(a) 30 years of reform and opening up, is the Xiangtan social needs of the 30 years of continuous leap
--Investment intensity continues to be strong. 1978-2007, Xiangtan adapted to the requirements of the economic and social development of various periods of large-scale economic construction. The city's cumulative investment in fixed assets totaled 136.57 billion yuan, effectively expanding the scale of industry, accelerating social development, improving urban functions, and upgrading people's living standards.
1, rural construction. After the founding of New China, the city carried out large-scale construction of farmland water conservancy. after 1978, the city's rural infrastructure has been effectively repaired, maintained, remodeled and strengthened. Especially in recent years, the city through the active implementation of the new socialist countryside construction, accelerate the rural access to the project, safe drinking water projects, power grid supporting project construction, etc., agricultural production conditions have been improved faster, the overall strength of agriculture has increased significantly. at the end of 2007, the city has 380 reservoirs with a capacity of 940 million cubic meters, the length of the embankment is 270 kilometers, and the general drought and flooding have been effectively controlled! . The effective irrigated area of arable land expanded to 1.742 million mu, accounting for 97% of the total arable land. Agricultural machinery from scratch, from backward to advanced to obtain rapid development, in 2007 the city's total power of agricultural machinery amounted to 1.803 million kilowatts, an average of 1 kilowatt per mu of arable land, the level of agricultural machinery equipment ranks among the forefront of cities across the province.
2, industrial technological transformation. Since the reform and opening up, the city's industrial focus from the pursuit of the expansion of reproduction to the connotation of the expansion of reproduction, through the enterprise internal tapping into the potential for transformation, and gradually reversed the hovering situation of industrial production, Xiangtan industry into a new period of steady development. 1978-2000, the city's **** invested in technological transformation of 10.8 billion yuan of capital, Xianggang, Shaofeng Cement, Xiangtan electrochemical, Xiangtan power generation, Xiangtan motor and other major technological transformation projects have been carried out technological transformation. Major technological transformation projects have been carried out one after another, the production capacity has been significantly improved, thus greatly strengthening the industrial base of Xiangtan. In 2000, Xiangtan use of the old industrial city of various resources, adhere to the implementation of the strategy of strong and rich city, increase the reform efforts, vigorously promote the new type of industrialization, and strive to build industrial parks, the city's industrial injection of new vitality, stepped into an accelerated development of the period. Jiuhua Geely car successfully put into production, the formation of steel calendering processing base, engineering and construction machinery industry to accelerate the development of mining equipment industry is being implemented according to the plan, the biomedical industry is taking shape, clean energy industry has taken shape. Industrial endogenous growth mechanism has begun to take shape, industrial competitive strength has been significantly enhanced.
3, urban infrastructure. (1) Transportation is becoming more and more developed. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xiangtan transportation is mainly civilian water transport, railroads, road transport, although a little, but not smooth. After the founding of the country, especially after the reform and opening up the construction and development, Xiangtan has built a railroad, highway, waterway three modes of transportation, composed of the first scale of modern transportation system. Xiangtan territory highway densely, the railroad runs through the east and west, traffic in all directions, advanced and fast means of transportation, forming a trunk and branch connected, county and township connected, vertical and horizontal intertwined multi-level, multi-form, multi-channel surface traffic transportation network. 2007, the city's highway mileage of 2,695 kilometers, an increase of 530 kilometers over 1978, of which the urban road 452 kilometers, an increase of 342 kilometers compared to 1978. In 2007, the city's road mileage was 2,695 kilometers, an increase of 530 kilometers over 1978, of which 452 kilometers of urban roads, an increase of 342 kilometers over 1978, road conditions are far from what they used to be. The city has 2 national highways, 289.8 kilometers long, and 154.2 kilometers of provincial highways. There are 5 highways built, including Changtan Highway, Tan Shao Highway, Tan Lei Highway, Changtan West Line, Litan Highway, Tanheng West Line and Shaoshan Highway are under construction, together with the crossings of National Highway 107 and National Highway 320 in Xiangtan, Xiangtan has become an important hub of the national highway, and also becomes the densest highway area of prefecture-level cities in the country. The density of the city's highway network is 53.8 kilometers/100 square kilometers, with an average of 9.3 kilometers per 10,000 people, which is much higher than the average level of the country and the province. At present, Xiangtan has nine bridges across the Xiangjiang River which have been completed and are under construction, and the road network pattern of "five bridges and two rings" in the city has basically been formed. 