CHINA / About Jiangsu
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Updated: 2006-05-25 11:53
Jiangsu province is the derivation of Wuyue and Yangtze River culture of
ancient China. The fossil of ape-man discovered in Tangshan Nanjing made
civilization in this fertile land trace back to 350, 000 years ago. As
early as the Seventh Century AD, during the most prosperous period of
Tang Dynasty, Jiangsu was well known for its great contribution to the
trade along the famous Silk Road with its jade objects and silk fabrics.
Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu Province, known as the capital for
six dynasties created and developed the Yangtze River civilization in the
history of China.
Jiagnsu province locates in the middle latitudes with an annual average
temperature of 13.5C and annual rainfall of 800-1200mm. The frost-free
period is 200-240 days. The climate here is damp and four seasons are
clear. Facing the Pacific Ocean in the east, Jiangsu Province has a
coastline of more than 1000km and circled by Zhejiang, Anhui, Shandong
provinces and Shanghai. The Huaihe River, the Great Canal and Yangtze
River went though the whole province, and the waterway of Yangtze River
can lead to the inner China. With many other rivers and lakes and its
extensive fertile plains Jiangsu has been called `the land of fish and
rice.' Jiangsu Province covers an area of 102,600 square kilometers, of
which 69% are plains. It has a population of 71.66 million while its
population density is 693 persons per square kilometer.
There are 13 municipalities under the jurisdiction of the provincial
government namely Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, Yangzhou,
Nantong, Xuzhou, Lianyungang Yancheng, Huaiyin, Suqian and Taizhou. Under
their jurisdiction there are 64 counties and county-level cities. Jiangsu
is famous for its shoal exploitation and grain corps growing in the
North. While in the South, many cities are just like bright stars well
known for their great achievements in the industries of machinery,
electronics, chemicals, automotive, textile and tourism.
Jiangsu is an province advanced in education and technology in our
country. Its higher education institutions and the educated population
ranked among the best of the whole country. Jiangsu carried out the
compulsory education of nine years and established a multi-level and
multi-type educational system including preschool education, elementary
education, vocational education, higher education and adult education. It
has more than 70 higher education institutions (over 500 specialties)
with undergraduate students of 220,600. It has 200 polytechnic school and
6000 secondary vocational school with undergraduate students of 11
million. As for the adult education, it has all over 7000,000 registered
all sorts of institutions and schools. The artistic appreciation of the
whole population has been improved rapidly which laid down a solid
foundation for the development of the economy and the society.
There are more than five hundreds state owned independent large and
medium size scientific and technological research institutions in Jiangsu
Province concerning over thirty fields such as agriculture, chemical,
electronic, machinery, textile and light industries etc. Also, quite a
number of higher education institutions and medium and large size
enterprises established their own research institutions over 2000. These
research institutions lead the way of technological development of all
fields in Jiangsu. Jiangsu has a force of talented technicians numbered
700,000, among which 58 are academicians of Chinese Academy of Science
and Chinese Academy of Engineering.
In 1996, 40 projects were honored as the great achievements of the state
scientific and technological progress and 317 projects were honored as
the great achievements of the province. The total number of signed
technology contracts in 1996 is 31000 while their volume is RMB 2.23
billion yuan.
In recent years, Jiangsu government concentrated their efforts in making
a favorable investment environment. There are many ports opening to the
outside world, including the ports in Lianyungang, Nantong, Zhangjiagang,
Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Jiangyin, Yangzhou, Taichang, Changsu and Gaogang,
with the total import and export volume of 120 million tons. The airports
in Wuxi, Changzhou, Nantong, Lianyungang, Yancheng and Xuzhou have opened
up many air routes to other major cities in our country. Nanjing airport
has also opened up 38 domestic air routes and the air route plane can fly
nonstop to Hong kong. Nanjing Lukou international airport, which will be
put into operation this year, will open several air routes which can get
directly to major cities in the world so that it will shorten the
distance between Jiangsu and the world. Beijing-Shanghai and Longhai
railways cross the whole province. Longhai railway is known as "
European-Asian continent Bridge" which connects Russia in its west and
can get directly to Amsterdam in Holland. Lianyungang is known as the
"Eastern Bridge Tower". Jiangsu is stepping into an economic period of
continent bridge. As to the road construction, Jiangsu framed a dense net
of highways. It takes 3 hours from Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu
province to Shanghai municipality, the biggest city in our country by
Nanjing-Shanghai expressway. Now, several expressways and road bridges
crossing the Yangtze River are being constructed. In Jiagnsu, people can
get anywhere in the world high-efficiently and conveniently by air,
railway or sea.
The communication industry in Jiangsu Province made rapid progress. Its
scale, capacity, level of installation, automation and digitization of
communication net all have upgraded to a new stage. Its capacity and the
total volume of business ranked the second in China. Now a long-distance
communication net, whose main body is optical cable and the auxiliary
part is digital microwave, has been formed in the province. The
provincial wireless BP system, with the largest scale and the most
functions has covered all the cities and counties in the province. Also,
the movable communication net has covered all the province. Some new
services and new business such as information services by telephone are
being widely spread. The cable and the wireless communication nets make
the province come into an era of information exchanging in high speed.
These huge communication nets link Jiangsu with other provinces, even
with the world.
The cities set up near the seas, rivers, highways, or railways provide
Jiangsu with many convenient conditions which other domestic regions do
not enjoy. The densely population with harmonious relations and high
quality and the perfect infrastructures support the development of many
enterprises. In recent years, more and more foreign enterprises invested
in Jiangsu. Some famous international TNCs such as Motorola, Mercedes,
Philips, Ericsson, BASF, Mitsubishi and Mitsui also established their
branches or Joint Ventures in Jiangsu.
This is an area full of energy and vitality. Also it is a land with
honest eastern culture and wonderful future. People living there are
hardworking and hospitable.
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