Location and transportation advantages. Through the Naiyi, Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway through Chengdu, Chongqing, through the electrified railroad in Naikun and the construction of Beijing-Kunming national highway to the north and south, through the river to the sea. Zigong is located in the heart of southern Sichuan, and is directly connected with Neijiang, Luzhou, Yibin and Leshan City through high-speed or high-grade highway, constituting the urban agglomeration of southern Sichuan. It is a large city and an important secondary center city of Sichuan province with priority development, and a relay station linking Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Corridor and South Sichuan Urban Economic Zone in the upper reaches of Yangtze River Economic Belt. Zigong is 70 kilometers to Yibin Airport. It is the largest power transmission and distribution hub in southwest China and the power collection and transmission center of west-east power transmission and the microwave communication hub in south Sichuan.
Splendid salt history and culture. Zigong is famous for its long history of producing well salt, and has experienced the process of setting up towns, counties and cities due to salt. As early as in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhangdi years, began to collect brine salt. When Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the town of Gongjing was established. The salt produced in the Tang Dynasty was exported to Hubei, Jiangxi and other provinces. In the first year of Tang Dynasty, Gongjing Town was promoted to Gongjing County and Rongzhou was established, and in 1835, the "Sun Sea Well" was successfully drilled to a depth of 1,001.4 meters, which became the world's first over 1,000-meter-deep well, and created a new era in the world's drilling history. During the years of Xianfeng and Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty, the area entered its heyday, and was known as "the best place of Sichuan Province", which was "richer than the middle of Sichuan". More than 13,000 salt wells were drilled, and on September 1, 1939, the city of Zigong was established under the Sichuan Provincial Government. Zigong is a city of outstanding people and places. Historically, there are Lu You as an official, modern times, there are the "six gentlemen" Liu Guangdi, China's thick black teaching ancestor Li Zongwu, educator, linguist and philologist, revolutionary Wu Yuzhang, the hero of the Red Rock Jiang Sister Jiang Zhuyun, the commander-in-chief of the Autumn Harvest Uprising Lu Deming, the Red Army senior general Deng Ping, diving queen Gao Min and other celebrities. It has formed a rich and splendid salt culture and colorful lantern culture.
Tourism resources unique charm. Zigong is famous for its salt ruins, dinosaur fossils and bright lanterns. Zigong Dinosaur Museum is one of the world's three major dinosaur museums, is one of the first national geoparks, 4A level scenic spots. Zigong Lantern Festival, the "First Lantern in the World", is a representative of Chinese lantern culture. The Zigong Salt Industry Museum set up by the West Qin Guild Hall is both a national key cultural relic and one of the country's seven major professional museums, and the West Qin Guild Hall is also an architectural masterpiece. Rongxian Buddha is the second largest Buddha in the world today. The Brisk Sea Well is the first well of more than a thousand meters in the world. Fushun Temple of Literature is a national key cultural relic. In addition, Zigong's specialties, such as Gong fan, tie-dye and paper-cutting, are called the three best things in Zigong. In addition, there are such scenic spots as Soafern Valley, Qingshanling, Gaoshitian, Shuangxi Lake, Huaronggou, Wujianggou, Jianshan, Nongtuan, and the ancient colorful and ancient townships of Sanduo Ancient Walled City and Xianshi Ancient Town. In recent years, the pace of tourism infrastructure construction has accelerated, and the tourism industry has developed rapidly. The city has 2 4-star hotels, 13 star-rated hotels, successfully created as a national excellent tourist city. 2004 domestic tourists 3,956,500, received 1875 international tourists, realizing tourism revenue of 1.866 billion yuan, tourism foreign exchange earnings of 1.91 million U.S. dollars.
Economic rejuvenation Since the reform and opening up, Zigong's economic output has been increasing, economic vitality has been strengthened, the pace of development has been accelerated, and the economy of the old industrial city has been revitalized. 2004, the gross domestic product (GDP) amounted to 24.935 billion yuan, an increase of 14.0% over the previous year. The proportion of primary, secondary and tertiary industry structure was 21.0:41.7:37.3. Agriculture and rural economy accelerated the development and industrialization. Industrial production maintained a high growth rate, and its efficiency was greatly improved. The city's total financial income was 1.57 billion yuan, up 20.4%. Investment in fixed assets amounted to 5.494 billion yuan, an increase of 23.2%. Total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 6.589 billion yuan, an increase of 18.9%. Export earnings amounted to 107 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 40.3%. The balance of urban and rural residents' savings deposits amounted to 16.129 billion yuan, an increase of 17.9% over the beginning of the year. Per capita disposable income of urban residents was RMB 6,553, up 11.6%; per capita net income of farmers was RMB 2,873, up 16.7%. The added value created by the city's private economy amounted to 11.819 billion yuan, an increase of 23.2 percent, accounting for 47.4 percent of GDP, or half of the total.
The rural economy accelerated its development. in 2004, agriculture realized an added value of 5.229 billion yuan, an increase of 6.9%. The output of major agricultural products remained basically stable, and the proportion of cash crops increased. Animal husbandry maintains the momentum of rapid development, the effectiveness of industrialized agricultural management is obvious, industrialized demonstration bases are taking shape. Labor export in an orderly manner, rural infrastructure and ecological environment to further strengthen the development of township enterprises, small towns and other new achievements.
