First, the frontier is offshore and has a unique position. Yanbian is located at the junction of China, Russia and North Korea, bordering Russia's Primorsky Territory in the east and facing North Korea's Hamgyong Road and Liangjiang Road across Tumen River in the south, with a total length of 768.5 kilometers. Among them, the border between China and North Korea is 522.5 kilometers, and the border between China and Russia is 246 kilometers. Yanbian is close to the Sea of Japan, and Tumen River is the only waterway leading to the Sea of Japan in China. Hunchun Fangcheng, the easternmost part of Yanbian, is only 15km away from the Sea of Japan. There are 10 excellent ports in Russia, North Korea and other countries with Hunchun as the core and less than 200 kilometers around the straight line. Yanbian has 12 ports open to the outside world, with an annual cargo throughput of 665,438+million tons and a passenger throughput of 2.9 million passengers. After years of construction, Yanbian has initially formed a three-dimensional transportation network with highway, railway, aviation and maritime transportation connecting with each other and communicating with the outside world. Important traffic trunk lines such as Changhui Expressway, Changtu Railway and Northeast East Railway Passage run through the east and west, connecting the north and the south. Eight counties and cities in the state are connected by high-grade highways and connected with Russia and North Korea by railways and highways. Construction of the Jilin-Hunchun Railway Passenger Dedicated Line connecting the provincial capital cities has started, and a passenger dedicated line has been opened from Changchun to Vladivostok via Hunchun. In terms of shipping, the shipping route from Hunchun to Busan, South Korea via Luojin, North Korea was opened, and the combined shipping route from Hunchun to zarubino, Niigata and sokcho, South Korea was successfully tried. The cross-border transportation channel for domestic goods from Hunchun to the southeast coast of China via Luojin, North Korea was approved. In aviation, Yanji Airport has opened many domestic routes such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and international routes to Seoul and Cheongju, South Korea, successfully connecting the air routes from Seoul to Japan. The civil aviation departments of China and Russia have approved the route from Yanji to Vladivostok.
Second, rich products and resources. Yanbian is located at the northern foot of the world-famous Changbai Mountain. There are 367 kinds of wild animals and more than 2,460 kinds of wild plants, including more than 800 kinds of medicinal plants, which are rich in ginseng, velvet antler and mink, and are known as the "three treasures of Northeast China". Among them, the output of ginseng antler ranks first in the world. Yanbian has a ginseng (garden ginseng) reserve area of 6,300 hectares, with an annual output of 65,438+200,000 tons of fresh ginseng, accounting for more than half of Jilin Province. In addition, rice, cattle, edible fungi, tobacco leaves, bees, Schisandra chinensis, apples and pears are famous at home and abroad. Apple pear covers an area of 4,700 hectares and is the largest apple pear production base in Asia. In February 2002, Yanbian apples and pears were protected by national geographical indication products. There are 487 rivers in Yanbian, with hydropower reserves of 1, 4 1, 000 kilowatts. Among them, mineral water resources are one of the few concentrated distribution areas of drinking natural mineral water in China, and its quality has been recognized as the world's top mineral water by international authorities. Along with the European Alps and Russia's Caucasus Mountains, it ranks as the world's three major mineral water producing areas. The sunrise water in Erdaobaihe area alone reaches 6.5438+0.2 million cubic meters, which has great development potential. There are more than 90 kinds of metallic and nonmetallic minerals in this state, and there are huge reserves of coal, oil shale, limestone, gold, iron, tungsten and molybdenum. Yanbian is known as the "Changbai Linhai", with a total forestry management area of 4.06 million hectares, a forest area of 3.536 million hectares and a standing stock of 390 million cubic meters. Yanbian is rich in tourism resources. Changbai Mountain scenery tour, Korean folk custom tour, transnational cross-border tour, eco-tour, ice and snow tour, red tour and car tour have a broad market space in go on road trip. In 20 10, the total tourism revenue was 8.3 billion yuan, and it received 7190,000 domestic and foreign tourists.
