Commerce and trade: the development zone has hundreds of large urban and rural markets, radiating Shaanxi, Gansu and Mongolia neighboring provinces and regions.
Tourism: in tourism, the Yellow River Desert, Hui countryside style, the legacy of Xixia, the territory of the Qin-Han-Ming Ancient Great Wall ruins, the Qingtong Gorge Tourism Zone, Niushoushan Temple Group, Tongxin Mosque, Mount Luo and other landscapes blend of historical heritage, natural scenery in one, forming a development zone, a unique tourism resources.
Transportation: The development zone has a superior geographical location and convenient transportation and communication. The development zone is 60 kilometers away from Yinchuan City, the capital of Ningxia, and 40 kilometers away from Yinchuan Hedong Airport, a national air port, and has formed a three-dimensional transportation network based on aviation, railroads and highways. The Dagu, Baolan and Zhongtai Railway pass through the area, and the highway is well-connected, with a mileage of 3985.6 kilometers, including 151.9 kilometers of expressway, and a highway density of 25.7 kilometers/million square kilometers.
Communication: postal and telecommunication industry is developing rapidly, the city all open program-controlled telephone, cell phone and wireless paging, telephone penetration rate of 60%. Development Zone City, there are 837 schools at all levels, including 676 elementary school, 16 nine-year schools, 55 junior high schools, 11 complete secondary schools, 4 senior high schools, 33 kindergartens, vocational high schools (vocational education centers) 3, 1 vocational and technical colleges, 2 schools for the deaf. There are 244,582 students at all levels, including 146,505 elementary school students, 45,711 junior high school students, 21,021 senior high school students, 2,709 vocational high school students, 6,873 kindergarten children in kindergartens, 19,539 preschool children, and 2,164 vocational college students. The city*** has 14,354 teaching staff, including 13,020 full-time teachers.
Expanding high school education has been effective. With the separation of junior and senior high school and rural high school high school restoration, the development zone high school enrollment increased year by year; only the development zone urban area this year, the development zone senior high school was completed and put into use, the fall on the expansion of six classes, the development zone middle school junior high school expansion of four classes, not only to alleviate the outstanding contradiction of the junior high school classes are too large, but also increased the number of high school enrollment. Last year began to prepare for the construction of senior high school in the development zone is the autonomous region unified planning of the region's five demonstrative senior high school, but also the autonomous region, the development zone in 2003, the key construction projects, the estimated project investment of 95.76 million yuan, the design scale of 3,600 students, a total floor area of 60,000 m2, as of the end of last year, the main body of the 10 buildings were completed by the end of this year, the end of August can be delivered to the end of the year, the fall began to enroll. Fall start enrollment, by then, high school enrollment will have a substantial increase.
Vocational education and adult education has been developing steadily, governments at all levels to increase the co-ordination efforts, widely mobilize the enthusiasm of the whole society to set up vocational education, education administration to strengthen the macro-control, pay close attention to the internal management of the school, in the enrollment, professional settings and adjustments and other aspects of the positive guidance to the rural secondary schools to implement the "3 + 1", Primary vocational education, which is based on the "3+1" and "3+2" modes of operation in rural secondary schools, is gradually expanding. Adult education has also seen considerable development, with the number of students enrolled in e-learning, self-study, and correspondence studies rising steadily.
Ethnic education is developing healthily. Nearly one-third of the city's primary and secondary school students are of Hui ethnicity, and the proportion of Hui students who go on to higher education reaches or exceeds that of the Hui population. In terms of investment in ethnic education, some key Hui primary and secondary schools have basically been guaranteed funding for schooling, and the conditions for schooling have improved significantly. Development Zone Hui people's middle school, Litong District, Jinji Town, Qinqu Middle School, Tongxin County Hui people's middle school, with the heart of the county a small school has been included in the autonomous region "100 Hui people's primary and secondary school standardization construction project" project school, hardware facilities construction has been fully carried out, a large number of Hui people's primary and secondary school school efficiency, school quality in the continuous improvement. In the secondary school enrollment work, continue to implement preferential policies, providing opportunities for minority students.
