Changzhou is an ancient cultural city with a long history of more than 2,500 years and a deep heritage. During the Spring and Autumn Period in 547 B.C., the city was founded as a state and was first called Yanling. Alias Longcheng, it was the fief of Jiza, the fourth son of King Shoumeng of Wu during the Spring and Autumn Period. The county was established in the Qin Dynasty.
After the Western Jin Dynasty, the city has been the county, state, road and government, and has been known as "the important town of the three Wu and the famous capital of eight euphonies". The name of the city has been changed many times for Viling, Vitan, Jinling, Lanling, Changzhou, South Lanling, Taste of the state, Wujin, etc. "Changzhou" is the name of the city, which is the most important town in Wu. The name "Changzhou" began in the Sui Dynasty, previously known as "county", and thereafter to the Song Dynasty, "state", the Yuan Dynasty, "road", the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, "prefecture", The Qing Dynasty called "province", all have jurisdiction over the county.
Since the fourth year of the Qing Yongzheng (1726), the Changzhou Prefectural Government has jurisdiction over 8 counties, including Wujin, Yanghu, Wuxi, Jinque, Yixing, Jingxi, Jiangyin, and Jingjiang. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the city still has a government (Changzhou Prefecture) two counties (Wujin, Yanghu).
In 1912, the abolition of the Changzhou Prefecture, Yanghu County and Wujin County. At the beginning of the liberation, Changzhou Special Administration jurisdiction of Changzhou City and Wuxi, Jiangyin, Wujin, Yixing, Liyang, Jintan 6 counties; Changzhou City in January 1953 as a provincial municipality, in March of that year *** jurisdiction of the 6 districts; in July 1958, Zhenjiang Prefecture moved to Changzhou, renamed Changzhou Prefecture, Changzhou belongs to it.
Cultural characteristics: Changzhou is a place of great talent, humanities, enjoying the reputation of "the world's celebrities have tribes, the Southeast has no match with Changzhou". The "Changzhou School of Modern Literature and Economics", "Yanghu School of Literature", "Changzhou School of Lyrics", "Changzhou School of Painting", and "Menghe School of Medicine" are the most popular schools in the city. The "Menghe School of Medicine" is well known throughout the country.
Folk Crafts: Root Carving, Jintan Paper Carving, Comb Grate, Stitching Embroidery, Han Painting Brick Carving Screen, Liuqing Bamboo Carving
Local Folklore:
Female return to her mother's home "rest in June"
"Taste Three Fresh Foods" at the beginning of the summer season
February 12, the "Changzhou School of Words", "Changzhou School of Painting" and "Menghe School of Medicine" are renowned throughout the country.
The Flower Festival on February 12
Dragon Head Raising on the second day of February
Pictures of the Old Town of Changzhou
The Winter Solstice is like the New Year
The Year of Spring
The Winter Solstice is like the New Year.
The Winter Solstice is like the New Year
"Spring Festival" and "Double Busyness"
"Sending Stove" and "Receiving Stove"
"Three Corpses" and "Three Gods
"Three Corpse Gods" and "Dusting the Eaves"
"Horse Monk Crossing the River" and "Hibernating and Hearing the Thunder, the Rice Looks Like Mud"
The Changzhou Cao Transportation: Ancient Changzhou Because of the unique geographical position, in the "transportation" history occupies an important position, on the Jingkou, down the line Gusu, rivers and streams, lakes are densely spread, the north ring Yangtze River, south embrace Ge Lake, southeast of Taihu Lake corner, lapel river with the lake, there is second only to the Taihu Lake Hibiscus Lake, the shape of the A in the southeast, so Changzhou has become the "three lakes with the state, the hundred Yue boat The state of the belt, a hundred Yue boat east of the meeting" of the transportation hub.
