Nanning Introduction

History

Nanning belonged to the Baiyue territory in ancient times. Daxing County was established in the first year of Daxing of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (318 AD), with present-day Nanning as the seat of the county seat, the establishment of Nanning began from then on, and has a history of more than 1,680 years. In the eighth year of the Tang Dynasty (634 AD), Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty named Nanning as Yongzhou, from which Nanning was shortened to "Yong". In the first year of Tai Ding of the Yuan Dynasty (1314 AD), the central government named Nanning for the tranquility of the southern border, from which Nanning got its name. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Nanning was designated as the capital of Guangxi Province, and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was established in 1958, with Nanning as the capital of the autonomous region and the center of the region's politics, economy, transportation, culture, science and technology, and information.

Administrative divisions and land area

Nanning City has six urban areas under the jurisdiction of Xingning, Jiangnan, Qingxiu, Xixiangtang, Yongning, Liangqing, and six counties, namely, Wuming, Hengxian, Binyang, Shanglin, Mashan and Longan. The city's total area of 22,112 square kilometers, urban area of 6,559 square kilometers, built-up area of more than 150 square kilometers.

Population and Ethnicity

The city has a household population of 6,488,500, of which 2,441,000 are in the urban area. Nanning is inhabited by Zhuang, Han and other ethnic groups, of which the Zhuang population accounts for about half of the city's total population. All ethnic groups in the city live in harmony, with colorful ethnic customs and ethnic cultures with a long history, as well as a cultural atmosphere of openness, tolerance and innovation. In addition to the traditional festivals of Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Qingming Festival and Chungyang Festival, the main traditional folk festivals include Chunshe Festival, Pattycake Festival, Taste of the New Year Festival, Mid-Yuan Festival, Cold Clothes Festival and Zaowang Festival. Nanning's folk dances and dramas are colorful, including Lion Dance, Spring Bull Dance, Yong Opera, Cantonese Opera, Shigong Opera, and Banyin performances. The Zhuang people have created traditional crafts such as embroidery, Zhuang brocade, bamboo and gabion weaving, woodwork, pottery, carving, painting, paper-cutting, tie-dyeing and batik dresses, etc. These traditional crafts with thousands of years of history are the essence of the unique cultural deposits of the Zhuang people, which have been handed down to the present day.

Natural Environment

Nanning is located between longitude 107 ?45-108 ?51? and latitude 22 ?13-23 ?32?. The city resides in Nanning Basin, one of the four major basins in Guangxi, with an average elevation of 74-79 meters and a maximum of 496 meters. Nanning is located south of the Tropic of Cancer and has a subtropical monsoon climate with abundant sunshine, rainfall and mild climate. The average annual temperature of 21.7 ℃, the average annual rainfall of 1300 mm, the annual frost-free period of 345-360 days, there is a "grass through the winter and not withered, the flower is not spring is still blooming," said.

Location conditions

Nanning is adjacent to Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, with the backdrop of Southwest China, facing Southeast Asia, and is an important hub connecting the southeast coast and inland Southwest China, and is the hub on the most convenient sea access in Southwest China, and is also the only capital city of a province near the sea in the western part of the country. The China-ASEAN Expo is held annually in Nanning, making it one of the frontier cities of China's opening to the outside world.

As the center of the three major economic circles of South China, Southwest China and Southeast Asia, and the economic region combining the coast and the hinterland, Nanning has an increasingly perfect, well-connected three-dimensional transportation network of land, water and air. Highway directly to Guilin, Liuzhou, Beihai, etc.; inland waterways directly to Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao, etc.; civil aviation has opened a number of domestic and international routes to all major cities in the country, the international flights can be directly to Thailand, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries; through the railroads in Nanning are Xianggui line, Nanfang Line, South Kunming line, Lizhan line, Liqin line, the horizontal and vertical through the railroad network directly to the large and medium-sized cities in the country.

Natural Resources

Nanning is rich in water resources, mineral resources, agricultural and sideline resources, animal and plant resources, Chinese herbal medicine resources, tourism resources. Nanning is located in the Lingnan non-ferrous metal zone, has been explored and discovered manganese, zinc, lead, gold, silver, coal, quartz sand, crystal, barite, dolomite, granite and other 41 kinds of minerals, one-third of the country's known minerals. Nanning is an important food and cash crop production base in Guangxi, producing rice, corn, sugarcane, cassava, peanuts, beans, hemp, tea, flowers, etc., especially rich in bananas, pineapples, mangos, lychees, lentils, longan and other 40 kinds of subtropical fruits, fruits and fruits all year round. There are more than 300 kinds of herbal medicine resources, such as sand nuts, Chinese yam, half-summer, Poria, silver flowers, cinnamon, etc.