The establishment of the Vocational and Technical College of the Development Zone has filled the gap of no colleges and universities in the Development Zone. On February 9, 2001, the People's Government of the Autonomous Region agreed to merge the Teachers' Training College of the Development Zone, the Vocational Education Center, the Employees' Junior College and the branch of the University of Electricity, and to form the Vocational and Technical College of the Development Zone. At present, the college opens three-year higher vocational, five-year higher vocational, three-year secondary vocational adult amateur correspondence. Years of secondary vocational adult amateur correspondence and other academic specialties, *** there are 4987 students, of which full-time students amounted to more than 2,100 people, the development zone people do not go out to the development zone people's own college, will be the city of the development zone of the economic and social development play a pivotal role. Development Zone, there are 94 public medical institutions above the township level (including factories, mines, fields, staff hospitals), all types of health professionals 3094 people, professional and technical personnel accounted for 84.3% of the total number of beds, a total of 2,234, per 1,000 people with health professionals 2.9 people per 1,000 people have 2.03 beds, in the health professionals, senior title 109 people, intermediate title 406 people, junior titles 2,579 people, the ratio of senior, middle and junior titles is 1:4:23. 4 county-level general hospitals, 4 hospitals of traditional Chinese medicine, 4 maternity and child health clinics; 5 epidemic prevention stations; 2 specialized prevention and treatment institutions, factories, mines and other departments of the hospital 8, 12 central health centers. The city's 60 township health centers have realized the "one-nothing, three-support" principle, and the county, township and village medical, preventive and health-care networks have been consolidated; more than 20 township health centers were newly built, refurbished and expanded in 2003, and township health centers have been equipped with the necessary medical equipment. Clinical biochemical tests are carried out in 28.7% of the township health centers, ultrasounds in 39.6% of the township health centers, and electrocardiograms in 60.8% of the township health centers; 88.8% of the 550 administrative villages have set up village medical stations (of which 41.2% are Grade A medical stations). The city has basically realized the goal of "one full-time epidemic prevention specialist and maternal and child specialist in each township, and one prevention and protection officer in each village", who is responsible for preventive health care work in villages, and is equipped with a refrigerator for counting and freezing and maternity kits, basically making it possible to achieve the goal of "keeping minor illnesses out of villages, keeping major illnesses out of townships, and keeping surgical treatments out of counties". ".
All kinds of infectious diseases have been effectively controlled. Polio (i.e. polio) has been zero reported for many consecutive years. 2001 successfully passed the assessment and acceptance of polio eradication by the supervisory group of the People's Government of the Autonomous Region. In 2001, 21 strains of inter-rat plague were found in Yanchi, and the plague was controlled and stabilized due to the comprehensive prevention and control measures of "epidemic monitoring, protective rodent extermination and health education". "No cases of SARS have been reported so far due to the strong prevention and treatment of the disease. The reported incidence rate of other infectious diseases was 407.16 per 100,000 people, and the mortality rate was 0.167 per 100,000 people. The coverage rate of children's immunization program "four vaccines" reached more than 95%, and the immunization program achieved the three 85% target.
Food hygiene supervision and monitoring has been strengthened. The city's food hygiene supervision coverage of more than 95%, food monitoring coverage of more than 90%, food hygiene pass rate of more than 80%, tableware disinfection pass rate of more than 85%, food production enterprises, "health permit" issuance rate of more than 98%, practitioners, "health certificate" certification rate of more than 95%. 2003 took the lead in the quantitative grading management of food hygiene supervision pilot project to promote the standardized management of food hygiene supervision. Food hygiene supervision standardized management. Grading recognition of 217, of which 3 A-level, B-level 38, C-level 105, D-level 77, and effectively promote self-discipline and integrity level of food business units, this work has been affirmed by the Ministry of Health, and with the success of the August 2003 national food quantitative grading management on-site meetings, further creating a good food safety environment.
New technologies and equipment have been widely used in clinical settings. Six hospitals in the city purchased CT and color ultrasound, and four hospitals purchased hyperbaric oxygen chambers. A system of blood donation has been established. 2001 saw the establishment of the blood station in the city center, marking the incorporation of blood management in the development zone into a legalized and standardized track. 2003 saw more than 5,500 citizens taking part in the city's blood donation, donating 1,587 liters of blood, with the rate of unpaid blood donation reaching more than 95.2%.
New progress has been made in the reform of the medical and health system. Medical institutions to implement for-profit, non-profit classification and management, the city's 78 for-profit medical institutions and non-profit medical institutions 34 have been identified and announced, the establishment of a new mode of operation of medical institutions to adapt to the market economy. On the basis of the pilot project of "patients choosing their doctors", medical institutions at the county level have fully carried out this activity, which has promoted the reform of the internal personnel system and distribution system of medical institutions. Strict access to practice, so that the majority of medical and health professionals and technicians in strict accordance with the "Medical Practitioners Law" and related regulations, standardize the practice of medicine, the city's 2,800 physicians for licensing qualifications registered. Urban and rural cultural and sports networks have basically been formed. Development Zone has basically formed from the city (county, district), townships (towns), villages, households, urban and rural cultural and sports network, initially constructed to improve the quality of science and culture of the people, the people's cultural and sports life of the basic positions.
Cultural and sports infrastructure has been improved. Actively strive for projects, raise funds to accelerate the construction of cultural and sports facilities, a number of leisure and recreation, cultural and sports activities as one of the county-level cultural plaza and cultural centers, libraries, museums, stadiums have been built or are under construction, the new construction, reconstruction, renovation of some of the townships cultural centers (stations), accounting for the total number of the city's townships, 36.4%. The city seized the favorable opportunity of the western development, and actively strive for national debt funds to improve the municipal cultural and sports facilities, launched the construction of a comprehensive gymnasium, completed the construction of the city propaganda and cultural center project.
Mass cultural and sports activities are colorful. Development Zone adhere to the square cultural and sports activities as the leader, to major holidays as a carrier, widely carried out mass enjoyable, colorful series of cultural and sports activities, and gradually formed their own unique brand of cultural and sports activities to the city culture factory townships, rural culture into the city, urban and rural cultural interaction characterized by the flourishing development of the mass cultural and sports activities, the launch of masterpieces, and active spiritual life, and cultivate the cultural and sports The average number of square cultural performances held each year is 150, with an audience of 1.5 million people.