Duyan County has been established in Yancheng since the fourth year of Yuanshou in the Western Han Dynasty (BC 1 19). At that time, salt pavilions and salt rivers were everywhere, and "blasphemy" was the river that transported salt. In AD 7 (AD 4 1 1), the Eastern Jin Emperor Yi was renamed Yancheng County, which was named after the "salt field around the city". After more than two thousand years of historical precipitation, Yancheng exudes a strong sea salt culture everywhere. In ancient times, it was famous for its rich "Huai salt", which was called "the land with a bosom" in ancient times. As early as the Warring States period, there was a saying that "cooking the sea is salt", and "Historical Records" contained "the East China Sea is free of sea salt". During the Qin and Han dynasties, "cooking the sea for profit and crossing the canal for transportation" has become a prosperous place for fishing and salt. In the Tang Dynasty, there were only "123 salt pavilions" in Yancheng, Huainan Salt Field, which was "rich in the southeast and half out of the border". During the reign of Tang Baoying, there were Hailing Supervisor and Yancheng Supervisor, who cooked more than one million mangokus of salt every year. At that time, Yancheng had become an important salt production center in the southeast coast.
Yancheng is the largest city in Jiangsu Province. The total area of the city is10.5 million square kilometers, including 7,737 square kilometers of cultivated land and more than 0.3 million square kilometers of rivers and lakes.
Ocean and tidal flat resources are very rich. The total area of coastal beaches is 4,550 square kilometers (including radial sandbanks), of which the supratidal zone 1.677 square kilometers and the intertidal zone 1.6 10 square kilometers account for 75%, 64.6% and 60.8% of the whole province respectively. It belongs to the coastal beaches of Dongtai, Dafeng, Sheyang, Binhai, Xiangshui and other counties (cities), and the area available for development and utilization in the near future is 1400 square kilometers. At present, the coastal area south of Sheyang Estuary also extends to the sea at the rate of 10 square kilometers per year, which is called "Gold Coast" and is the largest and most potential land reserve resource in Jiangsu.
Rich in oil and natural gas resources. The proven oil and gas reserves reach 80 billion cubic meters, and the estimated total reserves reach 200 billion cubic meters. It is the largest onshore oil and gas field in the eastern coastal area of China. There are about 654.38+10,000 square kilometers of Yellow Sea oil storage sedimentary basins along the coast and offshore, ranking second in the national marine oil and gas sedimentary basins, with broad exploration and development prospects.
The advantages of agricultural products resources are outstanding. Yancheng is the largest production base of agricultural and sideline products in Jiangsu. Eight national commodity grain base counties, high-quality oil base counties 1 county, and six high-quality cotton base counties have been built, which are rich in marine and animal and plant resources. The planting scale and total amount of major agricultural products such as grain, cotton, oil, mulberry, fruits and vegetables, poultry, eggs and fish rank first in the province. The certification of pollution-free agricultural products ranks first in the province, and four counties in the city are included in the certification of provincial agricultural products; Through the provincial certification of pollution-free agricultural products, the planting area is 2 12 mu, the animal husbandry area is 87, and the livestock and poultry179,900 heads (only). Five national and provincial agricultural standardization demonstration zones and six provincial export-oriented agricultural production bases will be built. Approved/kloc-2 organic food bases with 0/02,000 mu and 6 green food bases with 22,000 mu. There are 179 products that have won the titles of organic food, green food and pollution-free food in the city.
Rich in human resources. Yancheng is the second most populous city in Jiangsu. At present, the total supply of urban and rural labor force is 3,924,400, including 2,720,200 rural laborers. 654.38+289,000 rural laborers were employed, of which 790,000 were exported and 20,500 went abroad. The surplus labor force is 840,000, and 500,000 can be exported, including 26,543.8+0,000 with special skills. Among the labor resources available for export, there are 26,000 people with college education or above, 265,000 people with high school education (including secondary schools, technical schools and vocational schools) and 209,000 people with junior high school education or above; There are 58,000 people with intermediate or above vocational skills and 48,000 people with primary vocational skills/kloc-0.
