Linyi city is located in the southeast of Shandong Province, adjacent tothe Yellow Sea and North Jiangsu in the south. It has jurisdiction over 9counties, 3 districts, 180 townships, streets and 7151 administrative villages(residences), with 10.36 million people and a total area of 17200 squarekilometers. Plains, mountainous areas and hills each account for one third ofthe total area. It is the city with the largest population and area in ShandongProvince. Linyi is a national model city of double support, China's excellenttourism city, national model city of environmental protection, China'sgeothermal City, China's famous calligraphy City, China's famous market city,and a national advanced city of civilization.
Linyi is an ancient city with a long history. Linyi has a history of morethan 2500 years. Qiyang city was built in the spring and Autumn period, LangyaCounty in the Qin Dynasty, Linyi County in the Han Dynasty and Yizhou Prefecturein the Qing Dynasty. Linyi district was set up in 1950. In 1994, with theapproval of the State Council, Linyi city was established. Linyi has a splendidhistory and culture. The famous bamboo slips of Sun Tzu's art of war and SunBin's art of war were unearthed in Linyi city. Thirteen of Confucius' 72disciples grew up in Linyi. In history, seven of the 24 filial piety were inLinyi. Zhuge Liang, Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing and abacus inventor Liu Hong wereall born or lived here.
Linyi is a famous old revolutionary base in China. During the Anti JapaneseWar and the war of liberation, our party and our army successively establishedthe revolutionary bases in Binhai, central Shandong and southern Shandong. InAugust 1940, Shandong Provincial wartime work Promotion Committee, the firstprovincial people's power under the leadership of the Communist Party of China,was established here, and it was renamed Shandong Provincial People's Governmentin 1945. Shandong party, government and army organs, the 115th division of theEighth Route Army, the first column of the Eighth Route Army, the New FourthArmy, organs of the East China Bureau, and the East China field army werestationed here for a long time. Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yi, Luo Ronghuan, Xu Qianqian,Su Yu and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation all workedhere. Among the 10 marshals and 1604 generals appointed from 1955 to 1965, threemarshals and more than 400 generals fought here. At that time, there were 4.2million people in the base area, more than 200000 of them joined the army, morethan 1 million of them supported the army, and more than 100000 revolutionarymartyrs gave their precious lives here. During the revolutionary war, a largenumber of model figures emerged, such as hongsao and Yimeng six sisters.
Linyi is a city rich in resources. The output of agricultural and sidelineproducts is large and the quality is excellent. There are eight characteristicbases of peanut, tobacco, silkworm, willow, ginkgo, honeysuckle, chestnut andtea, and two advantageous industries of vegetables and fruits. The export volumeof dehydrated vegetables ranked first in China for many years. There are manykinds of mineral resources. 82 kinds of mineral resources have been discoveredand proved, among which diamond reserves rank second in China, quartz sandstone,ceramic soil, dolomite and granite reserves rank first in the province. Freshwater resources are abundant. The total amount of water resources is 5.536billion cubic meters, accounting for one sixth of the total amount of waterresources in the province. More than 90000 water conservancy projects have beenbuilt, including 37 large and medium-sized reservoirs, with a total capacity of3.41 billion cubic meters. Tourism resources are characteristic. At present,there are 8 grade 4A tourist areas and 11 Grade 3A tourist areas in the city.The main peak of Mengshan mountain is 1156 meters above sea level, the secondhighest peak in Shandong Province, known as "Yadai". It is a national 4A scenicspot, known as "natural oxygen bar" and "health preserving longevity mountain";the 3800 meter long natural Reclining Buddha in Junan is known as "worldwonder"; the 6100 meter long Yishui Underground Grand Canyon is known as "thefirst hole of China's underground river rafting"; The rubber dam at Xiaobudongof Yihe River is 1247 meters long, all of which are listed in the Guinness Bookof world records. A number of historical sites and tourist attractions, such asYinqueshan Han tomb Bamboo Museum, Wang Xizhi's former residence, MengliangguCampaign Memorial Hall, Shandong Tianyu (Pingyi) Nature Museum, are well-knownthroughout the province and even the whole country.
