Zoucheng City is a county-level city directly under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province. Located in the southwest of Shandong Province, at 116°24′-117°30′ east longitude and 35°11′-35°32′ north latitude, it is the birthplace of Confucius and Mencius, the famous thinkers and educators in Chinese history. It is known as " The homeland of Confucius and Mencius, the birthplace of culture." Zoucheng is adjacent to the Yimeng Mountains to the east, the Luxi Plain to the west, the Xuhuai Fortress to the south, and the Taidai Southern Vein to the north adjacent to Qufu, the capital of Lu. The total area is 1,613 square kilometers, and the urban built-up area is 24 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over three sub-district offices: Gangshan, Qianquan and Fushan, Tianhuang, Zhangzhuang, Chengqian, Dashu, Xiangcheng, Yishan, Kanzhuang, Tangcun, Guoli, Shiqiang, Beisu, Taiping, The 14 towns of Zhongndian and Pingyangsi have a total population of 1.1 million, including an urban population of 250,000, mainly Han residents, with 23 ethnic minorities including Hui, Manchu, Buyi, Yi, Miao, Mongolian, Li, and Zhuang widely distributed. . The terrain of Zoucheng is high in the east and low in the west. It has mountainous peaks, rolling hills, and fertile plains. Each of the three landforms accounts for one-third. It has a warm temperate transitional monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, a mild climate, and beautiful scenery. Zoucheng was known as the "Holy Land of Zoulu" in ancient times. It was the birthplace of Chinese Confucianism. County, it was followed until October 1992, when the county was removed and a city was established, called Zoucheng City.
Zoucheng has a long history and culture and rich tourism resources. It is a famous cultural city with a history of three thousand years. There are outstanding people and sages here in large numbers. There is Mother Meng, a virtuous mother who moved three times to choose her neighbors and took the opportunity to teach her children. There is Mencius, a Confucian sage who is praised as "the merit is not inferior to that of Yu". There is also a legend passed down for generations, " Kuang Heng, a Confucian scholar of the Western Han Dynasty who worked hard to study, has left a large number of precious historical and cultural heritage for Zoucheng. There are more than 300 cultural relics and historic sites of various types in Zoucheng, including There are 2 national key cultural relics protection units and 8 provincial key cultural relics protection units. The "Three Meng" (Meng Temple, Meng Mansion, Meng Lin) ancient architectural complex that has gone through many vicissitudes and still shows its past style, the "Four Mountains" cliff carvings, which are exquisite Buddhist culture and calligraphy art, and the largest underground palace in the south of Beijing and north of the Yangtze River ——The Tomb of the Minglu Huang King, a famous historical and cultural mountain known as "Zou Lu Xiuling" and "Dainan Wonder" - Yishan... The rich cultural landscape and natural landscape complement each other, forming Zoucheng's unique "mountain "Water·Sage" comprehensive tourist area is a "history museum" for studying Chinese and Eastern culture and a famous cultural tourist attraction.
Zoucheng is rich in mineral resources with a full range of varieties. There are more than 20 varieties in 8 categories, mainly coal, granite, and limestone, followed by yellow sand, kaolin, quartz stone, marble, barite, etc. The coal storage area within the territory is 375 square kilometers, with geological reserves of more than 4.1 billion tons. The country's largest enterprise - Yankuang Group and the country's largest pit mouth power plant - Zouxian Power Plant are both located in Zoucheng.
Zoucheng is a national historical and cultural city and an emerging energy industrial city. Since the reform and opening up, millions of people in Zoucheng have taken advantage of the east wind of opening up, benefited from the spring rain of reform, united and worked hard, worked hard, kept pace with the times, worked hard to develop, and achieved fruitful results in economic and social undertakings. In 2004, the city's GDP reached 23.332 billion yuan, an increase of 20.6% over the previous year; local fiscal revenue reached 1 billion yuan, an increase of 26.89%; total retail sales of consumer goods reached 4.47 billion yuan, an increase of 1.77%; fixed asset investment above designated size completed 8.02 billion yuan , an increase of 25.3. By persisting in optimizing the structure and improving production conditions, the rural economy has grown steadily.
