Geography

Geographic location Taicang is located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, on the south bank of the Yangtze River estuary. It is located at latitude 31°20′~31°45′ north and longitude 120°58′~121°20′ east. It is bordered by the Yangtze River in the east and Chongming Island in the other side of the river, Baoshan District and Jiading District in Shanghai in the south, Kunshan City in the west and Changshu City in the north. The total area is 822.9 square kilometers, with a water area of 285.9 square kilometers, of which the Yangtze River has a water area of 173.9 square kilometers, and the land area is 537 square kilometers. The inland land area is 649 square kilometers, and the cultivated land area is 36,600 hectares.

Topography Taicang belongs to the alluvial plain of the Yangtze River Delta. The terrain is flat and slightly inclined from northeast to southwest. The eastern part of the plain along the river, the western part of the low-lying polder. Ground elevation: east 3.5 meters ~ 5.8 meters (benchmark: Wusong zero point), west 2.4 meters ~ 3.8 meters.

Water transportation port Taicang Port is located in the south side of the Yangtze River estuary, east of Taicang City. The port is located in the southern waterway of the Yangtze River Bai Mao Sha, up to the mouth of the Bai Mao River, down to Liu Heiya, the center is located in the Qiyamaguchi, that is, latitude 31 ° 37 ′ 00 "N, longitude 121 ° 14 ′ 00". The port coastline is 38.8 kilometers, including 25 kilometers of deep water coastline, only 13 nautical miles from the mouth of Wusong River, which is the nearest port to the mouth of the Yangtze River. The shoreline within the port area is basically straight and stable, not frozen or silted all year round, and the deep water area is open and stable, which can meet the requirements of 50,000-ton ships to turn around in the water, and is one of the best port sites in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Climate Taicang is a humid climate zone in the southern part of the northern subtropical zone, with four distinct seasons. Winter is controlled by the northern cold high-pressure, with little rain and cold weather; summer is controlled by the subtropical high pressure, hot weather; spring and fall is the monsoon alternation period, the weather is cold and warm, wet and dry. The average annual temperature is 15.5℃, the precipitation is 1078.1mm, the sunshine is 1960.9 hours, and the frost-free period is 226 days. 2004 average temperature is 17.1℃, which is 1.6℃ higher than normal. The annual precipitation is 1148.9mm, 70.8mm more than the normal year. 105 rainy days in a year, June 14 into the plum, July 15 out of the plum, counting 32 days, the plum rainfall is 411.5mm. Annual sunshine hours 2255.8 hours, 294.9 hours more than normal.

District Population

District Taicang City is under the jurisdiction of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and the municipal people's government is located in Chenggang Town. at the end of 2004, the city governed seven towns, 126 administrative villages, 2,846 villagers' groups, and 65 residents' committees. The city has the Taicang Port Economic Development Zone.

Population At the end of the year, the city's registered population of 454,600 people, the birth rate of 6.61 per thousand, the mortality rate of 8.02 per thousand, the natural growth rate of -1.41 per thousand; total population of 258,200 people in agriculture, non-agricultural population 196,400 people. Temporary population of 194,900 people, an increase of 26.3% over the previous year.

Ethnicity Taicang is a Han Chinese settlement area, a small number of ethnic minorities living in the diaspora. By the end of the year, there were 24 ethnic minorities in the city, including Hui, Manchu, Mongolian, Zhuang, Wa, Miao, Dong, Dai, Yi, Qiang, Buyi, Tujia, Naxi, Hezhe, Hani, etc., with 347 people (excluding the floating population of ethnic minorities), among which the Hui and Manchu predominate, and are mainly located in the towns of Chenggang, Shaxi, Liuhe, and so on.

National Economy

Major Economic Indicators The national economy continued to grow rapidly. The annual gross domestic product (GDP) amounted to 24.822 billion yuan, an increase of 13.5% over the previous year at comparable prices. Per capita GDP reached 54,815 yuan (equivalent to about 6,623 U.S. dollars), an increase of 8,172 yuan over the previous year. Among them, the added value of primary industry was 1.457 billion yuan, an increase of 4.8% over the previous year; the added value of secondary industry was 15.017 billion yuan, an increase of 13.9%; the added value of tertiary industry was 8.348 billion yuan, an increase of 14.4%. The ratio of the city's three industries was adjusted to 5.9:60.5:33.6 from 6.6:58.5:34.9 in the previous year.