Tourist Scenic Spots

Nanning is the destination and distribution center of tourism in Guangxi, connecting Guilin with the world's best landscape in the north, and Beihai Yintan, a national tourist resort, in the south. In the city, there are Qingxiushan Tourism Scenic Spot, Liangfeng River National Forest Park, Phoenix Lake, Yangmei Ancient Town, Shimen Forest Park, People's Park, South Lake Park and other scenic spots; suburb scenic spots Yiling Rock, Daming Mountain Nature Reserve, Jiulong Waterfalls Forest Park, Jinyun Cave primitive desert caves, Dailong Lake, Sanliyangduo Scenic Spot, Longhoushan Nature Reserve, the remains of the old battlefields of Kunlun Pass anti-Japanese, and so on. Nanning tourism highlights the "Green City beauty, Zhuang Township, South China style" features, opened up a "Green City style tour, eight Gui style tour, China-Vietnam cross-country tour, South China border tour" and other tourism classic lines.

Local Food and Drink

Nanning is home to a wide range of dishes and snacks from many regions at home and abroad. Nanning is the main showcase of Gui cuisine, which, as a cuisine with strong local characteristics of Guangxi, is a representative of Lingnan food culture together with Cantonese cuisine, paying attention to freshness, lightness, tenderness, crispness, smoothness and nutritional science, rich in seasonal changes. To powdered food, glutinous rice food and other representatives of a variety of snacks is more flavorful, rare, strange, fine food plus the deep ethnic flavor, a faction of its own Gui system, so that tourists feast, eye-opening. Rich in local characteristics of the representative diet of eight treasures rice, congee, sour products, snails, eight immortal powder, rolls of powder, dry fish powder, old friend powder, old friend noodles, lemon duck and so on.

City Construction

In 2001, Nanning City put forward the city construction management "136" goals, that is, "a year of small changes, three years of changes, six years of big changes. Now, the city has basically built a transportation network of "five horizontal, three vertical and four rings", increasingly perfect service facilities and a beautiful and comfortable living environment. Nanning is one of the first five cities to receive the "China Habitat Award", the highest award for urban construction in China, and has also been awarded the "National Garden City", "China's Outstanding Tourist City", "National Urban Hygiene Inspection Award", and "National Urban Sanitation Inspection Award". It has also won the titles of "National Garden City", "China's Excellent Tourist City", "National Sanitary Inspection and Evaluation of Sanitary Cities", "Excellent City for Comprehensive Improvement of the Urban Environment", and "Advanced City for Creating Civilized Cities".

Development zones and new area construction

Nanning City, the development zones of the existing state-level Nanning High-tech Industrial Development Zone, the state-level Nanning Economic and Technological Development Zone, the autonomous region-level Nanning Overseas Chinese Investment Zone, the autonomous region-level Nanning Six Scenic Industrial Zone, Nanning, the city of Nanning, the opening up of an important window and a new point of economic growth.

Nanning Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, approved by the State Council in 1992, is located in the northwest of the city, with a planning area of 18 square kilometers. It has city-level economic management authority and a series of socialized service institutions to provide "one-door" services for enterprises in the zone.

Nanning Economic and Technological Development Zone was created in 1992, exercising municipal management authority, located in the south of the city, with superior location conditions and convenient transportation, with a planning area of 110 square kilometers, and the development of the land has been "five passes and one leveling".

Nanning Overseas Chinese Investment Zone (China - ASEAN Economic Park) is located in the northern suburbs, the highway is more than 40 kilometers away from the city center, covering an area of 179 square kilometers, making full use of the land, humanities and location advantages, the introduction of the Singapore Industrial Park, the Indonesian Industrial Park, will become a new carrier of economic and trade cooperation between China and ASEAN.

Nanning Six King Industrial Zone is located in the east of Nanning City, the highway is more than 60 kilometers away from the city center, Guihai and Nangguang two highways, Xianggui and Laiqin two railroads, the Yongjiang River golden waterway intersection here, the location advantages of a unique.

In order to enhance the city's comprehensive competitiveness, give full play to the city's functions, and promote urban development, in recent years Nanning City, in accordance with the rational use of urban space, and further expand the urban framework of the idea of the introduction of a new concept of international urban planning, with a focus on the construction of functional, pivotal infrastructure, and to accelerate the development of the Acacia Lake New Area, Fengling sub-district, South Lake sub-district.

