The city has a total area of 4,375 square kilometers and a population of 3.39 million, of which the urban area is 280 square kilometers with a population of 850,000; under the jurisdiction of three county-level cities of Wujin, Jintan, and Liyang, and four administrative districts of Tianning, Zhonglou, Suburbs, and Qishuyan, as well as a national high-tech industrial development zone approved by the State Council
to be established. Changzhou is located in the beautiful and fertile Yangtze River Golden Triangle, with superior
location conditions, the city north to the Yangtze River, south of Taihu Lake, are only 18 kilometers. Land, water and air transportation is convenient, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal
, Beijing-Shanghai Railway and Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway through the city, civil aviation airport access to Beijing, Guangzhou, Dalian, Xiamen, Shenzhen,
Haikou and other domestic more than 20 large and medium-sized cities, and with the opening of the medium-range international airways conditions, the Yangtze River Changzhou port of 10,000 tons of through the
Used wharf has been built and put into operation, postal and telecommunication links to more than 180 countries and regions in the world. In 1992, Changzhou became one of "
China's Top 50 Cities in Comprehensive Strength" and "China's Top 40 Cities in Hard Environment for Investment", and the three municipalities under its jurisdiction have all entered the ranks of "China's Top 100 Counties in Comprehensive Strength of Rural Areas" successively. 1995, Changzhou has been rated by the authority of Jiangsu Province as the area with the highest rate of return on investment for a few years, and has become one of the most important areas for investment in China. The city has been rated by the Jiangsu provincial authorities as the region with the highest return on investment for several consecutive years since 1995, and has become one of the first pilot cities for sustainable development in China.
Since the reform and opening up, Changzhou has made full use of its various advantages, and through the construction and efforts of the people of the city, it has developed into
a modern industrial city with stronger economic strength, more industrial categories, developed internal and external trade, improved infrastructure, and coordinated development of social undertakings. In particular, the five years since Deng Xiaoping's Southern Tour Speech in 1992 and the 14th Party Congress have been the fastest and best period of economic and social development in Changzhou's history, with a significant increase in economic output and comprehensive strength. Agriculture and rural economic development, food production for five consecutive years hit the best level in history, in 1997 the total food production and per capita possession of food were 20% and 17% more than 19
92; a variety of business output value accounted for the proportion of agricultural output value of 76%, an increase of 1.1 times more than 1992;
Township industry in 1997 to complete the sales revenue of 50.8 billion yuan, an increase of 1.1 times more than 1992;
The township industry, 1997 completed sales revenue of 50.8 billion yuan, 2.8 times that of 1992, and the restructuring of township enterprises has reached 90 percent.
Industrial economy continues to grow rapidly, power machinery, construction machinery, automobiles (motorcycles) and accessories, power transmission and transformation equipment,
Electronic information and modern audio-visual equipment and new textile and apparel and other six advantageous industries accounted for the city's total economic weight, has been close to
nearly one-third of the formation of diesel engines, loaders, transformers, city bus, microelectrical machinery, VCD, denim, new
type building materials and a number of advantageous products, the city **** 76 products in the same industry in the domestic top 5. The city's economic development of the main
guiding force has changed significantly, the contribution of scientific and technological progress in the share of industry has reached 41%, agriculture has reached more than 52.8%, respectively
than in 1992, an increase of 4 and 10 percentage points.