Fiscal revenues increased strongly. The annual fiscal revenue of 3.176 billion yuan, an increase of 46.9% over the previous year. Among them, the local general budget revenue of 1.213 billion yuan, an increase of 36.4% over the previous year. The proportion of local general budget revenue to GDP rose from 4.2% of the previous year to 4.9%, an increase of 0.7 percentage points. Local general budget expenditure of 1.397 billion yuan, an increase of 34.5% over the previous year.

Fixed Asset Investment The total fixed asset investment hit a new record high. Annual fixed asset investment of 13.863 billion yuan, up 24.7% over the previous year. Which completed industrial investment of 10.482 billion yuan, an increase of 23.2%; real estate investment growth rate accelerated significantly, the annual real estate development investment of 1.91 billion yuan, an increase of 214% over the previous year.

Agriculture Agricultural structural adjustment continues to accelerate the advancement of the agricultural economy is rising steadily. The annual total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery was 2.674 billion yuan, an increase of 5.5% over the previous year. Among them, the agricultural output value of 1.227 billion yuan, an increase of 2.9% over the previous year; animal husbandry output value of 594 million yuan, an increase of 16.5%; fisheries output value of 569 million yuan, an increase of 2.2 % over the previous year. Annual grain, cotton, oil planting area of 29,800 hectares, 0.09 million hectares and 0.47 million hectares, respectively, the ratio of sown area of food crops and cash crops for 5.8:4.2. Annual total grain output of 204,700 tons, an increase of 7.0% over the previous year; total cotton output of 0.11 million tons, an increase of 3.6% over the previous year; oilseed production of 10,400 tons, an increase of 51.6% over the previous year. 51.6%. Agricultural and sideline products market-oriented, efforts to expand production. Annual fish production of 38,100 tons, a slight decrease over the previous year; 228,900 head of pigs, an increase of 7.8% over the previous year. Agricultural production conditions continue to improve. At the end of the year has 206,600 kilowatts of total power of agricultural machinery, large and medium-sized tractor 724, small walking tractor 617, 722 agricultural transport vehicles. Rural electricity consumption of 1.904 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 70% over the previous year. Farmland water conservancy infrastructure has made new progress, agricultural flood control and disaster prevention capacity to further improve. Rice mechanized sowing reached 4,000 hectares, three wheat, rice machine harvesting rate reached 98% and 80% or more.

Land resource utilization and agro-ecological protection were widely emphasized. The occupation of arable land for non-agricultural construction was effectively controlled. The area of new arable land for the year was 39.07 hectares, and the area of arable land at the end of the year was 36,000 hectares. The forest coverage rate was 13.77%.

Industry The industrial economy is growing strongly. The city vigorously develops the export-oriented economy and lets go of the private economy. The annual industrial output value reached 54.262 billion yuan, an increase of 24.8% over the previous year, of which 34.652 billion yuan of industrial output value above the large-scale, an increase of 32.0%, accounting for the share of all industries rose from 58.5% to 63.9%, up 5.4 percentage points. Industrial production and sales of good convergence. The annual completion of industrial product sales revenue of 50.694 billion yuan, an increase of 29.0% over the previous year, of which, above-scale industrial product sales revenue of 34.118 billion yuan, an increase of 33.0% over the previous year. Product sales rate reached 98.1%. The comprehensive index of economic efficiency of industrial enterprises reached 142.6%. The total profit and tax of 4.996 billion yuan and total profit of 2.708 billion yuan were realized for the whole year, up 32.6% and 33.1% respectively over the previous year, of which the total profit and tax of industries above the scale and total profit were 3.082 billion yuan and 1.926 billion yuan respectively, up 15.4% and 15.3% respectively over the previous year.

