Changzhou is an ancient cultural city with a long history of more than 2,500 years. During the Spring and Autumn Period in 547 BC, the city was founded and the country was founded, which was called Yanling. Another name is Longcheng, which was the fief of Ji Zha, the fourth son of King Shoumeng of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period. County was established in Qin dynasty.
After the Western Jin Dynasty, Xiang was ruled by county, state, road and government, and was known as "three towns of Wu, eight famous cities". The city names have been changed to Piling, Pitan, Jinling, Lanling, Changzhou, Nanlanling, Changzhou and Wujin for many times. The name "Changzhou" began in the Sui Dynasty and was formerly called "County". Later, it was called "Zhou" in the Song Dynasty, "Dao" in the Yuan Dynasty and "Fu" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, all of which were under the jurisdiction of counties.
From the 4th year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1726), Changzhou Prefecture has jurisdiction over 8 counties including Wujin, Yanghu, Wuxi, Jingui, Yixing, Jingxi, Jiangyin and Jingjiang. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was still one house (Changzhou House) and two counties (Wujin and Yanghu) in the city.
19 12 abolished Changzhou prefecture, and Yanghu county was merged into Wujin county. At the beginning of liberation, Changzhou was in charge of Changzhou and six counties including Wuxi, Jiangyin, Wujin, Yixing, Liyang and Jintan. 1953 65438+ 10, Changzhou was designated as a provincial city, and in March of that year, * * * governed six districts; 1July, 958, Zhenjiang District was moved to Changzhou, renamed Changzhou District, and Changzhou belonged to it.
Cultural characteristics: Changzhou is famous for its outstanding people and rich humanities, and enjoys the reputation of "there are tribes among celebrities in the world, but there is no such thing in the southeast". Changzhou Classics School, Yanghu Literature School, Changzhou Ci School, Changzhou Painting School and Meng He Medical College are famous all over the country.
Folk arts and crafts: root carving, Jintan paper carving, comb, random needle embroidery, brick carving of Han painting and bamboo carving of Liu Qing.
Local customs:
Women go back to their parents' home to "rest in June"
In the long summer season, "taste three fresh"
February 12 "Flower Festival"
On the second day of February, the "Dragon Head Up" Changzhou Old Town Group Map
The solstice in winter is as big as a year.
"Spring in a year" and "Double Busy"
"Sending stoves" and "collecting stoves"
Three corpse gods and dusting the eaves
The Horse and the Monk Crossing the River and I am shocked to hear that Remy is like mud.
Changzhou Waterway: Due to its unique geographical location, ancient Changzhou occupies an important position in the history of water transport. From Jingkou to Gusu, there are many rivers and lakes, facing the Yangtze River in the north, Gehu Lake in the south and a corner of Taihu Lake in the southeast. Jinjiang is surrounded by lakes, and Furong Lake, second only to Taihu Lake, is superior to the southeast. Therefore, Changzhou has become "the state of three lakes, the state of a hundred jumps."
Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, a large amount of grain has been transported to the north, and Changzhou has become the center of grain transportation, and hundreds of thousands of stones have been transported every year. Later, it gradually increased to 3 million stones, and the highest was 7 million stones in the Song Dynasty. Therefore, Changzhou has an important geographical position that "dozens of States from Susong to Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian and Beijing all come from this road" and is the only way to pay tribute. In the eighth year of Tang Yuanhe (8 13), Meng Jian, the secretariat of Changzhou, dredged Mengdu (now Meng He) to lead the Yangtze River to the Northwest Canal of Changzhou to facilitate water transportation. In Song Dynasty, road transport companies from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jinghu, Guangxi and Fujian were established in Changzhou to undertake grain transportation. During Xichun (1174-1189) in the Southern Song Dynasty, Jingxi (now the South Canal) was dredged from Yijing Lake in Yixing to Changzhou, becoming a canal for transporting grain. Since then, the grain tankers in Yi and Li areas have been shipped out. In the 26th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1393), the Changzhou government requisitioned 5335 15 stones of grain and rice, accounting for 2. 16% of the total grain requisitioned in China, which was close to the sum of grain requisitioned in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces. In the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty (1440), in order to solve the problem of rice storage in Changzhou, a western warehouse was built in the south of the canal in Huainan Township, Wujin County, and the rice was transported to Dongzhi Township, Yanghu County, Henan Province and stored in Yanghu County. In the Qing Dynasty, Changzhou was still one of the areas with the heaviest tribute in Beijing. In the second year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1724), there were 120 bad white grain ships in Wujin County, berthed in the area of Dawangmiao, Li Yongfeng, outside Ximen City, and then extended to Baijiaqiao until the early years of Daoguang.
