Where is Tongchuan?

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Tongchuan is located in the central part of Shaanxi Province, 247 kilometers away from Yan'an in the north and 90 kilometers away from the ancient city of Xi'an in the south. It is now under the jurisdiction of two districts and two counties, i.e. the urban area, the suburbs, Yao County and Yijun County, with a total area of 3,882 square kilometers and a population of 840,000 people, making it a modernized city exuding an ancient atmosphere.

Tongchuan has a long history, dating back more than 5000 years. Tongchuan was called Tongguan in ancient times. During the reign of Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tongguan County was established. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the name Tongguan was changed to Tongguan, and in 1946, Tongguan was changed to Tongchuan. On April 28, 1949, Tongchuan was liberated, and in 1958, the county was abolished and the city was founded.

Tongchuan City is rich in natural resources. Mineral resources have been proven or are being mined mainly coal, oil shale, limestone, refractory clay, ceramic clay, bauxite and iron ore and other 7 categories of more than 10 kinds of, which is the largest reserves of coal, amounting to more than 3 billion tons. Limestone reserves of more than 2 billion tons, is the best raw material for construction, metallurgy, chemical fiber. The forest coverage rate is 42%. There are money leopards and otters, which are classified as the second class of national protected animals in the wild resources; plants include hawthorn, sea buckthorn and more than 350 kinds of Chinese medicinal herbs, among which Yijun Dangdang (ginseng) and Yaoxian huangling are the most famous ones. Among the local specialties, in addition to apples and thread peppers, there are peppers, garlic, peaches, pears, apricots, persimmons, walnuts and so on. One of the apples with high sugar content, bright color, fruit flavor and fragrance, fine crisp meat and other characteristics of the long-standing reputation, Qin Guan, Red Crown, Red Star and other varieties of national awards for many times.

Tongchuan City, rich in cultural relics and tourism resources, the existing historical and cultural relics of attractions and monuments more than 600, of which more than 28 municipal-level attractions and monuments. The famous "two sites and two mountains" that is, the Yuhua Palace ruins, Yaozhou kiln ruins and Xiangshan Mountain, Medicine Mountain has become an important part of the northern line of tourism in Shaanxi. Yuhua Mountain in the Yuhua Palace site is the Tang dynasty high ancestor Li Yuan and Tang dynasty emperor Li Shimin's palace and the monk Xuanzang translation, the place of silence. Known as the "ten miles of kilns," the site of Yaozhou kilns, is so far China found the best-preserved a collection of Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Jin, Yuan, the essence of each period of the kiln in a place of ancient ruins, known as contemporary China's largest underground ceramics museum. It rose in the Tang and flourished in the Song, and was once known as one of the six major kilns in China, along with Ru, Ding, Guan, Jun and Ge. Xiangshan was once known as one of the five most famous Buddhist mountains in the world along with Putuo, Wutai, Jiuhua and Emei. The monasteries began in Fuqin and flourished in Yaoqin, and Hatamo Roshi, a monk from Guzi, was welcomed to translate the Brahma sutras here. Medicine King Mountain is famous for the Tang Dynasty medical doctor Sun Simiao, who was named "Medicine King" by the emperor. The mountain has magnificent temples, ancient cypresses, monuments and stones, and the scenery is elegant and beautiful. The northern suburb of Jinlock Pass, "three mountains for the moat, two gorges for the pass", for generations of soldiers must fight. In addition, there are martyr Meng Jiangnu's relics of Jiangnu Shrine, Liu Fan calligraphy and painting of the ink treasure and Zhaojin Xuejiazhai's peaks and so on. Tongchuan is a place of great talent, with ancient sages such as Fu Xuan, a famous philosopher of the Western Jin Dynasty, Liu Gongquan, a great calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, Linghu Defen, a historian, and Fan Kuan, a famous painter of the Northern Song Dynasty. Yao County Zhaojin area is the revolutionary base of Shaanxi-Gansu Border Area, where Liu Zhidan, Xie Zichang, He Long and other proletarian revolutionaries of the old generation have been engaged in revolutionary activities. Tongchuan existing foreign tourism hotels (hotels) 4. Specialized tourism lines "Yao porcelain culture tour", "medicine and health care tour", "Buddhist tracing tour", "leisure and avoiding the police tour The special tour lines "Yao porcelain culture tour", "medicine and health care tour", "Buddhist tracing tour", "leisure and avoiding the department tour", "Meng Jiangnu legend series of tours" and "Liu Fan painting and calligraphy tours" attract many domestic and foreign tourists to visit the city every year.

Tongchuan is a new industrial city, but also Shaanxi Province and even the country's important energy and building materials base, coal and cement production accounted for more than 30% of the total output of Shaanxi Province, ranked first in the province; the annual output of 35,000 tons of electrolytic aluminum, accounting for more than 90% of the province; ceramics accounted for the province's annual output of more than 70% of the main products sell well in the country and the world more than 40 countries and regions. It has more than 80 industrial categories with coal, building materials, ceramics, aluminum smelting, electromechanics, machinery, textile, medicine, food, chemical industry and electronics as the backbone. Tongchuan Mining Bureau is currently the largest national coal mine production enterprise in Northwest China, with 10 pairs of production mines and an annual output of more than 9.6 million tons of raw coal. Yaoxian Cement Plant, with an annual production capacity of more than 1.8 million tons of cement, is a large national cement production enterprise.

