Lianyungang, known as Haizhou in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city and a second-class big city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province. It is the oriental bridgehead of the new Eurasian Continental Bridge, the first batch of coastal open cities in China, a national comprehensive transportation hub and a powerful fulcrum city at the intersection of the Belt and Road.
Located in the central coastal area of China, it is adjacent to the Yellow Sea in the east, Xuzhou and Suqian in the west, Huai 'an and Yancheng in the south, and Rizhao and Linyi in Shandong Province in the north. By 2022, the city will have three districts and three counties, with a land area of 76 15 square kilometers, a sea area of 75 16 square kilometers and a permanent population of 4.6 million.
Lianyungang is a famous historical and cultural city in Jiangsu Province, and also a city applying for the Maritime Silk Road. It was located in Quxian County in the Qin Dynasty and Haizhou in Wuding, Eastern Wei Dynasty in the Northern Dynasty. During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, it was changed to river transportation of grain, and Haizhou Port was a transit point, so it was called "Huaikou Giant Town". In the 24th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi, Jiangsu Customs was located in Yuntai Mountain, Haizhou, and became one of the four major customs in the early Qing Dynasty.
science and technology
In 2022, the number of patents granted in Lianyungang was 8,286, a decrease of 13.8% over the previous year. Among them, the number of invention patents granted was 1 126, an increase of 25.0%. At the end of the year, the number of valid invention patents granted in the city was 58 15, up by 2 1.6% year-on-year. The number of invention patents per ten thousand people was 12.64, an increase of 2 1.5%.
In 2022, Lianyungang identified 262 high-tech enterprises, with a total of 570 high-tech enterprises, with a net increase of 1, 2 1, ranking first in the province. A total of 2 national-level creative spaces and 3 incubators have been built, and newly identified creative spaces above the provincial level 1 one, creative spaces above the provincial level 12 and provincial incubators 16. With Wuxi * * * to build three science and technology enclaves, cultivate innovative leading enterprises in the province 12.