The 60th anniversary of the founding of the country on the military wars: seven battles basically won all the battles. Against Vietnam, against the Soviet Union, against India, against the United States, etc.
Military science and technology: the successful explosion of nuclear bombs, rocket satellites in the sky, God 6 in the sky, the development of the development of the Dragon Core, and so on.
The rest of the science and technology: many Chinese won Nobel Prize, Chinese scientists are leading the world in certain high-tech fields, but the level of basic science and technology still lags behind developed countries in Europe and the United States.
Political status: one of the five standing committees of the United Nations, as the country's power grows, China's status in the international arena is getting higher and higher.
Economically: reform and opening up, rapid economic development, gradually making the whole country rich (not yet finalized).
Socially and culturally:Although the education system is not right, it is many times higher than the level before the founding of the country, and all kinds of arts and culture are organized at a higher and higher level, and gradually gain a firm foothold in the international arena. The level of education of the people has generally increased. The World Expo was also held in China.
Film and television culture: I don't need to say it, the domestic film and television production level of the improvement of the **** witnessed ah, 10 years ago, where there are so many rich TV programs to see it? Artistic level is also improving. Folk art is also being protected.
Sports: China's achievements are too brilliant, has been several consecutive human Olympic Games ranked in the top three, China's dominant program dominated the whole of mankind. The recent Liu Xiang, Yao Ming and the ice program is even more bull than, in the world have a huge influence. Gradually organized world-class major sporting events: the Olympic Games, F1, Asia will be very much so.
Territorial: the recovery of Hong Kong and Macau.
National self-confidence: as the country grows stronger, the people are getting richer and richer, more and more confident, more and more sophisticated. However, recently there has been a rise in extreme xenophobic nationalism, and irrational cynicism has also had a certain impact on society in terms of national sentiment. This is all detrimental to the stability and development of Chinese society. We cannot have strong nationalism now. The time has not yet come.
On the political system: in general it is also progressing.
On the whole, on these aspects, but the political system is still very imperfect and corruption is serious. The ruling party is also trying hard to be democratic. I believe that China will be better off in the future as the country's power grows.
I. BIOTECHNOLOGY
-- BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (1) In 1965, Chinese scientists succeeded in artificially synthesizing bovine insulin after deciphering its gene for the first time in the world. Tiselius, chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee, commented on this, "More convincing than nuclear power is insulin. Because, people can learn to make atomic bombs from books, but they can't learn to make insulin from books ......" (2) On April 15, 1998, the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) again succeeded in recombining human insulin by using genetic methods. (3) On March 9, 1984, China's young scholar Xu Rigan, in cooperation with Japanese scholars, bred the world's first "test-tube goat", and in 1989, "test-tube sheep" were successfully bred. (4) Yuan Longping, known as the "father of hybrid rice", was the first in the world to breed indica-type hybrid rice in 1973. The impact of hybrid rice continued into the 1990s. --Genetic Engineering (5) Starting from 1980, a major breakthrough was achieved in the research on transgenic sheep containing human coagulation factor IX in their milk by the Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics in cooperation with the Institute of Genetics, Fudan University, which put China's transgenic sheep technology at the international leading level. (6) A kind of transgenic pig with low growth consumption, good meat quality and strong disease resistance has been successfully cultivated by the Institute of Animal Husbandry of the Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, with a total gene introduction efficiency of 2.1%, which is more than double that of foreign countries and exceeds the international advanced level. (7) in genetic drugs, in 1988, China successfully developed a genetic engineering vaccine for hepatitis B; in 1992, it also successfully developed a batch of genetic engineering drugs such as synthetic artificial interferon with special efficacy in the treatment of hepatitis A and C, and some of these drugs have entered the market.
