Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province
City Overview
The Great Wall of China is like a soaring dragon, and where the "dragon's head" enters the sea is Qinhuangdao. Qinhuangdao, named after Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor, who visited the island on an eastern tour in 215 B.C. and sent people into the sea to seek immortality, is the only city in China to be named after an emperor.
Qinhuangdao is located in the northeastern part of Hebei Province, with latitude 39°24′-40°37′ north and longitude 118°33′-119°51′ east. It has a total area of 7812.4 square kilometers. The total population is 2.77 million (2004). The Municipal People's Government is located in Harbor District. Zip code: 066000; administrative code: 130300; area code: 0335; pinyin: Qinhuangdao Shi.
In the Ming Dynasty, it was part of the Yongping Prefecture, and its territory included the counties of Lu, Funing, Changli, Yongping, and Shanhaiwei. County under the implementation of Li A system, Li also known as the community, Tun, the local people organized into the community, moved to the people organized into the Tun. Qing Dynasty, followed the Ming system, belonging to the province directly under the Yongpingfu, jurisdiction Lulong, Fanning, Changli County. In the second year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1737), Linyu County was added in Shanhaiguan.
November 27, 1948 the liberation of Qinhuangdao. Is the month, in qinhuangdao established qin yu city, qin yu city jurisdiction shanhaiguan office, a district (now seaport district railroad south), two district, three district (now seaport district railroad north east, west), seashore district, on the zhuangtuo district. 1949 March shanhaiguan changed to the city, assigned to liaozhou west province; at the same time, qin yu city renamed qinhuangdao city, for the province of hebei province municipality.
Location advantage
Qinhuangdao is located in the northeast of Hebei Province, south of the Bohai Sea, north of Yanshan, east of Liaoning, west of Beijing and Tianjin, is located in the center of the Bohai Economic Circle of the most development potential, is the combination of the two major economic zones of northeastern and northern China. Qinhuangdao City governs three city districts of Beidaihe, Shanhaiguan and Harbor District and four counties of Funing, Changli, Lulong and Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County, with a total area of 7,812.4 square kilometers and a population of 2.76 million.
Qinhuangdao has convenient transportation and developed communication. Qin-Shenyang high-speed railroad, Beijing-Harbin, Beijing-Qin, Daqin four railroad lines and the Beijing-Qin Expressway, 102, 205 National Highway runs through the whole territory. It takes only more than two hours to travel from Beijing and Shenyang to Qinhuangdao. Civil aviation has opened dozens of domestic routes to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Dalian and Heihe. Sea passenger transportation has opened routes to Dalian, Yantai and Incheon, South Korea and other cities. Developed communication network system, with the whole country and the world more than 230 countries, regions, direct calls, the silver line connecting the five continents, Qinhuangdao and the world is like a neighbor.
Qinhuangdao is the pilot city of China's 3G network. The base station is the first to be deployed, Qinhuangdao is also identified as the base station and related network equipment must be the earliest arrival and installation of the city, the supply of the highest requirements. Up to now, Qinhuangdao's TD-SCDMA base stations have all been installed and are currently being optimized. With a total capacity of 450,000 subscribers, the current coverage area is the whole city of Qinhuangdao, focusing on tourist sites and Olympic hotels.
Qinhuangdao city total **** deployment of 300 base stations, the outskirts of the macro base station, a macro base station covers a radius of dozens of kilometers. A base station can drive 300 phones, according to the industry's usual 2% simultaneous online rate, plus other factors, the entire Qinhuangdao TD-SCDMA release capacity is expected to be 450,000.
Qinhuangdao is an important port city in China, and an important sea port for North China, Northeast China and Northwest China. Has a hundred years of history of Qinhuangdao port water deep harbor wide, not frozen and silt, to coal, oil and other energy output, and general cargo and container transport, is a multi-functional comprehensive modern port. The annual cargo throughput exceeds 150 million tons, ranking among the world's largest ports, and trade with more than 130 countries and regions in the world. Qinhuangdao Port is the world's largest energy exporting port, the main hub port of China's "Northern Coal South Transportation" corridor, responsible for the supply of coal to China's "eight provinces and one city" in the south of China, accounting for 50% of the coal launched from the coastal ports of the country. Qinhuangdao is an emerging industrial city. Grain, oil and foodstuff, machinery manufacturing, glass building materials and metal rolling are the four pillar industries. There are more than 1,000 kinds of industrial products, of which more than 30 kinds have reached the international advanced level and more than 170 kinds have reached the domestic advanced level. It has China's largest glass industrial base, China's largest bridge manufacturing group, Asia's largest single-line compound fertilizer producer, China's most important aluminum processing base, China's largest automobile wheel manufacturing plant, is China's famous dry red wine production base, and is now becoming China's most important gas turbine manufacturing base and service center.
