Taiyuan's position in the whole country

Taiyuan, Jinyang for short, was built in 479 BC. It has a history of more than 2500 years. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, Jinyang became one of the thirteen counties in China. In the Sui Dynasty, Jinyang was the third largest city in China after Chang 'an and Luoyang. The Tang Dynasty originated in Jinyang. In the early Tang Dynasty, Jinyang was named as "the northern capital" and "Beijing" successively, and it was also called "the three capitals" and "the three capitals" with Chang 'an in Kyoto and Luoyang in the east. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Jinyang was the capital of the later Tang Dynasty, Jin Dynasty and Han Dynasty. Therefore, Taiyuan is called "Dragon City".

Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, is located in the middle of Shanxi Province, at the northern end of Jinzhong Basin, surrounded by mountains on three sides in the northeast and west. Fenhe River, the second largest tributary of the Yellow River, runs through the north and south with an average elevation of 800 meters. The city covers a total area of 6,988 square kilometers, governs one city, six districts and three counties, and has a total population of more than 3 million.

Taiyuan is rich in mineral resources, with coal-bearing area 1.282 square kilometers, proven reserves1.85 billion tons and iron ore reserves1.70 billion tons. The quality of gypsum in nonmetallic minerals is famous in China, with proven reserves of 54.35 million tons. Taiyuan is a famous heavy industry city, with a national special steel production base-Taiyuan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. and a national heavy machinery industry leader-Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Industry Group.

Taiyuan has had the glory of "Jin people are good at selling" in history. As an important commercial city in the north, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, Taiyuan had close trade relations with the Western Regions and China. After the development of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, banks, banks and merchants in Taiyuan spread all over North China and the southeast coast, ranking first among the "Top Ten Business Groups". Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Taiyuan has always been an important political, economic and cultural center in Shanxi Province, as well as a consumption center and commodity distribution center.

Taiyuan is located inland, with outstanding people and simple folk customs. The history of scenic spots and historical sites includes: Mengshi Cold Spring, Lingxiao Twin Towers, Fenhe River crossing in the evening, Tianmen Snow, Cuiling Mountain in the Western Hills, Tuditang and cypress trees. There are maid statues of Notre Dame de Jinci, statues of Sui and Tang Dynasties in the Northern Dynasties in Tianlongshan Grottoes, scriptures collected in Chongshan Temple in the Ming Dynasty, bronze statues of Guan Yu in Chunyang Palace and "Zhenguan Han Shi" and "Preface to Jinci" inscribed by Li Shimin of Emperor Taizong. There are 20 national cultural relics protection units, 20 provincial cultural relics protection units and more than 30 tourist attractions in the city. Tang Dynasty Prime Ministers Di, Bai Juyi, Liu Zongyuan, Wen, Song Dynasty star Yang and Luo Guanzhong, the author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, were all born in Zhou Kun.

People who have lived in Taiyuan for a long time have this feeling. In recent years, this ancient city is getting younger every day. Streets are widened and there are more tall buildings. Modern supermarkets and shopping centers have elegant environments and a wide variety of goods. Bars, Internet cafes and discos attract young people. Taiyuan at night is brightly lit and colorful. In fact, these are just appearances. The real change is that Taiyuan's economy has come out of a long-term stagnation, and the quality and efficiency of the economy are steadily improving.

Since the reform and opening up, Taiyuan's national economy and social undertakings have made great progress. The average annual growth rate of GDP is 9.8%, the per capita GDP is 7.7%, the total industrial output value is 9.9%, the per capita disposable income of urban residents is 14.7%, and the per capita income of farmers is 15.2%. During the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, despite the impact of the Asian financial crisis, investment growth was slow, consumption remained sluggish and natural disasters occurred frequently, but Taiyuan's economic and social development still maintained a good momentum of development. The average annual growth rate of GDP is 8.6%, which is 0.4 percentage points higher than the average growth rate of the whole province, and the average annual growth rate of per capita GDP is 6.7%, which is more than twice that of the whole province. 1997, according to the comprehensive strength evaluation of cities above the prefecture level in 2 19 years by the National Bureau of Statistics, Taiyuan ranked 23rd. In 2000, Taiyuan ranked 17 in GDP, 12 in per capita GDP, 19 in local fiscal revenue and 19 in total industrial output value.

As the capital of Shanxi Province, Taiyuan has gathered the most advanced productive forces in the province and has been playing a leading role in economic and social development. In 2000, Taiyuan's GDP accounted for 2 1.3% of the whole province, its per capita GDP was 2.2 times the average level of the whole province, and its total fiscal revenue accounted for 29% of the whole province. Taiyuan is one of the megacities in China and an important central city in the central region. In the national economic development pattern, it has a strategic position of connecting the east with the west, connecting the north and the south, and supporting in both directions. Taiyuan embodies the economic development level of Shanxi and represents the image of Shanxi's reform and opening up.

Taiyuan is an important old industrial base in China, with a number of large and medium-sized state-owned key enterprises with great influence in the country, such as national special steel production base, main coking coal base, chemical base, key heavy machinery enterprises and large power plants. It has formed textile, light industry, electronics, food, building materials, precision instruments and other 14 industries with complete categories and complete foundations.

