Xiangshan County, which is in south flank of the Ynagtze River Delta ,in the middle of Zhejiang province and between xiangshan harbor and Sanmen Bay, is encircled on three sides by seas and one side by land. In the second year of Tang Shen Long dynasty(the A.D.706), xiangshan County was founded for its mountain which looks like an elephant. The whole county covers an area of 1,175 sq km including urban area of 16.7 sq km and has a population of 533 thousand including urban population of 156 thousand. The jurisdiction of Xiangshan County encompasses ten towns, five townships and eight residential districts.
In recent years, Xiangshan people develop and practice Xiangshan spirit, so the economy and the society are both improved steadily and the same with the comprehensive strength. Therefore, Xiangshan County ranked No.63 in the National strongest Economic counties in 2005.(There are more than 2700 counties all over the country) Xiangshan County were ever honored with the national model county, the Chinese famous knitting city, the national ecology model district and the civilized county, the home of construction ,the county of good education, the county of advanced culture in Zhejiang province. The textile, construction, sea traveling and seafood of Xaingshan has become a fine name card. There are three listed companies in Xiangshan. In 2006, Its GDP reached RMB 16.06 billion and a total financial income of RMB 1.77 billion, with the average income of urban inhabitants of 16,969 yuan and fishermen of 7,736yuan.
Xiangshan has four distinguishing features. The first is the characteristics of the sea. Xiangshan is a coastal county with a sea area 5,335 sq km, a coastline of 800km, 608 islands with 60-80 thousand people living on them. Xiangshan horbor in the north is a famous fishery ecological harbor and Shipu port in the south is 18km long , belonging to the six national central fishing port, where there are more than 1,500 steel fishing ships with strong horse-power. The area of seawater aquiculture of crab, laver and yellow craoker are expanded. The annual product of fishing and cultivating reached 560 thousand tons, ranking the first in Zhejiang province. On Open fishing festival this year, Jiangzhenghua, the Vice-director of The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, conferred China Ocean Forum forever on Xiangshan county.
The second is the characteristics of ecology. Xiangshan is situated in Peninsula with picturesque scenery. The fine rate of air quality is 100% and forested rate is 57.5%. Xiangshan, which is on north latitude 29.3, closely to international golden travel line, on which are San Francisco and Hawaii of USA and Miami of Mexico, is one of the best places to develop sea traveling in East China. In later years, according to it, Xiangshan grabbed the chance and have been developing coastal traveling about leisure vigorously since 1997. Now It is uniquely prominent and in the front row in Ningbo. One belt, three districts and ten products(one hundred golden coast traveling ,Songlanshan leisure and holiday resorts, fishery culture tourist site in Shipu port and Ecological sightseeing tourist site in Datang harbor ) have preliminarily formed. Songlan mountain , China fishing village, the old street in Shipu fishing port and the city of movie and TV have all developed and Xiangshan became one of the best popular tourist sites in East China. It welcomed 2,320 thousand in the whole year and the income of tourism came to RMB 1.25 billion.
The third is the characteristics of economy. Xiangshan, as the hometown of Zhejiang construction, has three enterprises of special class(Longyuan, Zhogda and Huafeng) and six enterprises of the first class, most of which lie in Shanghai. The annual output value of these enterprises broke through RMB 30 billon and ranked No.6 in Zhejiang province. Longyuan company continues to win the first in the comprehensive appraisal of construction enterprises in Shanghai for years and the first list company in Ningbo. Xiangshan, which is also Chinese knitting well-known city , has more than 1000 knitting enterprises, with its output value taking the 40% of whole county industrial gross value. Its major products, such as T shirts, culture shirts etc., are sold to more than one-hundred countries and regions. The 10 enterprises, such as huge hawk and Yong Nan, enter 50 nation-wide knitting winners. Characteristic agriculture are vigorously developed. Besides the traditional industries, such as red bayberry and orange, in last few years, special wild boar and swan are bred , exporting vegetable are planted.
The forth is the characteristics culture. In hundreds and hundreds of years , Xiangshan people rush tide and dare not fall behind, which made them become attached to the sea and formed unique cultural inside information , the xiangshan spirit of “the ocean admits 100 rivers and bravely stand upright tide heads " has come into being. The fishing culture with opening fishing festival as carrier is simple, primitive and deep and the marine cultural big county of characteristic with fishing culture is creating. China open fishing festival has been listed one of the three big festivals in Ningbo and one of 50 nation-wide festivals. The feature of Shipu coast defence culture, sea business culture and fishing culture is obvious and the historical preservation with the city of more than 500 years is very complete, which has been commented for national historical cultural well-known town. The nongovernmental culture is valued, mainly with the participation of the masses. The bamboo root vulture culture has a long history, with 3 national bamboo root vulture great masters as representatives. The bamboo root vulture industrial supportive policy has come into being and the bamboo root vulture museum has been established. Xiangshan bamboo root vulture is commented 3 Zhejiang new vultures. At the same time, there are peasant draws , paper-cut , ancient furniture etc.. The talent works of Xiecaihua, a great master of paper-cut, has been placed in Guinness record.
In "115" period, Xiangshan are facing rare development opportunity. The project of building Xiangshan harbor bridge and its connecting road, with 47 kilometers of total length and 7 kilometers of bridge length, is approved by National Development and Reform Commission.. Ningbo municipal Party committee decides to protect and use Xiangshan harbor area completely and build a ecological and economic harbor with full attention. Under " big bridge effect " , big bridge economy, port economy, marine economy and travel economy, will release huge development potential. The advantage of Xiangshan special industry, mountain and sea resource, system mechanism and ecological environment will get further performance, economic and social development in county region will be quickened. Weak infrastructure with remote situation will get to be changed completely, urban and rural unifinication process will be accelerated further. Therefore, county Party committee and county government put forward 4 strategies of strengthening county by industry, flourishing county by bridge and sea, enriching people by tourism and flavoring people by harmony, according to based on scientific development, uniting the sea and the land, founding harmonious Xiangshan, realizing the overall requirement of overall well-off standard, and put forth effort to create modern coastal city, the new area of marine product, coastal leisure center and marine cultural big county. By 2010, the total output value of whole county will reach twenty-five billion Yuan with more than 12.5% annual increase. GDP of average per capita will exceed 5000 dollars and the unit total energy consumption will decrease 15% than the end of " tenth-five years ". To build a well-off standard society in an all-round way will be realized, and the framework of the development of modern ecological coastal travel city will be formed. |
