Zhanjiang City is located at the southernmost tip of Chinese mainland, Leizhou Peninsula in the southwest of Guangdong Province, and at the junction of Guangdong, Guangxi and Qionghai provinces. The whole city covers an area of10.3 million square kilometers and a total population of 710.3 million, of which the urban population is10.43 million and the area is10.460 square kilometers. 1983 became a provincial-level city, and now it has jurisdiction over three cities, two counties and four districts. It has a national economic and technological development zone and five provincial economic development pilot zones. Zhanjiang is one of the first coastal cities opened to the outside world in China, a national first-class city, a top 50 city with comprehensive strength and a top 40 city with investment environment. Since 1999, it has successively won the honorary titles of "National Double Support Model City", "National Greening Standard City", "Guangdong Health City" and "China Excellent Tourism City".
Zhanjiang is rich in resources. The first is port resources. Port resources are the most important advantageous resources in Zhanjiang, with many ports and excellent port construction conditions. At present, there are 22 traffic ports and docks in the city, with berths 174, with an annual throughput of more than 4 million tons, forming a port group with Zhanjiang Port as the mainstay and small and medium-sized ports around Leizhou Peninsula supporting each other. Zhanjiang Port is famous for its "large, excellent and deep", with a coastline of 24 1km, four times that of Rotterdam Port, the largest port in the world, and a basin area of 2,400 square kilometers, which can be used to build the coastline of a 97 km deep-water wharf. The east island from Luwei to Longteng is 6.5 kilometers, and the water depth is 26-40 meters. It can build a waterway of over 300,000 tons and the fifth and sixth generation container terminals. Zhanjiang Port is now the largest port in western Guangdong and around Beibu Gulf, with the first 300,000-ton oil terminal, 6,543,800+5,000-ton modern iron ore terminal and the deepest waterway in South China, which can take advantage of the tide to enter and exit ships of 6,543,800+5,000. Zhanjiang Port is currently excavating a 300,000-ton waterway. After the project is completed, ships above 300,000 tons can enter and exit. According to the master plan of Zhanjiang Port approved by the Ministry of Communications and the Guangdong Provincial Government, Zhanjiang Port will invest nearly 5 billion yuan to build large-scale projects in the next few years. By 2008, the annual cargo throughput of Zhanjiang Port will jump from the current 35 million tons to 70 million tons, which is equivalent to building another Zhanjiang Port. In 20 10, it will reach100000 tons, and in 2020 it will reach1300000 tons, making it a real southern port. The second is marine resources. Zhanjiang is rich in marine resources, surrounded by the sea on three sides, with 30 islands and a coastline of 1.556 km, accounting for 46% of the coastline of Guangdong Province. The per capita coastline is equivalent to a maritime power. Zhanjiang coastal zone has three characteristics: tropical, diverse and vigorous. It is rich in marine life and mineral resources as well as various marine aquatic products. The marine industry dominated by marine transportation, marine oil and gas industry, mariculture and processing industry, shipbuilding industry and coastal tourism has already reached a considerable scale. The coastal beach area of the city is 6.5438+0.486 million mu, and the shallow sea area is 8.36 million mu. There are 520 species of fish resources, 547 species of shellfish and 28 species of shrimp with economic value. The output of aquatic products ranks first in Guangdong Province for many years in succession, with the output of cultured pearls accounting for 2/3 of the whole country and the output of prawns accounting for about 40% of Guangdong Province. Xiashan Aquatic Products Wholesale Market is one of the large aquatic products wholesale markets in China. Shrimp from Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other provinces gathered in Zhanjiang for trading. The annual shrimp trading volume accounts for nearly two-thirds of the total shrimp production in China, and the turnover exceeds 6 billion yuan. Yantian covers an area of 4,035 hectares, with a crude salt production capacity of 6,543.8+0.5 million tons, accounting for more than 50% of the province. There are still 6000 hectares of Yantian to be developed. The third is agricultural resources. Zhanjiang is a big agricultural city, rich in agricultural, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry products, with southern subtropical characteristics. It is one of the four major sugarcane bases in China, the largest eucalyptus and sisal production base and mangrove base in China; It