Maoming City is bordered by the sea in the south, with a meandering coastline of 220 kilometers long, and has a number of natural harbors such as Shuidong and Boga. Shuidong Port is China's opening up a class of ports, has built a number of 10,000 tons of refined oil terminals and general cargo, container terminals, with the country's largest 250,000 tons of single-point mooring crude oil receiving and discharging system, the annual throughput capacity of 14.5 million tons. Boga Port is one of the province's three major fishing ports, producing lobster, shrimp, sea cucumbers, sea bass cream crabs, etc., the city's aquatic products production ranks first in the province. Maoming is a more populous prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province, ranking 3rd among the 21 prefecture-level cities in the province; it is also the province's agricultural economy is more developed prefecture-level city, the total agricultural output value, total grain production, total fruit production, total production of oilseed crops, total output value of pork in Guangdong Province ranked first among prefecture-level cities.
Maoming has a wealth of tourism resources, natural landscape and humanities monuments reflecting the rich flavor of western Guangdong, distinctive local characteristics, some resources in the province and even domestic comparative advantage, the development of tourism conditions are unique.
One, is the seaside tourism resource advantage. Maoming south of the sea, the coastline zigzag multi-bay, meandering more than 220 kilometers, beach long, green forest, water is clear here resource characteristics. Hutoushan, China's first beach and other places along the beach up to 12 kilometers long, the first in the province, the sand is white and soft, gentle slope, suitable for sea bathing, sea sports projects; along the beach outside is 500-1000 meters wide and up to 40 kilometers of artificial protective forest belt, rare in China, is the 1950s the great initiative of the people of dianbai, the famous painter GuanShanYue's masterpiece "the Great Wall of green," on the material from this! The visibility of the underwater sea water around Fulgence Island reaches 8 meters, and its underwater scenery is peculiar, which is a good place for developing underwater sightseeing and diving tourism. This area is the city's earliest development, tourism facilities supporting the most complete large-scale integrated tourism area, but also one of the province's first 22 provincial tourism resorts, at home and abroad has a wide range of influence.
Fangji Island seascape (2 pictures)
The second is the ecotourism resource advantage. Maoming's central and northern areas are hilly and mountainous, suitable for forest growth and the development of fruit cultivation industry, ecotourism resources are abundant.
1. Xinyi's Dawu Ling is a provincial nature reserve, 1704 meters above sea level, the highest in western Guangdong, Guangdong's second peak. There are high peaks and lush forests, rich in rare plants and animals, known as the "Kingdom of Plants and Animals". Dawuling peaks, mountains, clouds and mist, the scenery is infinite, is to carry out forest eco-tourism and recuperation, a good place to escape the summer heat.
2. Gaozhou is "the first national fruit city (county)", litchi, longan, bananas, mangoes and other fruits planted in a large area, and centralized and continuous, vast sea of fruit, endless, suitable for the development of agro-ecological tourism. Gaozhou's root town, known as "China's first town of litchi", litchi planting with a large area, varieties of Qi, early maturity, high yield, good quality, the market is famous, the town of red Lychee Pavilion, the Tribute Garden has long been a well-known tourist attractions, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists every year, is one of the more influential agro-ecological tourism area in our province.
3. Hwazhou famous rich orchard, focusing on nearly 100 kinds of domestic and foreign famous fruit, is a collection of fruit planting, processing, sales, scientific research and tourism, leisure in one of the emerging agricultural tourism base.
Three, is the hot springs tourism resource advantage. Maoming is located in South China on the geological fault zone, hot springs of many kinds, widely distributed, there are a dozen Xijiang hot springs, new age hot springs, hot water hot springs. Xijiang hot springs identified by the authority of its comprehensive water quality is the first in Guangdong, radon, fluorine, metasilicic acid and other three elements and mineral content far more than the national medical hot spring water standards, very rare in China, very health care and tourism development value.
