Zhongshan is one of the coastal open cities in China. In recent years, the strategy of "strengthening the city by industry" has been vigorously promoted, and high-tech industrial parks such as national packaging and printing base, national health science and technology industrial base, electronic information industrial base and private science and technology park have been built one after another. Basically, a diversified product structure with high-tech industries as the leader and high-quality products as the fist has been formed, including Robust drinks, Yale Guli locks, Kaida Fine Chemicals, Vantage gas appliance, Jiahua Electronics and a number of well-known products at home and abroad. Xiaolan hardware, ancient town lighting, Shaxi leisure clothing, large mahogany furniture, south air conditioning, Huangpu food and other regional characteristic economies are booming, and their products occupy a large market share in the country. Global top 500 enterprises have set up more than 20 enterprises in Zhongshan. In 2004, the city achieved a GDP of 61010.40 billion yuan and a total industrial output value of 200.44 billion yuan.
The investment environment in Zhongshan City is very attractive. The city's existing highway mileage is 1077.2 km, forming a highway network extending in all directions with national highways, trunk highways and Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway as the skeleton; Within a radius of 90 kilometers, there are five airports in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Macau. Railway transportation reaches all parts of the country through Guangzhou. At present, with the opening of Shenwan Port, Zhongshan has formed a "Pin"-shaped wharf layout from zhongshan port in the east, Shenwan Port in the south and Xiaolan Port in the north. Among them, the annual container throughput of zhongshan port ranks 10 in China and 100 in the world. The flight from zhongshan port to Hongkong takes only 75 minutes. With sufficient water supply and power supply, Zhongshan has initially established a broadband high-speed and large-capacity information network with the urban area as the hub and running through towns and large and medium-sized enterprises, forming "Zhongshan Information expressway".
In recent years, Zhongshan has successively won the honorary titles of "National Sanitary City", "National Advanced Unit of Urban Planning and Management", "National Garden City", "National Environmental Protection Model City", "China Excellent Tourism City", "National Smooth Engineering Model City", "National Advanced City of Creating Civilized Cities" and "Guangdong Civilized City", and was awarded 1997 by the United Nations.
natural resource
There are five main natural resources in Zhongshan:
(1) solar energy resources. Over the years, the average total solar radiation reached 445 155.4 Joule/cm2, which is one of the regions with rich solar radiation resources in the province.
(2) Water resources. Zhongshan is a water-rich area, with annual rainfall of 1.738 mm and precipitation of 2.91.800 million cubic meters. The total water volume of Xijiang River and Beijiang River flowing through the whole city (Modaomen, Hengmen and Li Hongqi)149.7 million cubic meters, with an average water volume per mu1257 million cubic meters. In addition, Zhongshan City is located in the coastal area, and tidal range can be used for irrigation and drainage.
(3) Mineral resources. Zhongshan has a long history of geological development and frequent crustal changes, but the stratum distribution is relatively simple and lacks rich strata. The only proven and developed minerals are granite, sand and refractory clay. Among them, the stones are mainly biotite granite, biotite adamellite and granodiorite, which are widely distributed in the low mountains, hills and platforms of the city, with Wuguishan and Zhusongling having the most abundant reserves. Sand is mainly medium-coarse quartz sand, which is mainly distributed in Longxue and Xiasha coastal areas in the east of the city. Refractory clay is mainly distributed near Haotou Village in Torch Development Zone.
(4) Animal and plant resources. The main activity places of large and medium-sized mammals in Zhongshan city are distributed in the low hills of Wugui Mountain and the high hills of Baishui Forest Mountain. The existing economic animals mainly include civet, crab-eating mongoose, leopard cat, southern fox, pangolin, rodents, various birds and snakes. Reptiles, amphibians, birds and rodents dominate the plain area; Aquatic animals include fish, crustaceans and many kinds of shellfish. The representative vegetation type is tropical monsoon forest evergreen monsoon forest. There are more than 6 10 species of vegetation, belonging to 358 genera of 105 family, and the forest coverage rate is 12.95%.
(5) Tourism resources. The famous scenic spots in Zhongshan City, the Wuguishan Mountains and the water towns in the south of the Pearl River Delta have formed a rich and colorful cultural and natural landscape. The main tourist attractions in the city are: Cuiheng Sun Yat-sen's former residence, Zhongshan Film and Television City, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Sun sun yat-sen memorial middle school, Sun Wen Memorial Park, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Wuguishan Forest Tourism Manor and Revolutionary Historical Base, Zimaling Park, Zhongshan Hot Spring, Yangtze River Reservoir Tourist Area, Sun Wen West Road Pedestrian Street, Hengmen Sea Manor, Sanxiang Quanlin Tourist Villa and Yandun Sargu Puta, Xishan Temple, Nanshan Ancient Fragrant Forest, Song Emperor Relics and Luosanmei Mountain. Native products mainly include March Red Litchi, Shenwan Pineapple, Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Meat, Zhongshan Almond Cake, Shi Qi Pigeon, Yangtze Crispy Pork Carp, Camellia Products, Sanxiang Seto Powder, etc.
language
The language situation in Zhongshan City is complicated, mainly using Chinese dialects, including Cantonese, Min dialect and Hakka dialect. Among them, the largest number of people use Cantonese, accounting for 84% of the total population, mainly distributed in the alluvial plain in the north and Shi Qi in the middle. Cantonese dialects can be divided into four types:
(1) Shiqi dialect, mainly distributed in Shi Qi, Nanqu and Nanlang Town;
(2) Shatian dialect (near Shunde dialect) is mainly distributed in nantou town, Huangpu Town, dongfeng town, Xiaolan Town, Fusha Town, Dongsheng Town, henglan town Town, Gangkou Town, Minzhong Town, Tanzhou Town, Banfu Town, Xishalang Town and nanlang town Hengmen.
(3) Sanjiao dialect (near Dongguan dialect), mainly distributed in Sanjiao town;
(4) Guzhen dialect is mainly distributed in Guzhen town. Min dialect is mainly distributed in shaxi town, Dayong Town, sanxiang town and Zhangjiabian in Torch District. Hakka dialects are mainly distributed in Wuguishan Town, shenwan town and the southern district of tanzhou town.
Folklore and folkway
Zhongshan people love their country and their hometown. They are hardworking, honest, enterprising, innovative, flexible, pragmatic and not so conservative. People are peaceful and polite, be kind to others, unite and help each other, and advocate justice. In 1980s, Zhongshan Municipal People's Government formulated "unity, patriotism, truth-seeking and innovation" as the spirit of Zhongshan people. Zhongshan is rich in folk arts, including Zhongshan folk songs, dragon dances, lion dances, crane and phoenix dances, floating colors at the cliff mouth and so on. Zhongshan is the hometown of folk songs. Popular folk songs include salty water songs, Gaotang songs, big sword songs, Hakka folk songs, crane songs, Gu Meige, fishing drums, dragon boats and children's songs in minor. Among them, Salt Water Song and Gaotang Song are the most distinctive. These two kinds of folk songs have a history of more than 300 years and are popular in Shatian District such as Tanzhou Town. Dragon Dance in Zhongshan is divided into eight categories: Long Mu, Dragon, Jinlong, Salon, Grass Dragon, Youlong, Ban Long and Yunlong. The flower in Zhongshan is chrysanthemum.