Population density: 203 people/km2
Dongxing City, Guangxi is located in the southwesternmost tip of the coastline of China's mainland, southeast of the Beibu Gulf, the west side of the border in Vietnam, Guangxi and even China to Vietnam and Southeast Asia's most convenient corridor, but also China's and ASEAN's only sea and land connected to the port city of Fangchenggang City, under the Guangxi.
Dongxing is a national class port, is the State Council approved coastal open city. 1992, the State Council Office of the Special Administrative Region approved the establishment of 4.07 square kilometers of border economic cooperation zone, in April 1996, the State Council approved the establishment of the county-level Dongxing City, jurisdiction of the three towns of Dongxing, Jiangping, Malu. The land border is 27.5 kilometers long and the coastline is 50 kilometers long. With a total area of 540.7 square kilometers and a total population of 110,000, it is the only settlement of the Jing ethnic group in China.
Dongxing is a convenient passage for China to and from Southeast Asian countries. The city is separated from Vietnam's Mang Street City by a dozens of meters of the Beilun River, 180 kilometers from Ha Long City, the capital of Quang Ninh Province, 308 kilometers from Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, 178 kilometers from Nanning, the capital of Guangxi, and 39 kilometers from Fangchenggang City. The city's Zhushan, Tamgyi and Jingdao ports are navigable to major ports in China and Vietnam.
Commercial Trade
As early as in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Dongxing border people and Vietnamese border people began to trade with each other. In the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century, Dongxing has become an important trading port with Southeast Asia and the United States, Britain, France and other countries, Dongxing because of the merchants gathered, the market is booming, once known as "small Hong Kong". With the accelerated creation of China - ASEAN Free Trade Area, China-Vietnam border trade and tourism has become the most "hot" city. According to statistics, the annual entry and exit of business, tourism, more than 12 million people, become China's largest number of entry and exit of one of the land border crossing, thus promoting the rapid development of border trade in Dongxing. Over the past 14 years since Dongxing opened to the outside world, the turnover of border trade has exceeded 10.5 billion dollars, of which the import turnover is 4.95 billion dollars, the export turnover is 5.55 billion dollars, and the tax revenue is 700 million dollars (including tariffs). There are 8 enterprises with general trade operation rights in the city, more than 60 small trade operation rights, 6,500 registered business households in the city, and more than 10,000 border people engaged in mutual trade.
Dongxing has invested 50 million yuan to build an area of 120 acres with "mutual market channel, mutual market trade, mutual market commodity purchase, border small over goods channel" function of the mutual market trade area, broaden the foreign trade channels. Taking the enterprise operation and provincial, local and county-level city governments to host the way, held nine consecutive commodity fairs.
Industry
Dongxing is backed by Southwest China, facing Southeast Asia, the industrial economic market is extremely broad. Dongxing according to their geographic advantages, made a border trade, tourism, processing industry as the leading strategic decision, and constantly improve infrastructure, and further improve the investment environment, which brought the rise of industrial enterprises in Dongxing, and has gradually formed a rubber processing, seafood processing, electrical assembly, medical equipment, agricultural products processing industries such as the main industrial layout, from the production, supply and marketing aspects of the formation of the pattern of a dragon, television sets
East Asia's most popular products, such as TV sets, medical equipment, etc., are sold to Southeast Asian countries.
Dongxing City for the enterprise to create a loose, good development environment, Dongxing municipal party committee, the municipal government through the formulation and introduction of "Dongxing City on accelerating the development of the private economy decision" and a series of other decisions, to create an unprecedented loose good investment environment.
Agriculture
Dongxing is located in longitude 108 ° 03 ′, latitude 21 ° 35 ′, belongs to the southern subtropical monsoon zone, four seasons of mild climate, no frost throughout the year, the average temperature of 22.4 ° C, the average annual rainfall of 2,800 millimeters, plenty of sunshine, rainfall, with the development of subtropical characteristics of the climate advantages of agriculture.
At present, Dongxing mainly grows crops such as rice, corn, beans, sweet potatoes, peanuts, cassava and vegetables, and the economic forests mainly include cinnamon, star anise, rubber and tea, and produces tropical fruits such as longan, lychee, mandarin oranges, pineapple, pineapple honey and yellow pippin fruit.