Four, is the monument tourism resources. Maoming in the late Neolithic 4500 years ago, there are indigenous peoples in the flourishing. Xia and Shang dynasties began to call the Baiyue ethnic group. Maoming earth after thousands of years of wind and rain erosion, leaving many attractions and monuments. Xian Tai Temple in Gaozhou, Guanshan Temple, Baoguang Pagoda, the old city of Changpo, Zhenlong Ancient Academy Group in Xinyi, Confucius Temple in Huazhou, Bell and Drum Towers in Dianbai, Xian Tai's hometown, Maonan's fossilized dinosaur eggs and other humanistic landscapes are fascinating and rich in cultural heritage. Maoming has produced many celebrities in history, such as Gao Lishi, the important minister of the Tang Dynasty, and Chen Jian, the famous genius of Lingnan, who are all from Maoming. Today, most of the monuments have been developed into attractions for tourists to visit.
Xian Tai Temple (3 pictures)
Fifth, it is the advantage of red tourism resources. Gaozhou is the General Secretary Jiang to the nation's "three" education mobilization place, General Secretary Jiang made "three" mobilization of the Gaozhou People's Hall, visited the Gaozhou Xian Tai Temple and personally planted high-quality litchi tree "China Red" and so on have become the domestic and international tourist attractions. "etc. have all become the desired tourist attractions for domestic tourists. At present, the National Tourism Administration officially launched at home and abroad 100 red tourism boutique attractions, the city's Gaozhou as an important stop for red tourism, will certainly bring a new round of Maoming tourism development climax.
In addition, Maoming has some other resources are also quite unique. Such as known as "man and the biosphere park" of rare botanical gardens, Maoming suburb of Guangzhou, "Baiyunshan" called Fushanling, Huazhou Luo River coastal scenery, "national garden city" of the nature and humanities. Maoming city and other natural and cultural scenery resources; Xinyi jade carving, bamboo crafts, Huazhou orange carving, Gaozhou corner carving, eggplant carving, Dianbai shell carving and downtown handicraft candles and other tourist crafts resources; Dianbai red duck eggs, Xinyi hawthorn, Huazhou bazaar bridge cucumber, tangerine red, Gaozhou lychee, longan and other local specialties, etc., are Maoming people are proud of a unique resource, and also is the city tourism development of the advantages. Where the advantages lie.
Since the reform and opening up, relying on the rich tourism resources, the city's tourism industry in the municipal government under the correct leadership, from small to large, rapid development, has made remarkable achievements. At present, the city *** there are 22 star-rated hotels; 15 travel agencies, including 2 international travel agencies; 17 tourist attractions, including a provincial tourist resort, the national AAA-level tourist areas, 3; tourism shopping malls, 6; the size of more than 1,000 cabs, more than 20,000 employees industry-wide, the initial formation of the tourism hospitality system to meet the tourists The tourism reception system has been initially formed, which can meet the needs of tourists in terms of "traveling, living, eating, traveling, shopping and entertainment". In recent years, the tourism industry has maintained double-digit growth in various economic indicators, is the city's national economy in the most dynamic and one of the potential growth point. 2007 the city's tourism revenue amounted to 5.365 billion yuan, an increase of 7.8%. At the same time, the development of tourism, but also led to the development of related industries, optimize the economic structure, stimulate consumption, increase employment opportunities, and promote the coordinated development of resources, environment and society, and achieved better benefits. Leaders at all levels and all walks of life have further deepened their understanding of the tourism industry, and have greatly enhanced their consciousness of caring for and supporting the development of the tourism industry, which has shown unprecedented development.
Land resources
Maoming land area of 11,459 square kilometers, mountainous area of 1,300 square kilometers, more than 1,000 meters above sea level, nearly 100 peaks; terrain from the northeast to the southwest in turn for the mountains, hills, terraces, plains, soil type of earth up to 8 categories of 192 kinds of more than the development of a wide range of space.
