Tongchuan has a long history, dating back to 5000 years ago. Tongchuan is called Tongguan Mountain. The Northern Wei Emperor established Tongguan County for many years. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Zhou Dynasty, it was changed to "Tongguan Mountain" and the government. 1946 and official Tongchuan. On April 28th, 1949, Tongchuan City was completed. Since 1958, the whole county has been liberated.
Tongchuan is rich in natural resources. Coal, oil shale, limestone, refractory clay, ceramic clay, bauxite, iron ore and other mineral resources 10, of which coal reserves are the largest, reaching more than 300,000 tons. Limestone reserves exceed 20 million tons, and it is the raw material for construction, metallurgy and chemical fiber. The forest coverage rate is 42%. National second-class protected animals leopard and otter; Crataegus pinnatifida, Hippophae rhamnoides, China traditional Chinese medicine, and 350 kinds of wild resources are the most famous (CP) Dang (Senate) and Yaoling (County). Native products, except apples, peppers, peppers, garlic, peaches, pears, apricots, persimmons and walnuts. Apple is famous for its high sugar content, bright color, rich fruit flavor and crisp meat. Qin Guan, Hong Guan, Red Star and other varieties have won national awards.
Tongchuan is rich in cultural relics tourism resources, with more than 600 historical and cultural sites and more than 28 places of interest. The famous "two mountains" Yuhuagong site, Yaozhou kiln site, Xiangshan and Wangyaoshan have become important parts of the northern line of Shaanxi. Tang Gaozu Liyuan, the ruins of Huangyuyu Flower Palace, the palaces of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin and Xuanzang. Known as the "Shili Yaozhou Kiln Net Kiln", it is the most complete collection found in China so far, and it is the largest museum underground ceramic in contemporary China, which combines the essence of ancient ruins of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties. It flourished in the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, and there were six kilns for tourists, officials, brothers, and June. Xiangshan said that at five o'clock in the world, Putuo was at the top, and at five o'clock, Mount Emei was a famous Buddhist mountain. The temple began to worship Qin and Yao Qinsheng, who once welcomed the Buddhist translation of the Buddhist monk Qiuci in the Vatican. Sun Simiao, a doctor in the Tang Dynasty, is known as the "King of Medicine" of the Imperial Seal, with magnificent halls, towering cypresses, historic sites and elegant and beautiful scenery. Jinsuo Pass in the northern suburbs is a battleground for military strategists in past dynasties. In addition, there are Jiangnv Temple, Liu Fan's paintings and calligraphy, and the lights of Xue Zhai Qifeng. Tongchuan is an outstanding person, a famous philosopher Fu Xuan in the Western Jin Dynasty, a great calligrapher Liu Gongquan in the Tang Dynasty, a historian Ling Hudefen in the Northern Song Dynasty and a famous painter Fan Kuan. In Yaoxian County, according to the old revolutionary base areas along the Shaanxi-Gansu border, Liu Zhidan, Xie Zichang, He Long and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation once engaged in revolutionary activities here. Tongchuan has four tourist hotels. Special tourist routes such as Yao porcelain culture tour, medicine health tour, Buddhism pursuit tour, leisure Chengde tour, Meng Jiangnu legend series tour, calligraphy and painting tour attract a large number of domestic and foreign tourists every year.
Tongchuan is a new industrial city and an important energy and building materials base in Shaanxi Province and even the whole country. The output of coal and cement accounts for more than 30% of Shaanxi's total output, ranking first in the province, and the annual output of electrolytic aluminum is 35,000 tons, accounting for more than 90% of the province. The output of ceramics accounts for 70% of the country, and the products of the whole province are mainly sold to more than 40 countries and regions in the world. More than 80 industrial categories with coal, building materials, ceramics, aluminum smelting, machinery, electronics, machinery, textiles, medicine, food, chemicals and electronics as the backbone. Tongchuan Mining Bureau is the largest coal producer in northwest China, with an annual output of more than 9.6 million tons of raw coal, 10. Yaoxian Cement Plant is a major cement producer with an annual output of over 6,543,800,000 tons.
Tongchuan has a superior geographical position and a good investment environment. The important thing is that the branch line-Xianyang-Tongchuan railway artery-Longhai railway runs through, and the "2 10" national highway with convenient transportation and communication runs through the city, and the high-grade highway in the west leads directly to the city center. In addition, feeder roads and three railway lines connect major industrial and mining enterprises and towns in China. At present, the urban area has 1 10,000 telephones, 800-megabit wireless paging and mobile communication equipment and technology. At the same time, it also operates domestic and international express mail service. In addition, abundant power resources and water resources to meet production and life have injected vitality into Tongchuan.