Tongchuan City, convenient transportation, communications, has a superior geographic location and a good investment environment, there is a major east-west artery across China's Longhai Railway, an important branch of the Xian (Yang) Tong (Chuan) Railway, "210" highway national highway through the city, the West Copper Highway directly to the city center. In addition, feeder highways and three railroad lines connect the major industrial and mining enterprises and townships in the city. At present, the city has 10,000 program-controlled telephones, wireless paging, 800 megabytes of mobile communications and other equipment and technology. Domestic and international express mail service is also available. In addition, there are abundant power resources and water resources that can meet the needs of production and life, all of which have injected vitality into Tongchuan, which is spreading its wings and taking off.

With the in-depth development of reform and opening up, Tongchuan's tertiary industry is flourishing, rapid development, so that the city's functions are increasingly perfect, the tourism industry has initially formed a "north-south line, connected to a piece of" pattern, established the status of the northern line of tourism in Shaanxi; the stores and stores, a dazzling array of commodities in the commercial street, presenting a prosperous scene. Prosperous scene; the booming real estate industry, so that a different style of skyscrapers lined up; foreign trade, finance and insurance industry is booming, a number of trust and investment companies, city credit unions and other financing institutions to rise rapidly, the service network throughout the city and countryside. At present, Tongchuan is in the spirit of the day and night, the implementation of the forty "copper project", in order to realize the "ten-year plan" ahead of the grand goal and struggle.

Science and technology, education, culture, health and social welfare facilities. There are 6 scientific research institutions. Various types of institutions 1166, including two institutions of higher learning, four secondary specialized colleges, 96 various types of secondary schools, vocational secondary schools, 1060 elementary school. There are 190 medical and health institutions, with 48 hospitals. There are 189 cultural institutions, including 5 libraries, 10 theaters, 57 cultural centers and 3 parks. There are 3 municipal TV stations, newspapers and radio stations. Yijun County is the "Hometown of Modern Chinese Folk Painting" named by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. Folk paper-cutting and embroidery are famous at home and abroad for their simplicity and innocence, and their works have been exhibited in Europe, America and other countries for many times. Yaoxian woodblock prints, folk social fires, etc. have a typical northern style and a strong local flavor.

Foreign exchanges and cooperation have been further expanded. Successively and Zhejiang Ningbo, Guangdong Zhanjiang, Shandong Yantai formed a friendship city, and with South Korea Fenghua County, Israel Azor City, Kadima City signed a memorandum of friendship city. Friendly exchanges with domestic and foreign and economic and trade exchanges increased significantly, more and more guests favor Tongchuan. City *** has set up offices in Xi'an, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Yantai and other places, the city's foreign institutions have reached more than 20, effectively broadening the channels of opening up.

Tongchuan relying on strong resources and industrial advantages, adhere to the foreign capital, foreign trade, foreign economic "three foreign concurrently" and external attraction of the "two-wheel drive", the value of foreign exports increased by an average annual growth rate of 22.9%. Self-export to achieve zero breakthrough. In order to comply with the new situation of reform and opening up, Tongchuan City in the city to further carry out the "open development and development" discussion, completely out of the concept of "narrow valley", and constantly adjust the development of ideas to transform state-owned enterprises, grasp the focus of the overall situation of the large projects, widely Attract foreign capital, and in the domestic multi-channel, multi-form of horizontal integration, at present, the investment countries have spread across Asia, Europe, the United States three continents.

In order to make the role of the central city of Tongchuan to be further played, the people of Tongchuan City *** formulated a series of preferential policies in the south of Yaoxian 45 square kilometers within the scope of the planning and construction of new areas of Tongchuan City. The construction of the new area is standing on a high starting point, based on the status quo, focusing on the future, taking into account the economic, social and ecological benefits, the overall layout to plan and build an outward-looking, modern and comprehensive new area as the goal, by the end of the century, the new area will take shape, and ultimately form the center of Tongchuan City, the political, economic, cultural and information, and become a modernized medium-sized city in the north of Weiwei region of Shaanxi Province. The new area is 60 kilometers away from Xianyang International Airport through the high grade highway in the south. The area is rich in water resources, land leveling, 110 kV substation and 330 kV substation which has already started construction, the investment environment is superior. Under construction, the natural gas transmission and transportation pipeline of Xi'an, north of Shaanxi, passes through the district, and the new district has implemented program-controlled communication, and the fiber-optic cable communication project is being implemented intensively. The construction of the area in the direction of development, from the development of economic and technological projects and the investment environment to start high-tech development as a leader, focusing on the development of industrial and tertiary industries, the use of resource advantages, in order to high-tech, high starting point, small pollution, under the principle of characteristics, giving priority to the development of aluminum profiles and aluminum products industry; the development of multi-species, high-grade ceramic industry; the development of medicine and health care products; the development of electronic industry; the development of deep processing of agricultural and sideline products and food industry. Deep processing of agricultural and sideline products and food industry. Now there are a number of enterprises, units into the area for construction, eight large-scale industrial projects have been embarked on the construction of the area of the preliminary preparatory work, the total project investment of 6 billion yuan.

The implementation of the open development strategy, is the development of copper rich people's systematic project, related to the development of the future of Tongchuan. Municipal Party Committee, the city *** in a wide range of opinions on the basis of the formulation of the "Tongchuan Economic and Social Development Strategy Outline" and the implementation of open development and development, in accordance with the provincial party committee, "grasping the major events, grasp the implementation of the" approach to the work of economic construction as the center of the opening up of the economy to the overall economic situation of the strategic position in the work of the first. The city's people are making concerted efforts. The people of the city are making concerted efforts, confidence to take the urban and rural areas as a whole, the city of mining as a whole and economic, social and environmental development of the integrated development of the road, in order to build Tongchuan into a modern civilized city and strive.