After the State Council approved the establishment of the Changjitu Development and Opening Pilot Zone, the development and construction of the eastern part of Jilin Province is particularly important, Yanlongtu integration of resources is imminent, the three cities have become a reality.
I, Jilin Province
Jilin Province is located in the center of Northeast China, is the inland border near the sea provinces. With Russia and North Korea land border, and Japan and South Korea across the sea. It covers an area of 187,400 square kilometers, with a population of 27,340,000 people, and a GDP of 642.4 billion yuan in 2008, which is about 2% of the country's total. Jilin Province is an important industrial base and commercial grain production base in China, and is the province with the largest number of automobiles and the highest rate of food commodities in the country. With an excellent ecological environment and a forest coverage of 42.5%, it is a good place for human habitation. From the province's development pattern, the eastern part of Jilin Province is a mountainous area, the central plains, the western grasslands, plate economic characteristics are very obvious, the total amount of the east and west may not be very large, but the resource economy, characteristics of the economy, the environmental economy is very prominent, is an important part of the economic development of Jilin Province, can not be ignored.
Two, Yanbian historical review
Yanbian state has eight counties and cities, far from the provincial capital, adjacent to Russia and North Korea, belongs to an independent economic region, should have its own center city. However, due to institutional constraints, the state itself is an empty shelf, the state capital of Yanji City and other counties and cities at the same level, want to become the center of the city is faced with the problem of insufficient level (should be prefecture-level cities), not large (should be more than a million people), it is difficult to arrange with the state and other counties and municipalities of the relationship between the state can not be well played the role of agglomeration and radiation. In particular, Yanlongtu three cities on the administrative division of the partition, resulting in regional development and industrial layout policy formulation fails to reach a scientific, unified, rational and efficient, resulting in the three cities of the various resources can not be fully rationalized use of the regional economic development is not balanced and uncoordinated.
From the historical origin, 50 years ago, the same old "Yanji County" of Yanji, Longjing, Tumen three places, in order to develop, one after another separate, become independent of the three county-level cities. Longjing and Yanji are distributed in the Yanji basin, in the history of the original is a whole. 1953, as the seat of Yanbian state capital of Yanji separated, a separate county-level city; 1965, to facilitate the exchange of Tumen and the opposite side of North Korea, a port city, the city of Tumen also separated. Half a century later, the three cities are seeking to merge again, and the reason is also for development. 1985 Yanji, the star city of economic development in the early days of reform and opening up, ranked second in the country among county-level cities of the same size in terms of major economic indicators, and at that time ranked first was Suzhou. Dandong City in Liaoning Province, which is also a port near North Korea, was far behind in various indicators. However, the difference between a county-level city and a prefecture-level city has limited Yanji's development, and today Dandong and Suzhou are out of Yanji's reach. There is no need to debate how Yanji can become a regional center, and the merger of the three cities to form "Greater Yanji" is a natural progression. Yanlongtu into a city will change the ethnic autonomous regions can not set up prefecture-level city restrictions, the relevant state departments have been actively developing arrangements in the ethnic autonomous regions to engage in a pilot, Yanlongtu has been included in the line of sight.
Three, Yan Longtu merger upgraded to prefecture-level city
Now Yanji as the center, Longjing and Tumen are within the half-hour economic circle, can be treated in accordance with a city. Yanji, Longjing, Tumen three cities in the ethnic composition of the ethnic minorities are predominantly Korean inhabited areas, Yanji City, population 495,000, 59% Korean; Longjing City, population of 280,000 accounted for 67%; Tumen City, population of 150,000, 58% Korean. This similarity in ethnic composition provides a realistic basis for the integration and development of the three cities.
Yanji City is the capital of Yanbian Prefecture, the political, economic and cultural center of the state, with a good industrial base, but with insufficient area and no ports of entry, the city's expansion and economic development are greatly restricted. Longjing City has a large area and rich resources, but the industrial base is weak and the industrial aggregation effect is low. Tumen City has convenient transportation and is one of the only two border cities with highways and railroads connecting with North Korea, but it has a small area and an unreasonable economic structure, which makes it difficult to develop. The three cities have complementary advantages in order to favor **** the same development. The urban expansion of Yanji City and the development of Longjing and Tumen cities require the three cities to realize integration. The three cities must be given the same city treatment in terms of personnel mobility. Yanji City has a land area of 1,350.2 square kilometers, accounting for 3.16% of the total area of Yanbian Prefecture, while the population of nearly 400,000 people, accounting for 20% of the total population of Yanbian. Yanji, an economic leader, is a county-level city, so it is greatly restricted in terms of development space, economy, administrative authority, and equal status in foreign interactions. Yanji takes this opportunity to make a request for upgrading to a prefecture-level city: to merge the three cities of Yan, Long, and Tumen into one city, to change the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture into the Yanbian Korean Autonomous City, with the municipal government located in Yanji, and to make each of the cities of Longjing and Tumen exist as a district. Reasonable division of the function of the three regions: for high-tech projects, concentrated in Yanji placed; for centralized heating projects, can be the heat source of Yanji City, Longjing District, so that can be received to reduce the cost of improving the economic output of Longjing District, reduce the environmental pollution of Yanji City, and other multiple effects; for the export processing projects, can be concentrated in the Tumen District, placed. After the merger, many highways connecting the three places will be repaired. Such as Tumen Yueqing to Yanji Xiaohe Long, Tumen Mopanshan to Yanji Xidong. Yanji main city construction will be further expanded westward connecting Longjing Chaoyangchuan town located in the west of Yanji, while the main city construction of Longjing city located in the south of Yanji is gradually approaching to the north, and the main city construction of Tumen city located in the southeast of Yanji will be developed to the northwest. Integration will first be realized in terms of household registration, social security and personnel wages. Highway tolls, mutual passage of cabs, unified tariffs for telecommunication, financial loans and co-city settlement between the three places. All the work is now being carried out in an organized manner, with the Yanji city government moving to the western part of the park and the Yanji airport remodeled in Cheongtan Hall.
The development orientation of the merged "Greater Yanji" is as follows: the frontier of Northeast Asian economic cooperation and the export processing base of border trade; the pilot demonstration area of China's ethnic minority autonomous regions' institutional reforms; the comprehensive service base of China's Changbaishan Mountain and the Korean ethnic culture tourism; the first ecological garden and livable area in Northeast China with the natural culture of the Changbaishan Mountain and the Korean ethnic culture; and the first ecological garden and livable area with the natural culture of the Changbaishan Mountain and the Korean ethnic culture. It will be the first ecological garden and livable area in the northeast region with the natural culture of Changbai Mountain and Korean ethnic culture; form a new center city in the east of Jilin Province; and develop into an international metropolis with millions of people by 2020!