Traffic status quo
Meizhou's three-dimensional traffic network has basically taken shape, and the traffic in the region extends in all directions. By the end of 2008, the total mileage of highways in the city was 15443 kilometers, including 252 kilometers of expressways, 22 kilometers of first-class highways, 2 kilometers of second-class highways 18 16.89 kilometers, 8,848.6 kilometers of third-class highways and graded highways, and the highway density was 75.66 kilometers per 100 square kilometers. The total mileage and density of highways rank in the forefront of mountainous cities in the province. Mei Jie, Meihe, Tianshan, Meizhou West Ring Road and Xingshe Expressway have been completed and opened to traffic one after another, so that Meizhou mountain area is integrated into the Pearl River Delta economic expressway. It only takes more than three hours from Meizhou to Shenzhen and four hours to Guangzhou. At the same time, Meizhou South Ring Expressway (Dafu High-tech Zone-Triangle) is under construction; Meilong (Meizhou-Longyan) Expressway Phase I Meida (Meizhou-Dabu) Expressway has started construction; Gan Mei (Meizhou-Ganzhou, Jiangxi) and Zhang Mei (Meizhou-Zhangzhou, Fujian) expressways have been approved by the state, and construction is about to start. The highway density per 100 square kilometers ranks in the forefront of mountainous cities in the province. The city has basically realized the city-to-county 1 hour traffic circle, cement roads above grade 3 from county to town, cement roads at administrative village sites, and traffic conditions in natural villages with more than 300 people have been greatly improved. The highway network planning of Meizhou City from 2006 to 2030 has been approved by the municipal government. Meizhou is listed as a "national highway transportation hub city". Waterway construction, management and maintenance, and port and wharf construction have also been paid attention to and strengthened. The waterway regulation project of Meijiang River and Tingjiang River has been comprehensively promoted, and the preliminary work of the waterway regulation project below Sanheba in the main stream of Hanjiang River has been completed. Following the completion and opening of Guangzhou-Meizhou-Shantou Railway and Meikan Railway (Meizhou-Kanshi City, Fujian Province), Meizhou section of Hangzhou-Guangzhou Railway (Meizhou-Hangzhou) and Meirui High-speed Railway (Meizhou-Ruijin) also passed the pre-feasibility study report. The Ministry of Railways has included these two railways in the long-term adjustment plan of the railway network and will start construction at the end of this year. 19986/66617 Meixian airport, which can take off and land Boeing 737 aircraft, is undergoing land acquisition and demolition before expansion. After the expansion, flights to more than 40 cities in China will be opened, including direct charter flights from Meizhou to Kaohsiung.
Hakka culture
The brand of "World Hakka Culture Meizhou" has basically taken shape. Great progress has been made in science and technology, education, culture, health and sports, the ecological environment has been effectively protected and built, and the relationship between man and nature has gradually moved towards harmony and coordination. At present, the enrollment rate of school-age children in the city is 100%, and the admission rate of college entrance examination has remained above 80% for many years. Ye Jianying Memorial Hall, Hakka Park and Dongshan Education Base have been completed and opened, Guidu Park and Shui Mei Road under the embankment of Jiangnan East Reform Project have been completed, and two resettlement communities, Jinsha Garden and Hong Guang Garden, are under construction. Guangdong Hakka Museum has been successfully upgraded to "China Hakka Museum". In 2005, in the "China Excellent Tourism City" selection, it won this honor with the first place. The level of urban and rural planning, construction and management has been comprehensively improved, which has enhanced the image and charm of Meicheng. Meizhou has seven provincial art towns. That is, the hometown of Hakka folk songs in Meixian County, the hometown of garland dragon art in Chayang Town, dapu county, the hometown of boat lantern dance art in Pingyuan County, the hometown of dragon art in Puzhai Town, Fengshun County, the hometown of bamboo and horse art in xinqiao town, Wuhua County (xinqiao town has been merged into Huacheng Town), the hometown of cup flower dance art in xingning city, and the hometown of Guangdong Hanle art in dapu county. Three of them were named as "Hometowns of Chinese Folk Art", namely, Hometowns of Hakka Folk Songs in Meixian County, Garland Dragon Art in Chayang Town, dapu county, and Fire Dragon Art in Puzhai Town, Fengshun County. In addition, Mingzhe Tang, a master of folk songs, was named "Excellent Folk Artist in Guangdong Province" by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture. Meizhou Hakka Dragon House is applying for world cultural heritage. At the same time, Meizhou was rated as a national garden city. Meizhou is creating a national health city. Meizhou strives for a national model city of double support.