Financial and insurance industry The service function of financial and insurance industry has been further strengthened and the market scale has been further expanded. By the end of the year, the city's financial institutions RMB deposit balance of 22.766 billion yuan, an increase of 4.109 billion yuan over the beginning of the year, an increase of 22.0%; RMB loan balance of 19.643 billion yuan, an increase of 4.922 billion yuan over the beginning of the year, an increase of 32.5%. Annual cash income of financial institutions 73.746 billion yuan, an increase of 40.5% over the previous year, cash expenditures 75.847 billion yuan, an increase of 39% over the previous year, income and expenditure net cash injection of 2.102 billion yuan, basically unchanged from the previous year. The balance of urban and rural residents' RMB savings deposits amounted to 11.494 billion yuan, an increase of 1.75 billion yuan over the beginning of the year, an increase of 18.0%. The balance of foreign exchange deposits and loans amounted to 134 million U.S. dollars and 0.94 billion U.S. dollars respectively, a decrease of 1.4% and 14.8% over the previous year. Insurance revenue grew steadily. Annual premium income of 599 million yuan, an increase of 13.7% over the previous year, pay all kinds of insurance claims and benefits 148 million yuan, an increase of 22.3% over the previous year.

Domestic commerce Commercial enterprises continue to accelerate the layout structure and business format adjustment, the commercial enterprises of the agglomeration, radiation capacity continues to increase. Consumer goods market sales grew steadily. The total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to RMB 4.122 billion, an increase of 14.1% over the previous year. The trend of residents' consumption upgrading is becoming more and more obvious, cars, household goods consumption to further expand. In the retail sales of consumer goods, urban retail sales of 1.998 billion yuan, an increase of 14.4% over the previous year; rural retail sales of 2.124 billion yuan, an increase of 13.9% over the previous year. Various types of merchandise sales growth across the board, of which, wholesale and retail trade 3.385 billion yuan, an increase of 13.7% over the previous year, catering industry 737 million yuan, an increase of 16.3% over the previous year.

Transportation Post and Telecommunications Industry Transportation, warehousing, post and telecommunications communications to accelerate the development of comprehensive service level continues to improve. Transportation network was further improved and infrastructure construction was further accelerated. Yanjiang Expressway, Taipeng Highway has been completed and opened to traffic, Sukhumvit Highway, Xitai First Class Highway, 339 Provincial Highway re-routing project on schedule. The city's motor vehicles surged, social transportation capacity increased significantly. At the end of the year 25,700 cars, of which, 18,100 passenger cars, trucks 0.76 million, respectively, 26.6% and 16.0% over the previous year. Private license plate 17,200 cars, 4,603 new cars, an increase of 36.7% over the previous year.

Postal business is developing steadily. Postal business income of 50.96 million yuan for the year. Postal service categories increased, delivery speed accelerated. The year sent 2.52 million pieces of letters, express mail 195,000 pieces, 15.5 million copies of newspapers, magazines 540,000 copies. The rapid development of the communications industry. At the end of the year, the total capacity of the city's telephone exchange reached 228,000 doors. The city's fixed-line telephone subscribers and mobile telephone subscribers reached 258,100 and 385,800 respectively.

History and Culture

Construction and History In ancient times, Taicang was a coastal village, sparsely populated, with less than a hundred households. In the Spring and Autumn period, it was part of Wu, and in the Qin period, it was part of Huiji County, and in the Han period, it was part of Hui'an Township, Lou County, Wu County. In the Three Kingdoms, Wu built warehouses here to store grain, and gradually developed. In the Yuan Dynasty, after the establishment of marine transportation of grain in Liujiagang, the area became more and more prosperous and became a town of ten thousand families. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, Taicang City was built. In the Yuan Dynasty of Wu Dynasty, Taicang Wei was built, and in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhenhai Wei was set up and troops were stationed there for defense. Ming Hongzhi ten years (1497), cut Kunshan, Changshu, Jiading three counties to build Taicang Prefecture. Qing Yongzheng two years (1724), upgraded to Jiangsu Zhili Prefecture, and analyzed the land set Zhenyang County. In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), Taicang Prefecture and Zhenyang County merged, named Taicang County. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, began to belong to the People's Administrative Office of the Southern Jiangsu Province, and then under the Jiangsu Province, Suzhou District Commissioner's Office. March 1983, under the Suzhou City. March 1993, the withdrawal of the county to build the city of Taicang.