In 1930s, when there was a flood in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhou Chen went to the south of the Yangtze River to control the water, so he built fields around lakes and blocked rivers for flood control. After 20 years of reclamation of 37,000 mu of land, Furong Lake, Yanghu Lake and Linjin Lake gradually decreased and disappeared, resulting in insufficient water resources and unbalanced water level in Changzhou, making Changzhou, which is dominated by lake water, become dominated by river water. Due to the disrepair of the canal, the quicksand in the Yangtze River has been seriously silted, and the sunken ship carrying grain to the north has been sinking. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, most of the canals in Shandong were silted up and grain could not be transported out of Changzhou. In the fifth year of Daoguang (1825), the waterway transportation test was successful, and Changzhou gradually moved eastward to Wuxi. Since then, more than two thousand years of shipping history, Changzhou history and canal transportation history have come to an end.
At present, the regional GDP of Nandajie is 654.38+88 million yuan. According to the resident population and registered population, the per capita GDP of the new district reached 43,674 yuan and 52,805 yuan respectively, exceeding 5,800 dollars and 7,000 dollars respectively at the current exchange rate.
Today, Changzhou is led by four pillar industries: agricultural machinery manufacturing, power transmission and transformation equipment manufacturing, automobile and accessories manufacturing, and new textile and garment industry, which drives the development of three emerging industries: electronic information, new materials industry, biomedicine and fine chemical industry, and strives to build an advanced manufacturing base, with the scale and brand effect gradually emerging.
Wuxi is a famous land of plenty in China. Wuxi is the cradle of national industry and township industry in China. The developed business in Wuxi has formed a strong radiation force for the whole country. Wuxi has beautiful scenery and is one of the excellent tourist cities in China. Perfect basic education in Wuxi is the cradle of professors, academicians of the Academy of Sciences and university presidents. Wuxi, the pearl of Taihu Lake, is a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River with a history of 3,000 years. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was the economic and cultural center at that time, which gave birth to many literati and still retains many historical sites. Wuxi belongs to Jiangsu Province and is located in the Yangtze River Delta along the southeast coast of China. Shanghai128km to the east and Nanjing183km to the west. The surging Yangtze River flows through the territory. On February 25th, 2008, 65438 Wuxi was selected as the happiest city in China in 2008.
Wuxi has a long history. This is an ancient city with a history of more than 3000 years. As early as six or seven thousand years ago, Wuxi ancestors worked, lived, multiplied and lived a settled life in this land. There are primitive clan settlements in Hongsheng Pengzudun, Xindu Temple Dun, Gedai Bridge Anji Dun and Yuqi Luhuadang. The primitive culture of Wuxi ancestors successively belonged to Majiabang culture, Songze culture and Liangzhu culture. With their wisdom and hard work, they created and enriched the splendid ancient culture in Taihu Lake Basin.
