Taizhou city is located in the central coast of Zhejiang Province, in themiddle of China's coastal zone. It has a land area of 9411 square kilometers, ashallow continental shelf area of 80000 square kilometers, and 691 islands ofmore than 500 square meters. It is adjacent to Ningbo and Shaoxing in the north,Jinhua and Lishui in the west, Wenzhou in the South and the East China Sea inthe East. Taizhou city is composed of Jiaojiang, Huangyan and Luqiao districts.It governs Linhai and Wenling counties and Yuhuan, Tiantai, Xianju and Sanmencounties.
Taizhou has a long history. Five thousand years ago, its ancestors livedand multiplied. Huipu township was established in the first emperor of QinDynasty, Huipu County in the second year of Shiyuan (85 BC) of Western HanDynasty, Linhai County in the second year of Wu Taiping of Three Kingdoms (257BC), and the fourth year of Wude of Tang Dynasty (620 BC)___ Taizhou was renamedHaizhou in 1949 and Taizhou in the following year. It was named after theTiantai Mountain in the territory. The name of Taizhou began from then on. Afterthe founding of new China, it was established as an administrative office. InAugust 1994, with the approval of the State Council, Taizhou Prefecture wasabolished and a prefecture level Taizhou city was established. The municipalgovernment is located in Jiaojiang District, a combined coastal city.
According to 20___ According to the fifth national population census in,Taizhou is a scattered area of ethnic minorities. There are 47 ethnic minoritiesin the city, with a total of 22700 people, accounting for 0.44% of the totalpopulation. There are Tujia, Miao, Dong, Buyi and Zhuang nationalities with morethan 1000 people.
Taizhou is close to the mountains and faces the sea, and its topographyinclines from west to East. Along the coast, there are many harbors and islands.There are various landforms in the territory, such as mountains, hills, basins,plains, bays and islands. Among them, mountains and hills account for two-thirdsof the land area, and the sea accounts for 8.5 times of the land area. There aremore than 700 rivers in the territory. Jiaojiang is the largest river and thethird largest river in Zhejiang, with a total length of 197.3 km.
With the approval of the Ministry of communications, Haimen port, Jiantiaoport and Damaiyu port, collectively known as Taizhou port, are moderninternational ports. 20___ In 1999, the throughput of Taizhou port was 13.977million tons.
Taizhou is rich in fishery resources, rich in large yellow croaker, smallyellow croaker and other dozens of economic fish and shrimp, swimming crab and alarge number of shellfish seafood.
Taizhou's numerous harbors create an ideal place for the development andutilization of electric energy. At present, Taizhou Bay comprehensive energycommunity, which integrates thermal power, hydropower, nuclear power, tidalpower and wind power, has been initially completed. Taizhou Power Plant is thesecond largest power plant in the province. After the completion of TiantaiTongbai Pumped Storage Power Station, Sanmen Nuclear Power Station and HuanengYuhuan Power Station, Taizhou will become the largest energy base in EastChina.
Taizhou is a famous fruit base in China. Huangyan tangerine is famous forits long history. Yuhuan pomelo (Wendan) is one of the four famous pomelo in theworld, and has won the championship in Chinese pomelo category evaluation for 8consecutive years. Linhai seedless tangerine, Huangyan Dongkui Bayberry andXianju XianMei are famous at home and abroad. There are 11 brands of fruit wonthe title of high quality brand in Zhejiang Province.
Taizhou's economy has maintained a good momentum of development. 2___ In,the city's GDP was 74.8 billion yuan, an increase of 11.9% over the previousyear, of which the added value of the primary industry was 9.2 billion yuan, anincrease of 4%; the added value of the secondary industry was 43.9 billion yuan,an increase of 12.8%; and the added value of the tertiary industry was 21.7billion yuan, an increase of 13.7%. The city's total financial revenue was 6.5billion yuan, an increase of 22.3%. Self operated exports totaled 1.54 billionUS dollars, an increase of 34.8%.
Taizhou is the birthplace of stock cooperative economy. In agriculturaleconomy, the planting area ratio of grain and non grain crops is 60:40. Thetotal amount of marine fishing and mariculture ranks first in the province.Industrial economy is the main body of Taizhou economy. Industrial pillarindustries include power and energy, auto parts, medicine and chemical industry,household appliances, plastic molds, clothing machinery, water pump valves, artsand crafts, emerging materials, shoes and clothing. Taizhou is an importantproduction base of fine chemicals, artificial crystals, industrial sewingmachines, antineoplastic drugs, body retention hormone and contraceptives,cephalosporins, refrigerators, pressure cookers, automobiles and motorcycles andtheir molds and accessories. "Qianjiang", "SUPOR", "Feiyue" and "Xingxing" arewell-known trademarks in China. "Star" refrigerator and "Shuanglu" airconditioner won the title of national inspection free commodity, and "Qianjiang"and "Haizheng" were listed in the top 520 in China. A total of 23 industrialproducts in Taizhou have won the title of famous brand products in ZhejiangProvince, and 24 of them rank first in terms of production and sales inChina.
Taizhou has been known as "famous mountains on the sea" since ancienttimes, with fantastic mountains, beautiful waters and beautiful scenery. Rich intourism resources, there are more than 60 natural and cultural landscapes. Ithas national famous historical and cultural city Linhai, national key scenicspots Tiantai Mountain and Shenxianju, national 4A tourist area ChangyuDongtian, provincial scenic spots Taozhu, Fangshan nansongyan, dachendao anddaludao marine parks, Guoqing temple in Tiantai County, Taizhou ancient city inLinhai City and Taozhu Anti Japanese ancient city.