Dongyang Travel Guide

 

Dongyang (with a population of 797,700 people) lies in the central area of Zhejiang Province, covering an area of 1,739 square kilometers. It administrates 11 towns, 1 county, 6 sub district offices, and it belongs to the Delta Economic Region of the Yangtze River. It has been ratified by the State Council as an open-up city and a famous cultural city with a long history in the central area of Zhejiang. Dongyang County was first set up in 2nd year of Xin Ping Reign of East Han Dynasty (195 A.D.), and it has been over 1,800 years since then. Dongyang is famous for the reputation of "Prestigious County of Wu Region" and "Land of picturesque scenery." Also it is celebrated for its wonderful and distinguished style of art, architecture and education. Dongyang owns the fame of "home of talent" for a galaxy of capable people. Such as Jin Fuzhuang, a famous general for northern expedition. Shao Piaoping was an outstanding journalist of our time. The noted physical scientist Yan Jici, and the celebrated botanist Cai Xitao. 

 

 

 

 

The reform and opening policy has accelerated development of economy, growth of comprehensive strength, enlargement of opening, change of city and country appearance, promotion of standard of people’s living. The city ranks among the top 100 counties (cites) in china, and the first well-off counties (cities) in Zhejiang Province. It is listed as one of the 17 cities with strong economic development, and of the first 13 highly civilized cities(county-level cities) in Zhejiang. In the year 2005, the city's GDP reached 15.984 billion RMB, and its revenue added up to 1.379 billion RMB. The per capita disposable income for urban households totaled 13,349 RMB, and the per capita net income for farmers amounted to 6,903 RMB.

Nowadays, Dongyang carries out all-round city development project. The urban construction has been changing with each passing day. In the north of the city, a new area (covering 6 square kilometers) has been built up in 3 years. There are 181 enterprises in industrial area (covering 7 square kilometers). In the west, the infrastructure of provincial development area (covering 25 square kilometers) has been accomplished. 320 enterprises have been settled down there. In the south of the city, Dongyang government has quickened the development of Zhejiang's Movie and TV Culture area. In the east, the government has developed the Eastern industrial area (covering 20 square kilometers). The urban area is 36 square kilometers now contrasted to 12 square kilometers in 1997. The population of urban area is 797,700 with the population of 80,000 in 1997. A modern middle city has taken shape.

Dongyang has rich talents resource outside Dongyang (who have the households of Dongyang). There are 200,000 talents in all walks of life, such as Building, Science and Education, etc. reflecting Dongyang talent's characteristics. The talent outside Dongyang got 40 billion Yuan yearly output and 6 billion Yuan net income is. In order to make full use of this advantage, Dong yang government has carried out "Four Fetching" project. The four fetching are fetching enterprises, fetching capital, fetching technological project and fetching technical manpower forces. This project will accelerate Dongyang's economic development.

Dongyang has been called as "Home of Culture" and "Home of Education" for a long time. There are 8,000 senior position employees, including 10 academicians, more than 800 doctors and post-doctors are present here. In 1989, "Peoples Daily" once front-paged the news titled" a cradle of hundreds of doctors and thousands of professors" and praised the city as the home of professors and doctors. It also has been granted other titles, including "Excellent Tourist City", "National Advanced City in Technology" etc. The first “Dongyang Doctors’ Forum” was held in 2005.

 

During the “Eleventh-Five-Year-Plan” period, Dongyang will adhere to the scientific view of development as its guideline, follow the overall requirement of “developing the city in a scientific way, strengthening the harmony of the society, building a well-off society in an all-round way, and making headways”, and endeavor towards “a city with strong industry and thriving trade, with famous movie and TV culture, with large-scale construction projects, and with an advanced cultural and educational cause”, in order to forward an all-round and coordinated development in its economy, politics, culture, and society, to upgrade its overall competitiveness, to achieve the goal of a well-off society in an all-round way by the year 2010, and to lay a solid foundation for advancing the accomplishment of the modernization program in the main.