China Chengde City:
Chengde
General Information: chengde lies in the northeast of Hebei province. It Neighbors on Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, and borders Tanshan, Qinhuangdao and Zhangjiakou. It is not far from the Bohai Bay to the southeast. Shuangqiao District, where the municipal government is situated, is 224 kilometers from Beijing, 200 kilometers from the Capital Airport, 320 kilometers from Tianjin, 360 kilometers from Tianjin, 360 kilometers from Qinhuangdao and 526 kilometers from Shijiazhuang, the capital of the province.
Regionalism
¡¡Chengde is a city under the domination of Hebei provincial government. It includes 3 districts: Shuangqiao, shuangluan and Yingshouyingzi; 8 counties-Weichang, Fengning, Kuancheng, Longhua, Luanping, Chengde, Pingquan and Xinglong, among which Weichang is a Manchu and Mongolian autonomous county, Fengning and Kuancheng are Manchu and Mongolian autonomous counties. Shuangqiao District, the seat of the municipal government, is the political, economical and cultural center of city.
Geography: Agriculture
¡¡Chengde has rich agricultural and byproduct resources. It is an important production base of corn, almond, haw, chestnut, silkworm, beef cattle, edible fungus, season different vegetable, potato, and corn beef breeding of the country. The agriculture industrial structure will be adjusted the 10 "dragon-formed" economies will be emphasized for development so as to promote the development of the ecological agriculture and characteristic agriculture.
Industry
¡¡The characteristic industry of Chengde city has begun to form its own system. A new industrial structure has been formed with its backbone industries including green food, characteristic medicine, metallurgy and mineral, photoelectricity machinery and new-fashioned construction material, etc, and the famous brand products such as almond juice, conveying machine system, three-dimensional garage, spinning, costume and traditional Chinese medicine and patent medicines. A group of important enterprises such as Chengde Steel Co. Ltd, Lolo Group, Chengde Traditional Chinese Medicine Group and Dixxian Group, etc. have come forth and increased rapidly in the recent years.
Nature: Located in an area of transition from Yanshan Mountainous area to Inner Mongolia Plateau and from the northeast to southwest in topographic feautres, Chengde has two natural area: Yanshan Mountainous Area and Bashang Plateau Aaea. The cllimate is that of transition from half-dry to half-humid temperature zone. The natural scenery has the feature of the combination of "the gracefulness of the South and the majesty of the North of China".The total area of Chengde if 39,500 Km2, population 3.56 million, average elevation 350 meters, annul average temperature 5.6¡æ, annual average precipitation 539.9 millimeters, annual sunshine time 2,848 hours and annual frost-free period is 127 days.
Chengde Economy: Chengde is one of the first cities to open to the outside world. At present, an opening pattern which makes Beijing and Tianjin as base, connects coast and the other places of the country and which takes the utilization of foreign capital economy and trade simultaneously, multiple-level, a wide field and complete direction system has been formed. Capital invitation has made great achievements. A series of preferential policies to encourage the foreign investment have been made and put into function. In industrialcommerce, taxation, banking, security, information and communication and many other aspect, a complete social service system has been established anda good environment for investment has been made. Economic, technical, cultural and commercial contacts have been successfully made with the U.S.A, Japan, Germany and France, etc and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan more than 20 countries and regions. Friendship connections between Chengde and Takasaki and Kashiwa of Japan, Selsam of Belgium and Dakota state of the U.S.A have been made. Chengde is now doing business with more than 50 countries. The export goods have increased in variety from only food and oil supplies to clothes, metal, mineral, machinery electronic, light industry, chemical industry and handcraft, etc more than 12 series 100 kinds.
¡¡Science and education of Chengde have been developing very rapidly in the recent years. There are more than 100,000 professional of all kinds in Chengde. Many important scientific research achievements have been made. The education has been developing very fast. There are 6 colleges and universities, 6 professional institutes, which have prepared a great deal people of ability of all kinds for the economical development of the city.
History: Chengde is called the "Pearl Outside the Great Wall ".It has been enlisted among the "24 Famous Historical and Cultural Cities", the "44 Major Scenic Attractions of China",the "10 Most Important Scenic Attractions of China", the "40 Leading Scenic Spots of China", the "First Group of the Best Tourist Cities of China". The UNESCO enlisted Chengde Mountain Resort and its surrounding
Chengde Tourism: chengde lies in the northeast of Hebei province. It Neighbors on Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, and borders Tanshan, Qinhuangdao and Zhangjiakou. It is not far from the Bohai Bay to the southeast. Shuangqiao District, where the municipal government is situated, is 224 kilometers from Beijing, 200 kilometers from the Capital Airport, 320 kilometers from Tianjin, 360 kilometers from Tianjin, 360 kilometers from Qinhuangdao and 526 kilometers from Shijiazhuang, the capital of the province.
Regionalism
¡¡Chengde is a city under the domination of Hebei provincial government. It includes 3 districts: Shuangqiao, shuangluan and Yingshouyingzi; 8 counties-Weichang, Fengning, Kuancheng, Longhua, Luanping, Chengde, Pingquan and Xinglong, among which Weichang is a Manchu and Mongolian autonomous county, Fengning and Kuancheng are Manchu and Mongolian autonomous counties. Shuangqiao District, the seat of the municipal government, is the political, economical and cultural center of city.
Chengde Attractive points: Tourist resources in Chengde are the richest of the whole province, including 8 state-level protected cultural relic sites, 35 province-level protected cultural relic sites, 30 natural scenic spots, 20 forest parks, state-level nature-protected zones and folk vacation zones. Chengde Mountain Resort is the largest royal garden exiting in the world, and the Eight Outer Temples is the Largest temple group in the world.
¡¡With the development of the opening to the outside world, tourist industry has developed rapidly. Not only that the Mountain Resort and the Eight Outer Temples and the other surrounding natural scenic spots have been improved in many ways, but also that the tourist places have been extended in all directions into the counties. The Golden Line for Tour and the Beijing-Chaoyang Line for Tour have been perfected. Around the two lines, different tourist systems have appeared, such as "Puningsi Temple Worship Tour" , been installed."Panjiakou Park on Water", etc. With the development of the tourist resources, the tourist industries are also developing very fast. Now there are 50 hotels for foreigners, 25 star-level hotels, 65 travel services. A group of
high-level interpreter guides has turned out. The basic equipments connecting with "eating, lodging, traffic, sightseeing, shopping and recreation services:" have been installed.
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