What kind of city is Hefei?

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National Garden City, National Sanitary City, China's Excellent Tourism City, one of the country's four major science and education bases, the country's only scientific and technological innovation pilot city, the country's first frugal and intensive Land-use pilot city, national urban informatization pilot city, city that won the China Human Settlements Environment Award, city that won the China Human Settlements Environment Model Award, a national Grade A city open to the outside world, one of the top 50 cities in the country in terms of comprehensive urban strength, and a national city with outstanding comprehensive improvement of urban environment. , one of the 45 highway transportation hub cities in the country, and a railway transportation hub under construction in the country

Overview of Hefei City

Hefei is the capital of Anhui Province and is responsible for the province’s politics, economy, culture, science and education , commerce, transportation and information center. Hefei enjoys the reputation of "the hometown of the Three Kingdoms, the hometown of Bao Zheng, the cradle of the Huai Army, a science and education base, and a new lakeside city". Because the Dong Fei River and Nan Fei River originate from here, it is called "Hefei"; because it was the capital of Luzhou during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the place of governance, so it is also called "Luzhou". Hefei is located between the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers, on the shores of Chaohu Lake, and at the western end of the Yangtze River Delta region. It connects the river to the sea, connects the east to the west, connects the north and the south, and has an important geographical advantage of connecting the Central Plains. The total city area is 7,029.48 square kilometers, the total registered population is 4.8674 million, and the urbanization rate is 62.4%. It currently governs three counties: Feidong, Feixi, and Changfeng, and four districts: Yaohai, Luyang, Shushan, and Baohe. It is endowed with Hefei National High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Hefei National Economic and Technological Development Zone, and Hefei New Station Comprehensive Experimental Zone. Municipal management authority.

Hefei is an important transportation hub city in the country

Hefei has been known as "the lips and teeth of Jiangnan and the right throat of Huaihe River" and "the first county of Jianghuai and the center of Wu and Chu" since ancient times. Chairman Mao It was once praised as "Hefei is good, among the Anhui provinces" and has always been an important military town and a battleground for military strategists. Today, Hefei is a natural member of the coastal hinterland, the frontier of the inland, and the "Pan-Yangtze River Delta" economic zone. With Hefei as the center and a radius of 500 kilometers, it covers 7 provinces and 1 city in eastern and central China.

Hefei is a national regional comprehensive transportation hub, and its three-dimensional transportation network is constantly improving. The Huainan, Hejiu and Hexi railways intersect here, and the Hening and Hewu high-speed railways have also been completed and put into use. It takes less than an hour from Hefei to Nanjing and just over 2 hours to Shanghai and Wuhan. The Hebei-Beng Passenger Dedicated Line is under construction, the Hefu and Hehang Passenger Dedicated Lines, the Hefu-He'an intercity railway and the Helu Copper Railway are about to start construction. By then, it will only take 3 hours from Hefei to Beijing. National highways 206 and 312 and highways such as Hening, Hexu, Hewu, He'an, Hehuaifu, Hetonghuang, and Heliuye pass through it. It only takes 2 hours to reach Nanjing, and only 2 hours to Shanghai and Wuhan. 4-5 hours. The construction of Hefu and Hema expressways is about to begin. Hefei's water transportation connects the river and the sea via Chaohu Lake. It is an inland water transportation center planned by the Ministry of Transport. The Jianghuai Canal construction project that is being launched will make Hefei a water transportation center connecting the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River. Hefei Port plans to build a container terminal in the near and long term. Hefei Luogang Airport is an important international alternate airport in the country. It has opened more than 30 domestic routes and direct flights to Hong Kong and Taipei. This year, it has opened international flights to Seoul, South Korea. It only takes 40 minutes to get to Shanghai, and to Beijing, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong. It only takes 1.5 hours and only 2 hours to get to Taipei. A new 4E-level airport, Hefei Xinqiao International Airport, is under construction and is expected to be put into use by the end of 2012.