All kinds of resources
Qinhuangdao, the first batch of excellent tourist cities in China, is known as the "back garden of Beijing and Tianjin". It has good tourism resources such as the Great Wall, coastal area and ecology. National historical and cultural city of Shanhaiguan, summer resort Beidaihe, Nandaihe tourist resort, Changli Gold Coast and more than 40 tourist attractions unique charm, attracting tens of millions of tourists from home and abroad every year. Qinhuangdao has rolling hills and the Great Wall stretches across the whole territory, which is one of the best sections of the Great Wall. Old Dragon Head, the world's first pass, Longevity Hill, Jiao Shan Great Wall, Meng Jiangnu Temple and other Great Wall series of tours favored by tourists. Beidaihe, a famous tourist resort in China and abroad, has clear water and beautiful scenery. The negative oxygen ion content in the air here is as high as 7,000 or more per cubic centimeter, which is dozens of times that of other cities in China. Walking along the quiet boulevard, as if in a natural oxygen bar, is refreshing and unforgettable.
Beidaihe is one of the world's four major bird-watching destinations. Every year in spring and fall, a large number of migratory birds pass through here and play, attracting many bird-watching enthusiasts. Adjacent to Beidaihe, the Nandaihe Tourist Resort and Gold Coast Tourist Area has a unique charm. National Nature Reserve Changli Gold Coast's spectacular ocean desert scenery is rare in the world. The "sandboarding" sport is a thrilling, exciting and interesting entertainment and fitness program, which is one of the best in China. Zushan in the north of Qinhuangdao, with strange stones, flowers, sea of clouds, waterfalls and primitive forests and other unique natural scenery and enjoy the reputation of the "northern Huangshan", is the perfect place for modern people to return to nature. Located in Beidaihe Beach National Forest Park in Qinhuangdao Safari Park, is currently China's largest area, the highest rate of forest coverage of the wild zoo, stocked with thousands of animals, is a veritable animal kingdom.
Qinhuangdao is rich in material resources. 56 types of minerals of all kinds were found in the territory, including coal, gold, iron, copper, zinc, aluminum stone, limestone, granite, marble and other metal and non-metallic mineral deposits with considerable reserves. The city's forest coverage rate of 34.45%, Changli, Qinglong two counties and Shanhaiguan District were respectively awarded by the State Forestry Administration, "China's hometown of grapes", "China's hometown of apples" and "China's hometown of cherries "The city's coastline is 126.4 kilometers long. The city's coastline is 126.4 kilometers long, producing shrimp, sea cucumbers, jellyfish, crabs and other seafood. It has a well-developed water system and a total water resource of 749 million cubic meters, making it one of the richest cities in North China in terms of water resources. Qinhuangdao is a city with great vigor for development. It has a concentration of scientific research and educational institutions and abundant intellectual resources. It has national ministerial scientific research units such as Qinhuangdao Design and Research Institute of the State Bureau of Building Materials and Ferrous Metallurgy Mining Design Institute. There are 1,168 schools of various types in the city, including 14 national or provincial key institutions of higher education, such as Yanshan University and Northeastern University Qinhuangdao Branch, with more than 80,000 college students enrolled. Qinhuangdao's health care is developing rapidly and is able to meet the people's health care needs.
The vibrant and passionate city, where cultural and sports facilities are well developed, has a first-class radio and television center, newspaper building, the State General Administration of Sport Qinhuangdao training base, China Football School and Olympic Sports Center. In recent years, large-scale cultural activities and sports events have been held one after another, and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games soccer division will be held here. In a variety of cultural and sports activities and sports programs for the public, people enjoy the charm of sports and entertainment. A famous sports city is rising on the shore of the Bohai Sea. Qinhuangdao is a beautiful coastal city. The blue sky and green space, the blue sea and golden sands are interesting. The implementation of large-scale greening and beautification projects for several years to make this beautiful port city dyed green, full of vitality. The green coverage rate of the urban area has reached 39.3%, and the number of days with air quality above the second level is more than 360 days, which makes the city a national garden city.