Rapid growth of industrial economy. Zigong industry has developed from a single salt production to salt, chemical, machinery as the mainstay, both electronic, metallurgy, light industry, textiles, building materials and other categories of complete, comprehensive industrial system. In recent years, from the "decentralization", "grasp the big and small", "state-owned enterprises to solve the problem" to the implementation of the five major industrial clusters, Zigong industrial structure adjustment as the main line, pay close attention to enterprise reform, Reversing losses and increasing profits and speed and efficiency work, the rapid expansion of the industrial economy, operating quality improved significantly, the growth rate re-entered the ranks of the province's advanced. 2004 the city's industrial scale above 269, 5 national large-scale enterprises, the total value of industrial assets of 27.2 billion yuan. The quality of industrial economic operation continues to improve, the city's large-scale industrial added value of 5.369 billion yuan, realizing a profit of 851 million yuan, the comprehensive efficiency index of the industrial economy reached 118.3 points.
The supporting role of key industries and advantageous enterprises was further enhanced. The dominant position of the industrial economy was further consolidated. in 2004, the five pillar industrial clusters of salt chemical industry, chemical fiber and textile industry, machinery, new materials and agricultural and sideline products processing industry accounted for 78.0% of the value-added of the above-scale industry. One of the country's three largest boiler manufacturers, the main large-scale thermal power, nuclear power, petrochemical container production backbone manufacturers - Oriental Boiler Company's production efficiency doubled year after year, sales revenue exceeded 4 billion yuan; the country's largest producer of mine salt - Sichuan Jiu Da Salt Group Company from the loss-making household to become a major player in the profitability of the largest; the country's largest methane chloride and the Southwest's largest The largest methane chloride and alkali producer in Southwest China - Honghe Chemical (Group) continues to grow, sales revenue exceeded 1.5 billion yuan; in the industry scale, efficiency of the country's leading enterprises - Atlantic Welding Material Company and the country's two largest tungsten and molybdenum alloy enterprises in the West - Zigong Cemented Carbide Company, the national new polymer materials, carbon black research and production bases - in the Hao Chenguang Chemical Industry Research Institute, in the Hao Carbon Black Industrial Research Institute and other enterprises continue to develop rapidly.
The advantage of scientific and technological human resources. Zigong is the national research and production base of polymers, cemented carbide and other new materials, has formed a multi-level scientific and technological research and development system with supporting scientific research equipment and strong technical force, with Chenguang Research Institute, Carbon Black Industrial Research Institute, the National Research Institute of Well Ore Salt and other 17 national, provincial and municipal scientific research institutes, with the only multidisciplinary higher education in southern Sichuan - Sichuan Institute of Technology and a number of scientific and technological research institutes. Sichuan Polytechnic Institute and a number of science and technology-based enterprises. Zigong has a provincial-level Zigong High-tech Industrial Development Zone flourishing. The city has 80,000 scientific and technological personnel. By 2004, the city had applied for more than 1,100 patents and received 1,000 authorizations. 28 scientific and technological achievements were awarded the Municipal Science and Technology Progress Prize in 2004, 5 of which reached the international level and 12 reached the domestic advanced level, with a net gain of 510 million yuan for the society, and the city's technological contract turnover was recognized at 72.47 million yuan.
In accordance with the Sichuan Province, "Tenth Five-Year Plan" of the development of large cities, the construction of a rational structure of the industrial city, and the unique cultural and tourism city of the goal, Zigong has accelerated the pace of urban construction. Adhere to the development of new areas and transformation of the old city and give priority to, has built a number of new urban roads, built four overpasses. The implementation of the main street avenue hardening, landscaping, lighting, greening, transformation of a large number of back alleys, the new Riverfront City Plaza and other leisure and cultural plazas, to complete the Dihao Building, the New Century Plaza, Wenzhou Mall, Longdu New Life Plaza and other old city renovation projects, the new Lvsheng Homes, Shanshui Garden and other large-scale ecological neighborhoods. 2004 built-up area of 44 square kilometers, with a housing area of 32.21 million square meters. The area of built-up area in 2004 was 44 square kilometers, with housing area of 32.21 million square meters. Urban environmental improvement and greening also made new achievements, the built-up area of green coverage reached 31.5%, the urban area has formed a rolling terrain, the mountains around the water, tree-lined, half of the city, half of the city of green hills and half of the building of the human environment. 2004, the city's non-agricultural population of 540,000 people, the first to cross the ranks of the big cities in the southern Sichuan region.
Bright future. Zigong people are under the leadership of the municipal government, in accordance with the "five integrated" coordinated development requirements, to seize the economic globalization and western development of the historic opportunity to accelerate the development of the theme of the main line of economic structural adjustment, to institutional and scientific and technological innovation as the driving force to improve the standard of living of the people as the fundamental point of departure, to further expand Open to the outside world, based on the development of special economic characteristics, focus on the implementation of the chemical industry, chemical fiber, machinery, salt, new materials, five major industrial clusters, to accelerate the "three changes", promote the city's economic development of industrialization, information technology, marketization and urbanization process, and to promote Zigong's economy to catch up with the type of development and overall progress of society. Strive to turn the total economic volume by 1.45 times in 2010, and build a reasonable structure of industrial city and unique cultural and tourism city, GDP reached 41.5 billion yuan (2000 prices). 2020 GDP reached 86.3 billion yuan, per capita of 3,000 U.S. dollars. Zigong will become a reasonably structured industrial city, a unique tourist city, a modern consumer city and an ecological city with landscape and garden.