Jurong city, located in the southwest of Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, has a history of more than 2,000 years since the Western Han Dynasty. It is a Jiangnan city with a long history and profound cultural heritage. The main historical site is the first Buddhist mountain in China, namely, Baoshan Mountain.

Jurong is located in the Yangtze River Economic Development Zone, with Zhenjiang in the east, Nanjing in the west, and the ancient city of Yangzhou across the river in the northeast, 200 kilometers away from Shanghai.

The total area of the city is 1387 square kilometers, with 720,000 mu of cultivated land and a total population of 578,200 at the end of 2008.

It governs 10 towns, 1 provincial development zones, 3 development zones, 1 sub-district offices, 20 key township industrial parks, and 15 state-owned agricultural and forestry farms.

Jurong city scenery (17) has a long history and culture, and there are many places of interest.

Jurong was established in the first year of the Western Han Dynasty (BC 128), with a history of more than 2,000 years (1995 was approved by the State Council to withdraw from the county and set up a city).

With mild climate, beautiful landscapes, rich cultural heritage and numerous places of interest, it is an excellent tourist city in China, an advanced city in science and technology, a national health city, a health city in Jiangsu Province, a model city with double support and an advanced city in cultural work in Jiangsu Province.

Maoshan, a famous Taoist shrine, is located in the southeast of the city.

The mountains are steep and the caves are amazing. Known as the "first blessed land and eighth cave" of Taoism, it enjoys a high reputation in Southeast Asia. It is a historical scenic spot in the south of the Yangtze River, a first-class scenic spot in Jiangsu Province and a national AAAA scenic spot.

In the northwest of the city, there is the first famous Buddhist mountain in China, namely, Baoshan Mountain.

Its "the beauty of foothills, the beauty of peaks and valleys, the depth of caves and valleys, and the victory of clouds" are known as the four wonders.

The unique natural landscape and human landscape provide unique conditions for Jurong to develop tourism.

The location advantage is obvious, the infrastructure is perfect, and the three-dimensional traffic pattern of water, land and air has been formed.

Waterway: The Yangtze River flows through the north of Jurong from east to west, with an annual throughput of 6,543,800 tons (Jurong Port Authority is located in the Inland River Avenue River near Zhenjiang at Qiaotou, connected with the deep water section of the Yangtze River, and undertakes the loading and unloading of coal, cement, sand and other building materials). Jurong is also close to Zhenjiang Port and Nanjing Port, both of which are international Yangtze River ports.

Land: Shanghai-Nanjing Railway runs through the territory (including Shanghai-Nanjing high-speed railway and Shanghai-Nanjing intercity railway project running through the northern end of Jurong, and Ning Hang intercity railway running through Guo Zhuang in the west of Jurong), and Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, 3 12 National Highway and Ning Hang National Highway run through the east, west, north and south.

Aviation: It is only 29 kilometers west of Nanjing Lukou International Airport and 2.5 hours east of Shanghai Hongqiao Airport.

Jurong electric power industry has developed rapidly. There are 29 substations with a transformation capacity of 599,000 KVA, a maximum load of 65,438+10,000 kilowatts, and an annual electricity consumption of 526 million kwh in 2006,5438+0, initially forming a safe, economical and flexible power supply network.

At present, the daily water supply capacity is 654.38+10,000 tons, providing water all day.

Jurong has become a telephone city in Jiangsu province, with advanced program-controlled telephone network equipment.

Urban planning and infrastructure construction have begun to take shape, and the scope of urban planning has expanded to 36 square kilometers.

The framework of a modern European medium-sized city has taken shape.

The economy is booming and the momentum of opening up is strong.

Since the reform and opening up, great changes have taken place in sentence capacity and remarkable achievements have been made.

In 2008, the regional GDP reached1.841.70 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of1.5%; The total fiscal revenue was 2 1 100 million yuan, up 35.1%year-on-year; The investment in fixed assets of the whole society was 8.755 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25.6%; The total retail sales of social consumer goods was 4.5/kloc-0.40 billion yuan, up/kloc-0.7% year-on-year.

Jurong ranks among the top 100 counties (cities) with comprehensive strength in China.

Jurong is also one of the earliest open areas in China.

Open economy and individual and private economy developed rapidly.

According to statistics, by the end of 2006, 389 foreign-funded enterprises had been approved to settle in over the years, with the agreed utilization of foreign capital of/kloc-0.032 million US dollars and the actual utilization of foreign capital of 432 million US dollars.

Jurong adheres to the coordinated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, the sustainable development of economy, society and environment, and the steady improvement of agricultural production. The total grain output in the whole year was stable at 400,000 tons, forming a number of agricultural and sideline products bases such as tea, strawberries, flowers, peaches, grapes, figs, Maoshan goose and so on.

The industrial economy is running well, and most enterprises in the city have successfully reorganized, with a reorganization rate of 98%.

The structural adjustment of traditional pillar industries such as building materials, chemicals, machinery and textiles has been gradually deepened and standardized, and new breakthroughs have been made in scale expansion, advantage gathering and benefit growth.

Emerging industries such as bicycles, microelectronics and new materials are developing vigorously, and the export of handicrafts in characteristic industries accounts for a large proportion of the country.

The products are extremely rich and have broad development prospects.

There are more than 20 kinds of proven mineral deposits in Jurong.

Metal minerals mainly include molybdenum, copper, gold, silver, iron, aluminum, zinc, etc. Non-metallic minerals mainly include sulfur, phosphorus, marble, limestone, bentonite, andalusite, etc.

The deposits are widely distributed, with large reserves and easy exploitation, with the characteristics of less investment and quick results.

The land area of the city is 1 1 10,000 mu, and the water area is 300,000 mu.

There are 67 large and small reservoirs, which can comprehensively utilize irrigation and drainage and fish farming.

By the end of last year, there were 400,000 mu of forest and 800,000 cubic meters of wood.

Timber forests include firs, pines, jackals, etc. There are more than 270 kinds of economic forests such as tung tree, chestnut, plum, grape, persimmon and peach. It is a key city of forestry production in Jiangsu Province.

Jurong is located in the south of Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou, and its dialect is chaotic, which has its historical war and geographical reasons.

There are many Wu words in the dialects around Ningzhen Mountain, Dongxiang is similar to Danyang dialect, and Nanxiang has formed a unique "dialect island" due to the migration of residents from Henan and Hubei, similar to Liyang and Jintan.

The dialects of residents in Xixiang and Northwest China are similar to those in Nanjing Mandarin, while the modern young people in jurong city speak Jianghuai Mandarin, but they have retained a lot of Wu dialect.