Expanding openness, accelerating development, and actively promoting integration with the international economy is a major
strategy that Changzhou has unswervingly implemented. Over the past five years, the city's rapid development of foreign trade, export commodities has reached 18 categories of more than 2,500 varieties, a total of 3.86 billion U.S. dollars of self-managed exports, with an average annual growth rate of 46.7%; of which 1.2 billion U.S. dollars was completed in 1997, which is 6.8 times more than 1992
; the proportion of electromechanical exports stabilized at more than 40%, higher than the national and provincial average level. Utilization of foreign capital increased year by year, five
year cumulative total of 1.868 billion U.S. dollars of actual utilization of foreign capital, an average annual growth of 47.6%; of which the actual utilization of foreign capital of 600 million U.S. dollars in 1997
, seven times as many as 1992; five years of the new approval of more than 10 million U.S. dollars of joint venture projects, 138, there have been Japan's Toshiba, South Korea
generation and other 50 large international companies Settlement of the city; to the end of 1997, there are 1504 foreign-invested enterprises, the use of foreign investment projects
projects to improve the scientific and technological content of the average investment increased from 1.5 million U.S. dollars five years ago to 6 million U.S. dollars; the actual use of foreign capital
has accounted for 38% of the social investment in fixed assets in Changzhou, accounting for 76% of the investment in industrial technological reform, the use of foreign investment in the field of expanding to the infrastructure
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Fields of utilized foreign capital have expanded to infrastructure, agriculture and tertiary industries, and various forms of indirect utilization of foreign capital have been developed. Foreign economic and technological cooperation has been
fast development, five years the cumulative realization of foreign economic contracts 200 million U.S. dollars, the establishment of foreign enterprises 80, involving 37 countries and regions.
The construction of development zones has made great progress, the state-level high-tech industrial development zones and six provincial-level development zones have been newly approved to utilize 1.7 billion U.S. dollars of foreign investment, which is becoming a new growth point for Changzhou's economic development; the high-tech industrial development zone located in the new area of Changzhou is the largest carrier and window of the city's opening up to the outside world, and the road skeleton has already passed through the 32 square kilometers, with water supply, power supply and
high-tech industrial development zone. The road skeleton has penetrated 32 square kilometers, water supply, power supply
, gas supply, postal services and other basic infrastructure support, Japan's Komatsu, Prestone, Marubeni, the U.S. Watson, Said
, Italy's Leidis, South Korea's Hyundai, Taiwan's Gwangyang and other more than 100 foreign-invested enterprises have been settled in the area, and built
collecting cultivation, incubation, pilot testing in the integration of scientific and technological entrepreneurship service centers, more than 30 domestic colleges and universities, and more than 30 universities and colleges have been established in Changzhou. More than 30 domestic universities, colleges and research institutes have been
set up in the center.
Changzhou is the pilot city of China's economic system reform. Changzhou city makes full use of this opportunity, constantly increasing the reform efforts, actively
Extremely create an institutional environment conducive to the development of the market economy and the expansion of openness to the outside world, and strive to accelerate the integration with the international
economy in terms of the system and mechanism. In order to revitalize and improve the focus of state-owned enterprises, vigorously promote the restructuring of ownership, the city has 41 enterprises into the
Corporate system as the focus of the pilot of the modern enterprise system,*** the formation of provincial and municipal enterprise groups more than 160, of which the provincial enterprise
Enterprise Group 38, Jiang Su Changchai Group has been listed as the provincial key enterprise groups; the new or reformed 16 joint-stock limited company (
Of which 4 companies listed on the stock exchange), 943 limited liability companies, a number of enterprises for the first after-sales restructuring pilot and standardized
bankruptcy. Financing through restructuring, the past two years to raise funds of more than 1.64 billion yuan, revitalization of the asset stock of more than 2.1 billion yuan. Pay close attention to the re-
employment project, the past two years *** placement of laid-off workers to be 30,000 people, re-employment rate of 63%, the urban registered unemployment rate of 1.8
%. The city has established labor, talent, capital, technology and other factors of production market and accounting, auditing, legal and a number of
intermediary institutions, the initial formation of the basic insurance, supplemental insurance, social assistance as the main content of the social security system, so that
the fundamental role of the market system for resource allocation in all areas gradually take the leading position. Focusing on creating a favorable investment
environment, Changzhou has devoted itself to improving the comprehensive service functions of the city, making the past five years the most
invested in the city's infrastructure construction and the fastest in improving the investment environment in both urban and rural areas. In accordance with the overall development strategy of "developing the city by port, connecting the river to the sea, three districts and one line, recreating Changzhou"
the Changzhou section of the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, the Outer Ring Road, the Changzhou Civil Aviation Airport, the Changzhou 10,000-ton general-purpose wharf on the Yangtze River, the Changzhou Railway Station renovation and expansion, and the improvement of the Changzhou section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, a number of major infrastructure projects have been built. program-controlled telephone network, fiber-optic cable communication and mobile communication network, urban and rural telephone penetration rate of 22.3
/100 people; the Yangtze River water diversion, sewage treatment, gas supply and the Weicun Water Conservancy Hub and other projects have been completed one after another; the transformation of the old city,
cities and villages, rural urbanization process accelerated, the city's appearance and environment, the order of the traffic, the public order, the urban and rural outlook improved significantly
, has been created as a national health city. created as a national health city. As early as 1986, Changzhou was identified by the state as a comprehensive experimental area for social development.