Agricultural Technology (8) As early as 1956, farmers' breeding experts in Guangdong Province bred China's first large-scale dissemination of short-straw indica varieties. Since then, with the breeding and promotion of a series of dwarf varieties, in 1965, the southern rice areas of China basically realized the dwarfization of indica rice, and the yield per acre was increased from 200-2 50 kilograms to 300-350 kilograms. (9) In the 1990s, China's agricultural scientists and technicians used modern biotechnology to isolate and clone light-sensitive nuclear sterility genes, and further developed the two-line hybrid rice technology using only male sterile and maintained lines. In the trial planting on a large area of the country, it showed the characteristics of high yield, high quality and multi-resistance, and the average yield per hectare could reach 11,250 kilograms. (10) In November 1995, the State Key Laboratory of the Institute of Plant Protection of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and the Department of Biology of Shandong University jointly bred the world's first transgenic wheat variety resistant to barley dwarf virus. (11) In July 1997, Huang Dainian, a researcher of the China Rice Research Institute, and his research collaborators successfully transferred a herbicide-resistant gene into rice and applied it to hybrid rice after years of research. (12) In October 1997, Guo Sandui of the Biotechnology Center of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences successfully developed China's first bivalent insect-resistant cotton. (13) In September 1998, Zhejiang Agricultural University Nuclear Agriculture Institute Professor Gao Mingyu and other groups led by the use of Agrobacterium-mediated method, the world's first successful transgenic stem borer-resistant strains of stem borer rice. In addition, China has also made great achievements in the field of laser breeding, radiation mutagenesis breeding, space breeding and other advanced technologies.
Three, industrial technology (14) in July 1956, Shenyang Aircraft Factory test production of China's first jet aircraft. (15) in July 1957, Kunming Machine Tool Factory test production success of China's first high-precision electric should be coordinate boring machine. (16) in October 1957, Anshan Steel Second Primary Rolling Mill test production success of China's first 1150 mm primary rolling mill. (17) In June 1958, Changchun First Automobile Manufacturing Plant successfully test-fabricated China's first domestic high-class sedan. (18) in April 1961, Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard successfully manufactured China's first 10,000-ton hydraulic press.
Four, communication technology -- mainframe computer (19) In December 1983, the National University of Defense Technology Computer Research Institute developed a mainframe computer system named "Galaxy". From then on, China stepped into the ranks of the world's development of giant machines. (20) In October 1993, the "Dawning One" large-scale parallel computer was successfully developed. --Microelectronics Technology (21) Since the successful research and development of the first monolithic integrated circuit in 1965, several key research and production bases for integrated circuits have been established. At present, 250 million circuits can be produced annually, with a growth rate of 45%. "At the end of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the mass production level of integrated circuits was 1-1.5 microns, the research level was 0.8 microns, and results were achieved in the pre-research of 0.5-0.6 micron process technology. --Intelligent Robots (22) At present, China has successfully developed intelligent robots mainly include: mobile operating robots for the nuclear industry; wall-crawling robots; mobile robots working in harsh outdoor environments; underwater 1,000-meter and 6,000-meter cable-free robots... ... --Laser Technology (23) After more than 10 years of research, China's research on X-rays, oxygen-iodine chemical lasers, free-electron lasers, high-power solid titanium glass lasers and excimer lasers has reached or is close to the international advanced level. --Three major high-energy physics research devices (24) In the 1980s, China successively built three major high-energy physics research devices -- Beijing Positron-Negative Electron Collider, Lanzhou Heavy Ion Accelerator and Hefei Synchrotron Radiation Device. --New Material Technology (25) After the United States, Germany and a few other countries, Chinese scientists have developed micro-alloyed steel. (26) China is now capable of drawing large-diameter silicon single crystals with a diameter of 300 millimeters and a weight of 81 kilograms. The actual information written is at the leading international level. (27) Performance in energy, ceramics, superconductivity and other materials has reached the world's advanced level. Fourth, two bombs and one star and space technology -- two bombs and one star (28) October 16, 1964, China's first atomic bomb exploded successfully, the world was shocked; in 1967, China's first hydrogen bomb exploded successfully. This is China's famous "two bombs". And on April 24, 1970, China's first artificial satellite sang "Dongfanghong" flying out of the