Rongcheng District of Jieyang City is located in the middle of Chaoshan Plain in the east of Guangdong Province, in the middle of Rongjiang River Basin, backed by Zifeng Mountain and surrounded by Rongjiang River, with a unique geographical position. Rongcheng has been the county seat of Jieyang since the tenth year of Shaoxing in Song Dynasty (A.D. 1 140), with a history of more than 800 years. Known as "Zou Lu on the seashore" and "Lotus on the water", it is a provincial-level historical and cultural city. 199 1 year 65438+February the State Council approved the establishment of Rongcheng district (county-level district). Now the whole area is 9 1.26 square kilometers, with a total population of 382,900 in 2002. It governs five sub-district offices of Ronghua, Xinxing, Zhongshan, Xima and Rongdong, and two towns of Xianqiao and Meiyun, and is the central city of Jieyang. Rongcheng District is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese, with nearly 200,000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, distributed in more than 30 countries and regions in the world. Rongcheng District is a provincial-level cultural city with many places of interest, including Gong Xue, Confucius Temple, Jinxianmen, Forbidden City, Shuangfeng Temple, City God Temple and Guandi Temple. Zifeng Mountain is one of the four famous mountains in Jieyang.

In recent years, Rongcheng District Party Committee and Government have adhered to the working policy of "accelerating development, implementing rectification, strengthening management and paying attention to improvement", firmly grasped the theme of accelerating development, and correctly handled the relationship between reform, development and stability. The national economy of the whole region has maintained a good momentum of sustained, rapid and healthy development, and various social undertakings have reached a new level. In 2002, the region's GDP reached 3.94 billion yuan, an increase of 9. 1%. The total agricultural output value was 230 million yuan, an increase of 3.3%; The total industrial output value was 84 1 100 million yuan, an increase of 1 1.6%. The total retail sales of social consumer goods was 2.54 billion yuan, an increase of11.9%; Fair trade turnover was 3010.50 billion yuan, an increase of 3.1%; The fixed assets investment of the whole society was 429 million yuan, an increase of15.9%; The per capita disposable income of urban residents was 74 18 yuan, an increase of 4%; The per capita net income of farmers is 47 13 yuan, increasing by1.5%; General budget revenue10.05 billion yuan, an increase of 9.8%.

With the acceleration of industrial development and the rapid development of private economy, pillar industries and advantageous industries such as hardware stainless steel, plastic chemicals, electronic appliances, stationery printing, clocks and toys have formed in the whole region. There are a number of leading enterprises such as Rong Tai, Yuntong, Shunfeng, Tiandao Machinery, Soy Sauce, Shenzhan Chemical, Yuaner, Yin Gang, Shunda, etc. Rong Tai became the first listed company in our region. Now there are 50 enterprises above designated size in the whole region; There are 5 high-tech enterprises above the provincial level and 9 private technology enterprises/kloc-0. There are 5 13 registered trademarks of industrial enterprises in the whole region, including 5 famous trademarks at the provincial level and 2 1 trademark at the municipal level. There are 2476 private enterprises, and the total industrial output value accounts for 90% of the total output value of the region. New breakthroughs have been made in the construction of industrial parks. Xianmei Private Science and Technology Park was first established in the city and listed as "Guangdong Private Science and Technology Park". Xima Industrial Park was listed as one of the top ten foreign-funded industrial parks in the city.

Actively take measures to raise funds in various ways and do everything possible to speed up the pace of urban construction. Key projects such as "one road and two roads" reconstruction project, Jinxian commercial pedestrian street, Zhongxingyuan commercial district and a number of municipal facilities have been built one after another, effectively improving the urban traffic, business and living environment and promoting the development of urban commerce and trade. Around the construction projects determined by the municipal leaders' on-site office meeting, 40 key projects covering different types of industrial, commercial and municipal infrastructure were determined, with a total investment of more than 654.38 billion yuan, which was the focus of economic and infrastructure construction in 2002-2003. At present, the 65.438+08 project has been completed or put into production, and other projects are progressing smoothly. The business gathering and radiation effect of the business district with Ronghua Avenue and Jinxianmen Avenue as the axis has been formed. Foreign trade exports have developed steadily, with 25 self-operated import and export enterprises. Agricultural and rural work has been continuously strengthened, and rural areas have achieved a well-off life, becoming the first well-off county (city, district) in the city.

Seriously carry out the work of controlling urban chaos and market economic order, strengthen the comprehensive management of social security, and strive to create a good environment for urban development. Strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization. From 2000 to 2002, the implementation of the target management responsibility system for population and family planning for three consecutive years passed the provincial examination and was commended by the provincial party Committee and government, and was rated as an advanced unit in the national "marriage and childbearing" activities.