Soft environment for investment

Since the State Council approved the implementation of the coastal open city policy in Nanning in June 1992, Nanning City has been improving the investment environment by setting up an administrative examination and approval hall and providing a convenient and quick examination and approval channel. Foreign investors investing in Nanning City can enjoy the preferential policies of minority areas, border areas, coastal open cities, western regions and the preferential policies of various development zones in Nanning City. The enterprise income tax is 15%. New enterprises can enjoy "five exemptions and three reductions", i.e. the first five years are free of income tax, and the second three years are half of the income tax. At present, there have been from the United States, Germany, Thailand and Hong Kong, Taiwan and other foreign investors in more than 30 countries and regions in Nanning.

Festivals and Events

Since 2004, the China-ASEAN Expo has been held in Nanning every fall. The Expo is organized by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China*** and the ministries of commerce (trade) of ASEAN countries, and hosted by the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The Expo integrates trade in goods, trade in services, investment negotiations, high-level forums and cultural exchanges, and is aimed at strengthening the good-neighborly friendship and economic and trade ties between China and ASEAN, cooperating with the establishment of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA), and showcasing the results of the construction of the FTA. the first edition of the Expo in 2004 was a complete success. Meanwhile, the Nanning International Folk Song Festival, Nanning International Student Products Fair and Nanning International Education Exhibition, Guangxi Investment and Trade Fair and other major festivals are held in Nanning every autumn.

Economic and Social Development in 2004

-- Economic Development Record High

Gross Regional Product (GDP) of 58.886 billion yuan, an increase of 13.2%, the fastest and best in the past 10 years. The primary industry 10.275 billion yuan, an increase of 5.9%. Secondary industry 18.497 billion yuan, an increase of 18.2%; of which 12.58 billion yuan of industry, an increase of 16.6%. The tertiary industry is 30.114 billion yuan, an increase of 13.1%. The proportion of the three industries is 17.45:31.41:51.14. Fiscal revenue is 7.463 billion yuan, an increase of 22.23%. The investment in fixed assets of the whole society is 26.076 billion yuan, an increase of 36.99%. Total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 23.941 billion yuan, an increase of 15.12%. Actual utilization of foreign capital 100 million U.S. dollars. Foreign trade exports totaled $525 million, an increase of 2.57%. Per capita disposable income of urban residents 8060 yuan, an increase of 9.1%.

-- Industry continues to accelerate the development

Industry has realized a good development situation of fast speed and good efficiency which has not been seen for many years. The total industrial output value above the scale of 26.365 billion yuan, an increase of 24.55%. Industry pulling the city's economic growth of about 3.54 percentage points. Industrial economic efficiency improved significantly, above-scale industrial profits of 1.213 billion yuan, an increase of 73.1%.

-- Agricultural industrialization management has achieved new results

Agriculture presents a good situation of accelerated growth and structural optimization. Agricultural structural adjustment has made new progress, the ratio of grain and cash crop planting area reached 1:1.07; the development of the breeding industry momentum, meat, milk, aquatic products production increased by 7.26%, 41.19% and 6.77% respectively. Milk production ranked first in the region. Agricultural industrialization has achieved new results, grain and oil, cassava starch, tilapia, dairy and other agricultural products industry chain initial formation.

-- Active consumer market

The total retail sales of consumer goods grew at a record high since the "Ninth Five-Year Plan". Real estate sales continue to boom, cars, communications and other consumer hot spots. The total tourism revenue of 7.307 billion yuan, an increase of 17.5%. Rapid development of new service industries such as tourism, exhibition and information. The first fair attracted 18,000 domestic and foreign exhibitors and buyers, received 350,000 domestic and overseas visitors, and the cumulative total of commodity trade transactions amounted to 1.033 billion U.S. dollars.

-- Investment is remarkable

Internal and external investment contracts to introduce funds 25.608 billion yuan, an increase of 1.01 times; the actual funds in place 12.254 billion yuan, an increase of 1.05 times. The first fair *** signing of 72 projects, including 47 contract projects, with a total project investment of 15.763 billion yuan, the contracted amount of record high investment and trade fairs, ranking first in the region. Actively participate in and promote Pan-Pearl River Delta regional cooperation, with Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to achieve a historic breakthrough in cooperation, successfully signed the Guangdong Industrial Park, Guangdong Business Street, Hong Kong Street, Macao Street project cooperation agreement. Actively promote cooperation with ASEAN, China - ASEAN Economic Park development and construction has made substantial progress.

-- Labor, employment and social security work was further strengthened, and people's living standard continued to improve

Through the development of public welfare jobs and strengthening the training of the unemployed, the work of labor, employment and social security achieved new results. There were 53,700 new jobs created, and 15,900 laid-off unemployed people were re-employed. The urban registered unemployment rate was 3.8 percent. The social assistance system continued to improve. The income of urban and rural residents continued to increase. The per capita disposable income of urban residents was 8,060 yuan, up 9.1 percent; the per capita net income of farmers was 2,466 yuan, up 10.53 percent.

