Overview of Zhanjiang City

Zhanjiang City is located at the southernmost tip of mainland China and the Leizhou Peninsula in the southwest of Guangdong Province. It is located at the intersection of the three provinces (districts) of Guangdong, Guangxi and Qiongzhou. The city covers an area of ??13,000 square kilometers and has a total population of 7.13 million, of which the urban population is 1.43 million and covers an area of ??1,460 square kilometers. In 1983, it became a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of the province. It currently governs three cities, two counties and four districts. It has one national-level economic and technological development zone and five provincial-level economic development pilot zones. Zhanjiang is one of the first coastal cities in my country to open to the outside world, a national first-class city, one of the top 50 cities in the country in terms of comprehensive strength, and one of the 40 cities in the country with excellent investment hard environment. Since 1999, it has won the honorary titles of "National Model City of Double Support", "National Greening Standard City", "Guangdong Province Sanitary City", "China's Excellent Tourism City" and other honorary titles.

Zhanjiang is rich in resources. One is port resources. Port resources are Zhanjiang's most important advantageous resources. It has many harbors and has excellent port construction conditions. The city now has 22 transportation port terminals, with a total of 174 large and small berths, and an annual throughput capacity of more than 40 million tons. It has formed a port group with Zhanjiang Port as the main port and small and medium-sized ports around the Leizhou Peninsula supporting each other. Zhanjiang Port is famous for being "big, high-quality and deep". The inner coastline of the port is 241 kilometers, four times that of Rotterdam Port, the world's largest port. The harbor area is 2,400 square kilometers, and 97 kilometers of deep-water terminal coastline can be built. The water depth of 6.5 kilometers from Weilu to Longteng in the East China Sea is 26-40 meters, and it is possible to build waterways with a capacity of more than 300,000 tons and fifth and sixth generation container terminals. Zhanjiang Port is now the largest port in western Guangdong and the Beibu Gulf region. It has the country's first 300,000-ton oil terminal, a 150,000-ton modern iron ore terminal and the deepest channel in South China. It can enter and exit by tide with more than 150,000 tons. ship. Zhanjiang Port is currently excavating a 300,000-ton channel. After the project is completed, ships with a capacity of 300,000 tons or more will be able to enter and exit. According to the Zhanjiang Port master plan approved by the Ministry of Transport and the Guangdong Provincial Government, Zhanjiang Port will invest nearly 5 billion yuan in large-scale project construction in the next few years. By 2008, the annual cargo throughput of Zhanjiang Port will drop from the current 3,500. The capacity jumped from 10,000 tons to 70 million tons, which is equivalent to creating another Zhanjiang Port; it reached 100 million tons in 2010 and 130 million tons in 2020, making it a truly southern port. The second is marine resources. Zhanjiang is rich in marine resources. It faces the sea on three sides and has 30 islands. The coastline is 1,556 kilometers long, accounting for 46% of the coastline of Guangdong Province. The coastline per capita is equivalent to that of major maritime countries. The Zhanjiang coastal zone has three major characteristics: tropicality, diversity and exuberance. It is rich in marine organisms and mineral resources, and has a variety of marine aquatic products. The marine industry, which is dominated by marine transportation, marine oil and gas industry, marine aquaculture processing industry, shipbuilding industry, and coastal tourism, has reached considerable scale. The city's coastal beach area is 1.486 million acres, and the shallow sea area is 8.36 million acres. There are 520 species of fish resources with economic value, 547 species of shellfish, and 28 species of shrimp. The output of aquatic products has ranked first in Guangdong Province for many years, with marine pearl production accounting for 2/3 of the country's total and shrimp production accounting for approximately 40% of Guangdong Province's. Xiashan Aquatic Products Wholesale Market is one of the largest aquatic products wholesale markets in the country. Shrimp from Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other provinces are gathered in Zhanjiang for trading. The annual shrimp trading volume accounts for nearly two-thirds of the country's total shrimp production, with a turnover of more than 60 billion. The salt field area is 4,035 hectares, with a raw salt production capacity of 150,000 tons, accounting for more than 50% of the province's total. There are 6,000 hectares of salt fields to be developed. The third is agricultural resources. Zhanjiang is a major agricultural city with abundant agricultural, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry products with south subtropical characteristics. It is one of the four major sugar cane bases in the country, the largest eucalyptus, sisal production base and mangrove base in the country; it is the famous hometown of pineapples, mangoes and red oranges in my country. The area, output and output value of foreign vegetables are ranked among the top five in the country. The first place in the Southern Food and Northern Transportation Base. The city currently has 21 agricultural commodity bases in five categories, including hot crops, fruits, aquatic products, animal husbandry, and forestry. It has become an important agricultural commodity base in Guangdong Province and even the country for sisal, rubber, sugar cane, foreign vegetables, bananas, mangoes, red oranges, eucalyptus, Grain-saving animal husbandry base. The fourth is mineral resources. At present, 33 kinds of mineral resources have been discovered, and there are 155 minerals with mining value, including 5 large mines and 23 medium-sized mines. The bulk ones include more than 5.5 billion tons of limestone, more than 30 million tons of dolomite, and 7.7 million tons of quartz stone. The reserves and quality of non-metallic minerals kaolin, diatomite, bentonite and peat soil rank among the top in the province.

