Where is Tongchuan?

Classification: Region >> Shaanxi >> Tongchuan City

Problem description:

geographical position

Analysis:

Tongchuan City is located in the middle of Shaanxi Province, 247 kilometers north of Yan 'an and 90 kilometers south of the ancient city of xi 'an. It has jurisdiction over two districts and two counties, namely, urban area, suburb, Yaoxian and yijun county, with a total area of 3,882 square kilometers and a population of 840,000. This is a modern city with an ancient flavor.

Tongchuan has a long history, dating back more than 5000 years. Tongchuan was called a bronze official in ancient times. Tongguan County was established during the Taizu period of the Northern Wei Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Tongguan was changed to Tongguan. 1946 "Tongguan" was changed to "Tongchuan". 1949 Tongchuan was liberated on April 28, and since 1958, the county has been withdrawn and a city has been established.

Tongchuan is rich in natural resources. At present, there are seven kinds of mineral resources 10, such as coal, oil shale, limestone, refractory clay, ceramic clay, bauxite and iron ore, among which coal reserves are the largest, reaching more than 3 billion tons. With a reserve of more than 2 billion tons, limestone is the best raw material for construction, metallurgy and chemical fiber. The forest coverage rate is 42%. There are leopards and otters listed as second-class protected animals in wild resources. There are hawthorn, seabuckthorn and more than 350 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, among which Dang (Shen) and Yao (Xianhuang) are the most famous. Among local products, besides apples and peppers, there are peppers, garlic, peaches, pears, apricots, persimmons and walnuts. Among them, apples are famous for their high sugar content, bright color, rich fruit fragrance and crisp meat. Qin Guan, Red Guan, Red Star and other varieties have won many national awards.

Tongchuan is rich in cultural relics tourism resources, with more than 600 historical and cultural sites, including 28 at or above the municipal level. The famous "two places and two mountains", namely Yuhuagong site, Yaozhou kiln site, Xiangshan and Wangyaoshan, have become an important part of tourism in northern Shaanxi. Yuhua Palace Site in Yuhua Mountain is the palace of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan and Emperor Taizong Li Shimin, and also the place where Xuanzang, a monk, translated scriptures and died. Yaozhou Kiln Site, known as "Shili Kiln Site", is the best-preserved ancient site found in China so far, and it is the largest underground ceramics museum in contemporary China, with the essence of the kilns of Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties, Song Dynasty, Jin Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty. It flourished in Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty. It was once called the six major kiln systems in China together with Ru kiln, Ding kiln, Guan kiln, Jun kiln and Ge kiln. Xiangshan was once known as the world with Putuo, Wutai, Jiuhua and Emei. The temple began with my father and flourished in Yaoqin. Kumarajiva, a monk from Qiuci, was invited to translate Sanskrit. Yaowangshan is famous in the world because Sun Simiao, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, is known as the "Wang Yao". The temples on the mountain are majestic, with towering cypresses and numerous steles, and the scenery is elegant and beautiful. Jinsuo Pass in the northern suburbs is a battleground for military strategists in past dynasties. In addition, there are the beauty ancestral temple, the remains of Meng Jiangnu, the Mo Bao painted by Liu Fan and the Qifeng in Xuejiazhai, Zhao Jin. Tongchuan has outstanding people, including Fu Xuan, a famous philosopher in the Western Jin Dynasty, Liu Gongquan, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, Linghu Defen, a historian, Fan Kuan, a famous painter in the Northern Song Dynasty and other ancient sages. Zhao Jin area in Yaoxian County is a revolutionary base area along the Shaanxi-Gansu border, where Liu Zhidan, Xie Zichang, He Long and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation successively engaged in revolutionary activities. Tongchuan has four foreign-related tourist hotels (restaurants). Special tourist routes such as Yao and porcelain culture tour, medicine health tour, Buddhism pursuit tour, leisure tour, legend series tour, calligraphy and painting tour attract many domestic and foreign tourists every year.

Tongchuan is a new industrial city and an important energy and building materials base in Shaanxi Province and even the whole country. The output of coal and cement accounts for more than 30% of the total output in Shaanxi Province, ranking first in the province. The annual output of electrolytic aluminum is 35,000 tons, accounting for more than 90% of the province; The annual output of ceramics accounts for more than 70% of the province, and the main products sell well in more than 40 countries and regions all over the country and the world. It has more than 80 industrial categories with coal, building materials, ceramics, aluminum smelting, electromechanical, machinery, textile, medicine, food, chemical industry and electronics as the backbone. Tongchuan Mining Bureau is the largest national coal mine production enterprise in northwest China, with production mines 10 pairs, with an annual output of more than 9.6 million tons of raw coal. Yaoxian Cement Plant, with an annual output of over 0.8 million tons of cement/kloc-0, is a large cement production enterprise in China.

Tongchuan enjoys convenient transportation and communication, superior geographical position and good investment environment. Longhai Railway has an important branch line, which runs through the east-west artery of China. The "2 10" national highway runs through the city, and the high-grade highway in the west goes directly to the city center. In addition, feeder roads and three special railway lines connect major industrial and mining enterprises and towns in China. At present, the urban area has 10,000 program-controlled telephones, wireless paging, 800-megabit mobile communication and other equipment and technologies. There are also express mail service at home and abroad. In addition, there are abundant power resources and water resources that can meet the needs of production and life, which have injected vitality into Tongchuan.

