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China's power center, the world's hydropower capital

—— Yichang, Three Gorges

Create the brand of Yichang in Three Gorges and the "Yangtze River Economic Corridor"

In the early summer, more than 10,000 builders gathered in the mountains of Yichang to rush to build the Hurongxi Expressway with complex geology and arduous projects. This expressway from Shanghai to Tibet is an important expressway connecting eastern, central and southwestern China.

At the same time, the Yiwan (Yichang-Wanzhou) railway, which runs parallel to this artery and connects the east, the middle and the west, is also under intense construction in Qian Shan.

Two major arteries pass through Yichang, which fully highlights the city's important position in the national transportation network. Yichang has 237 kilometers of golden waterway of the Yangtze River, and Yichang Port ranks among the eight major ports of the Yangtze River. The Three Gorges Airport is an important regional airport. Today, Yichang has become an important node of the national highway network and railway network and a transportation hub in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, with huge development space.

Xiajiang Taosheng witnessed Yichang's 2400-year history of urban development. Li Youcai, secretary of Yichang Municipal Party Committee, said that Yichang, which is located in the west of Hubei and at the mouth of Xiling Gorge of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, has been enduring for thousands of years as a fortress of the Yangtze River, a military town and an important commercial port for the distribution of materials in Chongqing, Hunan, Shaanxi and Hubei. As early as 1876, Yichang was turned into a trading port. Until today, Yichang is still an important channel for the export of materials and human resources in Chongqing and other southwest regions.

Yichang is not only responsible for logistics, passenger flow and "West-to-East Gas Transmission", but also the largest hydropower energy base in China, the national power transmission center and an important node of "West-to-East Power Transmission". The total installed capacity of hydropower under construction and completion in the city is 23 million kilowatts, which is close to half of the national installed capacity of hydropower.

In the new historical period, opportunities once again favor Yichang. The construction of Gezhouba and Three Gorges Project, which attracted worldwide attention, has made Yichang the focus of the world. Yichang seized the strategic opportunity of the Three Gorges Project, the western development and the promotion of the rise of central China. Power generation shows unprecedented vitality, and urban functions are rapidly enhanced. It has been positioned as a sub-central city in Hubei Province and has become the most powerful central city between Han and Chongqing metropolitan areas.

When planning the blueprint for the future development, Yichang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government clearly put forward that it should make every effort to build an economic corridor along the Yangtze River, and make the area along the Yangtze River a gathering area of modern industries and a high-speed growth area of economic development. Accelerate the development of high-tech industries focusing on electronic information, integration of optics, mechanics and electronics and new materials, and focus on cultivating pillar industries focusing on electricity, chemicals, food and medicine. Efforts will be made to upgrade traditional industries such as textiles, building materials, light industry, machinery and metallurgy. Industrial layout is concentrated along the Yangtze River, industrial projects are concentrated in advantageous industries, industrial enterprises are concentrated in parks, and capital, technology, management and other elements are concentrated in advantageous industries, excellent enterprises and marketable products.

At present, the city has built three national and provincial engineering technology centers and more than 20 provincial enterprise technology centers, and the construction of development zones and industrial parks has been accelerated. Among them, the area along the Yangtze River has become an important growth pole of the city's economic development, forming the largest aluminum foil production base in China, with Jiangsu Nanhui, Taiwan Province Kaipusong, Changjiang Aluminum and other enterprises as the leaders, with a total investment of more than 3 billion yuan, and an important national phosphating industrial cluster with Xingfa, Yihua and Xinyangfeng as the main bodies.

According to reports, Yichang will also use the hydropower energy of the Three Gorges to vigorously develop the power carrier industry, build a number of agricultural demonstration bases with comprehensive benefits such as flood control irrigation, tourism, aquatic products and aquaculture, and make use of the advantages of water storage, navigation and power generation of the Three Gorges Project to make breakthroughs in the development of tourism and vigorously develop modern water transportation in the reservoir area.

As the location of the Three Gorges Project, the people in Yichang reservoir area have made great sacrifices for the Three Gorges Project and received strong support from the people of the whole country. Zigui, Quyuan's hometown, Xingshan, Zhaojun's hometown and Yiling, Yichang's back garden in the Three Gorges reservoir area have been connected with 68 projects in recent years, and a new round of economic and technological cooperation has been extensively and deeply carried out with counterpart support units. Among them, Shanghai alone donated 6510.5 million yuan in funds and materials to Yiling District, and a number of new projects are under discussion and demonstration.

Rising tourist capital

In 2005, the Three Gorges Dam Tourist Area, the core tourist attraction of Yichang, received more than 1 10,000 tourists for the first time, which indicated that Yichang had become one of the main tourist destinations of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and an important symbol of the rise of the tourist capital.