earth, into space. Since then, "two bombs and one star" has been written into the annals of new China's science and technology history. (29) In 1960, China's first short-range surface-to-surface missile was successfully developed. --(30) In the early 1960s, China began to develop large-scale launch vehicle technology, and in May 1980, the launch of a large-scale launch vehicle into the Pacific Ocean was a success, marking the achievement of a new level of launch vehicle technology in China. (31) On September 20, 1981, China successfully achieved the feat of multiple satellites in one rocket by sending three satellites of different purposes into Earth orbit for the first time using a large rocket. (32) According to the needs of space transportation, China has successfully developed the Long March I, Long March II, Long March III and Long March IV. Long March I, Long March II, Long March III, Long March IV and other four types of Long March series rockets. At present, China's Long March rocket family has developed into a series of nine types of rockets, which has made foreign countries realize China's spaceflight capacity and level, marking the solid foundation of China's spaceflight technology. --Artificial Earth Satellite (33) On April 24, 1970, China conducted the first launch of an artificial Earth satellite and successfully put the first satellite into a predetermined orbit; on March 3, 1972, China launched the second scientific and technological experimental satellite; on November 16, 1975, China's first return remote sensing satellite was successfully launched. satellite was successfully launched.
V. Energy Technology - Peaceful Utilization of Nuclear Energy (34) In October 1966, China's first experimental launch of a missile nuclear weapon was successful. (35) In August 1971, China launched its first nuclear submarine of its own manufacture. (36) In June 1958, with the help of the former Soviet Union, China built its first experimental atomic reactor. The Qinshan Nuclear Power Station in Zhejiang Province is the first nuclear power plant designed and built by China itself. It adopts the world's mature technology, safe and reliable pressurized water reactor type, and adopts the safety design standard which has been tested in practice. 1984, the construction started, and in December 1991, it was completed and connected to the grid for the first time to generate electricity. So far, China has two nuclear power plants, Qinshan and Daya Bay in Guangdong, and the State intends to build four more nuclear power projects in the near future. (37) In addition, there are several other types of nuclear reactors under development in China: 1. The Nuclear Energy Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University (NEDRI) has successfully developed a 5 MW nuclear heat reactor; 2. AC600, a 600,000-kilowatt advanced pressurized-water reactor (APWR) nuclear power plant, which is currently under development at the China Nuclear Power Research and Design Institute (NPRDI); 3. The development of the 10 MW high-temperature gas-cooled reactor experimental reactor (HTGR) development is underway at the Nuclear Energy Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University (NEDRI); and 4, Fast breeder reactor nuclear power plant is expected to be put into commercial operation in about 2020; 5, fusion reactor nuclear power plant manufacturers since 1958, is now included in the "863 program". --Other new energy sources (38) magnetic fluid power generation research since the 1960s, the 1980s has established three research bases of a certain scale, this project has been included in the "863 Program", plans to build a 2 megawatts of coal-fired power generation by the end of this century. Magnetohydrodynamic power generation a steam combined cycle experimental device. (39) The development of solar power generation began in 1958, and at present there are about 38 units and universities engaged in photovoltaic research and development work. Since the commercialization of solar cells for terrestrial use began in 1976, there are now * * * 12 production lines or factories for terrestrial solar cells. (40) Wind power generation has been developing rapidly in the northern part of the three northern regions and the southeast coast and islands. In 1986, Rongcheng City in Shandong Province introduced three generating units to form the first wind power station in China, and in 1991, it completed the construction of a wind power station in Shengsi, Zhejiang Province, in conjunction with Germany*** and has been well operated with power generated from the grid. (41) Biomass energy is a rural energy source that has been vigorously developed by our government in recent years under the policy of "adapting to local conditions, complementing multiple sources of energy, rationally utilizing them, and striving for benefits", and has now achieved obvious results. (42) With regard to geothermal energy, the Yangbajing geothermal power station, which utilizes geothermal energy to generate electricity, has been built in the Tibet region of China, with a generating capacity of 27,000 kilowatts. (43) China has built several experimental tidal energy power stations in the southeastern coastal areas, with an installed capacity of 40-640 kilowatts.
