Please tell me something about Xuzhou.

Xuzhou, known as Pengcheng in ancient times, is a famous historical and cultural city in China. Located in the northwest of Jiangsu Province, bordering Shandong Province in the north, Anhui Province in the west and Lianyungang City in the east, it is brightly lit. Xuzhou is connected to Suqian in the south. It is one of Kyushu in China. Located in the transitional zone between north and south, it is the key to the north and the gateway to the south. It has always been a battleground for military strategists and a gathering place for merchants. With a long culture, it is a famous hometown of emperors, and there is a saying that "nine emperors leave Xuzhou". It is an important transportation and railway hub, energy base and industrial base in China.

Xuzhou is the largest city in northern Jiangsu and the second largest city in Jiangsu. In 2008, the resident population of Xuzhou was 9,409,500, and the population of municipal districts was 1.84 million. Area: the total area of the city 1 1258 square kilometers, of which the urban area 1 180 square kilometers.

Jiangsu Province is the core city of three metropolises and one of the four mega-cities. It is also one of the five central cities in China section of the New Eurasian Continental Bridge and the central city of Huaihai Economic Zone. Now it is a mega-city with a population of one million at the eastern end of the Second Eurasian Continental Bridge. Xuzhou is known as the thoroughfare of five provinces. Beijing-shanghai railway and Longhai Railway meet here, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal runs through the north and south of Xuzhou and faces Weishan Lake in the north. Roads extend in all directions, connecting Beijing and Tianjin in the north, Shanghai and Nanjing in the south, Lan Xin in the west and the seashore in the east. It is an important land and water transportation hub in China and an important "crossroads" for economic ties between east, west and north.

The world's largest research and development base for solar polysilicon production.

The largest R&D base for construction machinery production in China.

China's largest special engineering automobile production base.

China's largest national new energy industry base.

China's largest motorcycle tricycle production base.

China's largest battery car production base.

China Sida Plate Processing Export Base

The largest electrolytic aluminum production base in East China.

China zui soybean dairy products base

The largest efficient agricultural base in Jiangsu.

The largest Sushi scenic spot in China.

Asia's largest freshwater aquarium

Xuzhou is an energy city in Jiangsu, an important coal producing area in China and an electric power base in East China. It has more than 30 kinds of minerals such as coal, well salt, iron, titanium, marble and limestone, with large reserves and high grade. The proven reserves of coal are more than 3.9 billion tons, the predicted reserves are 6.9 billion tons, and the annual output is more than 25 million tons; Well salt reserves are 22 billion tons, with high grade, and the resource conditions for developing coal chemical industry and salt chemical industry are very superior; The annual production capacity of gypsum is 5 million tons, ranking first in East China. There is Datun Coal and Electricity (Group) Co., Ltd., a large state-owned enterprise affiliated to China China Coal Group Corporation. ..

Xuzhou is also a national grain and cotton production base, a production and processing export base of high-quality agricultural and sideline products, a demonstration area of straw raising livestock, a demonstration area of forestry science and technology development, and one of the five major vegetable producing areas. It is the hometown of ginkgo and apple in China, and one of the four plywood processing bases in China, with rich agricultural and sideline products resources.

According to the China City Competitiveness Report issued by China Academy of Social Sciences, in 2006, Xuzhou ranked 42nd among 200 cities in China and was in a leading position among cities in northern Jiangsu. The report also shows that Xuzhou ranks high in terms of "cultural competitiveness", "regional competitiveness" and "environmental competitiveness", among which cultural competitiveness ranks 10 in the whole country. Experts pointed out that Xuzhou's competitiveness has steadily improved, showing great development potential.

Xuzhou has obvious geographical advantages, rich resources, strong industrial base, strong scientific and educational strength, excellent investment environment and vigorous economic and social development. In the regional economic structure of China, Xuzhou is at the junction of the eastern coastal development, the rise of central China and the western development. It is the junction of the Yangtze River Delta and Bohai Bay, and has obvious regional strategic characteristics of moving eastward and westward, connecting north and south, two-way opening and gradient advancement. At the same time, Xuzhou is also a key area for the development and construction of the East Longhai Line industrial belt in Jiangsu Province. Jiangsu Province regards the construction of the East Longhai Line Industrial Belt as a major strategy for the development of Jiangsu's regional economy, and is taking a series of effective measures to accelerate it, striving to build the East Longhai Line Industrial Belt into a new growth pole of Jiangsu's regional economy, and turn Xuzhou into an economic development "vibrant city" with strategic advantages of connecting the east with the west and connecting the north with the south. In 2008, Xuzhou achieved a GDP of 200.736 billion yuan, an increase of 13.5%, and a per capita GDP of 23,069 yuan. In the ranking of comprehensive competitiveness of mainland cities published by China Academy of Social Sciences, Xuzhou ranked 33rd, up 17 places from 2003. Together with Beijing, Shenyang and other 15 cities, Xuzhou was rated as a city with a steady improvement in comprehensive competitiveness.

Xuzhou's industry has basically formed four pillar industries: machinery, building materials, chemicals and food; new medicine, electronic information and environmental protection equipment are emerging industries; traditional industries such as coal, electricity, building materials, textiles and metallurgy have accelerated their development, forming a distinctive industrial system. Three enterprises rank among the top 500 in China, 10 enterprises rank among the top 100 enterprises in the same industry in China, and the output of more than 50 products ranks first in China or Jiangsu Province. Xuzhou's traditional service industry started earlier and has a solid foundation. The modern service industry has a sound format and a high level. Well-known businesses at home and abroad, such as Jindi Shangdu, Wal-Mart, Carrefour, Golden Eagle International, Central Department Store and Wangfujing Department Store, have settled in one after another, forming a "business center circle" with the largest scale, the most comprehensive categories and the highest grade in Huaihai Economic Zone.

Xuzhou has a warm temperate and semi-humid monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, no heat in summer and no cold in winter. Annual temperature 14℃, annual sunshine hours 2284-2495 hours, sunshine rate 52%-57%, annual frost-free period 200-220 days, annual precipitation 800-930 mm, and rainy season precipitation accounts for 56% of the whole year. Excellent climatic resources are conducive to crop growth. The main meteorological disasters are drought, flood, wind, frost, freezing and hail. The climate is characterized by four distinct seasons, abundant sunshine, moderate rainfall and both rain and heat. Among the four seasons, spring and autumn are short, winter and summer are long, the weather in spring is changeable, summer is hot and rainy, autumn is crisp, and cold waves frequently strike in winter.

There are many specialties in Xuzhou, such as steamed stuffed bun, tortoise shell, osmanthus hawthorn cake, children's crisp candy, dried moss, Fengxian apple, Peixian winter peach, Yangfang Tibetan fish, Peixian dog meat, Pizhou ginkgo and so on. Handicrafts include straw weaving, paper cutting, clay figurine, cloth art, etc.

Xuzhou people are not quite like southerners in character. They are straightforward, straightforward, cheerful, warm and generous, and tend to be northerners. In the official language, they are called "sentient beings with righteousness". The consumption level of Xuzhou is relatively low in Jiangsu and ahead in northern Jiangsu, but it does not mean that Xuzhou people have no consumption power. For example, Golden Eagle is very good in Xuzhou, which shows that Xuzhou people also have certain consumer demand.