From the Sui and Tang dynasties, a large number of grain transport to the north, Changzhou has become the center of the transshipment of grain, the beginning of the annual transshipment of a hundred hundred hundreds of thousands of stones, and then gradually increased to 3 million stones, Song time up to 7 million stones, so Changzhou has "from Su Song to the two Zhejiang, seven Min dozens of states to travel between the north and south of the two capitals, and all from this way out," an important geographic location, is the "three lakes with the state of the boat east of the meeting". Geographic location, is "tribute to the road". In the 8th year of the Tang Dynasty (813), Meng Jian, the assassin of Changzhou, in order to strengthen the transportation in the south of the Yangtze River, dredged the Meng Ditch (now the Meng River) in the northwestern part of Changzhou to draw the Yangtze River to the south to connect with the Canal, so as to facilitate the transportation of the canal. During the Song Dynasty, the Department of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jinghu, Guangxi, and Fujian Roads was specially established in Changzhou to undertake the transportation. During the Chunxi (1174-1189) period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Jingxi (present-day South Canal) was dredged from Yixing Beijingshu to Changzhou, which became a canal for transportation of grain and cereals in the area of Yixing and Li. In the 26th year of Ming Hongwu (1393), Changzhou government collected 533,515 stones of grain and rice, which accounted for 2.16% of the total amount collected nationwide, and was close to the total amount of grain collected in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces. Ming Zhengtong five years (1440) in order to solve the Changzhou canal rice storage, in wujin wai south township canal south build west warehouse, storage wujin county canal rice, in yanghu east straight township canal south build east warehouse, storage yanghu county canal rice. In the Qing Dynasty, Changzhou was still one of the heaviest areas in the capital. Qing Yongzheng two years (1724) Wujin county **** there are more than 120 bad white grain ship, moored in the West Gate outside the city Yongfeng Li Dawangmiao area, after the moorings extended to the Baijiaqiao area until the early Daoguang years.
5 century 30 s, Jiangnan big water, Zhou Chen to Jiangnan water, the big boom around the lake to build fields, blocking the river to prevent flooding. 27,000 acres of fields in 20 years, so that the Furong Lake, Yang Lake, Linjin Lake gradually shrinking to the point of disappearing, resulting in the water source of Changzhou is not abundant, the water level is out of adjustment, so that the lake-based Changzhou into a river-based, due to the Canal is in disrepair for a long time, the Yangtze River siltation is serious, the northern transportation of grain As the canal was in disrepair, the Yangtze River was heavily silted up with sand, and there were many accidents of shipwrecks. In the late Qing Dynasty, most of the canals in Shandong were silted up, and the grain could not be transferred from Changzhou. In the fifth year of Daoguang Dynasty (1825), the trial of shipping canal was successful, and the transit of Changzhou was gradually moved eastward to Wuxi. From then on, it was exclusively by sea, and the history of Changzhou and canal transportation for more than 2,000 years came to an end.
South Street now has a gross domestic product (GDP) of 188 billion yuan. The city's GDP per capita according to the resident population, household population, counting the new district a corner of 43,674 yuan and 52,805 yuan, respectively, according to the current exchange rate of more than 5,800 U.S. dollars and 7,000 U.S. dollars, respectively.
Today, Changzhou City to agricultural machinery manufacturing, power transmission equipment manufacturing, automobile and accessories manufacturing, new textile and apparel industry, the four pillar industries as a leader, drive the development of electronic information, new materials industry, biomedicine and fine chemical industry, three emerging industries, and strive to build an advanced manufacturing base, the scale and brand effect gradually appeared.
Wuxi is China's famous land of fish and rice. Wuxi is the cradle of China's national and township industries. Wuxi's well-developed business has formed a strong radiation force to the whole country. With beautiful scenery, Wuxi is one of the excellent tourist cities in China. Wuxi's perfect basic education is the cradle of professors, academicians and university presidents. Wuxi, the "Pearl of Taihu Lake", is a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River with a history of 3,000 years. As early as during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, it was already the economic and cultural center of the time, nurturing many literati and scholars, and still preserving numerous historical relics. Wuxi, under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, is located in the Yangtze River Delta on the southeast coast of China, 128 kilometers to the east of Shanghai and 183 kilometers to the west of Nanjing, the capital of the province. The Yangtze River flows through its territory, and on December 25, 2008, Wuxi was selected as the 2008 China's Happiest City.
Wuxi has a long history and is an ancient city with a history of more than three thousand years. As early as 6,000 to 7,000 years ago, the ancestors of Wuxi were laboring, living and reproducing on this piece of land, living a sedentary life. There were settlements of primitive clans in Hongsheng Pengzudun, Xindoudou Miaodun, Ge Daiqiao Anjiudun and Yuqi Luhuadang. The primitive culture of Wuxi ancestors belonged to Majiabang culture, Songze culture and Liangzhu culture successively. With their wisdom and hard work, they created and enriched the brilliant ancient culture of Taihu Lake basin.