VI. Scientific Expeditions -- Scientific Expeditions to Qinghai-Tibet (44) Since the 1960s, China has been carrying out uninterrupted scientific expeditions to the Tibetan Plateau region; two scientific expeditions to the Mount Everest region in the 1960s and 1970s, and a comprehensive scientific expedition to the Tibetan Plateau in the 1970s by a team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, visited the Tibet Autonomous Region. Scientific Expedition, conducted a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and published 46 ****56 volumes of works. Since 1973, several generations of Chinese scientists have gone to the Grand Canyon eight times to conduct scientific expeditions, and have gained a new understanding of the history of the formation of the Grand Canyon, its resources and environment, and its interrelationships with human beings and natural resources. --Oceanic and Polar Scientific Expeditions (45) In 1970, the "Xiangyanghong 5" conducted the first comprehensive survey of a specific oceanic area in the Pacific Ocean, obtaining valuable information on gravity, magnetism, water depth, geology, hydrology, etc. In May 1980, the "Xiangyanghong 5" conducted the first comprehensive survey of a specific oceanic area in the Pacific Ocean. In May 1980, "Xiangyanghong No. 5" went to the Pacific Ocean to carry out another mission, contributing to the exploration of "El Ni?o" phenomenon, China's marine cause, national defense construction and international maritime cooperation. (46) In the mid-1980s, China began polar expeditions; on December 30, 1984, the first Chinese Antarctic expedition boarded Georges Island and established the Chinese Antarctic Changcheng Station, which was inaugurated on February 20, 1985; on September 26, 1989, the Chinese Antarctic Zhongshan Station was inaugurated on the Antarctic continent. (47) In June 1999, China made its first expedition to the Arctic. --(48) From 1984 to 1995, Chinese scientists discovered a large number of fossilized fauna in Chengjiang, Yunnan Province, which revealed the suddenness of biological evolution and challenged Darwin's theory of evolution represented by the traditional "gradualism". It challenged the Darwinian theory of evolution represented by the traditional "gradualism", and was called by the international scientific community as one of the most amazing discoveries of the 20th century. (49) In 1997, scientists in China examined the Precambrian phosphorus-bearing strata in urnan, Guizhou, and found a large number of fossils of miniature multicellular animals and grater embryos, advancing the time of the origin of animals by 50,000,000 years, and once again making a major breakthrough in the study of early animals. --The Xia, Shang and Zhou Dating Project (50) The Xia, Shang and Zhou Dating Project is a large-scale project combining natural sciences with social and humanities sciences to solve the problem of dating three generations. The project set up 9 topics, 40 themes, and 170 scholars have made fruitful achievements in literature, astronomy, archaeology, and paleography after a joint expedition, and these achievements will become a new starting point for the study of ancient Chinese civilization towards the 21st century. A review of the scientific and technological achievements in the above areas will inevitably miss the mark. In the long river of human history, 50 years is just a short moment, but 50 years of Chinese science and technology has indelible achievements in the process of seeking the wealth of the country and the strength of the people. China's science and technology has gone through 50 years, it will create more brilliant 50 years.
60 years ago, Qingyuan was as devastated by war as the whole country. Under the leadership of the Chinese ****production party, the diligent and courageous people of Qingyuan, through the thorns and thorns, and strive for strength, writing a magnificent poem of self-improvement, after 60 years of hard work, the economy and society has undergone radical changes, especially since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party and the founding of the city in 1988, the people of Qingyuan, under the leadership of the Party, adhering to the Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Three Represents of the important thought and the scientific outlook on development as a guide Since the founding of the city in 1988, the people of Qingyuan, under the leadership of the Party, have made remarkable achievements by adhering to Deng Xiaoping Theory, the Important Thought of the Three Represents and the Scientific Outlook on Development. Completely changed the "world's poor place" and the development of Guangdong "cold pole" of poverty and backwardness.
