Wuhan, as one of the birthplaces of Chu culture, has a long history and a long cultural history. As early as in the Neolithic Age (more than 10,000 years ago), there were ancestors living and reproducing here. According to the evidence, the ruins of Panlongcheng, located in the northern suburbs of Wuhan, is the palace city of Fangguo in the Shang Dynasty, 3500 years ago. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hankou became a nationally renowned commercial port and was one of the four most famous towns of the time. Modern Wuhan, as the birthplace of the democratic revolution, has written a glorious chapter of history.
Wuhan has beautiful scenery and many attractions. The world-famous Yellow Crane Tower is the first of the "Three Famous Buildings of Jiangnan". East Lake, the "Pearl of the River City", is a national scenic spot. The ancient Buddhist temple "Guiyuan Zen Temple" is home to five hundred Lohan statues. In addition, there are also ancient Qin Terrace, Qingchuan Pavilion, Chutian Terrace and other monuments and attractions, which are unforgettable.
Comprehensive Economic Strength
Since the reform and opening up, Wuhan's economic development has been very rapid, and the national economy has continued to grow steadily. Especially in 1992 was identified as a city open to the outside world along the river, the scale of the economy and the overall strength of the city continues to grow. 1992-1998 average annual economic growth rate of 16%, higher than the national and provincial average, for many years in a row, ranked "China's top 50 cities in terms of comprehensive strength" of the sixth place.
Location and resources
Wuhan's geographic coordinates are 30°33" north latitude and 114°19" east longitude. It has a subtropical humid monsoon climate with abundant rainfall all year round, an average frost-free period of about 250 days or more, and an average annual temperature of 16.3℃. The terrain of Wuhan is a residual mound impact plain, most of which is below 50 meters above sea level.
Wuhan is located in the center of China's economic and geographic center, the traffic is well-connected, and has always been known as the "thoroughfare of the nine provinces", going to Shanghai in the east, Chongqing in the west, Guangzhou in the south, and the capital in the north, the distance is about 1,000 kilometers.
Wuhan is rich in natural resources. Wuhan's agricultural production conditions, rich in water resources, known as the "city of a hundred lakes. Wuhan has 33 kinds of mineral deposits, 154 mining sites, the potential economic value of more than 840 billion yuan, especially rich in metallurgical auxiliary materials and construction materials, and has the country's largest base of fused limestone, dolomite and quartz sandstone, bentonite reserves ranked first in the country.
Wuhan's most significant resource advantage can be summarized as "two thick". That is, "water is unique", Wuhan near the river and water, lakes scattered, water resources are quite rich, the total amount of water greatly exceeds the existing industrial and agricultural production and the total amount of water for urban residents; "in the uniqueness of", Wuhan is the heart of China's economic and geographic, in the western development strategy Driven by the strategy of western development, China's new economic development will form an east-central-west "H" pattern, Wuhan will become an important strategic pivot point. The strong radiation effect of this economic development will inevitably drive the extraordinary development of Wuhan city.
Industrial structure and market potential
In the new century, Wuhan will focus on promoting the deep development of industries and functions to establish a sustainable urban economic system. To promote the deep development of industries, the focus is to vigorously develop communication and electronic information, bioengineering and new medicine, optical mechatronics, new materials, lasers, software and other industries, transform and upgrade the steel, automobile, machinery and other industries, and gradually build Wuhan into an important high-tech industrial base in the country.
Utilization of foreign capital
Since the reform and opening up, Wuhan firmly grasp the "opening" and "open" of the historic opportunity to make full use of the national preferential policy conditions, the timely development of "open" policy. Pilot" policy, always adhere to the strategy of "opening up to promote reform, reform and opening up to promote development", and actively utilize foreign investment, initially formed an all-round, multi-level, wide-area pattern of opening up to the outside world, and the degree of economic outward mobility has been further increased.
In 1980, the city approved the establishment of the first Sino-foreign joint venture, to the international capital market to take the first important step, especially in 1992, the state approved the city for the opening up of the city along the river, the city's utilization of foreign capital is not only the scale of the expanding, but also the quality and level of continuous improvement, the field continues to broaden. Wuhan's favorable investment environment and considerable investment returns have attracted a large number of internationally renowned multinational companies, including the world's top 500 enterprises. The confidence of foreign investors in investing in Wuhan is increasing.
Education and Science and Technology
Wuhan is the center of science, technology, culture and education in central China, and its comprehensive strength in science and technology education ranks No. 3 among large and medium-sized cities in China, just after Beijing and Shanghai.
Infrastructure and City Functions
1. Energy Supply
Wuhan has an abundant supply of coal, electricity, petroleum, liquefied petroleum gas and other energy sources at reasonable prices, which are fully capable of meeting the needs of industrial and agricultural production as well as people's living.
The city has a liquefied petroleum gas storage capacity of more than 6,000 tons; liquefied petroleum gas pipeline 14.4 kilometers; gas medium-pressure pipeline of more than 900 kilometers; and the Netherlands SHV joint venture with the annual unloading capacity of 100,000 tons of liquefied petroleum gas special wharf. Minsheng Petroleum Company has built a special terminal with an annual turnover capacity of 600,000 tons.
At present, Wuhan is actively implementing the "Sichuan gas to the east" project, by 2003 there will be 3 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year from Sichuan into Wuhan.