Oceans, forests and resources
Maoming City, there are 12 islands, there are 220 kilometers of meandering coastline, there are water East, Boga, Liantou, Dongshan, such as the size of the 26 harbors (Boga Port is the province's largest fishing port), -20 meters isobath shallow sea Xiongtu area of 1.13 million hectares. The sea area is characterized by tropicality, activity, diversity and margin; there are more than 140 kinds of marine organisms such as fish, shrimps, crabs, shellfish as well as sea urchins, starfish and jellyfish in the area. There are many kinds of living creatures, as many as 600 kinds of plants for food, medicine, ornamental, timber and industrial raw materials, and the forest reserve reaches 14,177,700,000 cubic meters, which has great potential for development.
Maoming fruit varieties: bananas, longan, lychee, mango, tree pineapple, yellow olive and other fruits; belongs to the city of Gaozhou (county) has "the first national fruit production city (county)", fruit cultivation area has reached more than 3.8 million mu.
Mineral resources
Maoming has proven mineral deposits of nearly 100 kinds, with a potential value of more than 400 billion yuan. Oil shale and kaolin reserves and quality of the country's first, jade mine is one of the country's three major jade mines, abound in the country's only "southern jasper", silver rock tin mine in the country's third, Dongkeng gold mine for the second in Guangdong Province, rare earths, porphyry tin ore, titanium ore and other reserves are in the first place in the province.
Water resources
Maoming City, the development of rivers, streams and rivers, many rivers, rainfall in the territory of more than 100 square kilometers above the river has 39 (the largest river for the Jianjiang River, followed by Shimihua River, Luo River, etc.).
Multi-year average runoff depth of 960 millimeters, multi-year average runoff volume of 11 billion m3, another 800 million m3 of transit water, groundwater 3.87 billion m3. At present, Maoming water conservancy system has a considerable foundation and scale, the formation of the Gaozhou Reservoir as a leader, large and medium-sized water conservancy projects, storage and diversion of water projects combined with a relatively complete water resources allocation and water supply system.
Port resources
Maoming City is located in the South China Sea, has a unique advantage of abundant deep-water port resources.
Maoming Port is a national class of ports open to the outside world, including Shuidong, Boga, Beishanling three port areas, now has 41 berths, is one of the country's large ports, throughput capacity of 17.59 million tons. Maoming port includes Shuidong port area, Boga port area and Beishanling port area. 1980 the provincial government approved Boga port to become a second class port. 1988 the State Council approved Shuidong port to become a first class port open to the outside world, first open to the national ship, 1993 the State Council approved the official opening of Shuidong port to foreign nationalities. 1995 Mao Petrochemical Company built the nation's first 250,000 tons of crude oil in the North Mountain Ridge. In 1995, Maoming Petrochemical Company built the first 250,000-ton crude oil handling system in China at Beishanling. Maoming port development and growth, effectively promote the development of the city's foreign trade economy, in 2001 the city's foreign trade imports and exports totaled 1.03 billion U.S. dollars, the actual utilization of foreign capital of 75 million U.S. dollars. The port office of the Maoming Municipal People's Government is responsible for the management and coordination of the city's ports.
Maoming City has 12 islands, meandering coastline of 220 kilometers. -10 meters isobath sea beach area of 628 square kilometers, at present only 30.3% developed.
Boga harbor area, based on Liantou Peninsula, -10 meters isobath is only 700 meters offshore, -15 meters isobath is only 2.5 kilometers offshore, -20 meters isobath is only 11 kilometers offshore (30 kilometers in Zhanjiang Port, 40 kilometers in Huizhou Port), a little bit of dredging can be reached! -22 meters water depth, the most suitable for the construction of 300,000 tons of large-scale deep-water wharf; Beishanling port area and Boha port area adjacent to the (i.e., planning and construction of the Boha new port area, has built 850,000 cubic meters of crude oil reservoir and the country's first 250,000 tons of single-point mooring system, the system from the shore of the 15.3 kilometers), the natural depth of -24 meters, the preliminary argumentation that 89 berths of 20,000-300,000 tons class wharf can be built.
"Maoming" the name of the place is how it came about?
