Nanjing, formerly known as Jinling and Jiankang, is the capital of Jiangsu Province, a sub-provincial city, a megacity and the core city of Nanjing metropolitan area. It is an important central city, an important scientific research and education base and a comprehensive transportation hub in eastern China approved by the State Council.
Nanjing is located in the east of China, in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and near the river. The State Council plans to position the Yangtze River Delta as an important gateway city for the development of the central and western regions and an important node city for the strategic intersection of the eastern coastal economic belt and the Yangtze River economic belt.
Nanjing is one of the first national historical and cultural cities, an important birthplace of Chinese civilization, and has long been the political, economic and cultural center of southern China. Nanjing ape-man lived in Tangshan 350,000 ~ 600,000 years ago, with a history of over 7,000 years of civilization and nearly 500 years of capital construction. The excavation of Xijie ruins traces the history of Nanjing's city construction back to the Western Zhou Dynasty 365,438+000 years ago.
The main industries in Nanjing
1. Primary industry: Nanjing is one of the important agricultural and commodity grain bases in China. Because of the fertile water quality on both sides of the Yangtze River, it is also one of the important freshwater fishery bases in China. The main cash crops are rape, cotton, cocoon, hemp, tea, bamboo, fruit, medicinal materials and so on. Famous agricultural products include crabs, shrimps, special dishes, high-quality rice, Boer sheep, osmanthus duck, yuhua and so on.
2. Secondary industry: Nanjing is an important industrial base in China, an important national comprehensive industrial production base, an international advanced manufacturing base and one of the three major electronic industrial bases in China. 200 1, the electronic and chemical production capacity is the second in China. The automobile manufacturing scale ranks third. In 2008, the top ten manufacturing cities in China ranked first in China.
3. Tertiary industry: Convention and exhibition industry is an important industry in Nanjing. In 2006, Nanjing's exhibition economy was second only to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. In the 20 14 international conference and conference association (ICCA) ranking of the world's 20 13 cities, Nanjing became the city that hosted the most international conferences in China after Beijing and Shanghai.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Nanjing.