Changes in Shishi City in the Past Twenty Years

Shishi is a charming young city located on the southeast coast of Fujian, between the cultural and historical city Quanzhou and the Special Economic Zone Xiamen. It faces Taiwan across the sea. The city faces the sea on three sides and has a coastline of 67.7 kilometers. , the city covers an area of ??160 square kilometers.

The city was established in 1988 with the approval of the State Council. It currently governs 7 towns and 2 sub-district offices, with a permanent population of 300,000 and a floating population of 400,000.

Since the establishment of the city, Shishi has benefited from the good opportunities of reform and opening up and the new mechanism of the comprehensive reform pilot zone, giving full play to the humanistic spirit of loving to fight and dare to win, and comprehensively promoting economic and social development.

In 2007, the city achieved a GDP of 24.02 billion yuan, total fiscal revenue of 2.2 billion yuan, and general budget revenue of 1.16 billion yuan, an increase of 1.65, 22.3, and 23.2 respectively, ranking first in per capita GDP and per capita fiscal revenue. At the forefront of the province.

The comprehensive economic strength ranks 22nd among the top 100 counties (cities) in the country, maintaining the 2nd place among the top 10 counties (cities) in the province, and becoming the only one in Fujian Province to be selected as the "Best Business in Mainland China" by Forbes. "City" county-level city.

——A famous city for casual clothing in China.

Shishi is world-famous for its clothing. It is China's textile and clothing production base and distribution center. After more than 20 years of careful cultivation, it has formed a textile and clothing industry chain with clothing processing and production as the core, covering textile, bleaching and dyeing, In various fields such as garment processing, accessories, and marketing, industrial clusters have obvious advantages.

The city has more than 3,000 enterprises in the clothing and supporting industries, and more than 2,000 registered trademarks focusing on clothing; the Fujian clothing sector is formed with Shishi as the center and connecting Jinjiang, Quanzhou and other surrounding areas,* There are more than 10,000 textile and garment enterprises in **, with an annual output value of 50 billion yuan. It is an important garment sector in my country and even the world.

Shishi clothing exports are 50%, and many internationally renowned clothing brands, such as Crocodile, Woodpecker, Zhou Zhi, Cardano, etc., all purchase raw materials and order production in Shishi.

Shishi has become an important part of the global clothing processing trade industry chain, and has also become one of China's five major clothing transnational procurement bases.

Shishi Garment City, an international clothing logistics and distribution center with a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan, was started in 2003 and is the largest professional clothing market in Asia. Since its opening in 2005, it has quickly become one of the top ten clothing stores in China. Wholesale market and China’s top ten innovative markets.

Taking the Cross-Strait Textile and Clothing Expo and Casual Clothing Expo as the platform, with Shishi Garment City as the center, it connects Yuanyangchi Fabric Market (one of the four major fabric markets in the country), Taqian Garment Accessories Market, Yangxia The comprehensive market for clothing accessories and fabrics and the clothing machinery market in front of the tower constitute Shishi's unique textile and clothing business area.

In recent years, as a number of large-scale textile and garment upstream projects have successively entered Shishi, such as PTA with a total investment of 2.238 billion yuan, Xie Sheng Xiefeng 50,000 Ding Textile with a total investment of 1.2 billion yuan and other projects, further The optimization and upgrading of Shishi's textile and apparel industry has been accelerated.

——A port city for industry, trade and tourism.

Shishi industry has formed an industrial system dominated by textiles and clothing, with hardware machinery, printing and packaging, footwear materials, sporting goods, food and beverages, and electronic information as pillars.

Wanglaoji, with a total investment of US$25 million, was successfully put into production, driving the development of related industries such as color printing, cans, lid making and packaging.

The port has always been the most active economic area in Shishi. Currently, Shishi has three deep-water ports: Shihu, Xiangzhi, and Yongning. It has formed a national first-class port Shihu Port as the leader, covering an area of ??20 It is a port economic zone focusing on Shihu Port Industrial Zone.

Shihu Port’s annual cargo throughput has exceeded 10 million tons, and its container throughput has exceeded 600,000 TEUs, accounting for half of the total container throughput in Quanzhou. It ranks among the top five domestic trade container terminals in China’s ports.

Shishi is one of the top 100 fishery counties and cities in the country and one of the top ten fishery counties and cities in Fujian Province. The output of aquatic products ranks second in the province. There are more than 200 kinds of main seafood. The shallow beach area is 8183 hectares. It has auspicious National-level fishing ports such as Zhizhi and Dongpu have initially formed a blue market with Huabao Chemical and Mingxiang Food as leaders, Xinshadi abalone nursery and Yongning seawater cage culture as the characteristics, and Xiangzhi Aquatic Products Wholesale Market as the radiation. industrial base.