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China's historical and cultural city, national garden city, China's top ten safest cities, China's top ten green environmental protection symbol cities, China's financial and ecological city, China's human settlement environment model award, China's outstanding tourist city, the outstanding model award of the United Nations human settlement environment project (on both sides of Meicheng River), Guangdong's civilized city, Guangdong's health city, Guangdong's livable urban and rural demonstration city, Guangdong's double-support model city, China and the best destination for traveling on the road.
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With the all-round development of highway construction in Meizhou, Meizhou's economy has achieved unprecedented rapid development. In 2008, Meizhou took the "Mountain Expo" as the leader, made great efforts to fight the tough economic battle and ensure social stability, and achieved new economic and social development in difficulties. The annual GDP was 47.788 billion yuan, an increase of 65.438+00.2% over the previous year. The composition of tertiary industry in GDP is 2 1.9:42.5:35.6, the proportion of primary industry decreases, and the proportion of secondary and tertiary industries increases. The added value of the city's primary industry was10.475 billion yuan, an increase of 6. 1%. Focusing on increasing agricultural efficiency and increasing farmers' income, we will focus on the construction of leading agricultural enterprises and improve the level of agricultural industrialization. The annual total grain output was 1, 369654, 38+0,000 tons, an increase of 2.8%. Among them, rice increased by 2.5% and fruit increased by 2.2%. The level of agricultural industrialization and commercialization has been gradually improved. (1) agriculture and rural economy developed rapidly. In 2008, the added value of rural economy and agriculture in the city was 7.78 billion yuan, an increase of 5.6%. Leading industries and characteristic industries developed and expanded, and the process of agricultural industrialization accelerated. The output of major agricultural products increased substantially, with grain increasing by 10.5% and meat increasing by 8.7%. (2) The industrial belt of advantageous agricultural products has achieved initial results. While doing a good job in grain production, we intensified the adjustment of agricultural structure, paid close attention to the production of superior agricultural products, mainly fruits and tea, and gradually formed an agricultural advantageous industrial belt. At present, the fruit area in the city is 1.0625 million mu, including: golden pomelo 29 1.700 mu, navel orange 48,500 mu, and tea area 1.483 mu. Golden pomelo, tea, navel orange, longan, litchi and olive have brought good social, economic and ecological benefits, and become the fist products and rural pillar industries in Meizhou, and become the highlights of agricultural efficiency and farmers' income increase. Our city was awarded the reputation of "Hometown of Golden Pomelo" and "Hometown of Tea in Dan Cong" by the relevant state departments. (3) New breakthroughs have been made in rural industrialization. All levels in our city conscientiously implement the development strategy of rural industrialization, earnestly do a good job in the processing industry of agricultural products, broaden the channels for farmers to increase their income, closely link the processing and production of fruits, tea, corn, high-quality rice, vegetables, livestock and poultry products and aquatic products, and improve the processing rate of agricultural products. Up to now, our city has successfully developed a number of green foods and supplies such as high-quality corn wine, canned corn, sweet corn juice, canned bamboo shoots, Hakka milk, Jinyou tea, Jinyou wine, Jinyou flavone, Jinyou juice, Jinyou buccal tablets and Jinyou liver-protecting products. There are 525 agricultural products processing enterprises in the city, with a processing output value of nearly 654.38 billion yuan. (4) The process of agricultural industrialization has been accelerated. Up to now, there are 56 leading enterprises/kloc-0 in the city, including 8 at the provincial level (national level 1 home) and 46 at the municipal level. These leading agricultural enterprises are connected with the market and thousands of households, which play a decisive role in promoting the development of agriculture and rural economy in our city. The total output value of all kinds of leading agricultural enterprises in the city is 3.02 billion yuan, accounting for more than one third of the total agricultural output value, driving 260,000 farmers, accounting for 3 1% of the total number of households, and increasing the income of each household by more than 2,200 yuan. (5) Order agriculture and export-oriented agriculture have made great progress. Give full play to the advantages of hometown of overseas Chinese and increase investment attraction. In recent years, many overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have returned to their hometowns to set up export-oriented modern agricultural demonstration bases integrating tourism and foreign exchange earning agriculture. Export-oriented leading enterprises have developed rapidly, and the municipal agricultural products import and export company has carefully organized the export of special agricultural products in our city, with an annual export volume of more than $6,543,800,000. Fengshun Hua Wei Food Canning Factory produces canned sweet corn and canned bamboo shoots and other processed products, earning more than $7 million in foreign exchange through export annually, and is rated as one of the top ten leading agricultural enterprises in the province. In recent years, contracted agriculture in our city has developed at a rate of 70,000 mu per year. Up to now, the contracted area of agriculture in our city has reached 3 1. 