Aquaculture mainly includes shrimps, green crabs, clams, pearls and other rare species. Dongxing's cinnamon and star anise are internationally renowned and can be used to produce and process high-grade spices for export, while grouper, green crabs and prawns are known far and wide, and pearls are famous for their large, even grains and bright, round and smooth color.
Infrastructure
Since 1992, Dongxing has vigorously strengthened its infrastructure. With the establishment of China - ASEAN Free Trade Area, is located in the docking ASEAN "bridgehead" of Dongxing City, seize the China - ASEAN Expo held in Nanning, Guangxi, to further improve the investment environment, the successive construction of 18 projects, with a total investment of 380 million yuan, the new planning 10 projects. billion yuan, the new planning of 10 projects, with a total investment of 200 million yuan.
The infrastructure of the construction of the city's real estate development and construction. At present, the city's per capita residential area of 27 square meters, higher than the per capita residential floor space in Guangxi and the country.
At present, is grasping the construction of anti-dong primary highway, on the east highway, border trade wharf and other engineering construction, so that Dongxing has become a transportation hub in the border area, the border area with the north and south and Qinfeng highway, south anti-railway, north and south aviation to form a transportation network, the opening of land transportation with Vietnam docking to further play the role of Dongxing as a large channel from China to ASEAN.
Tourism resources
Dongxing City, a collection of "border, sea, mountains, less" in one, along the border, along the coast, is the only land and sea between China and Vietnam, a class of port city, but also the only settlement of the Kinh ethnic group in China, located in the subtropics, four seasons of spring, a pleasant climate.
The unique geographical advantages, colorful natural landscape and cultural landscape, make Dongxing since the opening of the port in 1989, the use of border tourism, border people mutual market and other preferential policies, in the autonomous region and the support of the relevant departments of the central government, and the region and at home and abroad, domestic and foreign tourism departments, enterprises, and gradually formed a cross-border tourism, Jing ethnic customs tour, Jing fishing village tour, Dongxing city tour within and outside the country Tourism, to create a number of unique, attractive tourism products, and neighboring areas to frame a "mountain, sea, and abroad" pattern of tourism. Overseas tours include: one-day tour to Mang Jie, three-day tour to Halong Bay, "Guilin on the Sea", five-day tour to Hanoi Haiphong, and other foreign tour routes. Domestic tours include: Van Ouyen Golden Beach, an autonomous region-level scenic spot; Boundary Monument No. 1 in Bamboo Hill; Neolithic Bechuan Site; Mangrove Forest; Van Hoa Mountain; Shimen Valley; Sino-Vietnamese Friendship Bridge over the Beilun River; Ho Chi Minh Pavilion; Sino-Vietnamese People's Friendship Park; Immortal Wells; Rattlesnake Dragons; Guanyin Temple; and the Catholic Cathedral, among other attractions.
After the establishment of Dongxing City in 1996, tourism was included by the municipal government in the development of the economy of one of the three pillars, "tourism city" has become the strategic goal of economic development in Dongxing City. Under the leadership of the municipal government, Dongxing City, tourism resources have been scientifically planned and initial development and utilization. Dongxing City Tourism Development Plan" was prepared and issued, and the construction of supporting facilities for tourist attractions was strengthened, and a series of tourist attractions and supporting facilities were completed, centering on the port management area and the Jingdao Tourism Resort, including the Wanwei seawall, the Sino-Vietnamese Border Tourism Office Hall, the expansion of the immigration channel of the Dongxing Port, the widening of Xinhua Road, as well as the construction of Dongxing Park and the Outer Banks Park, etc. The construction of the Dongxing City Tourism Development Plan was completed. Four travel agencies such as Huashun and Hongqiao and a number of travel agency branches have been set up, and eight foreign-related star hotels have been built, including four three-star hotels and four two-star hotels. With the development of tourism in line with the city's rapidly changing construction, a different style of hotels rising, a block of centralized, Vietnamese, French architectural style as one of the private houses competing for color, forming a unique landscape of Dongxing. Street lighting, greening, beautification is constantly upgraded, the city's water supply, power supply, transportation, communications and other facilities continue to improve. In recent years, the average annual growth rate of investment in fixed assets of the whole society is 9.02%, the area of the city from 3.8 square kilometers in 1996 expanded to 5.2 square kilometers, completed the construction of the street cement pavement 48 32 kilometers, built the government plaza, such as municipal public **** facilities, and effectively pulling the development of the city's tourism economy.
