In order to carry forward the red culture in the old revolutionary base areas, in the reconstruction project of Jianjun Bridge in Yancheng City in February this year, 22 granite reliefs with a height of 1.35 m and a width of 2.4 m were installed on both sides of the bridge guardrail. This group of reliefs reproduces the famous battle scenes and major stage events of the New Fourth Army, such as the Jeffery Ji Campaign, the Southern Anhui Incident and the reconstruction of the New Fourth Army headquarters. It has become another new aspect of patriotism education in this city.
Yancheng is located in the middle of Subei Plain, bordering the Yellow Sea in the east, Huaiyang in the west, Nantong in the south and Lianyungang in the north. 1983, the city was changed from a region to a city, and the system of city governing counties was implemented. It has jurisdiction over two county-level cities, Dongtai and Dafeng, and five counties, namely Jianhu, Sheyang, Funing, Binhai and Xiangshui. The urban area consists of Du Yan, Tinghu and Yancheng Development Zone, with an area of 1696 square kilometers and a population of 15 1.36. There are 138 townships, 6 sub-district offices, 1927 villagers' committees and 554 residents' committees in the city, with a population of 7.965 1.5 million and a total area of1.5 million square kilometers. It is the largest and second most populous city in Jiangsu. The basic feature is named after salt, which has a long history.
Duyan County has been established in Yancheng since the fourth year of Yuanshou in the Western Han Dynasty (BC 1 19). At that time, salt pavilions and salt rivers were everywhere, and "blasphemy" was the river that transported salt. In AD 7 (AD 4 1 1), the Eastern Jin Emperor Yi was renamed Yancheng County, which was named after the "salt field around the city". After more than two thousand years of historical precipitation, Yancheng exudes a strong sea salt culture everywhere. In ancient times, it was famous for its rich "Huai salt", which was called "the land with a bosom" in ancient times. As early as the Warring States period, there was a saying that "cooking the sea is salt", and "Historical Records" contained "the East China Sea is free of sea salt". During the Qin and Han dynasties, "cooking the sea for profit and crossing the canal for transportation" has become a prosperous place for fishing and salt. In the Tang Dynasty, there were only "123 salt pavilions" in Yancheng, Huainan Salt Field, which was "rich in the southeast and half out of the border". During the reign of Tang Baoying, there were Hailing Supervisor and Yancheng Supervisor, who cooked more than one million mangokus of salt every year. At that time, Yancheng had become an important salt production center in the southeast coast.
Yancheng is the largest city in Jiangsu Province. The total area of the city is10.5 million square kilometers, including 7,737 square kilometers of cultivated land and more than 0.3 million square kilometers of rivers and lakes.
Ocean and tidal flat resources are very rich. The total area of coastal beaches is 4,550 square kilometers (including radial sandbanks), of which the supratidal zone 1.677 square kilometers and the intertidal zone 1.6 10 square kilometers account for 75%, 64.6% and 60.8% of the whole province respectively. It belongs to the coastal beaches of Dongtai, Dafeng, Sheyang, Binhai, Xiangshui and other counties (cities), and the area available for development and utilization in the near future is 1300 square kilometers. At present, the coastal area south of Sheyang Estuary also extends to the sea at the rate of 10 square kilometers per year, which is called "Gold Coast" and is the largest and most potential land reserve resource in Jiangsu.
Rich in oil and natural gas resources. The proven oil and gas reserves reach 80 billion cubic meters, and the estimated total reserves reach 200 billion cubic meters. It is the largest onshore oil and gas field in the eastern coastal area of China. There are about 654.38+10,000 square kilometers of Yellow Sea oil storage sedimentary basins along the coast and offshore, ranking second in the national marine oil and gas sedimentary basins, with broad exploration and development prospects.
The advantages of agricultural products resources are outstanding. Yancheng is the largest production base of agricultural and sideline products in Jiangsu. Eight national commodity grain base counties, high-quality oil base counties 1 county, and six high-quality cotton base counties have been built, which are rich in marine and animal and plant resources. The planting scale and total amount of major agricultural products such as grain, cotton, oil, mulberry, fruits and vegetables, poultry, eggs and fish rank first in the province. The certification of pollution-free agricultural products ranks first in the province, and four counties in the city are included in the certification of provincial agricultural products; Through the provincial certification of pollution-free agricultural products, the planting area is 2 12 mu, the animal husbandry area is 87, and the livestock and poultry179,900 heads (only). Five national and provincial agricultural standardization demonstration zones and six provincial export-oriented agricultural production bases will be built. Approved/kloc-2 organic food bases with 0/02,000 mu and 6 green food bases with 22,000 mu. There are 179 products that have won the titles of organic food, green food and pollution-free food in the city.
Rich in human resources. Yancheng is the second most populous city in Jiangsu. At present, the total supply of urban and rural labor force is 3,924,400, including 2,720,200 rural laborers. 654.38+289,000 rural laborers were employed, of which 790,000 were exported and 20,500 went abroad. The surplus labor force is 840,000, and 500,000 can be exported, including 26,543.8+0,000 with special skills. Among the labor resources available for export, there are 26,000 people with college education or above, 265,000 people with high school education (including secondary schools, technical schools and vocational schools) and 209,000 people with junior high school education or above; There are 58,000 people with intermediate or above vocational skills and 48,000 people with primary vocational skills/kloc-0.
Eco-tourism resources are unique. There are more than 40 scenic spots open to the outside world in the city, including provincial cultural protection units 15, 2 3A scenic spots, 2A scenic spots 1, provincial scenic spots 1 and 2 national nature reserves. The eastern part of the city has the largest coastal wetland on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean and the edge of the Asian continent, which has been listed as the world's key wetland protection area, and Yancheng Wetland Ecological National Park is planning to build the "Oriental Wetland Capital". Wetland reserve has the world's first wild elk reserve and national rare bird nature reserve, and is a member of the United Nations Man and Nature Biosphere. At present, there are more than 600 elk populations in Dafeng Wild Elk Reserve, ranking first in the world in terms of total wild population, reproduction rate and survival rate. There are 12 species of national key protected wild animals and 67 species of national key protected wild animals in the national rare bird nature reserve. Every year, more than 1200 red-crowned cranes come here for the winter, accounting for more than 60% of the world's wild population.
Yancheng is not only rich in resources, unique in ecology, but also unique in folk culture. Yancheng is the birthplace of Huai Opera, and is known as "the hometown of Huai Opera", "the hometown of small operas" and "the hometown of modern operas". Yancheng is also one of the three semi-acrobatic towns in China, which has unique advantages in acrobatic resources, education and training, and talent team. There are many famous people and places of interest in history. There are cultural landscapes in the urban area, such as the ancestral temple of Lu Xiufu, Prime Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the former residence of calligrapher Song Cao in the late Ming Dynasty. Baiju Town, Dafeng City is the hometown of Shi Naian, the author of Water Margin. Xixi in Dongtai has the "reading hall" of Fan Zhongyan, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Tinghu has the "dead peony" planted by Ji Bian, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty. The hometown of Joe, a famous diplomat in modern times and Hu Qiaomu, a Marxist theorist, is also in Yancheng.
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