Third, the ecology is excellent and the folk customs are simple. Changbai Mountain has preserved a complete primitive ecology. There are 9 nature reserves of all levels and types in Yanbian area, with a forest coverage rate of 80.2%. The climate is mild and humid, the air is fresh, it is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the four seasons are distinct. It is recognized as "natural oxygen bar" and "ecological back garden" in Jilin Province and even the whole country. Yanbian has simple folk customs, Korean people are good at singing and dancing, respect the old and love the young, pay attention to etiquette, respect teachers and pay attention to education, and the people of all ethnic groups are warm and hospitable. Known as "the hometown of etiquette", "the hometown of singing and dancing", "the hometown of education" and "the hometown of football", there are 594 people with college education per 10,000 people in the whole state, which is 1.7 times the national average. Yanbian University, founded in 1949, is the first local comprehensive university in ethnic areas to enter the national "2 1 1 project". Yanbian attaches great importance to the development of sports and has advantages in swinging, skipping, wrestling, skating and other projects. It is the only ethnic autonomous prefecture in China with a first-class football team. In 2009, China Korean agricultural dance was selected into the United Nations "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity", which started the successful application of dance projects in China.
Fourth, preferential policies to prosper industries. Yanbian is the only region in China that enjoys the policy of regional ethnic autonomy, the policy of developing the western region and the policy of revitalizing the old industrial base in Northeast China. It is the "window" and "frontier" of Chang-Ji-Tu development and opening-up pilot area, and it is the key undertaking place for the gradient transfer of processing trade in China. At present, Yanbian has initially formed five pillar industries such as food (cigarettes), energy and minerals, forest products, tourism and medicine, as well as advantageous industries such as building materials, textiles and clothing. A number of well-known enterprises with important influence in China have been cultivated and developed: Jilin Tobacco Industry Co., Ltd., the largest cigarette manufacturer in Northeast China, generated 3.2 billion yuan in tax revenue for Yanbian in 20 10, and its trademark "Changbai Mountain" is a well-known trademark in China. Its main product "Changbai Mountain" low tar cigarette is the leading product in the same industry in China at present; Jilin Aodong Group, one of the top ten Chinese medicine enterprises in China, Datang Hunchun Power Plant, a leading enterprise in the national energy industry, and Hunchun Zijin Mining, a leading gold producer in Fujian, generate revenue of over 100 million yuan for Yanbian every year.
Five, development and opening up, great potential. Since the reform and opening up, Yanbian has sent a large number of personnel to Japan, South Korea and European and American countries for labor export every year. During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the country's foreign-related labor income totaled more than 4 billion US dollars, with an average annual income of more than 800 million US dollars. Dollar-based labor income has been continuously imported, forming a huge private capital. In 20 10, the deposit balance of financial institutions in Quanzhou was 77.49 billion yuan, an increase of 1069 billion yuan or 16% over the previous year. The loan balance was 33.35 billion yuan, an increase of 2.98 billion yuan or 9.8%. Rich private capital has promoted the rapid development of the financial industry and made Yanbian a market competition place for the financial and insurance industry. Yanbian's export-oriented economy is booming, attracting more than 865,438+00 foreign-funded enterprises from 25 countries and regions to develop in Yanbian. At the same time, dozens of enterprises in Quanzhou have invested and set up factories in Russia and North Korea, involving food, cigarettes, clothing, aquatic products, wood products processing and other industries and fields. 20 10 Our state was granted a certificate for border tourism in different places, Hunchun City was granted a ruble exchange business, and Yanji High-tech Development Zone was upgraded to a national high-tech industrial development zone. In 20001year, the total import and export volume of foreign trade reached US$ 654.38 billion, an increase of 654.38+05.2%.
In 20 10, the GDP of Quanzhou reached 53.36 billion yuan, an increase of15.2%; Full-caliber fiscal revenue was 8.8 billion yuan, up by 2 1.4%, of which local fiscal revenue was 4 1.3 billion yuan, up by1.8%; The fixed assets investment of the whole society was 73.98 billion yuan, an increase of 30.1%; The added value of industrial enterprises above designated size was 2 1, 0 1 billion yuan, an increase of 20.4%; The total retail sales of social consumer goods was 25.77 billion yuan, an increase of18.6%; The per capita disposable income of urban residents was 14780 yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 5736 yuan, increasing by 7.6% and 10.8% respectively. The main economic indicators are higher than the national and provincial average.