is the famous hometown of pineapple, mango and tangerine in China, and the area, output and output value of exported vegetables rank first among the five northern transport bases of southern vegetables in China. There are five categories of 2 1 agricultural commodity bases, including hot farming, fruit, aquatic products, animal husbandry and forestry. It has become an important animal husbandry base of sisal, rubber, sugarcane, watercress, banana, mango, red orange, eucalyptus and grain saving in Guangdong Province and even the whole country. The fourth is mineral resources. At present, 33 kinds of mineral resources have been discovered, and there are 155 kinds of minerals with mining value, including 5 kinds of large-scale minerals and 23 kinds of medium-sized minerals. More than 5.5 billion tons of limestone, more than 30 million tons of dolomite and 7.7 million tons of Shi Ying. The reserves and quality of non-metallic minerals such as kaolin, diatomite, bentonite and peat soil are among the highest in the province. Among them, kaolin has high grade, large reserves and broad development prospects. The total flow of mineral water is 4000 cubic meters per day, and there are abundant underground hot springs, which can be planned, developed and utilized. The fifth is the source of oil and gas resources. The continental shelf basin in the northern South China Sea is rich in oil and gas resources and is one of the four largest marine oil and gas accumulation centers in the world. It is predicted that the oil resources will reach 65.438+0.45 billion tons and the natural gas resources will reach 654.38+03.2 trillion cubic meters. This area has the largest offshore gas field cliff 13- 1, with a reserve of100 billion cubic meters. China Offshore Oil Nanhai West Company, which supplies gas to Hongkong, is located in Zhanjiang. Sixth, tourism resources. Blue coastal tourism and marine tourism resources, green ecological and agricultural tourism resources, red soil scenery and historical and cultural resources constitute the three major tourism characteristics of "blue, green and red", weaving colorful Zhanjiang. At present, there are two provincial-level tourist resorts, East Island and Jizhaowan, as well as municipal-level tourist resorts such as Nansan Island, Wuyang Gold Coast and Xuwen Baisha Bay. Huguangyan, one of the two "Mars mythology Lakes" in the world, is a famous scenic spot in Guangdong Province and has been rated as a national geological park. Zhanjiang Mangrove National Nature Reserve is the largest and most diverse mangrove reserve in Chinese mainland, covering an area of 300,000 mu. Xuwen county has the only best-preserved and largest coral natural breeding area along the coast of Chinese mainland. There is also a national historical and cultural city, Leizhou, with many historical sites, South Asia Tropical Botanical Garden and many rare plants, as well as the largest "artificial sea" river bottom reservoir in Guangdong, which has great potential for developing tourism.
Seventh, scientific and technological talent resources. Zhanjiang has three full-time universities, namely Zhanjiang Ocean University, Guangdong Medical College and Zhanjiang Teachers College, the number of which is second only to Guangzhou in the province. At the same time, it has more than 90,000 professional technicians, 48 R&D institutions, 5 engineering technology R&D centers and 2 technology pilot bases.
Zhanjiang has convenient transportation. Zhanjiang Port is the main hub port of China, the important hub port of comprehensive transportation system and the main hub port of container domestic trade in South China. It has been opened to more than 100 countries and regions, and the Zhanjiang-Macau logistics channel and Zhanjiang-Shenzhen logistics express line have been opened recently. Connected with the national railway trunk lines are Lizhan Line, Sanmao Line and Guangdong-Hainan Railway. At present, the construction of Luoyang-Zhanjiang railway is accelerating, and Zhanjiang has opened through passenger trains with Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Nanjing, Guiyang and Kunming. There are 207 and 325 national highways running through, Zhanmao Expressway has been opened, and Guangzhan and Yuzhan Expressway will meet in Leizhou Peninsula. Zhanjiang Civil Aviation Airport has opened 3 1 routes to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Changsha and Hong Kong. The developed three-dimensional transportation network of land, sea and air has enabled Zhanjiang to have favorable conditions for people and logistics to enter and exit. Zhanjiang has begun to take shape, becoming the center of goods, trade, labor and information in western Guangdong, southwest China and Beibu Gulf, and becoming the main sea passage in southwest China. 30%-50% of goods from Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing pass through Zhanjiang Port.