The primitive culture of Wuxi ancestors successively belonged to Majiabang culture, Songze culture and Liangzhu culture. The recorded history of Wuxi can be traced back to the last years of Shang Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago. At the end of Shang Dynasty, Taibo, the eldest son of the Duke of Zhou, went to Man Jing from the south of Qishan, Shaanxi Province, moved to Meili (now Meicun, Wuxi County) and settled in the south. When he was in Rome, he lost his tattoo, was supported by the local people, was made a monarch, built a city wall, established a small country, and claimed to hook Wu and build Wu City. After Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, because Taibo had no children, he chased Zhong Yong's fifth grandson and established the State of Wu. From Taibo to He Lv for twenty-four years, Meili has been the capital of Wu for more than 600 years. Taibo and Zhong Yong brought the Central Plains culture into the south of the Yangtze River, organically integrated with the original culture in the south of the Yangtze River, and formed a Wu culture with distinctive regional characteristics, leaving behind many distinctive cultural relics and historic sites such as Dubo Port and Helucheng, as well as Taibo Temple and Taibo Tomb in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the productive forces of Wu developed greatly, and the political and military affairs were also very strong. In the third year of Zhou Yuanwang (473 BC), Wu was destroyed and Wuxi was the state of Yue. In the thirty-fifth year of Zhou Xian (334 BC), the State of Chu perished and Wuxi returned to the State of Chu. In the twenty-fifth year of King Qin (222 BC), the State of Chu was destroyed by Qin, and Huiji County was established, belonging to Wuxi. According to archaeological findings, in the Western Han Dynasty, Wuxi had handicraft industries such as iron smelting, copper casting, pottery making and lacquer painting, and iron ware and Niu Geng technology were used in agricultural production. During the Six Dynasties, there were frequent wars in the north, and a large number of people moved to the south. Wuxi built lakes and dikes, built a large number of water conservancy facilities, and improved agricultural farming techniques. Commercial trade began to take shape. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Wuxi's agricultural production developed from "fire-ploughing and water-ploughing" to ploughing, harrowing and ploughing, forming a double cropping system of rice and wheat, transforming the low-humidity land around Taihu Lake into a water network system with criss-crossing rivers and canals, scattered lakes and ponds, and combining drainage and irrigation. The sericulture industry is developed. "Mulberry leaves rely on silkworm foil everywhere." After the opening of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Wuxi River was "full of business trips and ships". In the city, gold and silver, colored silks, tobacco and alcohol, oil sauce, rice and other workshops are mixed and the market is prosperous. Wuxi has become a rich treasure land in the south of the Yangtze River.
Regional GDP: In 2007, the city achieved a regional GDP of 385.8 billion yuan, ranking first in the province according to the per capita GDP of permanent residents of 65,203 yuan. At the current exchange rate, it is equivalent to $8,926. Night view of Wuxi
Industry: the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size reached198.423 billion yuan.
Investment in fixed assets of the whole society: annual investment in fixed assets of the whole society167.422 billion yuan.
Consumption: The total retail sales of social consumer goods reached11347.5 billion yuan. Among them, the retail sales of urban consumer goods was 95.642 billion yuan; Retail sales of rural consumer goods17.833 billion yuan.
Trade: the total import and export volume of foreign trade in the whole year was 5165438+46 million USD. Among them, the total import value is 210.825 billion USD; The total export volume is 2932 1 billion dollars.
Finance: The city's total fiscal revenue is 70.69 billion yuan. The total fiscal revenue accounts for 18.3% of the regional GDP.
Yancheng is located in the middle of Subei Plain, bordering the Yellow Sea in the east, Huaiyang in the west, Nantong and Taizhou in the south and Lianyungang in the north. 1983, the city was changed from a region to a city, and the system of city governing counties was implemented. It has jurisdiction over two county-level cities, Dongtai and Dafeng, and five counties, namely Jianhu, Sheyang, Funing, Binhai and Xiangshui. There are two districts in the urban area, Du Yan and Tinghu, with an area of 1696 square kilometers and a population of 15 13600. There are 138 townships, 6 sub-district offices, 1927 villagers' committees and 554 residents' committees in the city. In 2008, the regional GDP exceeded160 billion yuan and the per capita income was 2 1300 yuan, which exceeded $3,000 for the first time. With a total area of10.5 million square kilometers, it is the largest city with the second population in Jiangsu. Car number plate, [Su] J. The basic feature is named after salt and has a long history.
