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外文名称: Shenyang City
Situated in central Liaoning Province, Shenyang
City is the center of the economic zone in Northeast China and an old
heavy- industrial base in China. It covers an area of 12,980 sq km and
has a population of 6.71 million. It has one city, nine districts and
three counties under its jurisdiction. The surrounding terrain is flat.
Affected by monsoon, its climate is humid and semi-humid continental,
with four distinctive seasons in a year. The annual average temperature
is 8°C.
The surrounding areas 100 km
from Shenyang, are dotted with cities: Tielin, a city of coal and
grain; Fushun, a city of coal; Anshan, a city of steel;
Benxi, a city of coal and iron; Liaoyang, a city of chemical fabrics;
Panjing, a city of petrochemicals; and Yinkou, a harbor city. These
cities are networked with highways leading to Shenyang, which forms an
economic zone with a cluster of cities in central Liaoning Province,
with Shenyang at its core. The economic zone is known both at home and
abroad for its natural resources and its economic foundation.
Known as "the home of machinery", Shenyang has
been the nation's base of the heavy industry in machinery equipment
manufacturing since the founding of New China. A modern comprehensive
industrial system has been introduced, after the development of more
than 40 years, in machinery equipment manufacturing, automobile
manufacturing, medicines, chemicals, and electronics information.
In machinery manufacturing, it is better known for
electricity transfer and transforming equipment, machine tools, general
machinery and heavy mining equipment, and light automobile
manufacturing. Pharmaceutical products include vitamins, cynnematins,
and "Shenyang Red Medicine". The chemical industry has a whole range
including petroleum, chemical engineering, chlorinate alkalinity and
rubber products.
The electronic
information industry has developed high technology products such as
printers, industrial controlling machines, bar codes, computer
software, small-sized stored program-controlled telephone switchboards,
and intelligent instruments.
By the end
of 1990s, Shenyang had grown into one of the main light automobile
bases in China. It has over 120 automobile-related firms, with an
annual production capacity of 86,000 units. Light trucks, large and
medium-sized passenger automobiles, and automobile engines have been
its main products. The sales of the Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Company
attached to the No.1 Automobile Manufacturing Group has accounted for
over 90 percent of the city's total. And its marketing-sharing rate of
the light passenger automobile has reached 16.6 percent.
The city has forged cooperation with 20 of the top
500 automobile manufacturers in the world, including the General
motors, Mitsubishi, and Toyota, and has tried to improve the products'
quality by importing high technology and key machinery.
With a favorable location, Shenyang is also the
largest exchange center of capital, foreign funding, information and
human resources in Northeast China. The annual output of the tertiary
industry is more than 49% of its GDP. Commodity distribution is well
developed in Shenyang. Shenyang has 535 markets of different types.
Four of them are whole sale markets at the national level (there are
only 8 of its kind in the country).
In
addition, there are 56 markets of materials, and special markets in
Shenyang, with an annual turnover of 12 billion yuan. They deal in
steel, timber, coal, nonferrous metals, machinery and chemical
engineering.
Commercial markets include
the Wu'ai Market, China Shoe Market and other markets of vegetables,
fruits, detergents and cosmetics.
Given
the full-fledged urban functions and advancement of urban
infrastructure Shenyang is the transportation and communications pivot,
which is connected to Northeast China and areas south of the Great
Wall. The Shenyang Taoyuan Airport, the biggest in the Northeast region
and the state approved international airport, has opened more than 40
international and domestic routes which fly directly to the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea, Russia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, etc.
Being the biggest railway hub in Northeast China,
Shenyang is a strategic passage. Six rail arteries link Shenyang to
places in all directions, and off direct linkage to Mongolia, D.P.R.K
and Russia.
Five national highways and
six provincial highways run through Shenyang. The 375-km
Shenyang-Dalian Expressway is nicknamed "the first highway in China".
With one ring and four mediating routes as the frame of its
expressways, Shenyang has built up a high-grade and intensive highway
network, which is composed of national and provincial arteries, and
county and town-ship basic highways. With its well-developed post and
telecommunications infrastructure, Shenyang is the center of
communications and information exchanges.
Shenyang now has two national-level development
zones: the Shenyang Economic and Technological Development
Zone, and the Shenyang New and High Technological Industrial
Development Zone, with its economic index and compressive strength
ranking among the top 53 national-level scientific and technological
development zones in the country.
Shenyang has become a base of developing new and high-tech industries
in the Liaoshen area and with its window open wide to the outside world.
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