The primitive culture of Wuxi ancestors belonged to Majiabang culture, Songze culture and Liangzhu culture. The written history of Wuxi can be traced back to more than 3,000 years ago at the end of the Shang Dynasty. At the end of the Shang dynasty, the king of the Zhou dynasty ancient public endowment of the father's eldest son, Tai Bo, in order to let the king located in the third brother Jili, from now belongs to the Shaanxi manifold south to run to the Jing barbarians, along with his younger brother Zhongyong, south to settle in Merry (today's Wuxi County, Meicun), and follow the customs of the countryside, break the hair of the text body, by the people of the local people embraced by the monarch was established as a monarch, building up the outline of the city, the establishment of Jing barbarians small country, the self-named Gouwu, Wu City. After the Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, because Tai Bo had no son, King Wu of Zhou posthumously appointed Zhou Zhang, the fifth grandson of Zhong Yong, as the ruler of Wu, and established the state of Wu. From Tai Bo to Helu*** 24 generations, more than 600 years before and after, Merry has been the capital of Wu. Tai Bo and Zhong Yong brought the culture of the Central Plains to Jiangnan, and organically integrated with the original culture of Jiangnan to form the Wu culture with distinctive regional characteristics, leaving behind the port of Bordu, the city of Helu, as well as the temple of Tai Bo, the tomb of Tai Bo, and many other distinctive cultural relics and monuments during the Eastern Han Dynasty.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the productivity of the state of Wu developed greatly, and it was politically and militarily very powerful. In the third year of King Yuan of Zhou (473 BC), Yue destroyed Wu, and Wuxi belonged to Yue. In the thirty-fifth year of King Xian of Zhou (334 BC), Chu annihilated Yue, and Wuxi belonged to the state of Chu. In the 25th year of Qin's reign (222 BC), Qin destroyed Chu and set up Huiji County, to which Wuxi belonged. According to archaeological discoveries, during the Western Han Dynasty, Wuxi already had iron smelting, copper casting, pottery making, lacquer painting and other handicrafts, and agricultural production had used iron farming tools and oxen plowing technology. Six Dynasties period, frequent wars in the north, a large number of people moved south, Wuxi lake building polder, water conservancy facilities built in large quantities, agricultural farming technology has also improved. Commercial trade began to take shape. Tang, Song period, Wuxi agricultural production from the "fire plowing and hoeing" wheel barren farming development for farming, harrowing, middle and high school supporting farming technology, the formation of rice and wheat maturing system, the Taihu Lake around the humble wet land transformed into a river and canals across the board, lakes and ponds, combined with drainage and irrigation of the water network system. Sericulture was well developed, with "silkworms relying on the mulberry and cudgel everywhere". After the opening of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Wuxi River was filled with "merchants and travelers, and the boat ride was endless". In the city, gold and silver, color and silk, tobacco and wine, oil and sauce, food and rice workshops were opened in a mixed manner, and the market flourished. Wuxi has become a piece of affluent Jiangnan treasure.
Gross Regional Product: In 2007, the city's GDP was 385.8 billion yuan, with a per capita GDP of 65,203 yuan based on the resident population, ranking first in the province. At the current exchange rate, it amounted to 8,926 U.S. dollars. Wuxi Night View
Industry: The city's industrial enterprises above designated size realized an added value of 198.423 billion yuan.
Social fixed asset investment: the annual social fixed asset investment completed 167.422 billion yuan.
Consumption: total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 113.475 billion yuan. Among them, urban retail sales of consumer goods 95.642 billion yuan; rural retail sales of consumer goods 17.833 billion yuan.
Trade: the annual total import and export of foreign trade amounted to 51.146 billion U.S. dollars. Among them, total imports amounted to 21.825 billion U.S. dollars; total exports amounted to 29.321 billion U.S. dollars.
Finance: the city's total fiscal revenue of 70.690 billion yuan. The proportion of total fiscal revenue to regional GDP was 18.3%.