Yancheng's annual GDP exceeded 654.38+06 billion yuan, an increase of 654.38+03.6% over the previous year, and the per capita GDP exceeded 3,000 dollars for the first time. The total fiscal revenue reached 2 1.6 1 billion yuan, an increase of 45.7%, which doubled in two years, of which the local general budget revenue was 9.03 billion yuan, an increase of 38%; The total export value was $21.70 billion, up by 53%, ranking second in the province. The registered foreign capital actually reached 1 100 million USD, with an increase of 23.3%, and the total amount continued to rank first in northern Jiangsu. The fixed assets investment of the whole society was11200 million yuan, up by 35.6%, of which the industrial investment above designated size was 6 10/00 million yuan, up by 40.3%; Newly developed private enterprises 1.4 million, and the registered capital of private individual economy increased by 30 billion yuan, an increase of 63.9%. The per capita disposable income of urban residents was 15862 yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 6790 yuan, increasing by 14.5% and1.5% respectively.
Nantong became the mainland because of the alluvial wind and sand, and it has a history of more than 5000 years. "Tong" for short, also known as Chongzhou, Chongchuan and Zilang, and Tongzhou in ancient times. It has a history of 1000 years since Xiande built the city for three years at the end of the Zhou Dynasty (956). After the Revolution of 1911, it was named Nantong to distinguish it from Tongzhou, Hebei. It is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province.
Nantong is located in the south of the Yellow Sea, on the north bank of the Yangtze River estuary, facing Suzhou and Shanghai across the river in the south, bordering Taizhou in the west and Yancheng in the north, with a total area of 800 1 km2. Nantong is a plain, with an average elevation of about four meters, except for the Langshan low mountain.
On the map of China, only two cities are located at the intersection of the T-shaped structure of the coastal economic belt and the Yangtze River Economic Belt and at the head of the Yangtze River Delta. One is the international metropolis Shanghai, and the other is Nantong on the north bank of the Yangtze River separated by water. Nantong is known as the "North to Guangzhou" because it is the intersection of rivers and seas, the throat of the north and south, and faces the most economically developed areas in Shanghai and China, Sunan, across the river. The north is connected with the vast northern Jiangsu plain, and the railway connects the Eurasian Continental Bridge. From the Yangtze River estuary to the sea, you can reach the coastal areas of China and ports all over the world; Upstream, you can reach Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and Yunnan, Guizhou, Shaanxi and Henan provinces. After the completion of Sutong Yangtze River Highway Bridge, Nantong will enter the one-hour economic circle of Shanghai. Nantong faces two economic radiation plates, overseas and inland, and has similar geographical advantages with Shanghai. Known as the "Pearl of the Rivers and Seas" and "the first window of the Yangtze River".
The regional GDP is175.834 billion yuan, and the per capita GDP is 22,826 yuan (Jiangsu Statistical Yearbook -2007).
Nantong is one of the first coastal port cities in China to open to the outside world. Since 1984, Nantong has made great progress in economic construction and social development. According to the evaluation of national authoritative organizations, Nantong has entered the ranks of "Top 50 Comprehensive Strength" and "Top 40 Investment Environment" in China.
Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery
The rural economy continued to maintain a good momentum of development. The total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery is 29,365.438 billion yuan at current prices, an increase of 3.0%. Among them, the agricultural output value was 654.38+02.87 billion yuan, an increase of 0.5%; The output value of animal husbandry was 7.785 billion yuan, an increase of 4.1%; The total fishery output value was 7.272 billion yuan, up by 4.7%.