One, the economic development of the big leap
Early liberation, due to years of war havoc, is located in the northern part of Guangdong Qingyuan, the economic decline, the people do not have enough to live. 1949 the city's gross domestic product (GDP) of only 92 million yuan, per capita GDP of 61 yuan. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, under the leadership of the Party and the government, the economy has been rapidly restored and developed. 1978, the city's GDP developed to 723 million yuan, excluding price factors than in 1949, an increase of 3.4 times, with an average annual growth rate of 5.3%; the per capita GDP developed to 255 yuan, excluding price factors than in 1949, an increase of 1.3 times, with an average annual growth rate of 3.0%. After the reform and opening up, Qingyuan economy ushered in the spring of development, especially after the 16th Party Congress, the municipal party committee and the municipal government renewed the ideological concepts, innovated the way of development, put forward to attract investment as a breakthrough, industrialization as the core of the "three parks" development strategy, the economic development has soared, initially formed an agriculture-based, industry-led, tertiary industry flourished. From 2004 to 2008, the average annual growth rate of Qingyuan's GDP reached 25.7%, and the growth rate of a number of major economic indicators ranked first in the province for five consecutive years, and achieved "five consecutive crowns" of brilliant results. Over the past 30 years of reform and opening up, the city's GDP has increased by 32.9 times, with an average annual growth rate of 12.5%; the per capita GDP has increased by 24.7 times, with an average annual growth rate of 11.4%. 2008, the city's GDP amounted to 74.66 billion yuan, which is 149 times more than that of 1949, with an average annual growth rate of 8.9%; the per capita GDP amounted to 20,205 yuan, which is 59.2 times more than that of 1949, with an average annual growth rate of 8.9%. GDP per capita reached 20,205 yuan, an increase of 59.2 times over 1949, with an average annual growth rate of 7.2%. In September 2007, Qingyuan ranked 95th in the list of top 100 cities published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in the Comparative Study of Comprehensive Strength of Prefectural-level and Above Cities of China in 2006, entering the ranks of the country's top 100 cities for the first time. in 2008, the city's total financial revenue reached 8.91 billion yuan, an increase of 656 times over 1950. By the end of 2008, in the province's 21 prefecture-level cities and above, Qingyuan's gross domestic product, local financial general budget revenue ranked 12th in the province, fixed asset investment and large-scale industrial added value ranked 5th and 9th, respectively, the comprehensive economic strength of the province's lower reaches of the middle level.
Two, profound changes in economic structure
In 1949, the city's total industrial output value of only 9.62 million yuan, the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries for 97.15 million yuan, grain production of only 360,000 tons. The three industrial structure of 76:15:9, although the absolute dominance of agriculture, but the production level is very low, more backward industry and commerce. After the liberation, especially since the reform and opening up, industry, agriculture and tertiary industry have been developing rapidly. Agricultural economy has developed from traditional farming to base, industrialized and standardized production, and the comprehensive production capacity of agriculture has been greatly improved. 2008, the total output value of the city's agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery industry reached 15.41 billion yuan, and the grain output reached 755,000 tons, which was 16.2 times and 1.1 times higher than that of 1949, respectively. Fruit production reached 363,000 tons and aquatic products 84,000 tons, up 259 times and 32.6 times from 1952 respectively. Transportation, tourism, real estate, finance and insurance and other modern service industries are booming. Under the guidance of the strategic idea of "backyard garden", it has been exploring new ways of tourism development, making full use of rich tourism resources to vigorously develop the tourism industry, and has been awarded "China's Outstanding Tourist City", "Hometown of Hot Springs in China", "China's Hot Spring City", "China's Hot Spring City" and "China's Hot Spring City". "In 2008, the number of domestic tourists reached 14,401,100, the domestic tourism revenue was 5.22 billion yuan, the number of inbound tourists was 4,789,900 and the number of inbound tourists was 4,789,000. In 2008, the city received 14.411 million domestic tourists, with a domestic tourism income of 5.22 billion yuan, 478,900 inbound tourists and a foreign exchange income of 59.15 million U.S. dollars. 2008 saw the city's financial institutions with a balance of 64.51 billion yuan in local currency deposits, an increase of 613 times compared with 1978. Premium income from various insurance companies reached 1.21 billion yuan.