Yancheng is located in the middle of the North Jiangsu Plain, east of the Yellow Sea, west of Huaiyang, south of Nantong City, Taizhou City border, north of Lianyungang City adjacent. 1983 by the region to change the city, the implementation of the municipal county system, under the jurisdiction of Dongtai, Dafeng, two county-level cities and Jianhu, Sheyang, Funing, Binhai, Ringshui 5 counties, the city under the two districts of Yandu, Pavilion Lake, municipal jurisdiction area of 1,696 square kilometers, population of 151.36 million. 151.36 million. The city has 138 townships, 6 street offices, 1,927 village committees and 554 resident committees. In 2008, the gross regional product exceeded 160 billion yuan, with a per capita of 21,300 yuan, exceeding 3,000 U.S. dollars for the first time. With a total area of 15,000 square kilometers, it is the first and second most populous city in Jiangsu. Car number plate, [Su] J. The basic feature is that it is named for salt and has a long history.
Yancheng annual GDP exceeded 160 billion yuan, an increase of 13.6% over the previous year, per capita for the first time more than 3,000 U.S. dollars; total fiscal revenue reached 21.61 billion yuan, an increase of 45.7%, to achieve two years doubled, of which 9.03 billion yuan of local general budget revenues, an increase of 38%; the total exports of 2.17 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 53%, an increase of the second in the province ; registered foreign capital actually arrived exceeded 1 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 23.3%, the total amount continues to list the first in northern Jiangsu; complete the social investment in fixed assets 112 billion yuan, an increase of 35.6%, of which 61 billion yuan of industrial investment above designated size, an increase of 40.3%; the development of 14,000 new private enterprises, the new private individual economic registered capital of 30 billion yuan, an increase of 63.9%. Urban residents per capita disposable income of 15,862 yuan, farmers per capita net income of 6,790 yuan, an increase of 14.5%, 11.5%.
Nantong, because of the rising sand alluvial continent, into the land has been more than 5,000 years of history. Simply "Tong", also known as Chongzhou, Chongchuan, Zilang, the ancient name of Tongzhou, after the Zhou Dynasty Xiande three years (956 years) built the city has been more than a thousand years of history. After the Xinhai Revolution, it was called Nantong to distinguish it from Tongzhou in Hebei. It is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province.
Nantong, located in the south of China's Yellow Sea, the Yangtze River estuary on the north coast, south and Suzhou, Shanghai, the two cities across the river, west and Taizhou City, north and Yancheng City border, a total area of 8001 square kilometers, Nantong, in addition to the Wolf Mountain group of low hills, all for the elevation of five, six meters below the plains, with an average elevation of about four meters.
On the map of China, there are only two cities at the intersection of the coastal economic belt and the T-shaped structure of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the head of the Yangtze River Delta, one of which is the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai, and the other is Nantong, which is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Nantong is "the meeting point of the river and the sea, the throat of the north and the south", depending on the most economically developed Shanghai and the southern part of Jiangsu Province across the river, known as "North Shanghai"; it is connected to the vast northern plain of Jiangsu Province in the north, and connected to the Eurasian Continental Bridge through the railroad; it is accessible to the coast of China and ports all over the world by going out of the Yangtze River; and it is connected to the north shore of the Yangtze River by going back to Shanghai and the north shore of the Yangtze River. From the mouth of the Yangtze River, the city can reach the coast of China and ports all over the world; going up the river, the city can reach the six provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Gan, Hubei, Hunan and Sichuan, as well as Yunnan, Guizhou, Shaanxi and Henan. After the completion of Sutong Yangtze River Highway Bridge, Nantong will enter the one-hour economic circle of Shanghai. Nantong faces overseas and inland two major economic radiation sector, and Shanghai has similar geographical location advantages. Nantong is known as the "Pearl of the River and Sea" and the "First Window of Yangzi".
The GDP is 175.834 billion yuan, with a per capita of 22,826 yuan (Jiangsu Statistical Yearbook - 2007).
Nantong, as one of the first coastal port cities in China to open up to the outside world. Since 1984, Nantong has made great progress in economic construction and social development. Nantong has been recognized as one of China's "Top 50 Cities in Comprehensive Strength" and "Top 40 Cities in Investment Environment" by national authoritative organizations.
Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries
The rural economy continued to maintain a good momentum of development. The total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery at current prices for the whole year was 29.31 billion yuan, an increase of 3.0%. Among them, the output value of agriculture was 12.87 billion yuan, an increase of 0.5%; the output value of animal husbandry was 7.785 billion yuan, an increase of 4.1%; and the output value of fishery was 7.272 billion yuan, an increase of 4.7%.