1.5 million mu, ensuring the best-selling of bulk agricultural products. (VI) The quality and safety guarantee system for agricultural products was further strengthened. At present, the construction of agricultural product quality testing centers at city and county levels has been steadily advanced, institutions and personnel have been gradually put in place, a number of testing instruments and other equipment have been purchased, and testing pilot work has been carried out. The cultivation of pollution-free agricultural products base is progressing smoothly. There are 37 national certified pollution-free bases in the city, covering an area of 99,700 mu. Agricultural standardization has been steadily advanced. The intensity of agricultural administrative law enforcement is constantly increasing. Over the past few years, more than one case of fake and shoddy agricultural materials 100 has been investigated, which effectively standardized the agricultural materials market and ensured the quality and safety of agricultural products from the source. (7) The pace of rural labor transfer has been accelerated. With the acceleration of agricultural industrialization and rural urbanization, the transfer of rural labor force has a good development momentum. In 2003, there were 6.5438+0.8559 million rural laborers in the city, 292,800 engaged in secondary and tertiary industries, and 632,800 migrant workers (including 460,400 who went out all the year round), accounting for 3.465438+0% of the total rural laborers. Last year, foreign labor income reached 2.369 billion yuan, and the per capita income of farmers in the city was 6 1 1 yuan, accounting for about 16% of the per capita income of farmers. (8) Further implement rural policies. The city has completed the second round of contracting, and the land area contracted by families accounts for 96% of the cultivated land area. During the second round of contracting, the city has signed the second round of land contract according to the 30-year contract period stipulated by the central government, accounting for 98% of the household contracted farmers. The system of rural land contractual management right certificate was established in an all-round way, and 803,400 land management right certificates were issued in the whole city, which invigorated the land use right and allowed farmers to contract land circulation according to law. The city's land transfer area is 5 1.93 million mu, subcontracting area is 51.90 million mu, accounting for 1%, lease area is 441.70 million mu, accounting for 85 1%, and exchange area is1.70. The city's work to reduce the burden on farmers has achieved remarkable results, and the burden on farmers has been significantly reduced. First, earnestly implement the tax and fee reform policy. After the tax reform in 2003, the total farmers' burden in the city decreased by 265.58 million yuan, or 85%, and the per capita burden was only 13 yuan, or 7 1 yuan. This year, the agricultural tax was adjusted to 3%, reducing the burden on farmers by 234 1 10,000 yuan. The second is to conscientiously implement various burden reduction systems and comprehensively implement the publicity system for agricultural charges. The third is to carry out special governance in a down-to-earth manner and further standardize the charging behavior. In the aspect of rural financial management, it highlights the rural financial management based on accounting agency system. There are 145 towns in the city, and 49 towns have implemented the accounting agency system, which has achieved the work objectives set by the province and further improved the level of rural collective finance, accounting, collective asset management and financial disclosure in our city. The city's rural audit work was carried out in a solid manner. (9) The rural socialized service system has been further improved. First, accelerate the development of farmers' professional cooperative organizations. Up to now, there are 25 farmers' professional cooperative organizations 1 in the city, including1pilot units of the Ministry of Agriculture and 4 pilot units of provincial offices. Second, the construction of agricultural technology extension service system has been continuously improved. There are 789 agricultural technology extension institutions engaged in planting, animal husbandry, fishery, agricultural mechanization and management in the city, with 4043 employees. Implement various preferential policies of the state for agricultural technicians. According to statistics, the relevant departments of governments at all levels in the city invested more than 30 million yuan in technology promotion, introduced more than 300 new varieties and technologies, and generated more than 5 billion yuan in economic benefits. Third, agricultural information services have been continuously improved. Establish "Meizhou Agricultural Information Network" and set up "Meizhou Agriculture" TV program to provide all-round information services for "agriculture, countryside and farmers" [1]. The added value of the secondary industry in the city was 20.299 billion yuan, up by 8.2%, and the total industrial added value was1193.9 billion yuan, up by 15 1%. Among them, the added value of state-owned and non-state-owned industries with annual sales income of more than 5 million yuan was 87190,000 yuan, an increase of 15.4%. The annual industrial electricity consumption was 2.992 billion kWh, an increase of 3.4% over the previous year. The comprehensive economic benefit index of state-owned and non-state-owned industries with annual sales income of more than 5 million yuan is 196.57%, an increase of 26.2 percentage points over the previous year. Among them, the asset-liability ratio decreased by 6.7 percentage points over the previous year, the overall labor productivity increased by 15.5% over the previous