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¡¡¡¡Located in the southeast of China, the south of Shanghai Economic Development
Zone,and with Wenzhou connected to its north, Ruian of Zhejiang province is a
coastal city with Feiyun River passing thought to the east into the sea. Its continental
area is 1360SQKM, with 21KM seabank,adjanting to Dabei Islands and Beilu Islands
neibouring the sea. Its history is very long and dated back to 1600 years ago
since its establishment as a county. In 1987 it's upgraded administratively as
a city belonging to Wenzhou,one of the 14 coastal cities opening to the outside
in China. The total population is 1.16 million. ¡¡¡¡Ruian belongs to subtropical
zone with maritime monsoon climate,the annual average temperature is 18¡æ, its
no-frost term is 271 days,annual precipitation is 1568mm. The arable land area
in the city is 472000Mu, fresh water river surface is 10000Mu, 190000Mu,forestry
land is 864000Mu, rich in mineral treasures.In the upper reaches of Feiyun River,Shanxi
Reservoir, a large scale pivotal water project is under construction.100 hectres
away from the Feiyun River, there're rich petrol resources under exploitation
and development. ¡¡¡¡Ruian has been prosperious in township and well-developed in trade ever
since ancient times.The modern industries appeared in the beginning of the 20th
century,Baihao Dairy Products Factory and Liumeng Iron Factory were among the
most famous in Southern China. Ever since the reform and opening to the outside,
Ruian has been leading the way in establishing socialist market economy system.
The very influencious Wenzhou Patern in China is specially characterized in Ruian.
Ruian is the earliest county which is authorized to open to the outside and act
as comprehensive reform experimental area, it's one of the most vigorous regions
in the economic development of China. It has been established as a regional industrial
production base relying on central township and with private economy as its leading
strength. Machinery,car and motorcycle parts,plastics,textiles,shoe-making,and
crafts industries are with obvious advantages in scale. In 1992, Ruian rushed
into the Top100 Counties in China and was awarded the title of Star County.In
1996, GDP of the city reached 13.52billion RMB,delivered sales value in export
was 2.8 billion RMB. According to the current exchange rate,the per capita GDP
is 11481 RMB, so the living standard of people in Ruian has already meet the Wealthy
Standard posed by Chinese central government.In the south of Zhejiang province, Ruian is the famous city as home of
overseas Chinese. There're over 60,000 people from Ruian and living in more thant
60 countries and regions in the world. There're 150,000 people from Ruian doing
business in establishing factories in the whole country,forming many Ruian Streets,Ruian
Villages. Chinese medias say:"Wherever market exist,Ruian people exsit,wherever
market does not exsit,there's Ruian people developing market." ¡¡¡¡Nowadays,Ruian
has stepped into the medium stage of industrialization, the city infrostructure
is being perfected, the people are confident and undertaking the business for
the second time,introducing capital and tatents to push the economy to a larger
scale,higher level and higher standard,and expecting to become a modernized medium-scale
city with major economic index reaching the current standard in the medium-class
developed countries by 2010. | | |