During the Golden Week of May 1 this year, Yichang received 724,600 tourists from home and abroad, up 13. 1% year-on-year, and the total tourism revenue was 228 million yuan, up 15.5% year-on-year. Among them, there were 9,500 overseas tourists, and the foreign exchange earned by tourism was US$ 6,543.38+786,000, up by 93.9% and 79.3% respectively.

Yichang is rich in tourism resources. According to the Classification Standard of China Tourism Resources Census issued by National Tourism Administration, Yichang has six categories of tourism resources, including three world-class tourism resources, 30 national tourism resources and 40 provincial tourism resources. Nowadays, in Yichang, the most popular tourist products are the three world-class brands of "Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, Three Gorges Project and Quyuan's Hometown". These three brands have created preconditions for Yichang tourism to become "the top of China and the best in the world".

According to the Master Plan for Tourism Development of Yichang City, the overall positioning of Yichang tourism is: taking the Great Changes of the Three Gorges as the core tourism brand, implementing the overall strategic measures of "product integration", "personality internationalization", "regional integration", "urban recreation" and "driven by big tourism industry", and building Yichang into the best destination city and reception center city in the Three Gorges area, the best tourist city in China and the world-famous hydropower tourist city.

In order to achieve this goal, Yichang vigorously promotes the new Three Gorges tourism with tourism cultural activities as the carrier. Yichang has successfully held six consecutive Yangtze Three Gorges International Tourism Festivals, and has been rated as one of the top ten festivals with the greatest development potential in China by the International Festival Association (IFEA).

Bachu culture shines in the Three Gorges.

On May 18, Chen Juan, an amateur singer from Yichang, Hunan Satellite TV, performed a number of Yichang folk songs of the Three Gorges with her female voice and male voice, which surprised everyone.

Coincidentally, just a few days ago, Wang Aimin and Wang Aihua, the peasant brothers of Changyang Tujia Autonomous County in Yichang City, won a full house applause with an original ecological folk song "Flower Knocking Sister" in the CCTV Young Singers Competition.

It is not uncommon for Chen Juan, Wang Aimin and Wang Aihua to bring the culture and art of the Three Gorges and Yichang to all parts of the country.

Yichang is a place where many cultures meet. Ba culture, Chu culture and Tujia culture are deeply accumulated. Poet Qu Yuan, beauty Wang Zhaojun, martial artist Guan Gong, scholar Ouyang Xiu and other cultural celebrities have far-reaching influence in Yichang, which makes Yichang culture have diversified characteristics. The construction of the Three Gorges Project in Yichang has injected modern characteristics into Yichang culture.

The Three Gorges engraved the folk culture of Yichang with a long history, which is not only a "living fossil" to witness Yichang's history, but also a "clown" to enrich Yichang's current cultural connotation. According to the Classification Scheme of Intangible Cultural Heritage formulated by the National Center of China National Folk Culture Protection Project, after investigation by the cultural department, there are 72 kinds of intangible cultural heritage unique to Yichang, belonging to 15 category. In the first batch of intangible cultural heritage declarations, Yichang declared ten items, such as "Dragon Boat Festival Folk Custom in Qu Yuan's Hometown", "Tujia Funeral in Changyang" and "No.1 in Yichang Yangtze River Xiajiang", which became the project with the largest number of applicants in Hubei Province.

The rich and colorful traditional cultural forms have provided a steady stream of materials for the vast number of literary and art workers, and a number of cultural products have emerged. According to statistics, in recent five years, more than 30 works of Yichang * * * have won national awards, among which 9 works such as rustic ba people have won the national "Five One Project Award".

Shanghai Counterpart Support Yichang and China Glory Three Gorges Reservoir Area (Yichang Tour)

Project promotion meeting

In order to implement the spirit of the Shanghai Leading Group Meeting on Cooperation, Exchange and Counterpart Support, promote the economic cooperation between Shanghai enterprises and the Three Gorges counterpart areas, and help the Three Gorges reservoir area to speed up industrial development, the promotion meeting of Shanghai Counterpart Support Yichang and China Guangcai Project (Yichang Tour) will be held at Jiaqingtang (No.2000 Yan 'an West Road) on the second floor of Shanghai Hongqiao Hotel at 4: 30 pm on May 3/KLOC-0. At the meeting, the Yichang Municipal Government of Hubei Province will introduce the investment environment and introduce key projects. Please come here!

