Liaobu Town is located in the middle of Dongguan, adjacent to the urban area, in the center of the "four-in-one" metropolitan area of the main urban area, Songshan Lake Science and Technology Industrial Park, Sha Tong Ecological Park and Dongguan Ecological Park, with unique geographical advantages. The traffic here extends in all directions, and the urban ring road, Guanshen Expressway, Songshan Lake Avenue, East Expressway, Zhang Guan Road and Shida Road meet here, forming a half-hour economic life circle in Dongguan centered on Liaobu. Guan Hui intercity rail transit, which started construction in 2009, runs through Liaobu and sets up stations, which will inject new vitality into the new round of economic development in Liaobu.
Liaobu Town covers a total area of 7 1. 15 square kilometers, governs 10 communities and 20 villages, and has a permanent population of about 240,000, including 65,800 registered residents. Liaobu commerce and trade has flourished since ancient times. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the prestigious Vientiane was transported and sold here and exported to Southeast Asia via Guangzhou and Hong Kong. Therefore, Liaobu is known as the "fragrant city" and one of the four famous cities in Guangdong.
Since the reform and opening up, Liaobu Town has vigorously promoted industrialization and accelerated urbanization, and its economic strength has been significantly enhanced. It has become one of the top 100 towns with comprehensive strength in China, and won many titles such as China Electronic Information Industry Town, National Electronic Information Industry Base, National Health Town, Guangdong Education Town, Guangdong Optoelectronic Digital Technology Innovation Town, China Green Town and China Automobile Sales Town. It has been planned as a "provincial central town" by the provincial party committee and government.
There are nearly 3,000 industrial enterprises in the town, including 539 foreign-funded enterprises and 7 Fortune 500 enterprises, with obvious industrial characteristics. Electronic information, automobile sales and mechanical equipment manufacturing are the three leading industries. The output value of electronic information industry accounts for more than 70% of the total industrial output value of the town; The total automobile sales reached 7 billion yuan, accounting for about 50% of the city's automobile sales market share; The annual output value of machinery and equipment manufacturing industry exceeds 3 billion yuan. In 2009, the town is expected to achieve a regional GDP of 654.38+0.09 billion yuan, a total foreign trade export of 3.82 billion US dollars, an actual utilization of domestic and foreign capital of 3.53 billion yuan, a total tax revenue of 654.38+0.65 billion yuan, and a disposable financial income of 790 million yuan, and won the first prize of quantitative assessment of towns and streets, the single prize of economic development, the single prize of sustainable development and the single prize of social security.
Among them, the export of IT products accounts for 70% of the town's exports, making Dongguan a strong export town and a big IT town, and being designated as a national electronic information industry base by the Ministry of Information Industry. In 2005, the Pan-Pearl River Delta Electronic Information Industry Cooperation and Development Forum was held in Liaobu Town. In 2005, China Star Town was selected by National Bureau of Statistics, and Liaobu ranked 5 1 and entered the top 100. Up to now, Liaobu Town has successively won the titles of National Electronic Information Industry Base, China Famous Electronic Information Industry Town, National Health Town, Guangdong Strong Education Town, Science and Technology Innovation Town and Photoelectric Digital Town.
At the end of 1990s, Liaobu Town also actively carried out the reform of town-run collective enterprises, and completed the property rights system reform of town-run enterprises such as Sanlian Machinery Factory, Mechanical Parts Factory and Bearing Parts Factory. In recent years, the policy of encouraging and supporting private enterprises has been implemented, creating a relaxed development environment, and a number of outstanding private enterprises have emerged, such as Yongqiang Automobile, Zhaofeng, Sanlian, Budweiser, Doctor Technology, Jinye Electronics, Kangda and Kelongwei. Among more than 40 15 private enterprises in the town, there are 9 state-level high-tech enterprises, and the total number of provincial and municipal private technology enterprises reaches 7 1 family.
Liaobu agriculture basically bid farewell to traditional agricultural production, transforming into science and technology, high quality and high efficiency, and developing into agricultural ecological park and urban agriculture. At the same time, automobile civilization has been fully reflected in Liaobu. Liaobu automobile market is a natural "automobile supermarket" in Dongguan. Registered car dealers 153, many brands, brisk sales. In 2009, automobile sales reached 7,065,438 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 36.4%. In order to further strengthen the leading position of Liaobu automobile sales, build Dongguan International Automobile Trade City, and strive to build the automobile city into a trading center, a leisure center and an automobile culture communication center. At the same time, the successful cooperation between Yongqiang Automobile Manufacturing Company and Luxemburg Asia has made Liaobu the top production base of fire engines in China.