Hefei is an outstanding tourist city in China

Hefei is a green city and an ecological city. In 1992, it became one of the first three "National Garden Cities" named by the country. By the end of 2008, the area of ??garden green space in Hefei's built-up areas reached 8,744.8 hectares, the urban green space rate reached 38.91%, the green coverage rate reached 43.93%, and the per capita public green space area was 11.44 square meters. The open ring-shaped park, which stretches for 8.7 kilometers and covers an area of ??137.6 hectares, forms a "garden in the city and city in the garden" urban landscape blending pattern, which is unique in the country. On the basis of further greening the gardens around the city, four new natural scenic spots were built on the "green ribbon" surrounding the ancient city, known as "one necklace, four pearls". On the basis of renovating the "Eight Scenes of Luyang" in the past - "the rhyme of the Huai River, the bells of the Buddhist temple, the color of the grass in the Tibetan boat, the shade of the crossbow pine trees, the snow in Shushan, the spring melt in Huaipu, the night moon in Chaohu, and the morning glow on the four peaks", we have also Ten newly built natural attractions and Shushan Forest Park, Botanical Garden, Huachong Park, Xinghua Park, Yaohai Park, Qingxi Park, Galaxy Park, etc., coupled with dozens of neighborhood parks inside and outside the city, make the city form a city. There is a garden, and in the garden there is a world of colorful flowers and green trees.

Hefei is an outstanding eco-tourism city in the country. Currently, there are ten national 4A-level tourist attractions: Bao Park, Hui Garden, Provincial Museum, Hefei Wildlife Park, Sanhe Scenic Area, Fengle Ecological Park, Yuan Shuangfeng Lake International Tourism Resort, Three Kingdoms Heritage Park, Feixi Zipeng Mountain Scenic Area and Feidong Daishan Lake Scenic Area. Hefei is also an important tourism distribution center in Anhui Province. Within a radius of 250 kilometers, there are nationally famous tourist attractions such as Mount Huangshan and Mount Jiuhua.

Hefei is a famous historical city with rich cultural heritage

“Bao Gong culture, Three Kingdoms culture, Huaijun culture, and Buddhist culture”—the four major cultures are inclusive. Hefei has a history of more than 2,000 years since the establishment of Hefei County in the Qin Dynasty. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei and Wu fought here, leaving behind historical relics such as Xiaoyaojin, the Crossbow Platform, and the Three Kingdoms New City. During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, Hefei was the capital of Anhui Province. In 1945, the capital of Anhui Province under the National Government moved to Hefei. Hefei was liberated on January 21, 1949, and Hefei was established as a city in February of the same year. In 1952, the Anhui Provincial People's Government of New China was formally established in Hefei.

Hefei is full of outstanding people and famous people. Yang Xingmi, King of Wu in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Bao Zheng, an upright official in the Song Dynasty, Li Hongzhang, leader of the Westernization faction in the late Qing Dynasty, Liu Mingchuan, the first governor of Taiwan, and Yang Zhenning, a world-famous scientist, all came from Hefei. The long-lasting Huangmei Opera, simple local customs, delicacies with northern and southern styles, Bao Gong Temple and Xiaoyaojin, the Science Island (Hefei Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) where academicians gather, and the internationally renowned university - the University of Science and Technology of China, have absorbed the ruggedness and charm of northern culture. It is bold and unrestrained, but also contains the elegance and delicacy of southern culture. It integrates Anhui charm and Huizhou style into one city, demonstrating its unique cultural charm.

Hefei is the only national science and technology innovation pilot city in China

Hefei has outstanding advantages in science and education. In the 1980s, it was identified as one of the “four major science and education bases” in the country. It has more than 200 scientific research institutions of various types, represented by the Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and 59 colleges and universities of various types, represented by the University of Science and Technology of China, with 480,000 students enrolled. There are 138 doctoral authorization points, and 24 disciplines have been recognized as national key disciplines: there are 33 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, ranking among the best in central cities; the number of people selected for the National Natural Science Foundation of China Innovation Group and the Chinese Academy of Sciences' "Hundred Talents Program" is the highest in central China Ranked first among cities; it has 358 technical research and development institutions of various types and more than 300,000 scientific and technological personnel of various types. The proportion of science and education talents ranks among the top among similar cities in the country.