-- Social undertakings comprehensive progress

*** Organization and implementation of science and technology plans 328 projects; science and technology service system construction is further improved. Integration of high-quality educational resources, to create educational brands, high-quality high school resources have accounted for 36% of high school education resources. The pace of educational infrastructure construction has accelerated. Further improve the infrastructure of rural compulsory education, increase investment in education infrastructure in the counties, complete a number of rural primary and secondary school buildings, boarding school renovation and "two basic" attack project. Infrastructure construction of city and county disease control centers, infectious disease areas, township health centers and key medical units has been accelerated, and the city's health infrastructure has improved considerably. The brand of the Folk Song Festival was further enhanced, and the cultural industry continued to develop. The popularity of national fitness outlets was further popularized.

The main work in 2005

In accordance with the "as a good host, service expositions, promote the opening up of the construction of Nanning," the overall idea of the in-depth implementation of the "Agricultural Stabilization Project", "Industrial Strengthening City 10 billion investment project. Industrial city ten billion investment project", "city construction of the city of ten billion investment project", "business city ten billion investment project", to promote industrialization, urbanization, information technology and agricultural industrialization, and strive to achieve comprehensive and coordinated sustainable development of the economy and society, and strive to build the economic and social Comprehensive and coordinated sustainable development, and strive to build a harmonious Nanning.

-- Adhere to the scientific concept of development to lead the overall economic and social development, and accelerate the pace of development

First, to cultivate pillar industries as the focus of the in-depth implementation of the "industrial city of ten billion investment project", and strive to create a regional advanced manufacturing base. The first is to cultivate the pillar industry as the focus. Further cultivate and grow aluminum processing, biological and pharmaceutical, electronic information, food and cigarettes and other pillar industries. Continue to implement "closed management, open operation" of the development zone, bigger and stronger development zones. Highlighting the power plant, aluminum processing two major industrial projects and downtown area of the transformation and relocation of heavily polluting enterprises. Support counties and districts to run a number of industrial zones, the development of industrial characteristics. Accelerate the development of Nanning characteristics of science and technology, service-oriented, employment-oriented urban industry, so that it becomes a new growth point of industry.

The second is to optimize the development environment as the goal, the full implementation of the "city of ten billion investment project", and constantly improve the level of urbanization. The city construction as the most dynamic economic growth point, optimize the development environment of the key point to grasp, unswervingly promote urban construction management "136" goal. Adhere to the "Yongjiang River as the axis, perfect the west expansion, determined to expand east, north and south wings expansion" of the urban development ideas, to further open up the urban framework, improve urban functions.

Third, to build a regional modern service center as the goal, the full implementation of the "business city 10 billion investment project", accelerate the development of modern service industry. To build a regional modern service center for South China, Southwest China and ASEAN countries as the goal. Vigorously develop modern logistics, finance and securities, exhibition economy, e-commerce and other productive services to support the efficient operation of the economy, the development of information and consulting, legal services, scientific and technological services and other intermediary services and tourism, culture, sports and other industries with high demand potential. Optimize the industrial layout of the service industry, rational planning of business outlets, the formation of new business center area.

Fourth, the rural infrastructure construction "three war" as a breakthrough, the in-depth implementation of the "Agricultural Stabilization Project", to promote the industrialization of agriculture, to ensure that farmers increase their income. Adhere to industrialization, urbanization ideas planning "rural areas, agriculture, farmers," the issue of coordinated development of urban and rural areas. Accelerate the construction of a number of rural transportation, water conservancy, ecological civilization village project. Stabilize the area under grain cultivation and promote increased grain production. Vigorously adjust and optimize the agricultural structure, focusing on supporting high-quality grains, sugar cane, cassava, fruits and vegetables, flowers, animal husbandry, aquatic products and other characteristic and advantageous agricultural products. Actively support and cultivate leading enterprises, and promote the industrialization of agriculture.

Fifth, accelerate the development of various social programs. In-depth implementation of the "science and education" strategy, continue to do a good job of the national "important technical standards research" special pilot, increase the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, improve the level of regional scientific and technological innovation. Vigorously develop basic education, vocational education, adult education and continuing education, higher education, party school education and other levels and types of education, expand and strengthen high-quality educational resources, and build Nanning into an ideal place for job-seeking. Accelerate the establishment of a sound and scientific public **** health system for the whole population, and improve the level of urban and rural health care. Deepen the reform of the cultural system, grasp the grass-roots cultural construction, accelerate the development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries, continue to do a good job in Nanning International Folk Song Festival and "Southeast Asia" evening party, and further enhance Nanning's capacity for cultural exchanges.

