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Lishui City
Lishui
City is situated in southwest of Zhejiang Province where Zhejiang and Fujian
province joined. The mountain of the area belongs to Wuyi mountain system, there
are Xianxialing Mountain, Donggong Mountain and Kuocang Mountain. The Terrain
tilts from the southwest to the northeast with 3573 peaks of over 1000 meter.
The highest mountain in Zhejiang Province of an altitude of 1929 meter is
Huangmao Peak of Fengyang Mountain in Longquan City. The area covers 17,298
square kilometer of farmland area, among which 88.42% is mountainous areas,
5.52% is plantation land, 6.06% is creek, road and village. It is an area of 90%
mountain, 5% rivers and lakes, 5% farmlands.
Lishui enjoys a long history, during the
“Liangchu Culture?period 4000 years ago, there were tribes living in the
area. Chuzhou was established in 589 in Sui Dynasty with Kuocang, Songyang,
Linhai, Yongjia, Angu and Lechen counties under its jurisdiction. The area is
just the same scope of current Wenzhou, Taizhou and Lishui city. Three years
later, the name was changed into Kuozhou and to Yongjia County in the 3rd year
of Daye era ( 607). The name was changed back to Kuozhou in 621 of Tang Dynasty,
to Jinyun County in the 1st year of Tianbao era (742) and back to Kuozhou in the
1st year of Qianyuan era (758). The name of the area was changed again in the
year 1276 of Yuan Dynasty into Chuzhou Lu, Annan Fu in the 19th year of Zhizheng
(1359). And the na
me
was maintained as Chuzhou Fu till Ming and Qing Dynasty. In the year 1935,
Lishui Administrative Supervision District was set up. In 1949, Lishui Special
District was established, and was abolished in 1952, recovered in 1963. The area
was changed into Lishui Administrative Area. By the year 1997, there were Lishui,
Longquan cities, Qingtian, Jinyun, Yunhe, Qingyuan, Suichang, Songyang and
Jingning counties under its jurisdiction. Jingning is the only She nationality
Autonomous County in the nation. The nine cities and counties are all
“traditional basis for liberalization? There are 129 villages, 65 towns,
3661 administrative villages, 156 neighborhood communities with a population of
2.45 million.
Under
the guide of basic line of the 3rd Plenary Session of the 11th Party Congress,
the local government has transformed its work priority to economic development.
The government put forward the policy of “forestry as the top priority,
combining food and livestock husbandry, multi-management, comprehensive
development?and enhanced the quick agricultural development. The area set out
for the discussion of “open-mind?so as to get rid of the unreconstructed
ideas. In 1985, the local government proposed the guide line of “emancipate
the mind, open to the outside, take a bold reforming attitude, quicken the space
and realize double development ahead of schedule?and promoted the development
of commodity economy. In 1991, the whole area set out for the great discussion
of open-mind and concept innovation, the development strategy of “two alongs
and one town?( to develop along the River, to run markets along road and
develop industry in towns) has taken shape. This has played an active role in
the development of overall agricultural, market construction and township
industries. From 1994 to 1995, the area set out for further discussion of
“open mind? by overcoming the idea of satisfactory of primary achievement,
satisfactory with poverty, unconcerned about environmental issues,
self-close-in, enhance the awareness of crisis, competitiveness, promotion,
foreign-oriented and pragmatism. The strategy for development of “optimize
circumstances, increase the overall volume, shake off poverty and make rich so
as to the better-off ?has been draft and put into implementation and great
achievements has been attained in the construction of two civilizations.
During the two decades from 1978-1997, the
overall GDP of the area increased from 480 million yuan to 11.2 billion yuan,
the overall industrial and agricultural volume increased from 601 million yuan
to 18.1 billion yuan. There has been a great readjustment in terms of industrial
structure, the first industry decreased from 58.19% to 30.85%, the second
industry from 21.53% to 36.52%, the tertiary industry from 20.28% to 32.63%. The
fixed asset investment increased form 350 million yuan to 2.1 billion yuan,
social consumption retail volume increased from 222 million yuan to 4.26 billion
yuan, fiscal revenue increased from 57 million yuan to 646 billion yuan. The
surplus of financial system in the end of the year increase from 123 million
yuan to 9.82 billion yuan, the surplus of loans increased from 145 million yuan
to 6.57 billion yuan, the per capita income of rural residents increased from
131 yuan to 2305 yuan, the per capita disposable income of urban residents
increased from 402.72 yuan of 1980 to 6614 yuan of 1997. As a result , the goal
of primarily shaking off poverty of the area has been realized as expected.