After 60 years of development, Qingyuan has not only undergone great changes in the total amount of economy, but also profound changes in the structure. First of all, from agricultural economy and society across to industrialized society, in 2008, the city's three industrial composition of 13.3: 57.5: 29.2, industrial economy in the national economy accounted for 53% of the dominant position. Furthermore, in the economic system, there has been a profound change. 1978, the city's industrial economy, the output value of the whole people's ownership accounted for 72%, the collective economy accounted for 28% of the output value. Publicly owned economy reigns supreme. After the reform and opening up, a variety of economic components competing for development, in 2008, the industrial economy, the public economic output value accounted for only 5.9%, three-funded enterprises accounted for 48% of the output value of the joint-stock economy accounted for 39.7%, the other economy accounted for 6.3%.
Three, industrial production soared
Qingyuan industrial development has experienced from scratch, from weak to strong, from relatively closed to reform and opening up, from the planned economy to the market economy, has traveled a winding and magnificent road. 1949 industrial output value of only 0.11 billion yuan, the industrial base is very weak. After the liberation, the industrial economy has been rapid development. 1978, the city's total industrial output value developed to 520 million yuan, excluding price factors than in 1949, an increase of 49 times. After the reform and opening up, especially after the party's sixteen, the municipal party committee and the municipal government to grasp the historical opportunity of industrial transfer in developed areas, vigorously promote investment, has introduced a large number of domestic and foreign famous brand enterprises such as Anhui Conch Group, Yunnan Copper, industrial clustering, parks, and constantly improve the degree of completion of a number of distinctive features of the industrial parks in China (Qingyuan) renewable resources demonstration base, Qingyuan Ceramics Industrial Park and other industrial parks. At present, the initial formation of building materials, electric power, machinery and equipment, metal products, textiles and garments, shoes and leather, electronic home appliances, agricultural and sideline products processing, chemical medicine, scrap metal materials recycling and other ten major industrial system. 2007, the city's industrial output value for the first time exceeded the 100 billion yuan mark, reached 117.26 billion yuan, ranking tenth in the province, entered the province's top ten industrial cities. 2008, the city's industrial output value reached 16 billion yuan in 2008, the city's industrial output value reached 16 billion yuan. In 2008, the city's total industrial output value reached 169.2 billion yuan, excluding price factors than in 1949, an increase of 8211.5 times.
Four, infrastructure achievements
In the early stage of liberation, Qingyuan infrastructure is penniless. After 60 years of investment and construction, the basic conditions for economic and social development have been significantly improved. 1950 to 2008, the city's investment in fixed assets totaled 260.35 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 23.8%, of which the capital investment totaled 84.3 billion yuan from 1962 to 2008, with an average annual growth rate of 16.9% The construction of Qinglian Expressway, Guangzhou-Qingdao Expressway, Jingzhu The Qinglian Expressway, Guangzhou-Qingdao Expressway, Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway Qingyuan Section, Fengcheng Bridge, Beijiang Bridge Sister Bridge, National Highway 106 and 107, Qingyuan Port and other major transportation projects have been built. In the mountainous cities of the province, the first to realize the county (city) to the town through the grade highway. 2008 highway mileage of 17,485 kilometers, an increase of 156 times over 1949, of which 306 kilometers of expressway. The Feilaixia Water Conservancy Project, Yue Lian Power Plant, Yangshan Thermal Power Plant and a large number of small hydropower plants have been built, and the power generation capacity has increased from 110,000 kilowatt-hours in 1949 to 5.055 billion kilowatt-hours. A number of transmission and substation projects above 1,000 volts as well as agricultural and urban network projects were built, and the scale of the power grid has reached the middle level of the province. Post and telecommunications have also developed rapidly, with the city's mobile subscribers reaching 2.021 million at the end of 2008, an increase of 2 million over 1996, and fixed-line telephone subscribers reaching 674,000, an increase of 673,000 over 1957, and the city has now realized the exchange of program-controlled telephones. The city has now realized program-controlled telephone exchange and digital long-distance transmission.
