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By the reporter in Jiangxi, Yu Shuqin, special correspondent He Chunyong
"China's copper capital," the title of the city's scramble for the blazing; especially at the end of last year, Dexing City, Jiangxi Province, "China's copper capital," the trademark was successfully registered in Tongling City, Anhui Province, to object to the rendition of the two "Copper City," the dispute More smoke, tends to be white-hot. In Jiangxi Dexing, Guixi, Anhui Tongling, Hubei Daye, Yunnan Huize, Guangdong Yangchun, Inner Mongolia Linxi ...... these "Copper City" city, Dexing and Tongling is listed as "China's top ten Copper City, the first of the enemy city". In order to fight for a name, endless war of words in the end to last how long?
Dexing City, in early 2003, began to declare registered "Copper City" trademark, in November 2004, declared successful, the trademark covers non-ferrous metals, smelting and processing, tourism and entertainment, 44 categories of more than 500 kinds of products. As the owner of the trademark of "Copper City", Dexing will have great benefits in product promotion, investment promotion, tourism and even displaying local culture to the outside world.
Dexing won the trademark, and Tongling was shocked
The city of Tongling was shocked by the news. The municipal government assessed that Dexing's behavior adversely affected Tongling's investment and city image, and instructed the municipal government's Legal Affairs Office and the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce to actively respond to the slogan of fighting the "Tongdu" trademark defense war.
Tongling City believes that "Tongdu" is the pronoun of Tongling City, which has obvious regional characteristics and profound historical origin of copper culture. "Copper Capital" is created by the people of Tongling through hard work and has high visibility and reputation, and the city of Tongling deserves to enjoy legitimate and complete ownership rights and interests. Moreover, Tongling City has organized "China (Tongling) Bronze Culture Expo" for many times, the image of "Tongdu" has been y rooted in people's hearts, and the brand effect of "Tongdu" is playing a pivotal role in the process of Tongling City's economic development. Therefore, Tongling City believes that Dexing City's registration of "China's Copper Capital" is speculation and plagiarism of the brand.
Copper has a long history and is not comparable
Since ancient times, Dexing is one of the copper mining and metallurgical bases in China, and its history of mining can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, and the "Strategies for Soaking Copper" written by Zhang Qian, a Dexing man, who was a wet refiner of copper in the Northern Song Dynasty, was summarized in Dexing. Dexing has been known as "Gold Mountain, Silver City, Copper" reputation, the territory is now proved to have mining value of copper metal reserves amounted to more than 10 million tons, ranking first in the country, is the country's total 12.45%. Above and below the ground are rich in ancient mining and metallurgical sites and cultural relics, as well as Asia's first large copper mine ---- Dexing Copper Mine.
Dexing city government that the city is with these unique advantages, put forward to create "China's copper capital" brand goals. Currently, Dexing is actively preparing for the construction of Zhang Qian Memorial Hall; Jiangdong famous building Jiyuan building is also in the reconstruction; efforts to build "China Copper" and "National Industrial Tourism Demonstration Points", highlighting the Sizhou Town to copper as the characteristics of industrial tourism, the construction of China's only industrial tourism boutique line of copper mining culture; intended to organize a set of Dexing Copper Culture Series and held a Copper Culture Research and Exchange Society, in addition to the construction of the Zhang Qian Copper Sculpture, Copper Museum, Copper Youth Palace and a number of other copper sculptures. Museum, Copper Youth Palace and a number of representative buildings; by the Dexing music workers to create the "China Copper Song" sung Dexing, Dexing up and down is setting off a sensational "copper culture" boom.
Reserves and yields abundance of each has a thousand years
But Tongling city government that Tongling as China's ancient copper capital, there are more than 3,000 years of testimony of copper mining sites, but also had a national leader Zou Jiahua's handwritten inscriptions, and even more today's "electrolytic copper production of the country's first," to continue the title, and the bronze sculptures all over the city is the Tongling "ancient copper capital" atmosphere to create a warm and dignified. The Tongling Municipal Government said. The Tongling municipal government said, the new China copper mining the first shot in Tongling, the first copper smelting plant in Tongling on the horse, the first copper stocks in Tongling was born, the country's most advanced underground copper mining technology, the most advanced copper smelting technology is also in Tongling.
According to the verification, the current claim "copper capital" at least 4 cities: Hubei Daye - thousand ancient copper capital, Yunnan Huize - Tennant copper capital, Guangdong Yangchun - South China copper capital, Jiangxi Guixi - the new copper capital. These six cities have their own characteristics and strengths, the same "copper", which is right or wrong, which is true or false?
Two strong competition for cooperation
The fight for a name, is to earn a fortune; create a brand, is to break a world. How long will this endless war of words last?
Xu Yuejin, secretary of the Dexing Municipal Party Committee, emphasized at the "Charming Dexing - China's Copper Capital" press conference held earlier in Nanchang: "Dexing and Tongling are important copper ore sources in our country, and historically, they are also known as 'Copper Capital,' which is a title that doesn't exclusively belong to anyone. It should be a development dispute between Dexing and Tongling."
Recognize copper culture is *** with resources
And as early as August last year, Tongling specifically sent by the Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee, Minister of Propaganda for the head of the inspection team to Dexing inspection. After understanding the development of Dexing copper industry, copper culture and registered "copper capital" brand and other related situations, the two sides also on how to excavate and organize the history and culture, refine and carry forward the spirit of the city, improve the taste of the city, expanding the city's visibility and other work exchanges.
Xu Yuejin said: "We and Tongling is a sister city, we do not have 'Copper City of the fight', on the contrary, we have also sent personnel to go to them to study and investigate, and I believe that in the future there will be more and more 'Copper City cooperation'.
Tongling also believes that the word "copper capital" is a golden signboard, and copper culture is a historical and cultural resource of the Chinese nation***, and the competition between cities about the ancient copper capital and copper cultural resources is beyond dispute. Tongling in the copper culture research and publicity have greater as.
The biggest feature of Dexing is the use of copper culture, the development of tourism. Such as efforts to build "national industrial tourism demonstration site", built copper culture museum, vigorously develop the gold, silver, copper as the characteristics of industrial tourism boutique, achieved great success. According to statistics, only last year, Dexing visitors have exceeded 50,000 people.
The development of tourism to build a processing base
Tongling is positioning itself as: "China's ancient copper, modern landscape city, contemporary copper base," confidently said to build a national copper processing center, the formation of copper means of production and copper products scale trade market.
And put forward to 2007, will form 500,000 tons of electrolytic copper, 300,000 tons of copper processing capacity, electrolytic copper production veritably become the country's first, the industry's annual sales revenue exceeded 18 billion yuan.
Dexing Tongling big than and
Dexing
Level: Jiangxi Province municipalities
Area: 2,101 square kilometers
Population: 310,000
Copper reserves: more than 10 million tons
Copper production: 130,000 tons of production
Copper output: 1.84 billion in 05
Copper culture: is building China's only copper production capacity.
Copper reserves: unknown
Copper production: annual output of more than 300,000 tons of electrolytic copper
Copper production value: copper production revenue of 17 billion in 2004
Copper culture: "China (Tongling) Bronze Culture Expo" became one of the six major tourism festivals in Anhui.
Copper culture