2. Transportation
Wuhan is one of the main railroad hubs in China. The four main railroad lines of Beijing-Guangzhou, Beijing-Kowloon, Wuhan-Dalian and Hantan intersect in Wuhan. With an operating mileage of 1,077.7 kilometers, there are more than 40 pairs of passenger trains and 80 pairs of cargo trains arriving and departing every day.
National highways 106, 107, 316, 318 and the under-construction Beijing-Zhuhai and Hurong highways intersect in Wuhan. Mileage within the city 235.13 kilometers, registered mileage of 2974.2 kilometers, 1007 long-distance passenger lines, 3439 daily frequency, passenger and freight transportation radiation in more than 20 provinces and municipalities across the country.
Inside the city **** there are 228 bus lines, total line length of 4016 kilometers, public **** cars, trams 4461 units. Taxi 12,260 units, 361 units of medium bus passenger vehicles. Ten thousand people have 12.9 public transportation vehicles, a leading level in the country's large cities.
Wuhan Port is one of the largest inland river ports in China. Wuhan has 615 quay berths with an annual throughput capacity of 44 million tons. It has 2080 ships of various types with a total capacity of 1.5 million tons and 60,000 passenger seats, and the cargo ships can reach Russia, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Macao directly. The cargo volume ranks the 3rd in the Yangtze River inland ports, and the passenger volume ranks the first.
Wuhan is one of the important aviation command centers and airports in China. Routes can reach 56 large and medium-sized cities in China, and four international routes have been opened to Hong Kong, Macao, Fukunet, Japan and Cheongju, Korea, while international routes to Seoul, Korea and Russia are in the planning stage and are expected to be opened in the year 2000. Wuhan's air passenger traffic ranks 9th in China.
3, postal
Wuhan Post Office is one of the seven first-class central bureaus and eight airmail centers in China, and it is the transmission and distribution center of communication and postal service in seven provinces in southern China (E, Xiang, Guangdong, Gui, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou), and it has opened express mail service (EMS) with more than 200 countries and regions and 380 cities in more than 130 countries (regions).
4, telecommunications
Wuhan is the country's main communications hub, Beijing-Guangzhou-Han coaxial cable and Shanghai-Nanjing-Han-Chongqing fiber-optic cable communications trunk line in Han. Wuhan has fiber optics, digital microwave, coaxial carrier and long-distance, local telephone program-controlled switching, public packet switching and digital network as the representative of the modern means of communication. At present, the city has formed a full-featured modern communication network, which can make direct calls to more than 900 domestic cities and more than 150 international countries (regions).
In 1999, the city had an installed capacity of 3,056,900 telephones and 1,290,000 local telephone users. The development of mobile communication and international Internet was rapid, with 507,900 cell phone users in the city at the end of the year, and 54,000 network users as well. The telephone penetration rate in the city was 45.48 per 100 people, of which 11.21 cell phones were owned by every 100 people. The suburbs of the city have realized the village telephone.
5, water supply
The city has 15 water supply enterprises (including 12 public waterworks), with a total daily water supply of 429.9 tons, the water supply capacity of the country's third only after Shanghai, Guangzhou.
6, health care
At the end of 1999, the city had 2,167 various types of medical and health institutions, including 220 hospitals. There were 56,400 medical and health technicians and 27,700 hospital beds. The average number of doctors per 10,000 people was 33.2, with 44.5 hospital beds.
7, "three wastes" governance
Annual industrial wastewater discharge compliance rate of 78.86%, urban surface water quality standards continue to be maintained at 100%; industrial waste gas treatment capacity of 1,142,200 standard cubic meters per hour; solid waste treatment capacity of 2.55 million tons per year.
8, tourist attractions: Wuhan tourism sector integration of the province's tourism resources, the development of "a great, two special, three fine" (a great product that is the Wudang Mountains, two special products that is the Chu culture, the Qingjiang River Folk Customs, three fine products that is the Yangtze River Three Gorges, the Shennongjia, the culture of the Three Kingdoms) characteristics of the tourism project, so that travelers in the mountains, water, folk style between the Experience the unique charm of Chu culture.
Snacks in Wuhan
Snacks in Wuhan are a great thing, and anyone who has been to Wuhan must eat a meal before they really come to Wuhan.
Those who have been to Wuhan must have eaten Wuhan snacks, boiled rice, Daji green bean buns, Erqi Road, beef flour, Guiyuan Temple near the stone cake, braised hooves, toasted bread, hamburgers on Grain Road Street, Nanjing buns, Wuhan Changqiaoqiao head of the Yangtze River, fresh fish, peppers mixed with eggs, Wudaimenkou, the white steamed buns sandwich bolognese pork, soup, duck pots and pans, "water cargo! "Watery goods" flavor plate, cold and crispy fish, beef potstickers and dumplings, five-spice sesame and scallion pancakes, soft pancakes with scallion, "watery goods" soup dumplings, bean skins, fried dumplings with fresh meat and chicken sauce, boiled pots, beef bones, family hot pots, surf fish, stinky tofu and lotus root meatballs, fried dumplings with chicken sauce, bacon pancakes, sanshin noodles, hot noodles, roasted plums, and steamed dumplings, Huajiang Dog Meat, Glutinous Rice Bun Fritters, Steamed Buns with Returned Pork, Beef Noodles ......