For the development of tourism, the municipal government also take "go out, please come in" and other forms, by organizing and participating in a variety of tourism festivals, investment promotion, press conferences and other activities, and vigorously promote Dongxing as well as Fangchenggang's tourism resources. 2001 successfully held the first "" China-Vietnam Border (Fangchenggang City, Dongchenggang City)". China-Vietnam border (Fangchenggang City, Dongxing) Tourism Festival", effective measures to promote Dongxing tourism more and more prosperous. Every year, the Spring Festival, "May Day", National Day "Golden Week of Tourism", from the Dongxing port outbound cross-border tour of travelers in an endless stream, the entire port is bustling, the number of passengers entering and exiting the country has increased year by year, ranking first in Guangxi.
Local customs
The three islands of the Jing people: the three islands of the Jing people refer to the three islands of Wanwei, Wutou and Shanxin, with a total area of 20.8 square kilometers and a total population of 13,000 people. About the origin of the three islands of the Beijing race, there is a moving legend: a long time ago, this area is a sea, there is a centipede in the sea, devouring the passing fishermen, poisonous spirits, the nearby fishermen suffer. One day, a family of three fishermen went out to sea, and was again sucked by the centipede spirit in the bottom of the boat, unable to move. The couple was very alarmed, but their child was very resourceful. He told his parents to boil the 3 pumpkins on the boat until they were piping hot and then threw them into the sea. The centipede spirit thought it was the people on the boat jumping into the sea to escape, so he swallowed them as soon as he could. The three boiling hot pumpkins were so hot that the Centipede Spirit was scalded to death on the spot, and his body was broken into three pieces and turned into three islands. The island that the tail turned into is called Wanwei, the island that the head turned into is called Wutou, and the island that the center heart part turned into is called Shanxin. This is the legend of the three islands of the Kyung clan.
The three islands of the Kyung ethnic group are the only settlement of the Kyung ethnic group in China. The Kinh people were originally known as the "Vietnamese" and historically also known as the "Kinh people", and were officially named the "Kinh people" in 1958. The Kinh are a large ethnic group in Vietnam, and the Kinh on the three islands of the Kinh have a history of about 500 years, having migrated from Tuy Son in Vietnam in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
Ha Festival: In the long history of their development, the Kinh people have formed their own unique folklore, the most representative of which is the "Ha Festival" of the Kinh people. "Ha Festival" is the traditional festival of the Jing people, "Ha" that is the meaning of the Jing language "singing", Ha Festival is to commemorate the birth of the God of the sea. The Jing people are mainly engaged in marine fishery production and believe in the god of the sea. Every year, they go to the sea to welcome the god of the sea back to Ha Ting to worship, and pray for the prosperity of people and animals, and the abundance of grains. Before the Ha Festival, the Jing people rushed to finish all kinds of work, cleaning and hygiene, and set up a new one. On the day of the Ha Festival, all men, women and children of the village, dressed in festive costumes, gather inside and outside the Ha Pavilion to welcome the gods, offer sacrifices to the gods, take a seat, send the gods and other ceremonies in order. Welcome the god - the first day of the Ha Festival, the whole village with Luo umbrellas, gongs and drums, to the beach to the village *** with the worship of the sea god access to the Ha Pavilion; sacrifice to the god - welcome the god the next day after the sacrifice to the god, by the "head of the Ha! The next day after welcoming the god, the god is sacrificed by the "Ha Tou", who presides over the rituals, reads out the rituals, is accompanied by drummers playing drums and has a variety of songs and dances; the feast - after the god is sacrificed, each family brings the best food from their own homes and concentrates it in the Ha Ting, and the whole village is seated according to their status level to have a feast and to eat "food" with the god***. ". Under the seat by the "Ha song", "Ha girl" singing Ha, all night long, three consecutive days and nights; send God - the whole village to the sea God sent back to the sea, the ceremony is similar to welcome God. The Ha Festival in Wanwei is from the ninth to the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, the Ha Festival in Wutou is from the first to the seventh day of the lunar calendar, and the Ha Festival in Shanxin is from the tenth to the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar.
The dulcimer: The dulcimer is the most precious and oldest musical instrument of the Kinh ethnic group. It is an ancient musical instrument that maintains the primitive one-string system, with a large bamboo pipe as the body of the instrument. Annam (Vietnam) is the main popular place of the dulcimer, and the present-day dulcimer of the Kinh people came to the island of Kinh from the original land when their ancestors migrated. The dulcimer has a rich, simple sound with a clear, bright and beautiful tone with a chant-like flavor.