Taiyuan has 52% universities and 46% scientific research institutions, among which the Institute of Coal Chemistry of China Academy of Sciences is a national first-class key scientific research institution with a strong scientific and technological team. Taiyuan has the only national high-tech industrial development zone in the province, and the added value of high-tech industries accounts for 9.3% of the city's GDP, ranking first in the province 1 1 city. High-tech industries such as information network, new materials, biomedicine and modern logistics have reached a certain scale and have broad development prospects. In 2000, college students accounted for 60.6%, government scientific and technological institutions at or above the county level accounted for 46%, and scientific and technological personnel in the province accounted for 62.6%, of which scientific and technological personnel at or above the intermediate level in natural sciences accounted for 62%. Data and multimedia users and Internet users are developing rapidly, ranking first in the province, which implies the development of high-tech industries and knowledge economy and has great potential.

In recent years, a number of major infrastructure backbone projects have been built in Taiyuan, and the comprehensive carrying capacity of the city has been significantly enhanced. Taiyuan is an important transportation hub in North China and the hub of six railway trunk lines in the province. Eight highway trunk lines in the province were originally radiated by the center. Taiyuan Airport is the backup airport of Beijing International Airport and one of the largest airports in North China. Taiyuan's post and telecommunications facilities are relatively perfect. At present, the total number of local telephone exchanges has reached 850,000, accounting for 1.6% of the whole province. There are 3001.8 million mobile phones, accounting for 6 1.4% of the whole province.

Great changes have taken place in the construction of urban infrastructure in Taiyuan, and the living environment of urban residents has been greatly improved. The renovation and beautification project of Taiyuan section of Fenhe River, with an investment of nearly 520 million yuan, is an urban infrastructure construction project integrating greening, beautification, environmental protection, water conservancy, communication prevention and entertainment. Up to now, the water storage project has been fully completed, and the greening and scenic spot construction have been basically completed. The urban section of Fenhe River is 6 kilometers long, and Qingshui River has been filled with water, forming 65,438. The project has greatly improved the ecological environment of Taiyuan and become a beautiful landscape of the city.

Taiyuan Municipal Government has rationally determined the nature, scale and overall layout of Taiyuan City, and has successively completed detailed professional planning for urban water supply, gas, central heating, flood control, drainage, sanitation, landscaping and road traffic. Based on the principle of not falling behind in 50 years and not regretting in 100, the regional master plan was compiled with a high starting point and high standards, and a number of important infrastructures were built.

With the goal of shaping the image of the city, Taiyuan has successively built a number of high-quality projects with the characteristics of both the ancient city and the times, such as Yingze Bridge, Binhe East-West Road, Binhe Sports Center, Provincial Construction Bank Building, Huayu Shopping Center, Shanxi Daily Building, Donghuayuan Community and Huifengyuan Community. Taking Wuyi Square as the center, Yingze Street as the main line, "Three Streets and Three Roads" (Yingze West Street, Fuxi Street, Yifen Street, Jianshe South Road, Xinjian Road and Jiefang Road) and Liuxiang Business Circle as the background, the lighting project combining point and surface has dressed Taiyuan as a city that never sleeps. Now Taiyuan's tourism infrastructure has begun to take shape. There are more than 90 travel agencies and 35 star-rated hotels, among which Shanxi Hotel, Yingze Hotel and Yuyuan Hotel are four-star, Sanjin International Hotel and Yizhou Hotel are three-star, and high, medium and low-grade hotels are dotted with various dishes from east to west, north and south. Diet has become a cultural phenomenon in Taiyuan.

Taiyuan is an important center city of people flow, logistics and business flow in the central and western regions of China, and has the most developed financial markets such as currency, securities and futures in the province. A number of professional markets such as clothing, building materials and decoration have certain influence and radiation in the whole country and the "Three North" areas, and new formats such as chain stores and supermarkets have developed rapidly. Hualian, Sam and other influential large supermarkets at home and abroad have settled in Taiyuan. In 2000, the total retail sales of social goods in Taiyuan accounted for 23.5% of the whole province.

As one of the first inland open cities in China, Taiyuan plays an important "window" role in opening up. In 2000, the total import and export volume of Taiyuan accounted for 7 1. 1% of the province, foreign investment accounted for 40% of the province, and the number of foreign-funded enterprises accounted for 40%. % of the province.

In 20001year, the municipal government put forward the idea of further accelerating the economic and social development of the provincial capital, that is, comprehensively implementing the "four strategies" (structural optimization strategy, urban function improvement strategy, strategy of rejuvenating the city through science and education, and environmental innovation strategy), and focusing on implementing the "six major projects" (large-scale and efficient agricultural projects, industrial cluster transformation projects, professional market cultivation projects, infrastructure construction projects, urban and rural ecological construction projects, and rejuvenating the city through science and education). Strive to achieve the "three improvements" (improving the quality and efficiency of economic operation, improving the city's carrying capacity and comprehensive service functions, and improving the quality and level of life of urban and rural people), give full play to the leading role of the provincial capital in the province's economic construction, the demonstration role in the development of high-tech industries and the window role in opening up, and build Taiyuan into an important national industrial base and a modern regional central city in the central and western regions.