Fifth, the urban and rural landscape is changing day by day
Since the founding of the country 60 years ago, especially since the establishment of the city, the urban and rural landscape has undergone profound changes, the urban framework continues to widen the infrastructure is basically complete, the city's functions are relatively perfect, a regional economic and cultural center, the image of the modern city of Qingyuan has been displayed in front of the people. The black bottom transformation of main roads in urban areas and counties is basically completed. The level of city beautification, greening and brightening has been further improved, with the greening coverage rate reaching 36.95% and the green space rate reaching 33.78%. Urban sewage, domestic garbage disposal facilities from scratch, the daily processing capacity increased significantly, the city function is more perfect. Until July 2009, the total investment in real estate development amounted to 35.7 billion yuan, with a built-up area of 11.02 million square meters. A total of 26.2 billion yuan has been invested in private housing construction in urban and rural areas. Large-scale real estate developments are springing up, and dozens of 20- and 30-story high-rise buildings tower on both sides of the Beijiang River, becoming a beautiful landscape along the Beijiang River. Blue sky and white clouds, green mountains and green water, convenient transportation, by the China City International Association as "China's livable city", and become the citizens live and work in peace and happiness and businessmen at home and abroad to invest in the paradise of home ownership. 2008 the end of the town per capita housing area reached 30 square meters. The pace of construction of new socialist countryside continues to accelerate, rural roads in all directions, accelerate the promotion of rural drinking water safety project work, rural housing building degree continues to increase, rural per capita housing area of 27.5 square meters.
Six, domestic trade prosperity
60 years since the founding of the country, the city's traditional trade and commerce industry, rapid development, in the "big market, circulation, trade" under the guidance of the idea of "big market, big circulation, big trade" in 2008 the city **** completed the total retail sales of consumer goods 25.062 billion yuan, 0.96 billion yuan more than 1957, an increase of 260 times, the annual growth of 0.96 billion yuan. In 2008, the total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 25.062 billion yuan, up 260 times from 0.96 billion yuan in 1957, with an average annual growth rate of 11.5%. Supermarket chains, franchised stores, specialty stores and other new retail formats have emerged. Gome Electrical Appliances, Xinyijia, China Resources Vanguard, Yihua Department Store, McDonald's, KFC and a large number of other modern chain enterprises in the city, star-rated hotels reached 43. Most of the townships have established comprehensive farmers' markets, and individual businesses are active in both urban and rural markets, promoting the prosperity of urban and rural markets. 2008 retail sales of consumer goods in the city's cities and towns amounted to 17.19 billion yuan, an increase of 155.3 times that of 1975, while retail sales of consumer goods in rural areas amounted to 7.87 billion yuan, an increase of 55.2 times that of 1975.
Seven, the rapid development of foreign economic
In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to the economic blockade imposed by foreign governments, the city's foreign economy is almost a blank slate. With the deepening of reform and opening up, the rapid development of foreign economic and trade activities. 1988 to 2008 signed a cumulative total of 3,502 utilization of foreign investment projects, contracted investment amounted to 6.275 billion U.S. dollars, the actual amount of 3.266 billion U.S. dollars of foreign investment, to invest in the project has been infiltrated into the national economy of the major industries, as of the first half of 2009, the city's **** registration By the first half of 2009, the city *** registered 1,000 "three-funded" enterprises, registered capital of more than 3.5 billion U.S. dollars. 2008, the city's total imports and exports of 2.968 billion U.S. dollars, of which the total amount of exports from 0.007 billion U.S. dollars in 1988 expanded to 1.377 billion U.S. dollars. In addition to general trade, processing trade has become the main mode of foreign trade. The amount of actual utilization of foreign capital has been expanding, in 2008 the city's actual use of foreign capital amounted to 515 million U.S. dollars, an 81-fold increase over 1988, especially from 2004 to 2006, the increase in actual utilization of foreign capital for three consecutive years in the province ranked first.
