The area is 26 17 square kilometers.
Population 2.6 million
Postal code 462000
Area code 0395
Jurisdiction over Linying County, Wuyang County, Yancheng District, Yuanhui District, Shaoling District and Economic Development Zone.
Luohe City is located in the south-central part of Henan Province, at the intersection of the eastern foot plain of Funiu Mountain and Huaibei Plain. Its geographical coordinates are11327'-16+0416', and its latitude is 33 24'-33 59', which is warm and humid. The rivers in the territory are Sha Ying River system in Huaihe River Basin. Liusha River and Li River, two major tributaries of Huaihe River, run through the whole territory and meet in the urban area, and the riverside city has obvious characteristics.
Luohe 1948 was established as a county-level city, and 1986 was upgraded to a provincial-level city. Now it has jurisdiction over Linying and Wuyang counties, Yancheng, Hui Yuan and Zhaoling districts and a national economic and technological development zone, with a total area of 26 17 square kilometers and a total population of 2.6 million, including 60 square kilometers of urban built-up area and 600,000 urban population. In 20 10, the city's GDP reached 68.2 billion yuan, an increase of 14.7% over the previous year, ranking second in the province; The general budget revenue of local finance was 2,665.438 billion yuan, an increase of 28%, ranking second in the province; Tax revenue accounts for 82.3% of the general budget revenue of local finance, ranking1in the whole province; The added value of industrial enterprises above designated size was 39.5 billion yuan, an increase of 20.3%; The investment in fixed assets of the whole society was 40.4 billion yuan, an increase of 24.7%; The total retail sales of social consumer goods was 210.63 billion yuan, an increase of18.4%; The per capita disposable income of urban residents was 14769 yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 6460 yuan, increasing by 10.3% and 14.9% respectively.
Luohe is an ancient city with a long history and splendid culture. As early as the Neolithic Age, our ancestors settled here. The symbols depicting Peiligang culture found in Jiahu site have been around for 8,000 years, which has advanced the history of China characters by 4,000 years. The unearthed seven-tone bone flute is a national treasure, which has pushed forward the history of China music culture for 3000 years. The technology of wine-making excavated by archaeology has pushed the history of wine-making in China forward for more than 3000 years. Xu Shen, a famous Confucian scholar and philologist in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was born here. His Shuo Wen Jie Zi is the earliest dictionary in China and even in the world, and is known as the "Master of Chinese Characters". At present, the main historical sites found are: Cao Pi's historical demonstrations of the Han Dynasty, Meditation Platform and Three Juebei; Xiaoshangqiao in Sui Dynasty was 20 years earlier than Zhao Zhouqiao, and was known as "the first bridge in the world". There are more than 200 cultural relics in the city, including 6 national key cultural relics protection units, 7 provincial cultural relics protection units, 28 provincial cultural relics protection units and 30 municipal cultural relics protection units.
Luohe is a hub city with superior geographical position and developed transportation. Luohe City, which began in the Northern Wei Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, was once famous for its developed commerce and land and water transportation. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, it was already a commodity distribution center of "Jianghuai Department Store with Stars Shining" and was known as "Flood and Drought Wharf". Today, Luohe, extending in all directions, is a national secondary transportation hub city. Less than an hour's drive from Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport, four railways, namely Shiwu High-speed Railway, Railway (Feng) and Luofu Railway (Yang), Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway, Expressway, 107 National Highway and five provincial highways run through the whole territory, forming an important railway in the province and a "double cross" transportation hub in expressway.
Luohe is a beautiful northern water city in Zhong Ling, where boating and singing are easy. Liusha River and Lishui River, two major tributaries of Huaihe River, run through the whole territory and meet in the urban area. One city is full of spring water, and the beautiful scenery along the river, which integrates scenic promenade, ecological promenade, cultural promenade and leisure promenade, shows the city's elegant demeanor. It is a rare waterscape city and forest city in the north. The urban green coverage rate and green space rate reached 35.2% and 3 1.3% respectively, and the per capita public green space area was 12.5 square meters. With its unique characteristics of hydrophilic, green and beautiful environment, Luohe has successively won the honor of National Garden City, National Greening Model City, National Forest City, China Characteristic Charming City, and China Human Settlements Model Award.
