourism city, a long history of humanities, many monuments, waves and sand beaches and sea-eroded landforms constitute a gorgeous coastal scenery and the Haisi culture, dress culture and other characteristics of the culture and lion dance, lantern riddles, the Nanyin, the Water Festival, stepping on the ball dance, and other folk cultures are intertwined; Shishi Clothing City, mainly shopping tours to the south of the Minnan Gold Coast, the Hongtawan beachfront landscape, mainly coastal tours, attracting international and national tourism, the main attraction is that the city has the best shopping experience. Attracted international and national sailing championships held in Minnan Gold Coast.
Famous attractions such as Gushao Pagoda, Liusheng Pagoda, Linluandu, Huxiu Temple, Chaotian Temple, Chenghuang Temple and Luoga Temple, and leisure tourism such as Lingxiu Mountain Forest Park and Baogai Mountain Ecological and Cultural Park, form the unique tourism system of Shishi.
-- National famous hometown of overseas Chinese, the window to Taiwan.
The towering Gushu Pagoda and Shihu Pagoda were the symbols of sea navigation in those years, from which Shishi people went to develop Taiwan with Zheng Chenggong, and traveled to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries with foreign ships.
Now the city has nearly 300,000 overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots, and more than 300,000 compatriots from Taiwan who are native to Shishi.
The vast number of overseas Chinese and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots have a fine tradition of patriotism and love for their hometowns, enthusiastic about the construction and development of their hometowns, over the past few years to donate education, health care, infrastructure and other public welfare funds amounted to 630 million yuan.
After the establishment of the city, Shishi gave full play to the advantages of overseas Chinese and Taiwanese, and vigorously developed an export-oriented economy, and revitalized the article of economic and trade with Taiwan.
By the end of 2006, the city **** approved 1994 foreign-invested enterprises, with a total investment of 4.02 billion U.S. dollars, and the actual foreign capital of 2.22 billion U.S. dollars.
In 2006, the total value of self-supporting exports amounted to 368 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 45.3%, higher than the provincial average.