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Introduction to Shiyan

Shiyan City is located in the northwest of Hubei Province. It has jurisdiction over five counties, one city, two districts and one economic and technological development zone, namely Yun County, Yunxi County, Zhushan County, Zhuxi County, Fang County, Zhangwan District, Maojian District, Danjiangkou City and Bailang Economic and Technological Development Zone. The city has a total land area of ??23,600 square kilometers and a total population of 3.46 million. Shiyan City is not only a car city built, prospered and famous for cars, but also a mountain city and tourist city surrounded by beautiful mountains and beautiful waters with charming scenery in all seasons. It is the central city in the adjacent areas of Hubei, Henan, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Chongqing.

Shiyan City has a long history and splendid culture. This is the important birthplace of the Chinese nation. In 1991, archaeologists excavated two complete Australopithecus skull fossils on the banks of the Quyuan River in Yunxian County and named them "Yunxian Man". Anthropologists believe that this discovery has filled a missing link in the "chain" of human development in Asia, and was ranked first among the "Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in the World" that year. Shiyan City belonged to the states of Jiao and Yong during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties; it belonged to the Chu State during the Warring States Period; it belonged to Changli County, Hanzhong County during the Qin and Han Dynasties; it belonged to Xixian County during the Eastern Han and Wei Dynasties; it belonged to Yunxiang County, Wudang County during the Tang and Song Dynasty; Yun County was established. The current urban area was named Shiyan in the Qing Dynasty because people built ten dams on the Baier River and the Jianhe River for irrigation. In 1967, the state established the Yun County Shiyan Office in order to build the Second Automobile Manufacturing Plant (now Dongfeng Motor Corporation). In December 1969, Shiyan City (county-level city) was established with the approval of the State Council. In 1973, it was upgraded to a provincial city. In October 1994, the original Shiyan City and Yunyang District merged to form a new Shiyan City. This is the birthplace of Taoism and "Wudang Quan". Wudang Taoism has a history of thousands of years. The ancient architectural complex of Wudang Mountain is included in the World Cultural Heritage List by the United Nations.

Shiyan is a resource-rich city. The country is rich in mineral resources, with proven mineral deposits including turquoise, gold, silver, stone coal, rare earths, iron and tin, vanadium, antimony, lead, zinc, marble, asbestos, barite, uranium, potassium, molybdenum, and cobalt. There are more than 50 kinds, with a potential value of more than 400 billion yuan. It is rich in water resources, with an average annual flow rate of 10 billion m2, a transit passenger water of 28 billion m2, and a theoretical water energy resource reserve of 5 million kW, of which 340 kW is available for development and utilization. It is famous for forest resources, such as tea and edible fungi. With rich output and high quality, Fangxian County is known as the "Hometown of Yan'er" in the country; there are many types of medicinal resources, with more than 2,700 types of medicinal materials produced in China, and our city accounts for about 235 of the 363 key varieties identified by the state. , accounting for 65% of the total, is known as the "natural medicine storehouse"; it is also endowed with unique tourism resources. Shiyan is a shining pearl on the Three Gorges-Shennongjia-Wudang Mountain-Xi'an golden tourist route, with six categories of 25 There are various scenic spots with unique characteristics throughout the city, including the Taoist holy land Wudang Mountain, the ape-man ruins and dinosaur egg fossils in Yunxian County, which are sensational at home and abroad, the Danjiangkou Reservoir, the largest artificial lake in Asia, and the newly discovered bird's feet. Dinosaur-like skeleton fossils.

Shiyan is another emerging modern automobile city and the location of the headquarters of Dongfeng Motor Group. Dongfeng Motor Corporation ranks among the world's three largest truck manufacturers and has established trade relations with more than 200 manufacturers in more than 30 countries and regions around the world. There are more than 200 local industrial enterprises supporting Dongfeng Motor Company in the city, which has strong comprehensive supporting capabilities.

Shiyan City has a good investment environment. In recent years, urban infrastructure construction has advanced by leaps and bounds, and service functions have been continuously improved. At present, more than 20 streets have been built in Shiyan urban area, and the road greening rate has reached 62%. Culture, education, health, sports, science and education and other facilities are complete and fully functional. Transportation and communication are convenient. The Xiangyu Railway runs from east to west, with 13 pairs of passenger trains passing through every day, and can directly reach Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi'an and other places. National Highways 209 and 316 intersect in Shiyan, extending in all directions. The Han River is a golden waterway that can be transported from the Yangtze River to the sea (Shanghai). Laohekou and Xiangfan airports are adjacent to our city, and flights can directly fly to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other large and medium-sized cities. With the increase in train speed, the construction of the (Wu) Han-Shiyan (Yan) first-class automobile highway and Shiyan Airport, traffic conditions will be further improved. Shiyan Post and Telecommunications has realized optical fiber transmission and long-distance automation, and can make direct calls to 160 countries and regions. Shiyan has two large-scale water plants, including Danjiangkou Hydropower Station, Huanglongtan Hydropower Station, Shiyan Thermal Power Plant, Dongfeng Motor Corporation Thermal Power Plant and many other large and medium-sized power plants. The city's comprehensive supporting service capabilities of water supply, power supply, gas supply, heating and other facilities rank at the domestic advanced level. .

In the more than 30 years since Shiyan was founded as a city, especially in the past 20 years of reform and opening up, Shiyan has achieved fruitful results in the construction of two civilizations, developing from a poor town into a regional city with a certain scale and economic strength. central city. The city has achieved fruitful results in the construction of spiritual civilization. Since the 1990s, it has won the first place in the comprehensive evaluation of the civilized city competition in eight cities under the jurisdiction of Hubei Province, the National Sanitary City, the National Double Support Model City, the National Advanced City in Landscaping and Greening, and the Top Ten Greening Cities in the Country. National Garden City and other glorious titles. Opening up to the outside world continues to increase. Currently, there are more than 60 foreign-funded enterprises in the urban area alone, with agreements to introduce hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign investment.

The city has 56 kinds of commodities such as automobiles, tires, textile products, and local specialties exported to 55 countries and regions in the world. In order to adapt to the requirements of all-round opening up to the outside world and further develop the export-oriented economy, the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government revised and promulgated the "Several Provisions on Further Opening Up to the Outside World and Encouraging Foreign Investment", which covers the fields of investment, tax collection, land acquisition, labor Very favorable policies have been formulated in terms of employment and service provision.