Luohe is a famous food city with distinctive features and well-known reputation extending in all directions. Luohe's leading food processing industry has obvious characteristics, and it has cultivated a number of well-known food enterprises such as Shuanghui Group, the largest meat processing enterprise in Asia, Nanjiecun Group, a famous instant noodle manufacturer in China, and Lotte Audley Group, the first glucose beverage manufacturer in China. The city's food industry processes pigs150,000 per year, accounting for 23% of the province; The annual grain processing and transformation is 5 million tons, accounting for11%of the whole province; The export of fresh frozen pork accounts for more than 90% of the province and a quarter of the country; Four enterprises in the city entered the top 100 food industries in China, and eight enterprises entered the top 50 food industries in the province; The added value of food industry above designated size accounts for 53.3% of the above-designated industries in the city. The development of food industry has made outstanding achievements. Luohe has become the first famous food city in China, the dual pilot city for the construction of national food safety credit system and security system, the first comprehensive demonstration city for agricultural standardization, the food industry base city in the province, and the demonstration city for pollution-free food base in the province.
Luohe is an open city full of reform, innovation and vitality. New progress has been made in reform and opening up. The reform of state-owned enterprises has completed the task of turning losses into organizational systems earlier, and the non-public economy has developed rapidly. The added value of the city's non-public economy was 42.28 billion yuan, accounting for 62% of the city's GDP. At present, merchants from more than 20 countries and regions have invested in Luohe. Eight Fortune 500 companies such as DuPont, Goldman Sachs, Coca-Cola, Japanese Ham Co., Ltd. and COFCO, as well as a number of well-known enterprises at home and abroad such as Lotte Korea, China Trade Association, Want Want of Taiwan Province Province, Master Kong and Nanjing Yurun, all have large-scale investment projects in Luohe and have achieved good investment returns. Luohe is a pilot city of national comprehensive reform, rural market development and rural comprehensive information service, and it is the best investment city in Central China.
Luohe is a civilized city with stable overall situation and harmonious society. All social undertakings have prospered and developed, and spiritual civilization, democracy and legal system have been comprehensively strengthened. The three national policies of family planning, environmental protection and land management have been well implemented. Governing the city according to law, basic education, mass sports, rehabilitation of the disabled, and centralized support for rural five-guarantee households are at the forefront of the country. The work of letters and visits is advanced in the province, the situation of production safety is generally stable, the public security index ranks first in the province, and the overall social situation is harmonious and stable. Luohe is one of the first cities in China to create an advanced civilized city, an advanced city to govern the city according to law, an excellent city for comprehensive management of social security, an advanced collective for letters and visits, an advanced city for safe production in the whole province, and a model city for double support in the whole province.
At present, Luohe is in the best period since its establishment. The people of the whole city are seizing the opportunity, taking advantage of the situation and striving for innovation and development at a new starting point. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, Luohe will adhere to the theme of scientific development, take accelerating the transformation of economic development mode as the main line, take the construction of the Central Plains Economic Zone as a major opportunity, take the coordinated development of the "three modernizations" as the basic approach, and take enriching the people and strengthening the city as the central task. Focusing on the development orientation of "one district, two cities and one center" (building the pioneering area for the coordinated development of "three modernizations" in the Central Plains Economic Zone, building the most competitive food city in China and the most attractive ecologically livable city in the Central Plains, and building a regional comprehensive transportation hub and a modern trade and logistics center), we will make efforts to adjust and optimize the economic structure, coordinate urban and rural development, deepen reform and opening up, ensure and improve people's livelihood, and strive to maintain sound and rapid economic development and overall social harmony and stability for the construction of the Central Plains Economic Zone.