According to "Gaozhou Fu Zhi" records, according to legend, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Gaozhou City, a low-lying area, flooding is often a problem. It was like a wolf like a tiger, destroying fields, destroying houses, tearing up wooden boats, and making the people suffer. At that time, there was a Taoist priest named Pan Maoming, who was determined to build a strong stone boat to save the people from the flood.
Pan Maoming was a man of great perseverance and determination. In order to realize his volunteerism, he carried a heavy load of quarrying tools on his back, and went back and forth, day and night, walking up and down hundreds of steep hills in the vicinity. Later, he finally found in the "Boulder Ridge" can build a stone boat white, hard as steel granite, suddenly happy hands and feet exclaimed: "What a beautiful stone ah, the people are saved! Strange, his words just fell, suddenly a gust of wind blew, in front of the flash of a white light, followed by "rumbling" a loud bang, landslide, soil flying, sand waves interwoven with the curtain of mud and fog, slowly pull open. He rubbed his eyes, only to see a bright jade-like stone in front of him. He was overjoyed and carried the boulder back with great effort. From then on, it took him more than two years of work to create two stone boats. The first one was used as a son ship, and the second one as a daughter ship. But see that the stone boat snow white as silver, gloss transparent as crystal, the beginning of the lotus petals. The mother ship is eight feet long, four feet wide, the child ship is slightly smaller. In addition, he also chiseled into a more than two feet long stone boat Penny. It is really wonderful to say, although the stone boat is very heavy, but in the water but come and go like the wind, carrying more people when it becomes large, carrying less people when it becomes small, no matter how many people or heavy things, it will not sink, as if the lotus petals in the play wave. Since then, Pan Maoming was no longer afraid of floods. Whenever a flood occurred, he carried a stone boat to rescue the victims.
There is a "Dragon Mountain" in the east of Gaozhou city, which has four seasons of spring, green water and elegant scenery. Pan Maoming practiced on this mountain. The South China Sea Dragon King knew about this and was very annoyed. He asked the Dragon King of the Four Seas to seize Pan Maoming's stone boat. One year, late one night, near the dragon mountain suddenly appeared an unprecedented storm, the upper reaches of the mega flash flood, the dragon mountain toppled. Pan Maoming knew that things were not good, so he immediately got on that mother ship and flew up, stopping in mid-air. In an instant, the Dragon King of the Four Seas swooped down with teeth and claws. Pan Maoming swung the long and heavy stone boat pole to calmly respond to the battle. Just see the white light flashes, thunderbolt a loud bang, stone boat Penny swept in the body of the four old dragons, the boat Penny immediately broken into two, four old dragon pain, hastily scurrying to escape. Pan Maoming casually held in the hands of the half of the stone penny to the South China Sea Dragon King threw. The old dragons were so frightened that they ran away from the water recklessly. The half of the stone penny fell into the Cloud Furnace Cave. After the flood receded, the mother ship in the air stopped for half an incense stick, because there is no stone boat Penny, it slowly fell, parked in the east of the city on a hill (later called this place for the "Pan Xianpo"), the child ship also floated down stranded in the "do not hole" near. Seeing this, Pan Maoming shouted: "The Dragon King has retreated, your land is not a worry, do not want to abandon, abandon it!" The boat immediately turned into a rock, and Pan Maoming also ascended to immortality. From then on, the Dragon King of the Four Seas never dared to come to this area to make waves.
To commemorate Pan Maoming's efforts to rid the people of evil, the descendants called the mountain where he lived "Pan Mountain" and the nearby area "Maoming". Some people also made a stone boat inscription has been handed down to the world: "Sage meal stone, in order to rigid for soft; Sage ride stone, in order to sink for floating. The wind will swing the air, the water to God to swim; lotus flower petals, flood as a boat. The dregs of nothingness will remain for you forever. : Feng You, the general of Zhennan, also built Panzhou Maoming County in the name of Taoist priests, the site of which is now the city of Gaozhou.