year, and the total profit and tax of state-owned and non-state-owned industries with annual sales income of more than 5 million yuan was 45 10 billion yuan, an increase of 28.7% over the previous year. The annual added value of the tertiary industry was170.1400 million yuan, an increase of 14.7%. The total retail sales of social consumer goods in the whole year was15.468 billion yuan, an increase of 654.38+07.4%. Excluding the price factor, the actual increase was 654.38+06.5%. Of the total retail sales of social consumer goods, wholesale and retail13.692 billion yuan, an increase of 17.2%, and catering1654 million yuan, an increase of 2 1.8%. The added value of transportation in the whole year was1821000000 yuan, up by 9.6% over the previous year. The cargo turnover of various modes of transportation was 8.896 billion tons kilometers, up by13.1%; Passenger turnover was 7.948 billion person-kilometers, an increase of12.0%; The operating income of postal service and telecommunication industry was 654.38+424 billion yuan, up by 3.4%, and the fixed telephone, mobile telephone and Internet services were developing day by day. The city received 3.371.4 million domestic and foreign tourists, up 12.3% year-on-year, and the total tourism revenue was 3.674 billion yuan, up 12.6% year-on-year. Infrastructure The investment in fixed assets in the city has increased steadily. The investment in fixed assets of the whole society was13.924 billion yuan, an increase of 654.38+0. 1%. Excluding the investment in expressway projects, the investment in local fixed assets in the city was13.34 billion yuan, an increase of 6.5%. Fiscal and financial year, the city's general budget revenue reached 654.38+82.5 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.26%. The city's annual tax revenue was 58,665.438 billion yuan, an increase of 455 million yuan or 8.4% over the previous year. The financial situation is relatively stable. At the end of 2006, the balance of RMB deposits in financial institutions in the city was 4,765,438+73 million yuan, an increase of 9.7% over the beginning of the year. The balance of RMB deposits of urban and rural residents was 34.536 billion yuan, an increase of 8.3% over the beginning of the year. The balance of RMB loans from financial institutions was 20.478 billion yuan, down 0.4% from the beginning of the year. In 2001, foreign trade imports and utilization of foreign capital totaled US$ 464.2 million, an increase of 28.2% over the previous year. The total annual export volume was $38 1.22 million, up by 22.8%, of which the export volume of state-owned enterprises was $8.36 million, down by 79.8%. The export of foreign-funded enterprises was US$ 6,543,800+0,499,300, an increase of 654.38+0,009.1%; The export of private enterprises was US$ 265,438+0,865,438+0.3 million, an increase of 65,438+03.28%. In 200 1 year, there were 165 contracted foreign investment projects, amounting to 268.62 million US dollars, an increase of 6.8% over the previous year, and the actually utilized foreign direct investment was 82.05 million US dollars, an increase of 7.0% over the previous year. The total consumer price index of urban residents was 100.2% (100% in the previous year), up by 0.2 percentage points. People's lives in urban and rural areas have been improved. According to a sample survey, the annual per capita disposable income of urban residents in Meizhou is 9,259 yuan, with a real increase of 6.3% excluding the price increase factor. The per capita net income of rural residents was 4,369 yuan, a real increase of 4.3% after deducting the price factor. The Engel coefficient of households (that is, the proportion of household food consumption expenditure to the total household consumption expenditure) has increased, reaching 43.2% in cities and towns, down 2. 1 percentage point over the previous year; In rural areas, it was 45.6%, a decrease of 65,438 0.3 percentage points over the previous year. The annual per capita wage of employees in the city is 15788 yuan, and the actual increase is 1 1.6% after excluding the price factor. The production and living environment of the masses continued to improve. In that year, the total investment in environmental pollution control was 496.509 million yuan, the wastewater discharge rate reached 77.6%, and the waste gas discharge was further controlled. The output value of "three wastes" comprehensive utilization products reached 67.755 million yuan. Various social welfare units in the city adopted 3 1 18 people, and governments at all levels in urban and rural areas helped 179800 people. Most towns and villages in the city have initially established rural social security networks, and new progress has been made in rural cooperative medical care. Population growth has been effectively controlled. According to the sampling survey, the birth rate is 10.28‰, the death rate is 5.35‰, and the natural growth rate is 4.93‰. At present, five private enterprises in this city have been selected as the top private enterprises in Guangdong 100. They are Meiyan Group Co., Ltd., Guangdong Hua Wei Group Co., Ltd., Guangdong Mingzhu Group Co., Ltd., Baolihua Group Co., Ltd. and Meizhou Longxiang Building Materials Group Co., Ltd. With the help of the capital market, Meizhou has made a major breakthrough in promoting the development strategy of green rise, which not only effectively solved the problem of short-board development funds in mountainous areas, but also made Meizhou the prefecture-level city with the largest number of listed companies in the province after Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Foshan and Zhuhai. Up to now, listed companies in Meizhou are: Guangdong Meiyan Hydropower Co., Ltd., Guangdong Baolihua New Energy Co., Ltd., Guangdong Mingzhu Group Co., Ltd., Guangdong Jiaying Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Guangdong Tapai Group Co., Ltd. and Guangdong Hua Wei Co., Ltd.