By the end of 2005, the total power of agricultural machinery in the city was 2.883 million kilowatts, an increase of 3.6%, and the average power of agricultural machinery per 100 mu of cultivated land was 39.7 kilowatts; There are 44,252 tractors in the city, including 370 large and medium tractors 1. 4544 combine harvesters; 1955 high performance motorized rice transplanter. With the continuous improvement of the level of agricultural machinery and equipment, the level of agricultural mechanization has been significantly improved. In 2005, the city completed 5.96 million mu of mechanized farming, and the level of mechanized farming reached 83.6%. The mechanized sowing and harvesting levels of Sanmai reached 98.2% and 95.3% respectively. Mechanized planting and harvesting of rice reached 27.0% and 85. 1% respectively. Rapeseed production is mechanized, and the direct seeding area is more than 23,000 mu. In 2005, the application of agricultural chemical fertilizers in the city was 270,900 tons, an increase of 1.7%. Rural electricity consumption was 5.728 billion kWh, an increase of 20.4%.
textile industry
Nantong has the third largest home textile city in the world (Dieshi International Home Textile City, Sanxing Town, Haimen), which takes about an hour by car from Shanghai to the north via Sutong Bridge. This is China's famous home textile capital-Dieshi International Embroidery City in China. Located in the northwest corner of Haimen City, with a total area of 350,000 square meters and an average daily flow of more than 30,000 people. There are more than 3000 families engaged in embroidery in this town. This is fertile ground for breeding millionaires. Go straight west from Diesan Highway, and there are more than 20 large textile enterprises on both sides of the 3 km road. Further west is the embroidery market. The bosses who own the retail department are all rich. In Dieshi, a sales department is a brand, and there are hundreds of large and small enterprises, among which there are more than 100 enterprises with annual sales of more than 5 million yuan. They deal in all kinds of bedding (including quilts, quilts, pillows, etc. ), curtains, cushions and other textile products.
Industry and construction industry
Industrial production above designated size continued the high-speed growth trend of the previous two years, and the total scale continued to expand. In 2005, the gross output value and sales revenue of industrial enterprises above designated size reached 21440 million yuan and 208 1 100 million yuan respectively, both exceeding 200 billion yuan; The added value of industrial enterprises above designated size was 56.453 billion yuan, an increase of 25.2%. Among them, the added value of private industry was 365.438+97.3 million yuan, an increase of 26.3%; The added value of light industry was 27.833 billion yuan, an increase of 23.3%; The added value of heavy industry was 28.62 billion yuan, an increase of 27.2%. The annual industrial electricity consumption1051500 million kwh, up 19.6% year-on-year.
Production in the construction industry has grown rapidly. The added value of the construction industry was1510.33 billion yuan, an increase of 17.0%. The total output value of construction enterprises in the year was 89.796 billion yuan, an increase of 65.438+07.9%. Building area 136 14. 1 10,000 square meters, increasing by12.1%; The completed area is 41688,000 square meters, an increase of 0.5%. The economic benefits of construction enterprises continued to improve, and the total labor productivity calculated according to the total output value of the construction industry reached per capita148,300 yuan, an increase of 7.2% over the previous year. In 2005, three enterprises in the city were promoted to the special qualification of general contracting, 14 enterprises obtained the first-class qualification, 8 enterprises ranked among the top 20 comprehensive construction enterprises in the province, and 5 enterprises entered the top 10 construction enterprises in the province. In 2005, Nantong Construction Tiejun won nearly 100 high-quality projects at or above the provincial level, and 2 Luban Awards (National Excellent Project Awards).
At present, there are 14 foreign-invested enterprises officially registered in the export processing zone. There are 23 industrial projects under construction in the whole region1piece, including 30 industrial projects exceeding 100 million yuan and 4 foreign-funded industrial projects exceeding 10 million dollars1piece. Foreign capital has shifted from traditional chemical, textile and clothing projects to biomedical, electronic machinery and service projects.
Nantong leads the country in basic education and quality education. At present, Nantong has 15 world champions and Olympic champions * * * who have won 50 gold medals for the motherland, ranking first among prefecture-level cities in China, and is known as the "cradle of world champions". Nantong Construction Industry won 38 Luban Awards, the highest award in China, ranking first among prefecture-level cities in China. There are the first museums in China-Nantong Natural Museum and the museums around Haohe River.