Qidong city is located in the north of the Yangtze River estuary, surrounded by water on three sides, shaped like a peninsula. It is an important gateway to the sea and the earliest place for sunrise in Jiangsu. The total land area of the city is 1 157 square kilometers, and the population is1160,000. Here, the plain is green, the climate is pleasant, the products are rich and the scenery is beautiful, and it is known as the "Pearl of the Rivers and Seas". As one of the first coastal areas open to the outside world in China, Qidong has been ranked among the top 100 counties and cities in China for three consecutive years, and successively won the titles of the first batch of well-off counties, top 100 counties and cities in science and technology, star counties and cities in China, and national health city.
Qidong, which features riverside and seashore, can be summarized as "four business cards".
First, the hometown of marine economy. Qidong has the famous Lvsi Port. Lvsi Fishing Ground is one of the four major fishing grounds in China, and Lvsi Fishing Port is one of the six central fishing ports in China, with more than 2,000 kinds of seafood resources. Jellyfish, laver, meretrix meretrix, pomfret and yellow croaker are well-known at home and abroad, and the output of seafood accounts for 1/3 of Jiangsu Province and 1/2 of Nantong City. Qidong is also the only breeding base of Eriocheir sinensis seedlings and the largest natural clam breeding base in China. Qidong holds the river in one hand and the sea in the other, and the tourism characteristics of rivers and seas are obvious. Yuanduojiao, located at the intersection of the Yangtze River, the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea, is the earliest place to see the sunrise in Jiangsu. Beach scenery, bathing beach, cooking on the beach and stepping on clams on the sea have become the characteristics of people's leisure and entertainment. The tourist characteristics of the sea rhyme in Qidong Jiangfeng can be vividly manifested as: smoking green oxygen, watching the rising sun in the East, jumping into the sea and listening to the symphony in the air.
The second is the hometown of power tools. Qidong electric tool industry started in 1970s, rose in the middle and late 1980s, and entered a stage of rapid development in 1990s. There are 45,000 people engaged in power tools abroad in Qidong, and the annual transaction volume exceeds 654.38+0.5 billion yuan, accounting for about 60% of the total transaction volume in the national power tool market. Mr. Zhang Chuanfu, Secretary General of the National Electric Tool Association, analyzed that the electric tools operated by Tianfen people in Qidong are "the best in the world".
The third is the hometown of architecture. Qidong is the first batch of "Hometown of Architecture" named by Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, and the construction industry has a long history. In the 1920s, Tao Guilin of Qidong opened the Fuji Building Factory in Shanghai and built the 24th-floor international hotel, the tallest building in Shanghai at that time, which opened a new chapter in Qidong architecture. At present, the construction of iron troops in Qidong is spread over more than 60 large and medium-sized cities in 27 provinces (cities, autonomous regions) such as Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing and Suzhou, and has set foot in more than 10 countries. He has won the Luban Award, the highest prize for architectural engineering in China, and has successively created the Shanghai Magnolia, Jiangsu Changjiang Cup and Beijing Great Wall Cup.
The fourth is the hometown of education. Qidong is famous for its outstanding people and excellent basic education, leading the province. The city has 1 national demonstration high schools, 8 provincial key schools and 1 national key vocational middle schools. Qidong's general college entrance examination scores have been among the best in the province over the years. Qidong Middle School in Jiangsu Province has created the miracle that about 20 students in 1 class were admitted to Tsinghua and Peking University for many years in a row, and created the excellent achievement of "ten gold medals and two silver medals" in the international Olympic discipline competition for middle school students.