With the in-depth development of reform and opening up, Tongchuan's tertiary industry is booming, and the level of rapid urban development is steadily improving. Tourism has initially formed a pattern of "north-south line, connected into an organic whole" and established Shaanxi tourism northern line state; There are many shops and commercial streets, showing a prosperous scene; The rising real estate, rows of high-rise buildings with different styles, the vigorous development of foreign trade, finance and insurance, the rapid rise of trust and investment companies, urban credit cooperatives and other financial institutions and service networks, spread all over urban and rural areas. Tongchuan has implemented the 40-year copper project in the spirit of seizing every minute, striving to realize the grand goal of the "Ten-year Plan" as soon as possible.
Science and technology, education, culture, health and social welfare facilities. There are six research institutions. 1 166, all kinds of institutions, including institutions of higher learning, 4 secondary specialized schools, all kinds of technical secondary schools, vocational secondary schools, 96 primary and secondary schools, 1060. 190 There are 48 hospitals in medical and health institutions. There are 0/89 cultural institutions/kloc-0, including 5 libraries, 0/0 theaters/kloc-0, 57 cultural centers and 3 parks. There are three municipal TV stations, newspapers and radio stations. Yijun county is the hometown of modern folk painting in China, named by the Ministry of Culture. Folk paper-cutting and embroidery in Europe, America and other countries have been exhibited for many times with their simple and pure real works. Yaoxian printmaking, folk fire fighting, typical northern style, strong local flavor.
Foreign exchanges and cooperation have been further expanded. Qiancheng has been established in Ningbo, Shuangcheng, Zhejiang, Zhanjiang, Yantai, Shandong, Fenghua and Azores. Friendly exchanges and economic and trade exchanges at home and abroad have increased significantly, and more and more guests favor Tongchuan. The Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government have set up offices in Xi, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, and Yantai has more than 20 overseas institutions, which have broadened channels and expanded its opening to the outside world.
Relying on rich resource advantages and industrial advantages, Tongchuan adheres to the two-wheel drive of "three external factors simultaneously", that is, foreign investment, foreign trade, foreign economy and external introduction, with an average annual growth rate of 22.9% in export delivery value. Exports have achieved a zero breakthrough. In order to comply with the reform and opening up under the new situation, Tongchuan has carried out further discussion and development throughout the city, completely getting rid of the concept of "valley", constantly adjusting its development ideas and transforming state-owned enterprises, focusing on large projects that affect the overall situation, attracting foreign investment through various channels and forms, and is now horizontally integrated in China, with investment countries covering three continents: Asia, Europe and the United States.
Further development has enabled the Tongchuan Municipal Government to formulate a series of preferential policies and play a role in planning and building a central city within 450,000 square kilometers of Yao County in the south of Tongchuan New District. The construction of the new district stands at the starting point, based on the present situation, with an eye to the future, comprehensively considering the economic, social and ecological benefits, and planning the overall layout goal of building an export-oriented comprehensive modern new district. By the end of this century, Xinhui District will take shape, eventually forming Tongchuan's political, economic and cultural information center, and becoming? Weibei District of Shaanxi Province is a modern medium-sized city. High-grade highway and Xianyang International Airport are 60 kilometers away from Nanxin District. The area is rich in water resources and the land is flat. 1 10 kv substation and 330 kv substation have been started, and the investment environment is superior. The natural gas in the north of Xi City, Shaanxi Province is transported by pipeline from here. Program-controlled communication has been realized in the new area, and the optical fiber communication project is being stepped up. In the direction of regional development, the development of aluminum and aluminum products industry follows the principles of high-tech development, development and construction of key industries and tertiary industries, resource utilization, high technology, high starting point and priority pollution control. Development of multi-variety and high-grade ceramic industry; Development of medical and health products; The development of electronic industry; Development of deep processing agriculture and food industry. At present, some enterprises and units are preparing to build eight large-scale industrial projects in this area with a total investment of 6 billion yuan.
The project of opening up and developing copper system to enrich the people and promote copper involves the implementation of Tongchuan's future development strategy. On the basis of widely listening to opinions, the municipal party committee and the municipal government formulated and implemented Tongchuan's economic and social development strategy and opening-up development plan, and implemented the policy of "taking economic construction as the center and putting opening-up at the strategic height of the overall economic situation" according to the actual situation of the whole province, giving top priority to opening-up. With concerted efforts, Qi Xin, the people of the whole city, is confident to take the road of urban-rural integration, the simultaneous development of urban mines and economy, society and environment, and strive to build Tongchuan into a modern and civilized city.