The Jing people pull a big net: the shallow sea around the three islands of the Jing people are rich in large and small yellowtail, horse cross fish, you fish, etc., the people of the Jing people have summarized the production method of pulling a big net to catch fish in the long-term production practice. The net is more than 1,000 meters long, weighs about 4,000 kilograms, and each net is worth more than 10,000 yuan, which is purchased by each family in the village. When pulling the big net, more than 30 people to lift the net to the beach, led by the head of the net by boat along the beach more than 70 meters away from the beach along the shoreline of the beach down, and finally pulled to the beach, forming a more than 800-meter-long half-moon shaped encirclement, dozens of people at each end of the pull from the morning pull to 12:00 noon before pulling the big net on the beach. Now a net can generally play hundreds to thousands of fish, mainly small and large yellowtail, horse cross fish, etc., in the 70s and 80s, there was a net to play more than 10,000 pounds of fish feat.
Stilts fishing: stilts fishing is also the Jing people in the long-term production practice summarized in the fishing method of fish and shrimp. In the three islands of the Jing people in the shallow sea area, small fish and shrimp are generally more than 1 meter deep in the shallow sea activities, this height is just over the top of the head, how to solve this problem? The Jing people summarized the practice of tying stilts to their legs to increase the height, which is stilt fishing. With the continuous progress of production methods, stilt fishing has been gradually replaced by other methods, the Kyoto Island area only 50 to 60 years of age and older people will be able to step on stilts to fish, the younger generation basically do not know.
King Clothing: The national costume of Vietnam is made of silk, which is soft and comfortable for women to wear, highlighting their curvaceous figure and breathable, making it ideal for wearing on the beach. The Kinh hats are made from the leaves of the sunflower tree, which is abundant in Vietnam, with a light texture and a deep inner bucket, which covers almost the whole face and protects the face from the fierce sun at the seaside.
King fishing village Tamji Village is located on the three islands of the Jing nationality in Dongxing City, with an area of 1.3 square kilometers, 278 households in the village, with a population of 1,278, 70% of which are of the Jing nationality. The village takes agriculture, seawater aquaculture, commerce and trade as its main economic sources, and its economy is developing fast, realizing an average per capita income of 5,100 yuan in 1999, and it was designated as a model village of well-off people by the municipal party committee of Fangchenggang and the municipal party committee of Dongxing.
Ethnicity, ocean and fishing village are the three major features of Tanji, and the Jing fishing village tour has been developed. Here you can go to the seaside shoals raking snails, fishing, pulling large nets, take a boat out to sea to fish, make fishermen's home cooking, live in a fisherman's house, watch the Jing songs and dances, be a Jing fisherman, and enjoy the rich history and culture and unique folk customs of the Jing people.
In January 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced the list of national fishery healthy aquaculture demonstration counties (the sixth batch), and Dongxing City was on the list.
In January 2021, Dongxing City was listed 79th on the 2020 list of China's top 100 model counties and cities for business environment.
In December 2020, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the list of the second batch of national all-area tourism demonstration zones, and Dongxing City was on the list.
November 2020, 2020 China's top 100 counties and cities with county tourism development potential list was announced, Dongxing City was on the list.
October 2020, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment awarded Dongxing City the title of the fourth batch of national ecological civilization construction demonstration cities and counties.
In May 2020, the National Development and Reform Commission unveiled the list of new urbanization construction demonstration in counties, and Dongxing City was on the list.
On October 2019, Dongxing City was named the "second batch of national agricultural product quality safety counties" by the Ministry of Agriculture.
In March 2019, Dongxing City was on the list of 2018 National Basic Balanced Counties (Cities and Districts) for Compulsory Education Development.
In December 2018, Dongxing City was on the list of Guangxi's 2018 autonomous ecological counties (cities and districts).
In October 2018, Dongxing City was listed in the 2018 list of the top 100 counties and cities in western China, ranking 97th.
In August 2018, Dongxing City won the honor of the fourth batch of advanced units in the creation of national rule of law counties and municipalities.
In July 2016, Dongxing City was awarded the title of 2016 National Model City (County) of Double Embrace.
In March 2015, Dongxing City won the third batch of national rule of law counties and municipalities to create activities advanced unit award.