Stone lions have a long history of humanities. The gorgeous coastal scenery composed of waves, beaches and sea erosion landforms is closely related to the maritime silk culture, costume culture and other special cultures, as well as folk cultures such as lion dance, lantern riddles, Nanyin, Water Splashing Festival and ball dance. Integration; industrial and shopping tourism based on Shishi Garment City and coastal tourism based on Gold Coast and Hongta Bay promote each other; Gusao Pagoda, Liusheng Pagoda, Linluandu, Huxiu Temple, Chaotian Temple, Chenghuang Temple, Luo The scenic spot tourism mainly based on Jia Temple and the leisure tourism mainly based on Lingxiu Mountain Forest Park and Baogai Mountain Ecological Park complement each other to form a unique tourism system.

Various activities such as the International and National Sailing Championships, the First Fujian-Taiwan Crossing Cultural Festival and the Hongjiang Maritime Water Splashing Festival were successfully held.

——Famous hometown of overseas Chinese and window to Taiwan.

The towering Gusao Tower and Shihu Tower were the symbols of maritime navigation in those days. Starting from here, the Shishi people followed Zheng Chenggong to develop Taiwan, and traveled with foreign ships to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries.

Today, there are nearly 300,000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao in the city, and more than 300,000 Taiwan compatriots who borrowed stone lions from their ancestors.

The vast number of overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have a fine tradition of patriotism and love for their hometown. They are enthusiastic about the construction and development of their hometown. In recent years, they have donated more than 700 million in funds for education, medical and health, infrastructure and other public welfare undertakings. Yuan.

Since the establishment of the city, Shishi has given full play to the advantages of overseas Chinese in Taiwan, vigorously developed an export-oriented economy, and made economic and trade work with Taiwan successful.

By the end of 2007, the city had approved a total of 2,057 foreign-invested enterprises, with a total investment of US$4.51 billion, and foreign investors had actually invested US$2.52 billion.

In 2007, the company's self-operated exports were US$580 million, a year-on-year increase of 58.6, which was higher than the provincial average.

——The infrastructure is improving day by day.

The city has carried out a new round of urban master plan revision and coastline planning, intensified urban and rural planning and construction, and comprehensively accelerated the transformation of old cities and the construction of new districts. The built-up area of ??the central city has expanded to 29.72 square kilometers, with a per capita The public green space covers an area of ??9.85 square meters.

Two 220KV substations, five 110KV substations, and three 110KV substations have been built, realizing the erection of double-circuit power supply lines to Fuzhou and Xiamen.

A water plant with a daily water supply of 200,000 tons and a 70,000-ton water plant has been built to provide water to the entire city. A water diversion project with a total investment of more than 200 million yuan has been completed and the total water supply capacity has reached 350,000 tons. /day, the per capita water supply volume ranks first in the province, and the daily water supply volume ranks third in the province.

Basically, every village in the city has access to buses and tap water.

A reliable postal and telecommunications network has been built. There are more than 300,000 urban and rural telephone users in the city, nearly 270,000 mobile phone users, 54,000 cable TV users, and more than 20,000 Internet broadband users.

At the same time, a large number of key projects such as coastal corridors, coastal tide and flood control projects, and urban waste incineration plants have been completed. After the completion of the Hongshan Thermal Power Plant with a total investment of 5.8 billion yuan, all coal-fired boilers in the service area will be eliminated. and thermal oil furnace, further enhancing the development potential of Shishi.

——Comprehensive and coordinated development of social undertakings.

Shishi insists on putting people first and vigorously strengthens the construction of spiritual civilization.

The strategy of revitalizing the city through science and education is fully implemented. The city has 3 higher vocational schools, 1 technical secondary school, 15 middle schools, and 70 primary schools. The educational level ranks among the advanced ranks in Quanzhou City; it has built the Municipal Productivity Promotion Center, Strait Strait Cross-Strait technology incubation base to enhance independent innovation capabilities; accelerate the informatization process of governments, enterprises, and society, and take the lead in building the first integrated county-level city e-government comprehensive office platform in the province.

We have made every effort to promote the development of culture and sports, and have successively built a number of public facilities such as municipal museums, libraries, cultural centers, stadiums (halls), swimming pools, activity centers for the elderly, and youth extra-curricular activity centers. .

Medical and health facilities are constantly being improved. Overseas Chinese Hospital, Maternal and Child Health Hospital and "120" Emergency Center have been completed and put into use. A new hospital in Shishi City with an investment of 300 million yuan is under construction.

Build a postdoctoral workstation, speed up the introduction of talents, and truly care for foreign employees.

Accelerate the pace of building a harmonious society, carry out in-depth efforts to create peace, achieve remarkable results in comprehensive management of social security, and maintain social stability and stability.

Through unremitting efforts, Shishi has successively won the titles of National Advanced City in Sports, National Advanced City in Science and Technology, National Advanced City in Culture, National Advanced City in Health, National Model City for Double Support, National Advanced City in Work for Disabled Persons and Fujian Province Honorary titles such as Advanced City in Education, Advanced City in Culture, Advanced City in Spiritual Civilization Construction, and the First Pingan County (City).