Qinhuangdao is one of the first 14 coastal open cities in China, and has been ranked among the 40 best cities in the country in terms of hard investment environment, and 29th among the top 100 cities in China in terms of comprehensive competitiveness. It has the only state-level Qinhuangdao Economic and Technological Development Zone, Export Processing Zone and Yanshan University Science and Technology Park in Hebei Province. Good basic conditions and investment environment, so that Qinhuangdao has become an ideal place for foreign investment, there are 53 countries and regions in the businessmen invested here, the United States GE, ADM, Reynolds, the United Kingdom TI Group, Germany Mannesmann? Demag, Japan's Asahi Glass, Itochu, Marubeni, South Korea's LG, Kotex, Thailand, Thailand, Singapore and other internationally renowned companies have come to Qinhuangdao to expand their business, and have received a generous return. Qinhuangdao foreign friendly exchanges and cultural exchanges are increasingly active. Qinhuangdao has concluded friendly exchanges with more than 20 cities in the United States, Italy, Japan, South Korea, South Africa and other countries. Through these friendly channels, exchanges and cooperation in the fields of economy and trade, culture, art, education, science and technology, and sports have been carried out extensively with overseas countries. As a co-host city of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and an important city in the Bohai Rim, Qinhuangdao has a broad development prospect. Now, the people here are taking the opportunity of welcoming the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games soccer tournament to build a "Green Qinhuangdao", "Harmonious Qinhuangdao", "Energetic Qinhuangdao" and "Charming Qinhuangdao". "Charming Qinhuangdao", and strive to build Qinhuangdao into a "garden, ecological, modern coastal city".
Qinhuangdao city's greening construction basically reached an unprecedented level, around the "garden, ecological, modern coastal city" development goals, integration of tourism resources, to create the Great Wall cultural tours, seaside leisure and vacation tours, natural ecological tours, business exhibition tourism and other characteristics of the tourism brand, the implementation of the ecological restoration of the coastline, landscape, forest and wetland parks, plants and wetlands. The implementation of the coastline ecological restoration landscape, forest wetland industrial park, botanical gardens and other key garden projects, shaping the modern coastal city style of Qinhuangdao. Qinhuangdao as China's first batch of excellent tourist cities, forest coverage reached 40.40%; urban area garden green space area of 45,765 acres, built urban public **** green space of 10,701 acres, green space rate of 36.90%, greening coverage rate of 43.20%; per capita public **** green space of 9.2 square meters. Annual air quality of two or more days amounted to 360 days, crossing into the ranks of national garden city.
In addition, Qinhuangdao also has Yanshan University, Northeastern University Qinhuangdao Branch, Hebei Institute of Science and Technology Normal College and a number of high-grade institutions.
Administrative divisions
In 2005, Qinhuangdao had three municipal districts, three counties and one autonomous county.
Qinhuangdao City Area 7,467 square kilometers, population 2.77 million (2004).
Seaport District Area 121 square kilometers, population 550,000 people. ZIP code 066000.
Shanhaiguan District Area 192 square kilometers, population 140,000 people. Zip code 066200.
Beidaihe District Area 70 square kilometers, population 70,000 people.
Changli County Area 1,184 square kilometers, population 550,000 people. Zip code 066600.
Funing County Area 1,646 square kilometers, population 520,000 people. Zip code 066300.
Lulong County Area 945 square kilometers, population 420,000 people. Zip code 066400.
Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County Area 3309 square kilometers, population 520,000 people. Postal code 066500.
* The information on district and geographical names here is as of December 2005; the area and population data are based on the "Compendium of Administrative Divisions of the People's Republic of China (2006)", and the population is as of the end of 2004.
* The area and population data are based on the "Compendium of Administrative Divisions of the People's Republic of China (2006)". *
History
It belonged to Yongpingfu in the Ming Dynasty, with Lu County, Funing County, Changli County, Yongpingwei, and Shanhaiwei established within its territory. County under the implementation of the Li A system, Li also known as the community, Tun, the local people organized as a community, those who moved to the Tuen. Qing Dynasty, followed the Ming system, belonging to the province directly under the Yongpingfu, jurisdiction Lulong, Fanning, Changli County. In the second year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1737), Linyu County was added in Shanhaiguan.
November 27, 1948 the liberation of Qinhuangdao. Is the month, in qinhuangdao established qin yu city, qin yu city jurisdiction shanhaiguan office, a district (now seaport district railroad south), the second district, three districts (now seaport district railroad north east, west), seashore district, on the zhuangtuo district. in March 1949 shanhaiguan changed to the city, assigned to liaozhou west province; at the same time, qin yu city changed its name to qinhuangdao city, for the province of hebei province municipality.
Population and Ethnicity
By the end of 2006, the city had a total population of 2,805,400 people, an increase of 0.7% over the previous year, of which 1,177,300 were non-agricultural and 1,628,100 were agricultural. There are 42 ethnic groups in the city, including Han, Manchu, Hui, Korean, Mongolian, Zhuang, etc., of which Han people account for more than 84.6% of the city's total population. The minority population is mainly concentrated in Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County. West Henan Village in Funing County is the only Korean-populated village in Hebei Province.
