General situation of Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province
Zhongshan is one of China's coastal open cities. In recent years, the strategy of "strengthening the city through industry" has been vigorously promoted, and high-tech industrial parks such as national packaging and printing base, national health science and technology industrial base, electronic information industrial base and private science and technology park have been built successively, basically forming a diversified product structure with high-tech industries as the leader and high-quality products as the fist, including Robust Beverage, Yale Guli Door Lock, Kaida Fine Chemicals, Vantage gas appliance and Jiahua Electronics. Xiaolan Hardware, Guzhen Lighting, Shaxi Leisure Clothing, Dayong Mahogany Furniture, Nantou Air Conditioning, Huangpu Food and other regional characteristic economies are booming, and their products occupy a large market share in the country. The global top 5 companies have set up more than 2 enterprises in Zhongshan. In 23, the city achieved a GDP of 5.14 billion yuan and a total industrial output value of 154.429 billion yuan.
the investment environment in Zhongshan is attractive. The city's existing highway mileage is 167 kilometers, forming a highway network extending in all directions with national highways, trunk highways and Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway as the skeleton; Within a radius of 9 kilometers, there are five airports including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Macau. Railway transportation reaches all parts of the country through Guangzhou. At present, with the opening of Shenwan Port, Zhongshan has formed a "pin"-shaped terminal layout with zhongshan port in the east, Shenwan Port in the south and Xiaolan Port in the north. Among them, the annual container throughput of zhongshan port ranks among the top 1 in China and the top 1 in the world. The voyage from zhongshan port to Hongkong takes only 75 minutes. Zhongshan has sufficient water supply and power supply, and initially built a broadband high-speed and large-capacity information network with the urban area as the hub, which runs through towns and large and medium-sized enterprises, forming the "Zhongshan Information Expressway".
Zhongshan is the hometown of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the forerunner of China's great democratic revolution. It is located in the south-central part of the Pearl River Delta, on the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary, with Guangzhou in the north and Zhuhai in the south, and adjacent to Macau. There are 24 towns and 5 districts in the city, and there is a national high-tech industrial development zone. No.1 Songyuan Road, the eastern district where the municipal government is located. Zhongshan is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese, with more than 8, overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. He lived in 87 countries and regions on five continents.
Zhongshan was called Xiangshan in ancient times. It belonged to Panyu County in the Han Dynasty, Dongguan County in the Jin Dynasty and Dongguan County in the Tang Dynasty. In the 22nd year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1152), Xiangshan County was established, and it was subordinate to Guangzhou. After the Republic of China, it was directly under Guangdong Province. Cuiheng Village in Xiangshan County was the hometown of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. With the approval of the State Council, Zhongshan County was changed to Zhongshan City (county level). In January 1988, it was upgraded to a prefecture-level city with the approval of the State Council.
The geological structure system of Zhongshan City belongs to the central Guangdong depression with folded bundles in South China. The terrain is mainly plain, with high terrain in the middle and flat surroundings. The plain area inclines from northwest to southeast. The mountains such as Wugui Mountain and Zhusongling stand in the south-central part, and the main peak of Wugui Mountain is 531 meters above sea level, which is the highest peak in the city. The whole territory is in the south of the Tropic of Cancer, which belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate. The climate is characterized by sufficient light and heat, abundant rainfall and distinct dryness and wetness. The annual average is 21.8℃. The summer monsoon brings a lot of water vapor, which becomes the main source of precipitation. The disastrous weather affecting the city includes typhoon, frost, low temperature and rainy weather, cold dew wind and heavy rain. The representative type of vegetation is tropical monsoon forest-type evergreen monsoon forest, with more than 61 main types of vegetation. The forest coverage rate is 12.95%.
The main tourist attractions are Sun Yat-sen's former residence, Sun Wen Memorial Park, Zhongshan City, the shooting base of CCTV, Sun Wen West Road Cultural Tourism Pedestrian Street, sun yat-sen memorial hall, Zhongshan Hot Spring, Quanlin Mountain Villa, Maritime Manor, Lingnan Water Town, Zimaling Park, Fufeng Wenta, Xiaoyao Valley, etc., among which "Sun Yat-sen's former residence" is a national 4A-level tourist attraction.