Hefei has a strong scientific research foundation. It is the city with the densest concentration of major national scientific projects besides the capital Beijing. It has the "Hefei National Laboratory for Microscale Physical Sciences" and the "National (Hefei) Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory" , "Hefei National Key Laboratory of Fire Science", "National (Hefei) High Performance Computing Center" and other national key scientific research facilities and 33 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, Hefei synchronization device, tokamak series device, steady-state strong magnetic field and other 3 major national scientific installations. The Institute of Plasma Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has become a major participant in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) international program. Hefei has strong innovation capabilities and is the first scientific and technological innovation pilot city in the country. It is also a member city of the World Technology Cities Alliance (WTA). China's first window air conditioner, microcomputer, laser air pollution monitoring radar, and the world's first VCD, bionic washing machine, and variable-capacity refrigerator were all born in Hefei. Since 2001, Hefei has held an annual "China·Hefei High-tech Project and Capital Matchmaking Conference" to build a platform for domestic and international science and technology industry investment, and strive to transform Hefei's scientific and educational advantages into actual industrial and economic advantages, so that "Made in Hefei" and "Created in Hefei" fly side by side.

Hefei is an emerging industrial city that is accelerating its rise

Hefei has a good industrial foundation. It currently has 34 industrial industries, more than 200 industrial categories, and more than 2,000 major categories of products, forming a Eight key industries include automobiles, equipment manufacturing, household appliances, chemicals and tires, electronic information and software, new materials, biotechnology and new medicines, and deep processing of food and agricultural and sideline products. The comprehensive production capacity of household appliances ranks third in the country, and the output of complete automobiles ranks ninth in the country. Hefei is also the rising "flat panel display capital of China". BOE's 6th generation line with an investment of 17.5 billion is under construction. Hefei plasma production line with an investment of 2 billion and BOE's 8th generation line with an investment of 28 billion and supporting projects such as Rainbow and China National Building Materials will also be built. With construction starting one after another, Hefei is making steady progress towards becoming a production base for the flat panel display industry with important influence in China and even the world.

Hefei has the largest excavator, forklift, and tire production base in the country. 52 Fortune 500 companies including Unilever, ABB, Carrefour and Metro have settled in Hefei. Microsoft of the United States has set up a technology center in Hefei. JAC Automobile, Meiling Electric, Royalstar Electric, Guofeng Plastics, Heli Forklift, Giti Tire, Hitachi Excavator and other well-known companies are famous. Hefei has been successively awarded as "National Automobile and Parts Export Base City", "National Energy-saving and New Energy Vehicle Demonstration and Promotion Pilot City", "Key Undertaken City for Gradient Transfer of Processing Trade", "China Service Outsourcing Base City", "China Service "Outsourcing Demonstration City", "China Home Appliances Industry Base" and "National Animation Industry Base" and other titles.

In 2008, in the Chinese city competitiveness rankings, Hefei ranked 25th among 289 cities in the country. Its comprehensive urban strength ranked 21st among the top 100 cities in the country and 8th among provincial capital cities.

In 2008, the city’s GDP was 166.484 billion yuan, an increase of 17.2% over the previous year; fiscal revenue was 30.12 billion yuan, an increase of 40%, of which local fiscal revenue was 16.09 billion yuan, an increase of 57.8%; the Municipal State Taxation Organization Revenue was 14.35 billion yuan, an increase of 20.9%; local taxation organization revenue was 9.91 billion yuan, an increase of 50%; fixed asset investment in the whole society was 183.5 billion yuan, an increase of 40%; total retail sales of consumer goods was 58.836 billion yuan, an increase of 25.5%; per capita disposable income of urban residents The income was 15,590 yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 5,300 yuan, an increase of 16.1% and 18% respectively. The growth rate of major economic indicators continues to rank among the top among provincial capital cities in the country. The registered urban unemployment rate is 4.1%; the birth rate is 10.2‰; the consumer price index is 106.5%. Energy consumption per unit of GDP and emission reduction of major pollutants have met provincial control targets. All undertakings develop in an all-round way, and the overall social situation is harmonious and stable. Overall, despite the extremely complex macro-environment, the city's economy and society still maintain a sound and rapid development momentum. Accumulating accumulation and accelerating rise have become important features of Hefei's development in the new era.

The 4th China Expo was successfully held in Hefei from April 26 to 28, 2009. Taking advantage of the opportunity of China Expo, the world got to know and recognize Hefei better. Driven by large-scale development and construction, Hefei has radiated strong economic vitality, and the city's comprehensive strength has been further improved.