Beautiful and rich Rudong County is located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, the northern wing of the Yangtze River Delta. Located in longitude 120 ° 42 ′ -121 ° 22 ′, latitude 32 ° 12 ′ -32 ° 36 ′, east and north of the South Yellow Sea, the west and Rugao City border, northwest and Haian County adjacent to the south and the city of Tongzhou as neighbors. The land of the county starts from the west end of Caojiazhuang Village in Hekou Town in the west and ends at the east embankment of Rudong Salt Farm in the east, which is 68 kilometers long; it starts from the south river boundary of Zhujiajia Village in Dugang Town in the south, and ends at the spelling of tea in the north of New Reclamation Area, which is 46 kilometers wide. The county covers an area of 1,872 square kilometers (excluding the sea) and has a population of 1,111,100 (end of 2002). Rudong County from the air, like a "giant palm", curbed the huge waves of the Yellow Sea, pressed horizontally on the vast plains of the river and the sea. And from the shore beach to the sea stretching a radial sand ridge, is the "giant palm" of the "fingers". Sand ridges between the deep grooves can be through the sea, the deepest is located in the western sun sand outside the rotten sand ocean, water depth of 16-25 meters, for excellent deep-water port resources, can build 15-20 million tons of deep-water wharf.
Rudong County has an excellent natural environment. Land is a typical coastal plain, the terrain is basically flat, slightly west high east low, south high north low potential, the elevation is generally between 3.5-4.5 meters above sea level. Climate is the north subtropical oceanic monsoon climate zone, by the regulation of the ocean and monsoon circulation, the four seasons of the year, abundant light, abundant rainfall, the average annual temperature of 15 ℃, is the most suitable for human life and crop growth in the region. County land is fertile, rich in water and grass, lush forests, fields and gardens, producing cotton, grain, fruits and vegetables. Rudong had three times exceeded the lint cotton production of one million quintals mark, leading the province, renowned nationwide, recognized by the State Council. Rudong is also the national advanced county of grain production, the national commodity lean pork base advanced county, the national goat skin export advanced county, the national water conservancy construction advanced county, the national plains green advanced county bird's-eye view of the land of Rudong, rivers and canals across the countryside, field leveling, grains, six animals thrive, vast "palm" on the heap of gold, silver, streaming color, a good one! Suzhong "small Jiangnan", a veritable land of fish and rice. Wide mudflats, both fishing and salt. In addition to grain, cotton, oil, cocoons, pigs and other agricultural and sideline resources, the vast sea and mudflats bring inexhaustible wealth. County coastline up to 92.42 kilometers, the mudflat area of 1.04 million acres. 1951, after the county's people 12 times after the sea to create land, has been Quantuan surrounded by 361,000 acres of mudflat, known as "the second Rudong". Offshore resources are very rich, there are a variety of shallow water shellfish more than 50 species, which is known as "the world's first fresh" clams, the annual export of more than 6,000 tons, is the country's largest production and export base. In addition, there are "Xishi Tongue", bamboo razor clams, mud snails, arkshells, clams, acacia snails, horned snails and so on. There are more than a hundred kinds of common fish, and the yellowtail, pomfret, horse mackerel, herring, mullet, mullet, swordfish, plankton, arrowhead, puffer fish, etc. are the most famous. The famous shrimps and crabs are red shrimps, white shrimps, prawns, golden hook shrimps, pike crabs, blue crabs, Guan Gong crabs and so on. Known as the "soft gold" eel fry and seafood as raw materials for deep processing of seaweed, roasted eel, shrimp, dried clams (powder), "drunken eight fresh" and so on is more popular at home and abroad. In Rudong long coastline, large flood tide directly to the foot of the shore, seawater quality between 2.7-3.8 degrees of boomerang, a cubic meter of seawater can produce salt 27.5 kilograms. The county's 16,000 acres of salt fields produce 30,000 tons of high-quality raw salt annually.