Culture and celebrities Taicang since ancient times for the hometown of culture, humanities, self-characterization, accumulation of thick, rich in heritage, the formation of a unique style of Loudong culture, leaving a long and excellent cultural wealth for today. As early as in the Jin Dynasty, the famous scholar Qu whetstone and other activities in the territory to spread knowledge and culture. Before and after that, there were many ancient temples and pagodas built in the territory, reflecting the level of architectural art and Buddhist and Taoist culture at that time. Folk songs such as Shuangfeng Folk Song were already popular, and then folk dances, stilts, dragon lanterns, and rolling lanterns were passed down in the countryside. The myth and legend of the birth of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden in Huanggu (now in Nanjiao Township) circulated early, and a special shrine was built in Tang and Song Dynasty for the purpose of worshipping the maiden. In the Yuan Dynasty, the canal transportation was opened, and Liujiagang developed into the "world's first wharf". The development of "transportation culture" promoted cultural exchanges with domestic and foreign cultures, and the culture of Loudong entered a period of rapid development. The bridge architecture of Yuan Dynasty has unique style, and there are few Yuan bridges preserved in China. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zheng He made seven trips to the West, set sail and anchored in Liu Jiagang, communicating cultural exchanges between Taicang and Southeast Asian countries, and left inscriptions, objects, writings and other historically important cultural relics. Known as "the ancestor of a hundred plays" of the Kunqu Opera and the beautiful and melodious Jiangnan Silk Bamboo originated from Taicang area. Ming and Qing gardens flourished, there is "Taicang gardens A Southeast" reputation. Taicang statehood after the school, the academy flourished for a while, cultivated many outstanding talents. Zhang Pu Xing society, Wang Shizhen Xing Wen, Wu Weiye Xing poetry, Lu Shiyi Xing school, "four kings" (Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Album, Wang Yuanqi) Xing painting, so that the Taicang culture has been the overall development of folk reading into the wind. Nowadays, Taicang's culture is more open, a variety of characteristics of culture is rich and colorful, there is the national bridge township, the hometown of martial arts, the hometown of dragon and lion, the hometown of folk music and other titles, literature, dance, opera, music, photography, calligraphy and other cultural and artistic fruitful.

The rich cultural heritage has given birth to countless cultural celebrities, only the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties to get a bachelor's degree as many as 314 people. Among the most famous, literature, literature Wang Shizhen, the sole master of the literary world for 20 years; literature, historian Zhang Pu, leading the resurrection of the society shocked the dynasty, wrote "five tombstones" has been handed down to posterity; the great poet Wu Weiye, the creation of Loudong school of poetry, is one of the "Jiangzuo three" (Qian Qianyi, Gong Dingshen, Wu Weiye); the rationalist Lu Shiyi, author of more than 60 books and speeches, and the most important thing is to make sure that you have the best of the world. Lu Shiyi, a scholar of science, wrote more than 60 kinds of books and was honored as the "Great Scholar of Jiangnan". The historian Bi Yuan, following Sima Guang's "Shiji Tongjian", wrote and revised the "Renewal of Shiji Tongjian". Painting and calligraphy, Qiu Ying, a great painter, known as "Zhou fat back up, but also failed to pass", for the "Ming four" (Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin, Qiu Ying) one of the four; Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Yuanqi as the representative of "Loudong School of Painting "unique in the Qing Dynasty painting world, became the orthodox school of painting; the famous modern birthday painter Zhu Qizhan, painting style, self-contained, for the "generation of masters of the painting world"; the famous landscape painter Song Wenzhi, the division from the previous technique out of the innovation and development of modern Chinese landscape painting. In the art world, there was the opera musician Wei Liangfu, who created the Kunqu opera, which was a blend of southern and northern accents; the musician Zhang Yutang, who created the new music of Wuzhong called "stringed rope", which was spread around Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and evolved into the Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo; the master of the guqin, Xu Shangying, who studied the theory of the qin y, and enjoyed a place in the history of ancient Chinese music; the movie artist Zhu Shilin, who edited, filmed, and directed more than a hundred movies, and became the "master of Chinese modern landscape painting". The movie artist Chu Shek Lun, who wrote, filmed and directed more than a hundred movies, became the "pioneer of Hong Kong movies"; the dance artist Wu Xiaobang, who explored the practice of dance creation for more than 60 years, was called the founder of China's new dance. In the field of education, there are educators such as LU Baozhong, who advocated the reform of the imperial examinations and the establishment of academies to popularize education and improve the quality of the nation; educator TANG Wenzhi, who practiced education to save the country for more than 40 years, and has taught students and plums all over the world; and YU Qingtang, who was a pioneer in the field of adult education, who promoted education for the general public, and guided the founding of more than a hundred educational institutions. In the field of journalism, there is Yu Songhua, a famous journalist, who, together with Qu Qiubai, was the first to cover the Soviet Union after the October Revolution, and edited a number of newspapers and magazines in China, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and was known as "Sakyamuni of the journalism sector". In the scientific and technological field, there is water conservancy expert 郏亶, who authored the "Book of Water Conservancy in Wuzhong", which has become an important document for the governance of water conservancy in Wuzhong; and the famous physicist Wu Jianxiong, who has been engaged in the research of experimental physics for his whole life, and has been regarded as "China's Madame Curie" and the "Queen of Physics" by countries all over the world, "Light of Chinese", "chief female physicist in nuclear physics", etc.; the famous physicist Steven Chu, engaged in laser cooling to capture the atom research was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming another pride of the Chinese. Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tang Xiaowei, Zou Shichang, Huang Shengnian, Wu Jianping, Yang Shengli and Tang Xiaoyan, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, have been very fruitful in their scientific research and are leaders in their respective disciplines.

