Shishi is located on the southeast coast of Fujian, across the sea from Taiwan Province Province, between Quanzhou, a famous historical and cultural city, and Xiamen, a special economic zone. The municipal district is surrounded by the sea on three sides, with a coastline of 67.7 kilometers and an urban area of 160 square kilometers.
1988 was established with the approval of the State Council, and now it has jurisdiction over 7 towns and 2 sub-district offices with a population of 300,000 and a floating population of 2 1 10,000.
Since the founding of the city, Shishi has benefited from the good opportunity of reform and opening up and the new comprehensive reform mechanism in the experimental area, given full play to the humanistic spirit of "love to fight and dare to win", determined to reform and boldly innovate, and comprehensively promoted economic and social development, with its comprehensive strength increasing by nearly 30 times.
In 2006, the city's GDP reached 20.05 billion yuan, an increase of 15.3%, which broke through the 20 billion yuan mark for the first time.
The total fiscal revenue and local revenue reached 654.38+0.8 billion yuan and 942 million yuan respectively, increasing by 2654.38+0.2% and 25% respectively, both of which doubled compared with 2003.
Per capita GDP and per capita fiscal revenue rank first in the province.
Comprehensive economic strength ranks 22nd among the top 100 counties (cities) in China and 2nd among the top 100 counties (cities) in the whole province.
-China Leisure Clothing City.
Shishi, famous for its clothing, is the production base and distribution center of textile and clothing in China.
The textile and garment industry here has a long history and a solid foundation. After more than 20 years of careful cultivation, it has formed a textile and garment industry chain with garment processing and production as the core, covering textile, bleaching and dyeing, garment processing and production, auxiliary material production, marketing and other fields, and the industrial cluster has obvious advantages.
There are more than 3,000 garment and related industrial enterprises in the city, with more than 2,000 registered trademarks focusing on garments. With Shishi as the center, it connects the clothing plates in Jinjiang, Quanzhou and other surrounding areas in Fujian. There are 654.38 million textile and garment enterprises with an annual output value of 50 billion yuan. It is an important clothing sector in China and even in the world, with rich birds, Williamsey, hut, Pinpai, Attenborough, Binderwood, Pinpai and so on.
Shishi and its surrounding areas are integrated into the Shishi clothing plate, and then developed into a Fujian-style clothing phalanx centered on the Shishi plate.
50% of Shishi garments are exported to the international market. Crocodile, Woodpecker, Zhouzhi, Kadanu and many other internationally renowned clothing brands are purchasing raw materials and making orders in Shishi. Shishi has become an important part of the global clothing processing trade industry chain and one of the five major multinational purchasing bases of clothing in China.
Today's Shishi costumes have gone beyond the scope of administrative areas, forming a pan-Shishi concept.
Construction of Shishi started in 2003, with a total investment of1500 million yuan and a land area of110 mu. Known as the international clothing logistics distribution center, one of the largest clothing professional markets in Asia.
The first phase of the project (including four clothing trading areas, exhibition art center and leisure square) has been completed and opened to the public in 2005. At present, the second phase of the project is accelerating.
Shishi clothing city has been developing and prospering, and now it has quickly become one of the top ten clothing wholesale markets in China.
With the Cross-Strait Textile and Apparel Expo and Leisure Apparel Expo as the platform, Shishi Clothing City as the center, connecting Yuanyangchi fabric market (one of the four major fabric markets in China), Taqian garment accessories market, Yang Xia garment accessories fabric comprehensive market and Taqian garment machinery market, Shishi Textile and Apparel Business District has been continuously improved.
-industrial, trade and tourist port cities.
Shishi is rich in marine resources, including port resources, coastal tourism resources and marine biological resources, and the city's marine economy accounts for about 40% of GDP.
Shishi is one of the six domestic container transit hub ports in China.
The port has always been the most active economic zone in Shishi. According to the idea of "building a big port, developing a big industry, building a big city and realizing great development", we have continuously promoted the interaction and common prosperity of ports, industries and cities, and formed an export-oriented port economic zone with Shihu Port as the leader and Shihu Port Industrial Zone covering an area of 20 square kilometers as the focus.
Shishi has three deep-water ports: Shihu, Xiangzhi and Yongning. Among them, Shihu Port has built 50,000-ton berths, 35,000-ton berths,/kloc-0 berths and 3,000-ton berths. In 2006, the cargo throughput of Shihu Port was 8.983 million tons, and the container throughput was 432,000 TEUs, accounting for half of the total container throughput in Quanzhou, ranking in the forefront of domestic trade in China port.
Shishi is one of the "Top 100 Fishery Counties (Cities)" in China and "Top 10 Fishery Counties (Cities)" in Fujian. The output value of aquatic products processing ranks second in the province, with more than 200 kinds of main seafood, and the shallow beach area is 8 183 hectares. It has excellent fishing ports such as Xiangzhi Fishing Port (national first-class fishing port), Meilin Fishing Port and Dongpu Fishing Port (national second-class fishing port), forming Huabao Chemical Industry. We will build Xiangzhi Aquatic Products Wholesale Market covering an area of 1 10 mu with a total investment of over 100 million yuan, and build a number of well-known aquatic products breeding bases such as Xinshadi Abalone Breeding Base and Yongning Marine Cage Fish Breeding Demonstration Base.
Shishi is a famous coastal tourist city with a long cultural history and numerous historical sites. The beautiful coastal scenery composed of waves, beaches and marine erosion landforms is a blend of Hayes culture, costume culture and other characteristic cultures, as well as folk culture such as lion dance, lantern riddle, Nanyin, water splashing festival and tap dance. Shopping tourism with Shishi Clothing City as the mainstay and coastal tourism with Minnan Gold Coast and Hongdawan seaside scenic spot as the mainstay have attracted international and national sailing championships to be held in Minnan Gold Coast.
Gusao Tower, Liu Sheng Pagoda, Linluandu, Hudong Temple, Chaotian Temple, Chenghuang Temple and Luojia Temple are the main tourist attractions, and Lingxiu Mountain Forest Park and Baogai Mountain Ecological and Cultural Park are the main leisure tourism, forming a unique tourism system of Shishi.
-Famous hometown of overseas Chinese, window to Taiwan.
The towering Gusao Tower and Shihu Tower are the symbols of sea navigation in those days. From here, the Shishi people succeeded in developing Taiwan Province Province with Zheng and went to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries with foreign ships.
Today, there are nearly 300,000 overseas Chinese, compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, and more than 300,000 Taiwan Province compatriots whose ancestral home is Shishi.
The vast number of overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have a fine tradition of loving their country and their hometown, and they are full of enthusiasm for the construction and development of their hometown. Over the past few years, they have donated 630 million yuan to public welfare undertakings such as education, medical care and infrastructure.
After the establishment of the city, Shishi gave full play to the advantages of overseas Chinese and Taiwan, vigorously developed the export-oriented economy and improved economic and trade relations with Taiwan.
By the end of 2006, the city had approved a total of 994 foreign-invested enterprises/KLOC-0, with a total investment of US$ 4.02 billion and actually utilized foreign capital of US$ 2.22 billion.
In 2006, the total value of self-operated exports was US$ 368 million, an increase of 45.3%, which was higher than the provincial average.