"The beginning of Rudong people's smoke, that is, the beginning of fishing and salt", Rudong was born because of the sea, alongside the sea, and the local people are blessed because of the sea. Since ancient times, Rudong has circulated two lines of folk song: "yellow beach everywhere on the treasure, the golden calf every day out of a". Wen Tianxiang, a famous prime minister of the generation, once wrote here, "The wind rises up a thousand gulf waves, and the tide creates ten thousand hectares of sand. Spring red pile of crab seeds, late white knot salt flowers" poem, Qing Dynasty She Yi had a poem: "the sea air river sound into the lookout bias, flat sand and shallow islets mixed smoke, the east wind in the morning and evening peach blossom floods, salmon dishes such as mud, Ja passenger boats", Rudong seafood attractive charm can be seen here. Rudong vast shoals also provides a wealth of tourism resources. Smoky South Yellow Sea, endless sandy beaches, charming seaside scenery, simple fishing village style, so that Chinese and foreign tourists linger. The development of the Oriental port - Yangkou Port, will end the history of Nantong "sea without port", to realize the history of Nantong from the era of river to the era of river and sea across the history of Nantong. In this piece of beautiful and fertile land, Rudong people hard work, silent dedication. The glorious achievements of the enclosure of the sea to create land, the world's most delicious seafood, the famous garden treasures, interesting characteristics of tourism, not only make Rudong people proud, but also to make the four sides of the visitors to the eye-opening. Rudong is a treasure, nature gives a variety of original ecological products for us to provide an inexhaustible treasure trove of resources; and Rudong is the best people, the contemporary Rudong people are in this piece of rich and simple land with unprecedented vigor with a broad brush to draw a new chapter. Nowadays, the spring breeze of reform and opening up is blowing all over the land of Rudong, and the rich resources are constantly being developed and utilized. History into the new century, Rudong economy is also realizing a historic leap, is from agriculture, fisheries county to industrial county development. At present, the county has formed a textile, pharmaceutical and chemical industry, machinery, electronic information, light industry, marine biology and other key industries as the leading categories of a more complete industrial system, and has Asia's largest towels, protective gloves and iron chain production and export base. The new industrial park, a factory lined up, a batch of foreign businessmen come and go, the investment environment is constantly optimized, a big open, big development, big development of the boom is taking shape. The pattern of the county's industrial economy participating in the international cycle has been initially formed, and the comprehensive strength has been continuously enhanced. In the 1990s, Rudong County was repeatedly ranked among the top 100 counties in the country in terms of comprehensive strength of rural areas, and in 2003, Rudong County was listed among the top 100 counties in terms of basic competitiveness of counties in the country. In addition, Rudong County is also one of the hundred famous star counties in China, one of the top 100 counties in China in terms of science and technology, post and telecommunication, one of the most advanced counties in China in terms of family planning, one of the most advanced counties in China in terms of radio and television broadcasting, one of the most famous counties in China in terms of folk paintings, and one of the most prosperous counties in Jiangsu Province. Rudong convenient transportation, five provincial highways through the territory, the county is only half an hour's drive from the Xingdong Airport, after the completion of the Sutong Bridge, Rudong will be included in the "Shanghai 2-hour economic circle". Rudong is also a national basic education county, Jiangsu education ranks among the forefront of the country, and the quality of education in Jiangsu Rudong first Rudong earth is rising as the sun rises, showing promising prospects and vigorous vitality. When you stand on the Fan Gong Causeway and look into the distance, within the causeway of ten thousand hectares of fertile land, the fragrance of the grain; Causeway outside the sea coating infinite, the collection of gold convergence of silver. There is a lot of grain, cotton and seafood here; beautiful things, beautiful scenery and even more beautiful people. Rudong, the earliest coastal county open to the outside world, like a bright pearl on the Gold Coast, the infinite scenery into the "palm" in the river and the sea of the rich land of endless treasures to the world.