[Management Overview]
Shihezi is located at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, at the southern edge of Junggar Basin, on the banks of Manas River and west of Urumqi 150km. The average altitude is 450.8 meters, with a total area of 7,529 square kilometers and a total population of 590,000. Among them, Shihezi City has an administrative division area of 460 square kilometers and an urban population of 290,000.
Shihezi is a municipality directly under the central government of the autonomous region, where the headquarters of the Eighth Agricultural Division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps is located, and it is one of the earliest cities in Xinjiang to open to the outside world. The famous Eurasian continental bridge (railway) and national highway 3 12 run through the north and south sides of the city respectively. There is a new Shihezi airport in the suburbs. Asia-Europe communication optical cable passes through the city center. Posts and telecommunications are developed rapidly, with strong scientific and educational strength, developed cultural and health undertakings, complete financial institutions, supporting international and domestic businesses, and powerful modern comprehensive services. The urban area has beautiful gardens and pleasant environment, and the green coverage rate reaches 42%, ranking first among cities in China. Shihezi City was successively rated as a park city and an oasis new city of an ecological city by the Central Greening Committee, as the "Best Model Award for Improving Human Living Environment" by the United Nations, as the first Habitat Award in China, and as the "Gobi Pearl" on the ancient Silk Road.
Shihezi used to be an ancient nomadic area. 1950 In February, the China People's Liberation Army entered Shihezi, and then moved to other jobs to reclaim land, which opened an unparalleled curtain of military reclamation. After more than 50 years of construction, Shihezi has now become a new city built on the Gobi Desert.
[Economic construction]
After more than 50 years of development and construction, Shihezi has formed an integrated economic structure of agriculture, industry and commerce, which is based on large agriculture and led by cotton and wool textile, sugar, food, paper, thermoelectric, plastic and building materials industries. At present, there are more than 340 industrial enterprises, 8 large state-owned farms/KLOC-0, and more than 500 kinds of industrial products, 55 of which are rated as national and provincial quality products. The products are exported to more than 50 countries and regions such as Asia, Europe, America, Africa, CIS, Hong Kong and Macao, and become an important textile and plastic industrial base in the autonomous region. At present, there are more than 40 enterprises with the right to operate import and export. Agriculture in Shihezi is a typical irrigated agriculture, with 18 large state-owned farm as the main body. The existing cultivated land area is 300,000 hectares, and the degree of agricultural mechanization is over 85%. There are four rivers in the reclamation area, including Manas River. At the same time, there are 1 1 large and medium-sized reservoirs with a total storage capacity of 460 million cubic meters. Today, Shihezi has become an important production base of grain, cotton, sweet, oil, meat and poultry in Xinjiang. .
In 200 1 year, Shihezi achieved a GDP of 2.805 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary industry was 206 million yuan, the added value of the secondary industry was120.5 million yuan, the added value of the tertiary industry was139.4 million yuan, and the per capita GDP was 9738 yuan.
[Science, Education, Culture and Health]
Shihezi is thriving in science, education, culture and health. There are 0/8 scientific research institutions/KLOC, with 32,700 scientific and technical personnel. There are 249 schools of all kinds, with students 103 and students/24 1 person, which send nearly 2500 college students to the country every year. There are 77 film projection units, 2 professional art groups, as well as cultural centers, museums and TV stations. As a famous cultural city of military reclamation, Shihezi is deeply proud of having the only monument to Premier Zhou Enlai, the only military reclamation museum and the only Ai Qing poetry museum in China. There are 0/37 health institutions/KLOC, with more than 5,900 health technicians and 5 specialized hospitals with more than 4,700 beds.
[Shihezi Economic and Technological Development Zone]
Shihezi Economic and Technological Development Zone was established in 1992 and approved by the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on 12. It was upgraded to a national economic and technological development zone in April 2000. The planned area of the development zone is 16. 1 km2, which is 2.6km away from the city center.
Shihezi Economic and Technological Development Zone is the westernmost national economic and technological development zone in China and the only export-oriented national development zone in China for countries along the Eurasian Continental Bridge. Ten years after the establishment of the zone, the development zone has shown an extraordinary and leap-forward development trend. The infrastructure construction of "six connections and one leveling" within 5.3 square kilometers developed in the first phase has been basically completed, and the facilities such as roads, water, electricity, heat and communication are complete. By the end of 20001,there were 299 registered enterprises in the development zone, with a total investment of 3 billion yuan, and the actually utilized foreign capital was 65.438+0.5 billion yuan. Major economic indicators, such as gross domestic product, total industrial output value, industrial added value, fixed assets and taxation, are increasing at a rate of more than 45% every year. A number of high-tech industrial systems such as green food, textile, fine chemicals, biochemical industry, water-saving irrigation equipment and modern agricultural machinery have been built. Shihezi Economic and Technological Development Zone enjoys various preferential policies of the state and open cities along the border.