Eco-tourism resources are unique. There are more than 40 scenic spots open to the outside world in the city, including provincial cultural protection units 15, 2 3A scenic spots, 2A scenic spots 1, provincial scenic spots 1 and 2 national nature reserves. The eastern part of the city has the largest coastal wetland on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean and the edge of the Asian continent, which has been listed as the world's key wetland protection area, and Yancheng Wetland Ecological National Park is planning to build the "Oriental Wetland Capital". Wetland reserve has the world's first wild elk reserve and national rare bird nature reserve, and is a member of the United Nations Man and Nature Biosphere. At present, there are more than 600 elk populations in Dafeng Wild Elk Reserve, ranking first in the world in terms of total wild population, reproduction rate and survival rate. National key protected wild animals 12 species, and national rare bird nature reserve has 67 national key protected wild animals. Every year, more than 1200 red-crowned cranes come here for the winter, accounting for more than 60% of the world's wild population.
Yancheng is not only rich in resources, unique in ecology, but also unique in folk culture. Yancheng is the birthplace of Huai Opera, and is known as "the hometown of Huai Opera", "the hometown of small operas" and "the hometown of modern operas". Yancheng is also one of the three semi-acrobatic towns in China, which has unique advantages in acrobatic resources, education and training, and talent team. There are many famous people and places of interest in history. There are cultural landscapes in the urban area, such as the ancestral temple of Lu Xiufu, Prime Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the former residence of calligrapher Song Cao in the late Ming Dynasty. Baiju Town, Dafeng City is the hometown of Shi Naian, the author of Water Margin. Xixi in Dongtai has the "reading hall" of Fan Zhongyan, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Tinghu has the "dead peony" planted by Ji Bian, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty. The hometown of Joe, a famous diplomat in modern times and Hu Qiaomu, a Marxist theorist, is also in Yancheng.
Old revolutionary base areas, Baihe New Town
Yancheng is an old revolutionary base area. After the "Southern Anhui Incident" broke out, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China immediately rebuilt the headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Yancheng. Since then, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Huazhong Bureau, Central Military Commission New Fourth Army Branch, Huazhong Party School, Anti-Dawu Branch, Lu Yi Huazhong Branch, Jianghuai Bank and other organizations have been established in Yancheng. Yancheng quickly became the political, military, economic and cultural center behind enemy lines in Central China. Sometimes it is said that there is an Yan 'an in northern Shaanxi and a Yancheng in northern Jiangsu. Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yi, Huang Kecheng, Su Yu, Ye Fei, Zhang Aiping, Hong Xuezhi, Ceng Shan and many other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation have fought here. It has the largest, most comprehensive and most representative memorial facilities for the New Fourth Army in China. At present, there are memorial halls, memorial towers and Taishan Temple, the rebuilt former military headquarters, and the monument where the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army are stationed in Dafeng Baiju.
Yancheng is located in Lixia water network area in northern Jiangsu. The rivers in the urban area are criss-crossed, winding and numerous, and the characteristics of water towns are remarkable, so it is called "the city of hundred rivers". The main rivers flowing through the urban area are Xinyang Port, Python River, Chuanchang River, Picha River, Xiaoyang River and Tongyu River, which are the main ecological water veins and ecological corridors in Yancheng City. As the most important wetland in the city center, Dayang Bay in tinghu district is planning to build a leisure and tourism resort, including Dayang Bay Forest Park and Water Park. After the revision of the new round of urban master plan is completed, Yancheng will be divided into six regions with expressways and major rivers as the boundary, forming a typical urban pattern of water network. Through the development of waterfront and landscape construction, we will increase hydrophilic places, and "people, water and city" will accompany and grow harmoniously.