Among them, kaolin has high grade, large reserves and broad development prospects. The total flow of mineral water is 4,000 cubic meters per day, and the underground hot springs are abundant and can be planned for development and utilization. Fifth, oil and gas resources. The northern continental shelf basin of the South China Sea is rich in oil and gas resources and is one of the four major marine oil and gas accumulation centers in the world. Oil resources are predicted to reach 14.5 billion tons and natural gas resources are 13.2 trillion cubic meters. This area contains Ya 13-1, the largest offshore gas field in China, with reserves of 100 billion cubic meters. CNOOC Nanhai West Company, which supplies gas to Hong Kong, is located in Zhanjiang. Sixth, tourism resources. Blue coastal tourism and marine tourism resources, green ecological and agricultural tourism resources, red earth customs and historical and cultural resources constitute the three major tourism characteristics of "blue, green and red" and weave the colorful Zhanjiang. At present, two provincial-level tourist resorts, Donghai Island and Jizhao Bay, and municipal-level tourist resorts such as Nansan Island, Wuyang Golden Coast, and Xuwen Baisha Bay have been developed. Huguangyan, one of the two "Maar Lakes" in the world, is a famous scenic spot in Guangdong Province and has been rated as a National Geopark. Zhanjiang Mangrove National Nature Reserve is the largest and most diverse mangrove reserve in mainland my country, covering an area of ??300,000 acres. Xuwen County has the only best-preserved and largest natural coral breeding area in mainland my country's offshore waters. There are also Leizhou City, a national historical and cultural city with many monuments, the South Subtropical Botanical Garden with many rare plants, and the Hedi Reservoir, the largest "man-made sea" in Guangdong, which has great potential for tourism development.

Seventh is scientific and technological talent resources. Zhanjiang has three full-time universities, including Zhanjiang Ocean University, Guangdong Medical College, and Zhanjiang Normal University. The number of universities in Zhanjiang is second only to Guangzhou in the province. At the same time, it has more than 90,000 professional and technical personnel of various types, 48 ??scientific research and development institutions, 5 engineering technology research and development centers, and 2 technology pilot bases.

Zhanjiang has convenient transportation. Zhanjiang Port is a national main hub port, an important hub of the comprehensive transportation system, and a main hub port for container domestic trade transportation in South China. It has navigation connections with more than 100 countries and regions. Recently, it has also opened logistics channels from Zhanjiang to Macau and logistics channels from Zhanjiang to Shenzhen. Express line; the railways include the Li-Zhan Line, the Sanmao Line and the Guangdong-Hai Railway, which are connected to the national railway trunk lines. The construction of the Luo (Yang) Zhan (Jiang) railway channel is currently being accelerated. Zhanjiang is connected with Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Direct passenger trains have been launched in Nanjing, Guiyang, Kunming and other cities; national highways 207 and 325 run through it, the Zhanmao Expressway has been opened, and the Guangzhan and Yuzhan expressways will intersect at Leizhou Peninsula. Zhanjiang Civil Aviation Airport has opened 31 routes including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Changsha and Hong Kong. The developed three-dimensional transportation network of sea, land and air gives Zhanjiang favorable conditions for the large flow of people and logistics. Zhanjiang has begun to take shape as a commodity, trade, labor and information center in western Guangdong, my country's southwest and the Beibu Gulf region, and has become the main sea channel in the southwest. 30% of provinces (cities) such as Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing - 50% of goods enter and exit through Zhanjiang Port.