100% of the townships and more than 95% of the administrative villages in the city are connected by buses. The city's railroad mileage of 154 kilometers, Beijing-Guangzhou, Xiangqian, under construction of the Wuhan-Guangzhou Passenger Dedicated Line through the city, and there are 35 factories and mines within the territory of the railroad, the total length of 225 kilometers. The city's navigable mileage of 260 kilometers, built in 1994, fourteen total kiloton wharf, in 2006, the first phase of the Tie Niu Port Port project three kiloton berths, Hexi central port three kiloton berths have been completed and put into use. 2007, Xiangtan port cargo throughput exceeded 5 million tons per annum, and stepped into the ranks of the national inland waterway ports. (2) Postal and telecommunication has made rapid progress. The real take-off of Xiangtan Telecom began in 1993, through the implementation of "165", "718" and "515" communication projects, which created a promising situation of sustained, rapid and coordinated development of Xiangtan Telecom. In 1993, it built mobile telephone network, wireless paging network and video teleconferencing network; in 1994, it built long-distance digital transmission network above rural towns as well as international and domestic direct dialing network of program-controlled telephones above rural towns, digital data and packet-switching network; in 1995, it successfully realized the seven-digit telephone number upgrade; in 1996, it realized the seven-digit telephone number upgrade; and in 1996, it successfully realized the seven-digit telephone number upgrade; and in 1996, it successfully realized the seven-digit telephone number upgrade; and in 1996, it successfully realized the seven-digit telephone number upgrade. In 1995, it successfully realized the telephone number up to seven; in 1996, it built multimedia broadband service network; in 1997, it built Xiangtan Information Port; in 1998, it opened ATM/relay network and carried out the expansion and transformation of Internet and "168" system; in 1999, the mobile company invested more than 60 million yuan to build a new GSM digital mobile base station, and successfully opened 80,000 GSM exchanges. In 1999, the mobile company invested more than 60 million yuan to build a new GSM digital mobile base station and successfully opened 80,000 GSM exchanges, which ended the history of Xiangtan without a digital exchange bureau. In the same year, China Unicom Xiangtan Branch was established, and in 2001, it realized the national and provincial networks. The enhancement of communication capacity has brought about an exponential growth in business volume, by 2007, the city's fixed-line telephone users amounted to 733,000, the number of cell phone users amounted to 812,000, fixed-line telephone penetration rate amounted to 25.9 per 100 people, cell phone penetration rate 28.7 per 100 people. at the end of 2007, the city's Internet users amounted to 178,000. (3) The urban landscape has undergone radical changes. After 30 years of construction, especially in 2000, the "one of three clear" construction, Xiangtan's urban roads, public **** transportation, urban water supply and gas supply, environmental protection, landscaping, etc. have made remarkable achievements, formed a sound operation, management network. 7 years, the city's cumulative completion of urban construction investment of 7 billion yuan, the built-up area of the city from 54,000 square meters, the city's total investment in urban construction, the city's total investment in urban construction, the city's total investment in urban construction, the city's total investment in urban construction has increased by 7.7 billion yuan. billion yuan, the built-up area of the city expanded from 54 square kilometers to 80 square kilometers. Hedong New District basic shape, Oriental Red Square, Baishi Park, Jinyuan Square and a number of high-quality projects, become a new symbol of Xiangtan's urban image. The pace of transformation of the old city of Heshi accelerated, the core business circle construction started in full swing. Municipal utilities continue to improve. Hexi sewage treatment plant into operation, Hedong sewage treatment plant to speed up the construction. The number of urban natural gas users reached more than 50,000 households. Greening, lighting, purification and beautification level of comprehensive improvement, Xiangtan became a provincial civilized city and China's outstanding tourist city.