"Allah" is in Yichang

Editor's note: They are either government workers, investors or tourists. They all come from Shanghai, the most prosperous city in China, and their destination is Yichang, Hubei, where the Three Gorges Project attracts worldwide attention. They all feel the hot land of Yichang in their own way and make their own contributions to the development of Yichang. Similarly, they have won the respect of Yichang people and their own city-Shanghai.

Working in Yichang, moving.

1996, he traveled to Yichang, just a passer-by; Seven years later, he went to Yichang to lead the largest local real estate development project. He is Gan Xiaoming, executive general manager of Yichang Taijiang Real Estate Co., Ltd. Seven years ago, Gan Xiaoming traveled to the Three Gorges and set foot in Yichang for the first time. Yichang left a deep memory for him.

"As an inland city, Yichang is famous for the Three Gorges Project." Gan Xiaoming is very frank. "The world-famous hydropower capital has great development potential and will not escape the eyes of any businessman."

In 2003, the pace of eastward expansion of Yichang City increased, and the largest piece of land in Yichang City-Jiang Yan Road Extension Line 1 145 mu of land use right was publicly listed for sale. At the end of 2003, Taijiang Company from Shanghai won the right to use Yichang at a sky-high price of 543 million yuan. Gan Xiaoming was sent to Yichang by the Shanghai company and became the executive general manager of Yichang Taijiang Real Estate Co., Ltd., presiding over the project of "Yangtze River Gallery Large Waterfront Community" in Yichang with a total investment of 2.9 billion yuan.

Seven years later, when she set foot in Yichang again, what Gan Xiaoming first felt was her change. Re-examining the city, Gan Xiaoming felt a lot: "Yichang is a very livable city, and I am full of confidence in investing in real estate development here."

I am excited to invest in Yichang.

Qin Zhong, general manager of Shanghai Yuehai Yichang Company, is 38 years old and a young entrepreneur.

Shanghai Yuehai Textile Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. is mainly engaged in foreign trade. With the overseas trade relations established for many years, even when the textile trade friction between China and Europe and America was the most serious in 2005, Guangdong's exports remained strong.

In order to expand the scale of the company, Shanghai Yuehai decided to establish its own upstream product base. After careful selection, the spinning base of Shanghai Yuehai finally settled in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei Province.

"Over the years, we have had a good cooperative relationship with textile enterprises in Yichang. Their honesty and trustworthiness and the enthusiasm of the local government to attract investment attracted us. " Qin Zhongru explained why he invested in Yichang.

He said that according to the company's plan, the second and third phases of investment will be carried out later.

Now, Yuehai Company has been listed as one of the key projects by the local government, and designated full-time personnel to provide relevant services for Yuehai. If Guangdong needs anything, the local government will respond in time.

Qin Zhong especially thanked the local government for its support. "Without the local government, the development of my company would not be so smooth; For foreign companies, the local investment environment and development environment are the most important and the most concerned by foreign companies. " Qin Zhong said that the investment environment in Yichang made him feel that his original choice was not wrong, and it also gave him confidence in expanding the company's scale.

Travel in Yichang, have fun.

April 6, 2006 is a memorable day for 64-year-old Shanghai tourist Hua. On this day, he traveled to Chexi Scenic Area in Yichang with a travel agency in Shanghai, which coincided with the opening of the Three Gorges Shadow Play Museum. He was lucky enough to be the opening guest, thus winning the surprise of "free car tour for life".

When traveling to Yichang for the first time, Hua was intoxicated by the magnificent scenery of the Three Gorges, and he was deeply impressed by the beautiful Yichang city and the enthusiastic Yichang people.

"When I stood in Tanziling overlooking the Three Gorges Dam, I felt a sense of pride." Hua said: "All China people should visit the Three Gorges Dam and see the greatness of our motherland."

The majestic Three Gorges Dam and the magnificent Three Gorges of the Yangtze River filled China with interest, while Yichang's unique folk culture fascinated him. In Chexi Scenic Area, he saw the shadow play, the originator of film and television art, which was called "a must in the East" by westerners, and saw the original traditional folk crafts such as waterwheels and wine making. "These things can only be seen on TV before, but now they feel' unique' when they are there."

"Yichang's streets are clean and tree-lined, which is very suitable for human habitation. I think it must be very comfortable to live in such a city. " The old man Hua commented on Yichang.

What impressed Hua and his companions most was the enthusiasm of Yichang people. Whenever you ask for directions, citizens will enthusiastically give directions; Even the waiters in the hotel speak softly, which makes them feel like spring breeze.

"I'm so glad you came on this trip to Yichang. I will definitely revisit my old place in my lifetime. " Old man Hua said that he would invite more companions to visit the Three Gorges and Yichang again.