The urbanization process in Liaobu has obviously accelerated. In accordance with the principle of "advanced planning, high-standard construction and efficient management", Liaobu took the initiative to undertake the eastward expansion of urban areas, accelerated the pace of integration into large urban areas, focused on building new urban areas, and appropriately transformed the old urban areas. Great changes have taken place in the urban landscape, and a number of urban skeleton road networks have been built, forming modern external transportation; A number of municipal projects, such as cultural and sports squares and civic squares, have been built; Built the administrative center. The development and construction of residential areas also have a considerable scale. The developed projects include Fengtai City, Central Mansion, Dingfeng Pinzhu, Vanke City Golf Garden, Sanzheng Century Giants and Quiet Garden. In 2003, the revision of the overall urban planning was completed, which highlighted the guiding ideology of modern cities and integration into metropolitan areas. The whole town was planned as a chess game, and the spatial layout was readjusted. Liaobu was roughly divided into four areas: North (north of Zhang Guan Road), Central (between Zhang Guan Road and Songshan Lake Avenue), South (Songshan Lake Avenue to Foling Lake) and Liang Heng District. The north area takes South China Industrial Park as the carrier, focusing on developing industry; The central area focuses on improving urban functions and developing the tertiary industry; The southern district will gradually transform the rural houses in the area, promote rural urbanization, and use Foling Lake as a back garden to develop into a paradise for leisure and holiday and life; Liang Heng District will make use of the existing industrial base, integrate and upgrade, and better connect with the urban area. At present, our town is carrying out a new round of revision of the urban master plan, which fully embodies the city's development strategy in the core area of Dongguan's "four in one" metropolitan area. According to the requirements of "high-standard planning, high-quality construction and efficient management", we plan the overall situation of future development with a world vision and innovative development thinking.
The infrastructure construction in Liaobu Town is perfect. Transportation, telecommunications, power supply and water supply capacity have entered the forefront of towns and villages in the city. Telecommunications and global networking can provide digital communication, high-frequency fax and information network services for enterprises. The postal network is perfect, with outlets all over the village committees in the town. Liaobu is powered by provincial and municipal power grids. In 2009, the town's total electricity consumption was 65.438+79 million kWh. The quality water extracted from Dongjiang River is directly supplied by Dongguan Waterworks. In 2009, the total water supply in the town reached 44,097,800 tons. Entertainment, sports, health and living facilities are complete, there are many star-rated hotels in the town, and all kinds of services are of international standards, and there are three national standard golf courses around. The whole town realizes optical fiber networking and can provide digital TV programs. There are 9 specialized banks that can provide various international and domestic financial services. The whole town has a perfect education system from kindergarten to high school, with a considerable scale and level. It is a strong education town in Guangdong Province. There are many hospitals in the town. Liaobu Hospital is a second-class first-class hospital recognized by the state and awarded as "Baby-friendly Hospital" by the United Nations Health Organization. Liaobu Town Family Planning Service Station is a Class A service station; Dongguan Urology Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College is a modern comprehensive hospital featuring urology and integrating medical treatment, prevention, scientific research and education.
Liaobu has a beautiful ecological environment. Foling Lake Country Park is a rare natural ecological resource in Liaobu Town, covering an area of 7,200 mu. Here the mountains and rivers are integrated, the water quality of the lake is clear, surrounded by mountains, lush trees, elegant environment, excellent air quality and ecological environment. According to the principles of optimizing the ecological environment, protecting natural resources, unified planning and step-by-step implementation, the town government of Zhenwei is committed to developing Foling Lake into a leisure, business and holiday resort. At present, the international competition for conceptual planning of Fuling Lake District has ended, and the winning scheme will be further deepened. Shixiang Modern Agricultural Ecological Park is the central ecological park in the central area of Liaobu New Town. At present, the first and second phases of the road construction of Shixiang Modern Agricultural Industrial Park (Waterscape Park) have been basically completed, and the third and fourth phases have been started. The ecological park will become a central ecological leisure park with both agricultural and landscape functions in the metropolitan area.
At the beginning of 2009, in order to accelerate the pace of integration into the metropolitan area, Liaobu Town established the development strategy of "one city, three districts and five upgrades" and the development goal of building a "modern green new fragrant city", and made great efforts to build a new urban area, a modern new industrial district and a new cultural and leisure area in Dongguan. A series of "3+20" encouragement policies were issued, with 20 special funds100000 yuan, to speed up the construction of new urban areas, actively adjust the industrial structure, guide the transformation and upgrading of processing trade enterprises, form new development advantages and growth momentum, and realize comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development.