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外文名称: Nanning City (Guangxi)
Nanning City
(Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region)
Home of People of Zhuang Ethnic Group
Nanning City has a long
history. It has been an important town in China's southern border since
ancient times. A prefecture was set up here in the Eastern Jin Dynasty
in 318 AD, dating back to some 1,600 years ago. On December 4, 1949,
Nanning was liberated and was established as a city which was directly
under the jurisdiction of the Guangxi provincial government.
In 1950, Nanning was chosen as
the capital of the province. On March 5, 1958, the Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region was established and Nanning became the capital of the
autonomous region. Now it is the region's political,
economic, financial, cultural, scientific and technological,
educational and information center.
Nanning has jurisdiction over
5 cites, that is, Xingning, Xincheng, Yongxin, Jiangnan and 2 counties,
namely, Yongning and Wuming, as well as a suburban district. It covers
a total area of 10,029 square kilometers, including an urban area of
75.3 square kilometers.
Nanning has many ethnic
minorities. In 1995, the city's total population stood at 2.7318
million, including an urban population of 1.2186 million. Besides the
Han group, the region has 35 ethnic minorities, mainly including
Zhuang, Miao, Yao, Dong, Mulao and Maonan. The Zhuang group accounts
for 63.2% of the city's population.
Enormous
Potentials for Economic Takeoff
Nanning is located in the
southern part of Guangxi, which faces the Beibu Bay with back to the
vast southwestern part of the country. It is also near Guangdong, Hong
Kong and Macao.
The city is 104 kilometers from the Qinzhou Port and 173 kilometers
from the Fangcheng Port. It lies at the juncture of three
railways of Xianggui, Qiangui and Lizhan.
When the whole Nanning-Kunming
Railway opened to traffic in 1977, the city became the hub of the vast
southwestern region's passage to the sea. It is only 200 kilometers
from the important border town of the Friendship Pass.
Guangxi borders on Vietnam
along a 1,020-kilometer borderline. The Yongjiang River is a tributary
of the Xijiang River, which is the main stream of the Pearl River.
Upon completion of the
second-phase renovation project of the Xijiang River in 1997, ships of
1,000 DWT can sail through to Hong Kong and Macao.
Nanning lies in the south of
the Tropic of Cancer and belongs to the subtropical monsoon zone which
brings sunshine and plenty of rainfall. Its average rainfall reaches
1,300 mm a year. The advantageous natural conditions make the place
rich in the production of farm and sideline products including rice,
corn, peanuts, sesame, green soy beans, black soy beans, cassava,
bluish dogbane, bamboo wood, silkworm cocoon, tea, dried ginger and
anise.
The city
turns out 40 varieties of fruits including bananas, pineapples, oranges
and tangerines, litchi, longan and water chestnut. Its forest
coverage reaches 266,000 hectares.
Nanning has by now proven more
than 20 types of minerals including coal, iron, manganese, copper,
lead, tungsten, nickel, cobalt, gold, aluminum, phosphorus, tin,
plaster stone, barite and quartz sand. Many of these minerals are of
high quality and can be developed.
The city is rich in water
resources. Its power supply is mainly provided by the Xijin
Hydroelectric Power Station and the Dahua Hydroelectric Power Station.
The terraced hydroelectric power stations with a combined generating
capacity of 12 million kilowatts on the Hongshui River is under
construction, which will ensure sufficient energy supply of energy to
the city.
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Rising
Momentum for Economic Prospect
With the deepening of the
reform and open-up drive, Nanning's economic development is gaining
increasing momentum. In 1994, its total GDP was quadrupled
six years ahead of schedule to reach 13.61 billion yuan. As a result,
it became the first city of the autonomous region to exceed 13 billion
yuan in total GDP. In 1995, its GDP topped 17.038 billion
yuan, up 16.23% over the previous year, ranking first in the region.
The city has made new progress in both
the open-up drive and export-oriented economic development.
In 1995, its total import and export volume hit 897 million U.S.
dollars, up 43.65% over the previous year. It has also
recorded fast development in infrastructure construction.
The outlook of the city has
been further improved and the urban administration tightened. In 1995,
Nanning stepped up urban construction for the purpose of establishing
the hub of passage to the sea for the vast southwestern part of the
country.
The city
launched 29 construction projects in 1995 with a total investment of
856 million yuan. It has made breakthroughs in a number of urban
infrastructure projects. New headway has also been made in the
development of the post and telecommunications sector.
It has newly set up 6 agencies
of postal services and increased 82 postal carriage vehicles.
It has also set up an express mail bureau and opened to
traffic the autonomous region's longest express mail route from Nanning
to Wuzhou.
Moreover,
it invested 500 million yuan in building telecommunications facilities.
It has a telephone exchange capacity of 220,000 lines, in addition to
33,400 sets of mobile telephones and 200,000 beepers.
Nanning has opened to service
the satellite geological station in the directions of Beijing,
Shanghai, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Shenyang. The telephone
services of Yongning and Wuming have been connected to the telephone
network of Nanning City.
The scale of post and
telecommunications and technology available in the city have been
greatly upgraded.
Nanning is one of the country's pilot cities in reforming the
comprehensive economic system and also a pilot city in optimizing the
capital structure.
It has been
approved by the State as one of the coastal cities to open wider to the
outside world. In 1991, it ranked among the country's "top 500 cities"
in terms of comprehensive economic strength.
In 1995, Nanning was chosen as the
"National Hygienic City" and one of the country's "excellent cities in
terms of comprehensive environmental treatment."
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