Over the past ten years, Changzhou has tightly focused on the purpose of "cultivating people, serving people, protecting people, and benefiting people", implemented three phases of the Comprehensive Experimental Area for Social Development plan, and completed more than 400 social development projects in the fields of education, culture, health, civil affairs, and environmental protection, and built an international school, a vocational education center for Liu Guo-jun, a school for the deaf and mute, a radio and television center, a library
and a library
, Radio and Television Center, Library
, Psychiatric Prevention and Control Center, Hongmei residential areas and a number of contemporary, reflecting the scientific, rational, applicable principles
The principle of comprehensive social service facilities and social development "people's projects". Since entering the nineties, the implementation of the social development
Comprehensive Experimental Zone planning and sustainable development strategy closely integrated, timely organization of government departments to seriously study and formulate the
Changzhou Agenda 21 Outline, and incorporate it into the city's national economic and social development "Ninth Five-Year Plan" and 2010
The Vision, the official launch of the sustainable development of the 16 special action plans, and the development of the city's social development. The city has formally launched 16 special action plans for sustainable development, striving to make Changzhou an advanced region on the path of sustainable development
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With rapid economic development and social progress and prosperity, the standard and quality of life of the people of Changzhou have been improving. In particular, the past five years have seen the fastest growth in the income of Changzhou residents and the greatest changes in the consumption structure.
In 1997, the per capita disposable income of urban residents amounted to 6,825 yuan, and the per capita income of peasants amounted to 4,410 yuan, an increase of 2.7 times compared with that of 1992.
In the meantime, urban and rural areas have seen the growth in the income of the people of Changzhou. At the same time, urban and rural
medical and health conditions have continued to improve, with rural areas realizing the goal of "health care for all by the year 2000" five years ahead of schedule, and the city's
average life expectancy has reached 75.7 years. In comparison with the 12 indicators of well-being set by the National Bureau of Statistics, the city basically
achieved well-being in 1994, and entered a new stage towards the goal of initial modernization in advance. Changzhou is accelerating the implementation of the three major strategies of science and education, outward drive, and coordinated development of urban and rural areas. According to the Ninth Five-Year Plan and the Vision 2010, Changzhou will realize the third strategic goal in two stages: by the end of the century, the city's gross domestic product (GDP) will exceed 100 billion yuan, with a per capita GDP of 280,000 yuan. Industrial structure adjustment to 4:58:38; scientific and technological progress in the contribution of industry to reach more than 50%, agriculture
to reach more than 55%; the proportion of high-tech industries to reach more than 20%; the average annual wage income of employees to reach 13,500 yuan, farmers
average annual net income of 6,000 yuan. By 2010, the third step ahead of schedule to achieve the strategic objectives, to reach the level of medium-developed countries
, to become a modern city of sustainable development of the economy, society and the environment in harmony
In recent years, our hometown has changed dramatically, the old house for the high-rise building, for which we have carried out practical activities, to better understand the changes around us.