With the in-depth development of reform and opening up, Tongchuan's tertiary industry is booming, and the city's functions are improving day by day. The tourism industry has initially formed a pattern of "North-South Line, which has established the status of Shaanxi's northern tourism line; The commercial street with many shops and dazzling goods presents a prosperous scene; The vigorous development of real estate industry has created rows of high-rise buildings with different styles; Foreign trade, finance and insurance are booming, and a number of trust and investment companies, urban credit cooperatives and other financing institutions are rapidly emerging, with service networks all over urban and rural areas. At present, Tongchuan is implementing 40 "copper development projects" in the spirit of seizing every minute, striving to achieve the grand goal of "Ten-year Plan" ahead of schedule.

Science and technology, education, culture, health and social welfare facilities are complete. There are six scientific research institutions. There are various institutions 1 166, including 2 institutions of higher learning, 4 secondary specialized schools, 96 secondary specialized schools and vocational schools, and 0/060 primary schools. Medical and health institutions 190, 48 hospitals. There are 0/89 cultural institutions/kloc-0, including 5 libraries, 0/0 theaters/kloc-0, 57 cultural centers and 3 parks. There are three municipal TV stations, newspapers and radio stations. Yijun county was named "the hometown of modern folk painting in China" by the Ministry of Culture. Folk paper-cutting and embroidery are famous at home and abroad for their simplicity, and their works have been exhibited in Europe and America for many times. Yaoxian woodcut prints and folk social fires have typical northern styles and strong local flavor.

Foreign exchanges and cooperation have been further expanded. It has successively concluded sister cities with Ningbo, Zhejiang, Zhanjiang, Guangdong and Yantai, Shandong, and signed sister city memoranda with Fenghua County, Azores and Qianjin. Friendly exchanges and economic and trade exchanges with home and abroad have increased significantly, and more and more guests favor Tongchuan. * * * Offices have been set up in Ann, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Yantai and other places, with more than 20 overseas institutions in the city, effectively broadening the channels for opening up.

Relying on rich resources and industrial advantages, Tongchuan adheres to the "three external factors" of foreign investment, foreign trade and foreign economy and the "two-wheel drive" of external introduction and inline, and the export supply value of foreign trade has increased by 22.9% annually. Self-export achieved zero breakthrough. In order to adapt to the new situation of reform and opening-up, Tongchuan City has further held a big discussion on "open development and development" in the whole city, completely stepped out of the "narrow valley" in concept, constantly adjusted its development ideas, focused on transforming state-owned enterprises and grasping large projects that have a bearing on the overall situation, extensively attracted foreign investment, and carried out multi-channel and multi-form horizontal alliances in China. At present, investment countries have spread all over Asia, Europe and the United States.

In order to further play the role of Tongchuan as a central city, Tongchuan people have formulated a series of preferential policies and planned to build Tongchuan New District within 45 square kilometers of Yaoxian County in the south. The construction of the new district is based on a high starting point, the present situation and the future, and the economic, social and ecological benefits are considered as a whole. The overall layout aims at planning and building an export-oriented modern comprehensive new district. By the end of this century, the new district will take shape, eventually forming the political, economic and cultural information center of Tongchuan and becoming a modern medium-sized city in Weibei area of Shaanxi Province. The new area faces the high-grade highway in the south, 60 kilometers away from Xianyang International Airport. The area is rich in water resources and flat land. The 1 10 kV substation and 330 kV substation have been started, and the investment environment is superior. The Xi 'an natural gas pipeline under construction in northern Shaanxi passes through this area, and the program-controlled communication has been implemented in the new area, and the optical cable communication project is being stepped up. In the direction of development, the construction of this area starts with the development of economic and technological projects and the construction of investment environment, with high-tech development as the leading factor, focusing on the development of industry and tertiary industry, taking advantage of resources, and giving priority to the development of aluminum profiles and aluminum products industries under the principles of high technology, high starting point, less pollution and distinctive features; Develop multi-variety and high-grade ceramic industry; Develop health care products; Developing electronic industry; Develop deep processing of agricultural and sideline products and food industry. At present, a number of enterprises and units have settled in the area, and eight large-scale industrial projects have started the preliminary work of the area construction, with a total investment of 6 billion yuan.

Implementing the open development strategy is a systematic project to prosper copper and enrich the people, which is related to the development prospect of Tongchuan. On the basis of extensively soliciting opinions, the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Party Committee formulated the strategic outline of Tongchuan's economic and social development and the implementation opinions of open development. In accordance with the working policy of "grasping major events and implementing them" of the provincial party committee, we should take economic construction as the center, and put opening to the outside world in the strategic position of the overall economic situation and put it at the top of all work. The people of the whole city are working together in Qi Xin, confidently taking the road of comprehensive development of urban-rural integration, urban-mining integration and simultaneous development of economic, social and environmental conditions, and working hard to build Tongchuan into a modern and civilized city.