Zoucheng is a national commercial grain base. On the basis of stabilizing grain production, it has further intensified the adjustment of agricultural structure, fully utilized the advantages of the mountainous areas in the east, and vigorously developed the production of specialty forest fruits, including 10 walnuts, pomegranates, large cherries, and apples. The construction of economic forests of 10,000 acres has begun to take shape; we have vigorously promoted the agricultural technological revolution, and focused on promoting agricultural efficiency and farmers' income, and strengthened the promotion and application of high-tech, excellent scientific research results, and excellent varieties. The city has now built 7 high-standard agricultural science and technology demonstration parks. , the demonstration and driving effect is obvious; actively implement the leading agricultural enterprise driving strategy, guide the livestock breeding industry to develop regionally and on a large scale, improve the level of agricultural industrialization, and promote rural economic development. By persisting in deepening reform and structural reorganization, the comprehensive competitiveness of the industrial economy has been significantly enhanced. We have unswervingly promoted the strategic adjustment of the economic structure, strived to improve corporate management, system and technological innovation capabilities, and achieved two major changes in key enterprises from expansion and extension to enrichment, and from quantitative accumulation to qualitative improvement. Industrial production has risen rapidly, and the city has formed an industrial system with reasonable structure and complete categories, focusing on six pillar industries: coal, electricity, brewing, chemicals, textiles, and building materials. There are nearly 3,000 product varieties, mainly raw coal, chemical fertilizers, and liquor. , beer, machine-made paper, ceramics, clothing, cement, granite plates, chemical products, hardware tools, mechanical castings, among which more than 100 products such as clothing, ceramics, hardware tools, and denim are best-selling in the international market. In 2004, the city's industrial enterprises above designated size achieved sales revenue of 29.4 billion yuan and profits and taxes of 5.464 billion yuan.
Adhere to optimizing the environment and attracting investment, and further expand the degree of opening up to the outside world. After joining the WTO, Zoucheng followed the requirements of "park-based industrial development, high-tech park development, and large-scale enterprise development" and focused on the functional positioning of building an industrial production base, a high-tech industrial base, and a scientific research talent training base, with a high starting point and high level. Plan and construct provincial economic development zones. Its two characteristics are the development of high-tech and the utilization of the comparative advantages of coal and electricity resources, and efforts to cultivate and develop six major industries including bioengineering, new materials, coal chemicals, aluminum products, mechanical and electrical equipment, and modern logistics. The development zone has formed an urban road framework of "six vertical and eight horizontal", and built a telecommunications bureau, a water plant with a daily water supply of 50,000 tons, a sewage treatment plant with a daily sewage treatment of 80,000 tons, a 110 kV substation, a 35 kV There are 2 substations, which realize the "nine connections and one level" of roads, communications, power supply, drainage, sewage treatment, etc., as well as environmental greening and beautification. In 2004, it was recommended as “China’s Development Zone with the Most Development Potential” by the China National Conditions Survey and Research Center. Zoucheng City used this as a carrier to attract investment, building a nest and attracting phoenixes, attracting more than 90 companies to settle in, with a total investment of more than 5 billion yuan, including 9 companies from Japan, the United States, South Korea and other countries. The Zoucheng City Party Committee and Municipal Government solemnly promise to sincerely invite friends at home and abroad to invest and start businesses in Zoou with the best environment, the highest quality services, and the most preferential policies to develop their ambitions.
Vigorously improve the quality and grade of construction and initially build a modern medium-sized city framework. Focusing on building Jining City into a large city with a group structure, we will firmly establish the concept of city management and strive to build an economic development platform. Dongcheng New District, which covers an area of ??15 square kilometers and integrates administrative offices, finance and commerce, culture, education, entertainment, and residential areas, has been developed in the eastern part of the city; it continues to increase the construction of urban infrastructure and build a modern "ring on the outside and network on the inside" The urban road system, a large number of high-quality projects such as People's Square, Cultural Square, Sports Park, Museum, Radio and Television Building, etc. have been completed one after another, enriching the city's connotation and improving its image; highlighting the characteristics of the historical and cultural city, continuously increasing the city's greening and beautification efforts, and striving to Improve the quality of the ecological environment and strive to build a city with distinctive landscape culture.