The city has a total area of 7,779 square kilometers, with a total population of 2.62 million, of which more than 800,000 are non-agricultural population, more than 1.8 million are agricultural people, and more than 1.3 million are social laborers. Jurisdiction of cloud city, emerging county, yunan county and yunan county, in charge of the city of luoding. In recent years, the growth rate of all major economic indicators are in the forefront of the province.
Glorious history, creating a rich and splendid cultural heritage of Yunfu. Yunan County, the mouth of the South River, for the South River and Xijiang confluence, is an important docking channel of the ancient land and sea Silk Road. Luo Ding Tang Dynasty "Longkan Road Inscription" cliff stone carving, known as "Lingnan first Tang carving".
The region of the spirit of the show, feeding the Yunfu successive generations of the handsome and talented. With Confucius, Laozi and listed as the "Oriental three saints" of the generation of Zen Huineng, the famous workers' movement leader Deng Fa, anti-Japanese patriotic general Cai Tingkai and other outstanding figures were born here.
Yunfu City, rich in mineral resources, a wide variety of minerals have been found 52 kinds of minerals, known as "sulfur" and "stone". Yunfu sulfurous iron ore reserves, grade ranked first in the world. Yunan ilmenite production for the province's top, silica reserves ranked second in the country. Granite, marble, limestone, quartz, kaolin and other reserves, good quality, in the province and even the country occupy an important position. Yunfu is also an important agricultural and forestry production area in western Guangdong, producing rice, forest timber, turpentine, cinnamon bark, cinnamon oil, fruits, cassava, bamboo shoots, southern medicine and three birds.
Numerous scenic spots and monuments have formed Yunfu's unique tourism resources. The Xinxing Guone Temple, which is "a place without equal in the smoky waters of a hundred cities and a day since the wind and streamers of six generations", has a history of more than 1,300 years. It is the place where the Sixth Patriarch of Zen, Huineng, founded and passed away, and is one of the famous Buddhist ancestral courts in Yunfu. Above the door of the temple, there is a plaque with the handwriting of Wu Zetian giving "Guo En Temple"; inside the temple, the sound of wooden fish, smoke curls; outside the temple, a thousand years of ancient Lychee fragrance, hundreds of miles of smoke and rain on the cage. Spring cold bath Huaqing Pond, hot spring water slippery wash gel, emerging Longshan Hot Spring is the province's unique sulfur-hydrogen mineral springs, water clarity, pleasant temperature, with the magic function of health care. Yuncheng Coiling Dragon Cave Scenic Spot is beautiful, the cave's gem flower crystal clear, white as jade is called China's best. The Guangyi Big House in Liantan of Yunan retains the typical Lingnan ancient residential architectural style, which can be described as ancient. Longshan hot springs, Longshan Guoen Temple, Coiling Dragon Cave, Coiling Dragon Sky Lake, Longwan Tianhe Waterfalls and Longshi Rock constitute the "Dragon Tour" is becoming a tourist hot line, the number of people come to sightseeing every year to more than 2 million people.
The city has built a well-developed transportation network and advanced communication system. The city has two customs offices, Yunfu and Luoding, which make it very convenient to handle the import and export of goods. The city has sufficient water and electricity supply, a full range of financial institutions, and a network of services in both urban and rural areas. In terms of power supply, the city's current installed capacity of power generation is 512,000 kilowatts, and it has constructed one 220 kV substation, eight 110 kV substations, two 35 kV substations, and completed the urban and rural power grid renovation project, realizing the same price for the city's urban and rural power grids. In terms of postal and telecommunication communications, the city has formed a large access domestic and international long-distance transmission network based on optical fiber cables and digital microwaves, and telecommunications transmission has basically realized exchange program control and transmission digitization. The city has opened all program-controlled telephones, and the total number of telephone users has reached 263,000, with the penetration rate of main lines reaching 10.52 lines per 100 people. The telephone penetration rate reached 12.56 lines per 100 people, and the local call penetration rate reached 32.27 lines per 100 people. Transportation, Sanmao Railway and 324 National Highway running through the whole territory, the town through the village road crisscross, the main road are one, two cement road. Guangzhou - Wuzhou Expressway Yunfu section opened to traffic at the end of 2004. The annual throughput of import and export goods of Yunfu Port has reached more than 3.1 million tons, which is the second largest port in Guangdong Province by inland waterway. In terms of water supply facilities, Yunfu city daily water supply capacity of 414,000 cubic meters, the length of water supply pipeline reached 748 kilometers, the total annual water supply of 56,190,000 cubic meters, 34,770,000 cubic meters of water for domestic use, the water penetration rate of 100 ﹪.
Yunfu City has formed six industrial bases: First, the chemical production base, the city's annual output of 4 million tons of sulfur ore, 290,000 tons of sulfuric acid, rosin 40,000 tons, 50,000 tons of fertilizers, becoming an important chemical production base in Guangdong Province; Second, the stone building materials base, formed the processing and development, the production of marble, granite, reclaimed stone decorative panels, and stone furniture, stone handicrafts, such as 13 major categories of more than 1,000 varieties. More than 1,000 varieties of major categories, is the largest stone products distribution center in South China, in 2003 was named "China Stone Base Center", "China Stone Circulation Demonstration Base". Yunfu is also the largest cement producer in Guangdong, with an annual output of 3.8 million tons of cement, and more than 10 million tons of cement production line is under construction; three is a stainless steel products production base, Xinxing County is the country's important production and export base of stainless steel kitchenware products, stainless steel food utensils production is listed as the second in the country, the sales volume of the country's first, "Xinxing Pot "renowned in Europe and the United States; four is a clothing processing and export base, Luoding Textile Industrial City covers an area of 1500 acres, the existing 20 enterprises, employment of nearly 10,000 people, Huatianlong Garment Co. The company has been producing many famous brand batteries and many kinds of wires, cables and so on.
In recent years, Yunfu Municipal Party Committee and the municipal government put forward the development of "east gradient and west linkage, excellent internal and external expansion, staggered competition, co-ordination and advancement" of the development of the idea of the implementation of the "Pearl River Delta economic extension of the development of the road" strategic measures, and actively undertake the transfer of industries in the Pearl River Delta, the introduction of the accelerated development of the private sector economy. Introduced to speed up the development of private economic incentives, and the establishment of the revitalization of industrial parks, Yunan County Industrial Development Zone, Luo Ding City Textile Industrial City, Xinxing County, Liangguo Industrial City and other industrial parks, and successfully created a unique model of economic development in mountainous areas.
Insisting on the coordinated development of economic and social, human and nature, is the municipal party committee, the municipal government to determine the strategic policy, in recent years, vigorously strengthened the municipal infrastructure and environmental protection and ecological construction, the dilapidated street fa?ade landscape a new look, the grass and green trees expanding the area year by year, the style of the art of sculpture to enhance the taste of the city, Yunfu also took the lead in the province to create more than one hundred ecological civilized villages, where the implementation of human and animal Separation of human and animal life, clean sewage diversion, centralized harmless treatment of garbage. Looking at the urban and rural areas, "the city has a mountain, the mountain has a water, green trees and flowers, mountains and water," Yunfu for the land of Southern Guangdong has added a beautiful bright colors.