Linyi is a commercial capital with developed logistics industry. Atpresent, there are 1004 markets in the city, with an estimated turnover of 93.37billion yuan in 20__. It has become a systematic and intensive modern logisticsdistribution center. Among them, Linyi Wholesale City has 68 professionalwholesale markets. There are nearly 70000 Zhejiang people doing business in thewholesale city alone. The daily passenger flow of the wholesale city is morethan 300000, and the daily vehicle flow is 50000. The turnover in 20__ reached53.8 billion yuan, forming a pattern of "Yiwu in the South and Linyi in thenorth". The industrial characteristics are outstanding. Relying on theadvantages of Commerce and logistics, we have implemented the strategy of"Prospering industry with commerce", extended the industrial chain of processingindustry, and initially formed eight pillar industries with comparativeadvantages, including machinery, building materials, food, wood industry,medicine, chemical industry, textile and metallurgy.
Linyi is a hub city with obvious location advantages. Beijing Shanghai andRidong expressways and Yanshi and Jiaoxin railways form a double cross in ourcity, with 20000 km of highway traffic mileage, ranking the forefront of theprovince; it is about 100 km away from Lanshan, Rizhao and Lianyungang ports,and 200 km away from Qingdao port; Linyi airport is a national second-classairport, which has opened a number of domestic routes, and a three-dimensionaltraffic pattern has been formed.
Linyi is a growth city with strong advantages. Due to historical andnatural conditions, seven counties in Linyi were listed as poor counties in1985. After 20__ years of hard work, it took the lead in getting rid of povertyin 18 contiguous poverty alleviation areas in China by 1995. In recent years,Linyi has seized the opportunity to speed up its development, and the advantagesof late development have become increasingly apparent, especially the regionaladvantages of connecting the South with the north, the environmental advantagesof beautiful mountains and rivers, the institutional advantages of activeprivate economy, and the political advantages forged by Yimeng spirit, whichhave promoted the economic and social development of Linyi into a fast lane.
In 20__, the gross output value was 1958.82 billion yuan, an increase of13.2%; the annual added value of industries above designated size was 88.42billion yuan, an increase of 16.5%. Investment in fixed assets above designatedscale reached 89.75 billion yuan, an increase of 26.1%. The total retail salesof social consumer goods reached 81.69 billion yuan, an increase of 23.6%, a newhigh in recent years. The total import and export volume of the whole year wasUS $3.99 billion, an increase of 27%; among them, the export volume was US $2.63billion, an increase of 17.1%; the import volume was US $1.36 billion, anincrease of 51.6%. The local fiscal revenue of the city was 8.02 billion yuan,an increase of 16.7%, of which the tax revenue was 5.88 billion yuan, accountingfor 73.3% of the local fiscal revenue. State and local tax revenue totaled 13.54billion yuan, up 13.7%, of which 8.47 billion yuan was from state tax revenue,up 12.8%; 5.07 billion yuan was from local tax revenue, up 15.1%. The per capitadisposable income of urban residents was 14998 yuan, an increase of 17%; the percapita net income of farmers was 5383 yuan, an increase of 14%. At the end of20__, Linyi ranked fifth in the competitiveness of Chinese cities published bythe Chinese Academy of Sciences, and ranked 27th in the "30 most concernedcities in the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up" selected by thepeople's network.
In the next period, the general work idea of Linyi city is: around thegeneral goal of building a prosperous, strong and beautiful "big Linyi, newLinyi", adhere to the "four development goals" of building an economic citymatching the population city, "a strong business city with logistics world", acultural city with ancient and modern culture, and a livable city with superiorwaterfront ecological environment, and actively promote the transformation froman agricultural city to an industrial city "Five transformations and promotions"are made to strengthen the city in industry, from the traditional trade city tothe modern logistics city, from the inward oriented economy city to the outwardoriented economy city, from the ecological resources city to the ecologicalgarden city, and from the population city to the human resources city. Effortsare made to realize "Three Leading Developments" in the Lunan Economic Belt,Huaihai Economic Zone, and the old revolutionary base areas of China. By 20__,we will strive to achieve a regional GDP of 250 billion yuan, a per capita GDPof more than 3000 US dollars, and a local fiscal revenue of 12 billion yuan.