Qinhuangdao City tourism resources set mountains, rivers, lakes, springs, waterfalls, caves, sand, sea, customs, cities, harbors, temples, temples, gardens, villas, migratory birds and rare plants and animals, etc., a rich variety of tourism resources, is to carry out multi-project, multi-level tourism activities, to meet the different tourists travel and leisure the best place. After years of development and construction, the city's tourism infrastructure and attractions construction into the development of the fast lane. Gradually formed the Great Wall, coastal, ecological as the main features of the tourism product system. At present, the city's tourist attractions, opened up the Great Wall culture, coastal recreation and vacation, history tracing, bird-watching tours, celebrity villas, mountain sightseeing, marine science and technology, national geoparks, sports tourism, rural tourism, urban and rural two-way tours, conference tours, industrial tours and other high-quality tourism routes, and annually held a strong local cultural characteristics of the Great Wall Festival in Shanhaiguan, Mengjangnu Temple, the Sea Watching Conference, Changli Dry These tourism routes and festivals are highly favored by domestic and foreign tourists. Qinhuangdao is a year-round scenic spot for travelers to explore and hunt for curiosities, and to seek out the beautiful sights and attractions. Among them, the natural resources of the mountains, sea civilization, human resources to Guan, the city is the most prominent, social resources to the central summer office - Beidaihe the most charming. Here the mountainous terrain is peculiar and diverse, waterfalls and springs can be seen everywhere; high forest coverage, wildlife, plant resources; there are a large number of cultural relics such as the Great Wall and monuments dotted with them. The sea sand is fine and flat, the beach is slow and the water is clear, the tide is flat and the difference is small, which stretches for nearly a hundred miles; the seawater is low in pollution, the water quality is clean, and there is enough sunshine, which makes it the best place for seawater bathing, sunbathing, sand bathing, beach activities, sea sightseeing and sea swimming. The Great Wall within the jurisdiction is winding and undulating, pillowed by mountains and the sea, repaired according to the situation, and the passes are located in the fortress. Social resources to the Beidaihe-Central Summer Office and many important historical events and famous, become the most attractive tourism resources in Qinhuangdao City. Tourism resources are distributed in two relatively parallel bands, in which on the coastal band, there are the Old Dragon Head, the First Pass, the Jiangnu Temple, the place where Qinhuang seeks immortality to enter the sea, the Marine Sports Center, the Xin'ao Undersea World, the Safari Park, the Pigeon's Nest, the Jinshan Spit, the Tiger Stone, the Beidaihe Celebrity Villa, the Lianfeng Mountain, the sandboarding ground, and a large number of coastal bathing beaches and various kinds of theme parks, etc.; in the north-central mountain-hill band, there are the three passes, and the three passes are located at the fortresses. In the north-central mountainous area, there are the Great Wall of Sandouguan-Jiumenkou-Yiyankou-Jielingkou-Taolinkou-Lengkou-Chengzilingkou and the various places along the Great Wall. Cultural relics and monuments to Changshou Mountain, Jiao Mountain, Yansei Lake, Ancestral Mountain, Bei Niu Deng, Tianma Mountain, Jieshi Mountain, Ten Mile Grape Corridor, and the cultural site of Lone Bamboo State. Most of these fine resources are distributed in a balanced manner in Beidaihe and seaport area as the center of the 50 km range, the distance between the various scenic spots is moderate, this spatial distribution of resources is conducive to the organization of tourism routes, co-ordination of transportation and accommodation. 2006, the city *** received 14,268,700 domestic and foreign tourists, an increase of 8%, of which 199,600 were inbound tourists. Total tourism social income, per capita spending, tourism foreign exchange, inbound tourism reception, single scenic spot ticket income, completion of the project investment amount and other indicators are ranked first in the province. Tourism reception capacity: In 2006, the city **** there are 59 star-rated hotels, including 8 four-star hotels, 30 three-star hotels, 21 two-star hotels, **** with 6,925 guest rooms, 13,700 beds, the average annual room occupancy rate of 49.5%. The city's rest and recuperation homes (institutions) amounted to more than 400, all kinds of tourist hotels, social hotels, rest and recuperation homes *** have about 180,000 beds. There are 128 travel agencies, including 8 international travel agencies, annual operating income of 149.66 million yuan, the number of inbound tourism outreach of 27.3 million people, receiving domestic tourists 436.7 million people