22. There are 434, households. The population of Han nationality is 2,31,8, accounting for 97.39%, and the population of ethnic minorities is 61,7, accounting for 2.61%. The population living in cities and towns is 1,434,1, accounting for 6.67% of the total population. The language situation in Zhongshan City is rather complicated, mainly using Chinese dialects, including Cantonese dialects, Min dialects and Hakka dialects. Among them, Cantonese dialects are the most widely used. Shatian dialect (near Shunde dialect), Sanjiao dialect (near Dongguan dialect) and Guzhen dialect (near new conversation).
Zhongshan is rich in folk arts, including Zhongshan folk songs, dancing dragons, lions and phoenixes, floating colors in Huangpu, etc. Zhongshan is the hometown of folk songs, and popular folk songs include salty water songs, sorghum songs, big songs, Hakka folk songs, crane songs and ancient sisters songs. Popular in Shatian District such as tanzhou town.
Since the reform and opening up, Zhongshan's economic and social undertakings have developed rapidly and healthily, and its infrastructure has been improved day by day, with developed land and water transportation. In 22, the urbanization level reached 57%. The total mileage of highways in the city was 1,153 kilometers, and the National Highway 15, Guangzhou-Zhuhai Highway and Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway run through the whole territory. There are 3 foreign trade ports and 11 export departure points in the city, and it takes only 75 minutes to travel from zhongshan port to Hong Kong by sea. Within 1.5 hours' drive, it can reach the five international airports of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Macau. In recent years, Zhongshan has successively won the titles of "National Sanitary City", "National Garden City", "National Advanced City for Revitalizing the City with Science and Technology", "National Environmental Protection Model City", "China Excellent Tourism City" and "National Model City for Smooth Engineering". In 1997, it won the "World Habitat Award" issued by the United Nations. In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was called Xianyu, which belonged to Baidi and belonged to the tribe with the surname of Zi, but some people thought it was Ji. In Zuo Zhuan, there are many records about the fresh danger of Jin cutting. The name of Zhongshan first appeared in Zuozhuan for four years. During the Warring States Period, Zhongshan was in Lingshou, Pingshan and Jinxian areas of the Hutuo River basin. In 414 BC, the Duke Wu of Zhongshan was founded in Gu (now Jinzhou, Hebei). In the thirty-eighth year of Wei Wenhou (48 B.C.), Wei cut Zhongshan and sent his son to attack it. "Historical Records" said that Zhongshan later revived the country. The forefathers may think that Sun Yat-sen was wei ren after the restoration of the country, but according to bronze inscriptions, Sun Yat-sen was indeed a descendant of Wu Gong in the late Warring States period. During the Warring States Period, Zhongshan and Song were both powerful countries after the Seven Heroes. According to Historical Records, Zhongshan built the Great Wall, and Sun Yat-sen was appointed by the King of Zhou. In 323 BC, Sun Yat-sen was crowned king with Korea, Yan and other countries. Because of its proximity to Zhao, Zhongshan became Zhao's confidant. In 314 BC, Qi Xuanwang took advantage of the Swallow Rebellion to attack Yan, and Zhongshan also sent troops to seize a large area of land. From 37 BC, King Wuling of Zhao attacked Zhongshan year after year, which weakened Zhongshan. In 31 BC, Zhongshan Jun was threatened by Zhao and rushed to Qi. In the fourth year of King Huiwen of Zhao (295 BC), Zhao took advantage of Qi's attack on Chu in the south and wiped out Zhongshan in one fell swoop. After the restoration of Zhongshan, he passed on to V and died. Few historical materials of Zhongshan have been handed down, only in books such as Warring States Policy and Lu Chunqiu. In Qing Dynasty, Wang Xianqian compiled these historical materials into a State Table of Xianyu Zhongshan.