-- Utilizing the big platform, implementing the big investment, promoting the big open

Further expand the visibility, attraction and influence of the Expo, and promote closer cooperation between Nanning and ASEAN and even countries around the world. Take the initiative to integrate into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao economic circle, the Pan-Pearl River Delta economic circle, and actively participate in the two countries *** with the agreement of Nanning - Langshan - Hanoi - Haiphong - Quang Ninh economic corridor and around the construction of the Beibu Gulf Economic Circle. Adhere to the combination of "going out" and "inviting in" to further innovate investment promotion methods and improve the effectiveness of investment promotion. Increase policy support for enterprises to expand foreign trade exports to create conditions.

-- Adhere to the people-oriented, and strive to build a harmonious Nanning

To promote the expansion of employment and re-employment in economic and social development in a more prominent position. The implementation of active employment policy, adhere to the development approach to solving employment problems, and gradually establish an economic structure and growth model conducive to expanding employment. It is earnestly implementing the preferential policies on employment and re-employment, strengthening government employment guidance and services, improving employment training, and encouraging the surplus rural labor force to achieve employment through various means. Improve public **** employment service mechanisms and labor markets, and vigorously develop community and rural employment. Continue to improve the social security system. Further expand the coverage of basic pension, basic medical care and unemployment insurance. Further improve the minimum subsistence guarantee system for urban residents. Continue to promote the new rural cooperative medical reform pilot, strengthen the rural "five guarantees village" construction.

Development Ideas for the First Twenty Years of this Century

The goals for the first twenty years of this century are divided into three steps:

The first step is to realize a gross domestic product (GDP) of 75.8 billion yuan in 2007 (at constant 2000 prices, the same hereafter), which is double that of 2000, with a per capita GDP of 11,400 yuan;

The second step is to realize a GDP of 151.6 billion yuan in 2014, which is double that of 2000; and a per capita GDP of 11,400 yuan. GDP of 151.6 billion yuan, quadruple that of 2000, GDP per capita of 21,300 yuan, six years earlier than the country to achieve the goal of quadrupling the GDP;

The third step, by 2020, to achieve a GDP of 276 billion yuan, GDP per capita of 36,500 yuan, the built-up area of the expansion of 300 square kilometers, the population of 3 million people, and build a higher level of The third step is to realize the GDP of 276 billion yuan in 2020, the per capita GDP of 36,500 yuan, the built-up area of 300 square kilometers, the population of 3 million people, and build a higher level of affluent society.

Under the above objectives, several strategic concepts are:

-- Coordination of urban and rural development, the construction of regional hubs. Constructing a large Nanning township system with the central city as the core, the Yongjiang River and the main traffic arteries as the main axis, consisting of the central city - sub-central city - key towns - small towns, driving the economic and social development of the rural areas, advancing the process of urbanization, and gradually changing the urban-rural dual economic structure.

- Optimize the economic layout and build a large base for industrial development. Increase industrial investment, the construction of modern manufacturing base. Optimize the layout of the service industry, the formation of urban areas as the center, the county, small towns and rural areas supporting the perfect, fully functional expansion of the service industry, the output of the new pattern of development.

-- Enhance the city's service function, the construction of regional markets. Accelerate the construction of modern market system, the formation of regional logistics, people, information, capital flow distribution center, enhance the urban agglomeration and radiation-driven capacity.

- Service Expo, building a large platform for opening up to the outside world. Planning and construction of China - ASEAN Economic Park, the international trade city, construction and improve the Convention and Exhibition Center, high-grade hotels and other infrastructure. Comprehensively expand the field of cooperation with ASEAN countries and the world, expand two-way investment, develop trade in goods and services, and strengthen economic and technological cooperation and cultural exchanges.

--Constructing the "Green City of China" to create a sustainable development environment. Develop a green economy, create a green environment, build green channels, cultivate a green city culture, create a green city civilization, and strive to achieve the goal of "United Nations Habitat Award". In accordance with the "136" goal, comprehensively increase investment, highlight infrastructure, focus on road and bridge construction, promote the development of new areas, accelerate the transformation of the old city, improve urban functions, construction of symbols of the project, strengthen urban management, improve the quality of the environment, and the development of social undertakings.

--Construction of international modern city. Seize the opportunity to build an international modern city with an eye to the future. Through the efforts of several generations, Nanning will become a city of openness, a hub city, a city of vitality, a city of charm, a city of peace, a city of harmony and a city of sustainable development.