VIII, social undertakings comprehensive progress
Education scale continues to expand, the number of students increased significantly. 2008, the general secondary school enrollment of 324,200 people, an increase of 320,200 people than in 1952, the early years of the founding of the country. Ten national model high schools were built, and 117 provincial and municipal level schools. Qingyuan Vocational and Technical College was founded, and institutions of higher learning such as South China Institute of Commerce and Industry were introduced. 0.85 million students were enrolled in ordinary schools of higher learning in 2008, realizing a breakthrough from scratch. Qingyuan Technical School was honored as a national key senior technical school. At present, nearly 40,000 students are enrolled in various types of vocational schools. Free compulsory education in urban and rural areas has been fully implemented. In 2008, 547,000 students were enrolled in nine-year compulsory free education, and the completion rate of compulsory education reached 97.8%.
The scientific and technological undertakings have been developing vigorously; in 2008, the number of scientific and technological institutions had grown to 18, with 2,627 people engaged in scientific and technological activities, 180 patent applications and 149 patent authorizations. Independent innovation capacity is increasing, built the "provincial power cable engineering technology research center" and "national agricultural science and technology innovation center". *** There are 17 enterprises have Chinese famous brand products, national inspection-free products or Guangdong famous brand products. There are 11 state-recognized high-tech enterprises and 39 provincial-level private science and technology enterprises.
Healthy development of culture and health undertakings. 2008 the city **** there are 8 cultural centers, public **** 10 libraries, 9 museums. The library collection amounted to 805,000 books. Newspapers published 13,822,000 copies. Television coverage is 97%. The length of fiber optics laid is 6,375.8 kilometers. Various types of health institutions have grown to 654. The number of beds in health institutions was 7,969, an increase of 22 times over 1952, and the number of technicians in health institutions was 10,600, an increase of 0.98 million over 1952. The number of beds per 10,000 population is 21.57 and the number of doctors is 28.64, which are 9.3 times and 4.5 times higher than in 1952 respectively.
Social security has advanced comprehensively. With the reform of the economic system and the reform of state-owned enterprises, the reform of the social security system has also been accelerated, and the reform of social insurance has been steadily promoted. 2008, the number of people who participated in the basic old-age insurance reached 467,300, the number of people who participated in the basic medical insurance was 313,700, and the number of people who participated in the minimum subsistence guarantee in cities and towns was 11,400.
Nine, the people's life improved significantly
60 years after the founding of the country, with the rapid development of the economy, the rapid growth of residents' income, the people's standard of living and quality of life continues to improve. 2008, the city's average annual salary of 25,772 yuan of on-the-job workers, an increase of 2.7 times over 1998. The per capita disposable income of urban residents in the city was 13,006 yuan, an increase of 39.5% over 2005. The per capita net income of rural households was 4,887 yuan, an increase of nearly 47 times over 1978. The number of major consumer durables owned by residents' families has been increasing, and the grade has been upgraded. Refrigerators, air-conditioners, washing machines, mobile telephones, computers, small cars and other high-grade consumer goods are gradually entering the homes of ordinary people. Diet has gradually changed from a subsistence diet to a nutritious, fresh and simple one. Consumption level is constantly upgrading, the consumption structure is more reasonable.
60 years of vicissitudes, 60 years of great changes. Qingyuan people have been a small town in northern Guangdong Province to build the national comprehensive strength of the top 100 cities, the former "cold pole" has become today's investment "hot spot". On October 25, 2005, People's Daily introduced the "Qingyuan Phenomenon" experience of leapfrogging development of late-developed areas with the article "Guangdong Brews Changes in Development Pattern". In the face of past achievements, the people of Qingyuan are not complacent. In the future, the "four" strategy as a guide, along the "strong green economy, Lingnan livable city, South China leisure capital," the ambitious goal of hard work!