At the end of 2005, the city has 2.883 million kilowatts of total power of agricultural machinery, an increase of 3.6%, per 100 acres of arable land with an average of 39.7 kilowatts of power of agricultural machinery; the city's tractor ownership of 44,252, of which 1,370 large and medium-sized tractors; combine harvester 4,544; high-performance motorized rice transplanter 1955 units. With the continuous improvement of the level of agricultural machinery and equipment, the level of agricultural mechanization operations significantly increased. 2005 the city completed 5.96 million mu of mechanized plowing area, the level of mechanized plowing 83.6%; three wheat machine seeding, machine harvesting level of 98.2% and 95.3%; the level of mechanization of planting and harvesting of rice to reach 27.0% and 85.1%; mechanization of oilseed rape production, the completion of the machine directing the area of 23,000 acres. In 2005, the city's agricultural fertilizer application (pure) 270,900 tons, an increase of 1.7%; rural electricity consumption of 5.728 billion kWh, an increase of 20.4%.
Textile industry
Nantong has the world's third largest home textile city (Haimen three-star town of Jianshiqiao International Home Textile City), from Shanghai to the north, through the Sutong Bridge about an hour's drive, is the nationally renowned home textile capital - China Jianshiqiao International Embroidery City. It is located in the northwest corner of Haimen City, with a total area of 350,000 square meters and an average daily flow of more than 30,000 people, and there are more than 3,000 families operating embroidery products in this town. Here is a fertile ground for breeding millionaires, from the stack of three highway has been going west, 3 kilometers of road on both sides of the more than 20 has become a large-scale textile companies, and then go west, is the embroidery market. Have the owner of the store department, each with a million dollars. In Jishiqiao, a store is a brand, large and small hundreds of enterprises, of which more than 100 companies have annual sales of more than 5 million yuan. They deal with a variety of bedding (including quilts, covers, pillows, etc.), curtains, cushions and other finished textile products.
Industry and construction
Industrial production above scale continued the trend of high growth in the previous two years, the total scale of expansion. 2005, the total output value of industrial production above scale and sales revenue of 214.4 billion yuan and 208.1 billion yuan, respectively, both exceeded 200 billion yuan; value added by industrial production above scale of 56,453,000,000 yuan, an increase of 25.2%. Among them: private industry added value of 31.973 billion yuan, an increase of 26.3%; light industry added value of 27.833 billion yuan, an increase of 23.3%; heavy industry added value of 28.62 billion yuan, an increase of 27.2%. Annual industrial electricity consumption 10.515 billion kilowatt hours, an increase of 19.6%.
Construction production faster growth. Annual construction value added 15.133 billion yuan, an increase of 17.0%. Construction enterprises throughout the year completed construction gross output value of 89.796 billion yuan, an increase of 17.9%; construction area of 136,141,000 square meters, an increase of 12.1%; completed area of 41,688,000 square meters, an increase of 0.5%. The economic efficiency of construction enterprises continued to improve, and the labor productivity of all employees calculated according to the gross output value of the construction industry reached 148,300 yuan per capita, an increase of 7.2% compared with the previous year. 3 enterprises in the city were promoted to the general contracting qualification of the special grade in 2005, and 14 enterprises were awarded the first-class qualification, 8 enterprises were ranked among the province's top 20 in terms of the comprehensive strength of the construction industry, and 5 enterprises were among the province's top 10 in terms of the construction of foreign economic activities. 2005, Nantong City, the construction iron army won the provincial high-quality construction projects above the provincial level. In 2005, Nantong City, the construction of the iron army won the provincial quality projects above nearly 100, won the Luban Award (National Excellent Engineering Award) 2.
At present, there are 14 foreign-invested enterprises officially registered in the export processing zone. The region's 231 industrial projects under construction, of which, more than 100 million yuan of industrial projects, more than 10 million U.S. dollars in foreign-funded industrial projects 14. Foreign investment by the original more focused on the traditional chemical industry, textile and garment projects, transformed to biomedicine, electronics and machinery and service industry projects.
Nantong is a national leader in basic education and quality education. Nantong has 15 world champions and Olympic champions*** won 50 gold medals for the motherland, ranking first among prefecture-level cities in the country, and is known as the "cradle of world champions". Nantong's construction industry*** has won 38 Luban Awards, the highest award in China's construction industry, ranking first among prefecture-level cities in China. There is China's first museum - Nantong Museum, around the Haohe River Museum Group.