Famous People

Famous Scientists of Taicang <in stroke order>

Tang Xiaowei Tang Xiaoyan Huang Shengnian Zou Shichang Yang Shengli Wu Jianping Zhu Diwen Wu Jianxiong

Excellent Contributions to Young and Middle-aged Experts

Liu Jinhong

Excellent Scientific and Technological Experts of Taicang

Cai Mengmeng Xie Wenxiao Cao Quannan Chen Ping Zhang Anxuan Ren Hongji Xiang Gui Ma Yirong

Ding Yuqi

Ancient Figures

Li Wujiang Bai Dengming Lu Shiyi Wu Weiye Xu Shangying Zhang Pu Wei Liangfu Wang Shimin

Qiu Ying Lu Zigang Zhu Qing 郏亶

Modern Figures

Lu Baozhong Ni De Hong Xifan Yu Qing'eun Xiang Yaoren Jiang Rufang Yu E Li Tianwen

Lv Pinsheng Zhou Ziqing Yang Zizhan Zhu Qizhan Bin Yang Ziqing Zhu Qizhan Song Wenzhi Yu Songhua Yu Qingtang Qian Dengqian

Qian Xucang Tang Wenzhi Zhu Zengyuan Zhu Shilin Fu Huanguang Zhu Chuanming Pu Taifu Wu Xiaobang

Famous Specialties

Roundly, there are: Chinese mitten crabs, eggplants in Xinglong, taro in Taicang, Taicang's "Three Beans," and straw paintings in Taicang, a wonder of the art world, Craft shoes, mahogany carving, Taicang scallions, Taicang whole sheep feast, Taicang Banqiao watermelon, Taicang bad oil, Taicang meat floss, Chunhuang brand chicken, the Yangtze River four fresh, Taicang white garlic, Taicang rare vegetables, such as purple kudzu leaves.

Sights and Monuments

Roughly, there are: Yuhuang Pavilion, Nanguang Temple, Haitian Zen Temple, Zhou Bridge, Leyin Garden, Wu Xiaobang Art Museum, Tianfei Palace, South Garden, Rest Garden, Zhang Pu's former residence, Wang Xijue's former residence, Gao Renqi Oil Painting Museum, Wu Jianxiong's Cemetery, Harbor Dock, Plum Blossom Caochang, Zheng He Memorial Museum, Taicang Museum, etc., and Song Wenzhi Art Museum.