Guigang has a unique location advantage and convenient transportation conditions. Located in the combination of South China and Southwest China, facing Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, backed by the Great Southwest, connected to Southeast Asia, the location advantage is very obvious. Guigang is an important transportation hub integrating waterways, highways and railroads.
Located in southeastern Guangxi, the middle reaches of the Xijiang River Basin, is located in Nanning, Liuzhou, Beihai, Wuzhou, the geometric center of the four cities, the Lizhan Railway, the Guangzhou-Nanning Expressway, 324 and 209 National Highway, as well as the Xijiang River waterway and the construction of the Nanning-Guangzhou Express Railway, Guigang-Wuzhou Expressway through the entire territory, is the transportation hub of South China's land and water transport, the southwestern region, the eastward most convenient access to the sea. It is the transportation hub of water and land transportation in South China and the most convenient channel for eastward sea transportation in Southwest China. The Pearl River system of the Yu River, Qianjiang, Xunjiang River flows through the counties and municipalities, year-round passage of 1,000-ton ships, 30 hours direct access to Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. 2010, the port cargo throughput of 38.073 million tons, container throughput exceeded 71,000 TEUs, an increase of 12.3% and 17.3%, respectively, is the largest inland waterway ports in western China, ranking among the top ten inland waterway ports in the country. The duplicate line of Lizhan Railway, the national railroad, runs through the whole territory, connecting Guigang with South Kunming Line, Qiangui Line, Xianggui Line and Zhiliu Line, connecting Guigang with Southwest and Central-South China. Guigang has become the most convenient channel connecting China - ASEAN Free Trade Zone, Pan-Pearl River Delta Economic Zone and Great Southwest China.
South-Guangzhou high-speed railroad has been opened in 2014, Guigang entered the era of high-speed railroad, when Guigang to Guangzhou, Nanning only about 2.5 hours, 1 hour respectively. Urbanization is advancing rapidly. The built-up area of the central city has expanded from 38.8 square kilometers in 2005 to 51.1 square kilometers, and the population has increased from 342,900 to 500,000 people. Accumulated investment of nearly 4 billion yuan, the construction of a number of urban road network, urban water supply, small streets and alleys renovation and urban greening, beautification and lighting and other municipal projects, public **** facilities supporting the gradual improvement. County and key towns to accelerate the construction of urbanization rate reached 37.8%, an increase of 10.5 percentage points in five years.
Newly constructed and renovated more than 30 kilometers of urban roads, reasonably widen the urban skeleton; urban roads, water supply and drainage, power supply, street lighting, greening, garbage disposal, urban flood control and other infrastructure is becoming more and more perfect, the urban framework continues to expand, carrying capacity to further enhance the focus of the towns and cities to accelerate the development of the urban and rural outlook is changing rapidly, is a garden with a strong southern characteristics of the development of the port city. According to the "southern characteristics of landscape garden city" development orientation, Guigang city construction in accordance with a high starting point for planning, high-quality construction, high-performance management principles, increase the urban construction and investment reform, accelerate the construction of urban infrastructure. 7 square kilometers of the city's new areas, more than 20 modern high-rise buildings, a number of ecological residential and commercial districts and covers an area of 120,000 square meters of the New Century Square Park. 120,000 square meters of the New Century Plaza Park was completed one after another, enhancing the contemporary characteristics of Guigang. Old city main street landscape renovation project, East Lake scenic spot development and construction and Yujiang embankment road garden project and other key projects are being stepped up. City functions are increasingly perfect; comprehensive management of the city has been strengthened and standardized, the city has a new look. 2005 Guigang won the Fifth Autonomous Region "Nanzhu Cup" competition, the special prize, the green coverage rate has reached 32%, landscaping indicators have reached the "Guangxi Garden City The greening coverage rate has reached 32%, and the gardening indicators have also reached the standard of "Guangxi Garden City". A modern city rich in vitality and vigor is rising on the banks of the West River. In 2011, Guigang City **** there are 4409 health institutions, including 103 hospitals and health centers, maternal and child health centers (Institute, station) 6, disease prevention and control centers (epidemic prevention station) 6. Hospitals, health centers beds 8931 beds, health institutions, 20,700 people, including 13,400 health technicians, licensed physicians and physician assistants 4756 people, registered nurse practitioners, nurses 4655 people. Participating in the new rural cooperative medical care farmers **** 4,192,400 people, the average participation rate of 95.48%.
The area of urban garden green space is 2,139 hectares, of which the area of public **** green space is 658 hectares; the area of parks is 230 hectares; the area of built-up green coverage is 2,279 hectares, and the green coverage rate of built-up green coverage is 23.31%; the amount of domestic garbage removal is 209,500 tons. The centralized treatment rate of urban domestic sewage was 24.93%, and the harmless treatment rate of domestic garbage was 85.28%. In 2011, Guigang City*** had 6 public*** libraries, 10 theaters and cinemas, and 3 museums. The book collection of public **** libraries is 648 thousand volumes. The integrated population coverage rate of radio is 96.71%, and the integrated population coverage rate of TV is 98.91%. The cumulative number of copies of newspapers and magazines ordered for the year is 20,615 thousand.
As of August 2012, Guigang City had 1,397 schools with 897,100 students and 40,700 full-time teachers. Among them, there are 21 secondary vocational education schools with 580,000 students; 237 general secondary schools with 354,500 students; and 1,137 elementary school with 476,400 students. Guigang kindergartens***395, 133,000 children in school, including 59,700 girls. New Library of Guigang City: the cumulative number of copies of newspapers and magazines ordered for the year is 20,615,000 copies. Guigang new library is located in the middle of Democracy Road, northeast of the city's administrative center, next to the Dragon Pulse Huating residential community. Guigang people long-awaited Guigang Library in December 18, 2012 was officially completed and began to open to the public free of charge. Guigang City Library is the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to coordinate the promotion of major projects, the new library investment of 32.5 million yuan, a total floor area of 11,149 square meters, 7 times the old museum, the construction scale for the national medium-sized public **** library, the existing collection of 250,000 books. The main service facilities of the library are reading room, book lending room, readers' study room, lecture hall, exhibition hall and so on. Services include consulting reading, public lectures, exhibitions, training, etc. It is the first digital library of Guangxi municipal libraries, *** enjoying the national cultural information resources. With the rapid development of public **** library business, Guigang City Library will gradually become the treasure house of knowledge and documentation center in Guigang City.
2011 annual patent applications 221, the year was authorized 130 patents, including 7 inventions. Guigang all kinds of professional and technical personnel **** 53,000 people, including 23,200 people with intermediate technical titles or above, 927 agricultural technicians.