Zaozhuang City
I. Facts about Zaozhuang
Zaoahuang (E116°48`-117°49`N34°27`-35°19`) enjoys the north temperate
monsoon climate. The annual average temperature is 13.9。C, and
the annual rainfall reaches 815.8 mm. Zaozhuang is a prefecture-level
city with 5 districts and one county-level city under jurisdiction:
Shizhong District, Xuecheng District, Shanting District, Yicheng
District and Tengzhou City. It covers an aera of 4,550 square
km with a population of 3.6 million. The downtown area is 100
square km with a population of 500,000.
Zaozhuang enjoys convenient transportation. It lies in the joint
place of 4 Provinces: Jangsu, Shandong, Hebei and Anhui. It is
also the center of Huaihai Economic Zone and a transitional belt
from south to north in the eastern China. Zaozhuang is near Longhai
Railway and within easy reach to Rizhao, Lanshan and Lianyungang
ports. There are 5 airports including Jinan Airport, Qingdao Airport,
Xuzhou Airport, Lianyungang Airport and Linyi Airport within radius
of 200 km from Zaozhuang. Beijing-Shanghai railway, Beijing-Fuzhou
expressway, No.104 national highway, No.206 national highway,
the Great Canal Channel and Beijing-Shanghai express railway in
the mid of construction all crisscross the city.
II. Natural Resources
Zaozhuang is abundant in natural resources. One is the underground
mineral reserves, above 20 varieties, such as coal, iron ore,
copper, bauxite, gypsum, plaster stone, quarts stone, rare-earth,
potters earth, limestone, marble, granite, apatite etc have been
exploited. The city is rich in coal reserves; now three large
exploited coal mines covers an area of 1017 square km with coal
and a reserve of 4.5 billion tons. The proved plaster reserve
is 1.28 billion tons. And the proved reserve of limestone is 26.5
billion tons. The marble, dolomite and iron ore are 200 million
cubic meters, 38.24 million tons and 170 million tons respectively.
The other is it the water resources. The Great Canal flows through
the southern part of the city with a length of 68 km in the boundary,
and there are more than 10 rivers with drainage area of over 100
square km. as well as 5 huge and middle-sized reservoirs. The
total water reserves reaches 1.472 billion cubic meters with an
average of 419 cubic meters per capita, higher than the average
level of Shandong Province. The third one is its abundant biological
and plantation resources; there are more than 32 kinds of crops
such as wheat, corn, millet, sorghum, rice, soy bean etc, 50 kinds
of melon vegetables such as watermelon, pumpkin, gourd etc, 100
varieties of orchard, more than 50 types of hygrophilous plants,
as well as more than 269 ornamental plants and 300 kinds of wild
and economic plants.
III. Infrastructure
Zaozhuang is advanced in transportation and telecommunication,
adequate in energy supply, and complete in financing service,
shopping and sports and entertainment facilities. Over 303 bus
lines cover a mileage of 49,660 km. Bus service is not only opened
to every town and village of the city but also goes to the Capital
city, Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shjanghai, Anhui, Jiangsu
and Zhejian etc, the central cities and distributing center of
goods. The total railway lines are 288.5 kilometers long. Beijing-Shanghai
railway passes through the western part of Zaozhuang. Zaozhuang-Xuecheng
branch railway and Beijing-Shanghai railway crisscross in Xuecheng
district. An express passenger train from Zaozhuang to Shanghai
is opened to traffic as well. The Great Canal Channel within the
boundaries in Zaozhuag longs 68.5 km and flows through Hebei,
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other areas. There are altogether
53 ports in Zaozhuang with the cargo handling capacity of 5 million
tons. Post and telecommunications have already adopted the modern
optical cable, micro-wave and digital exchange equipments. The
total capacity of the whole city public telecommunication network
reaches 141,000 sets. The city sector power owns 10 thermal power
plants with the installed capacity of 1.86 million kw. The annual
power generating reaches over 15 billion kilowatt. The supporting
facilities including water, gas and heat supply are complete and
sufficient. The modern shopping center, star-rated hotels provice
good service to foreign friends
IV. Industry
Zaozhuang has formed five pillar industries such as coal, building
materials, paper-making, textile and mechanical electronic with
the coal as the leading industry. Meanwhile, a fairly complete
industrial system has been established, among which are tobacco,
rubber, food and medicine. There are altogether 135 coalmines
with the annual output of the raw coal of 18.23 million tons.
The export of fine washed-coal reaches 1.4 million tons. The main
products in building material industry are cement, gypsum and
flat-glass, the output of which ranks respectively the first,
second and third. The complete production system has been formed
in the textile industry, including the assembly line of wavering,
knotting, dying and garment making. Products in machinery and
electronic industry have a strong competition in the international
market such as digital drill lathe, table lathe, standard components
and electronic components etc.
Zaozhuang is flourishing on farming, forestry, animal husbandry
and fishery with rich products. The main crops are wheat, maize,
sweet potato, soy bean, cotton, peanut, flue-cured tobacco, mulberry,
fiber crops etc. The fruits are pomegranate, apple, pear, Chinese
chestnut, date, walnut, hawthorn etc. The livestock are cattle,
pig, goat, rabbit, chicken, duck etc. The aquatic products are
fresh-water fish, soft-shelled turtle, shrimp, frog etc. Zaozhuang
is one of bases the commodity grain, animal husbandry bases, dried
and fresh fruits bases in China. And it is also one of the agricultural
demonstration zones in Huaihai Economic Zone and U.N. FAO Development
Zone.
V. Opening up
Since the reform and opening up, foreign trade and economy in
Zaozhuang develops fast. It has established international cooperation
relationship with over 100 countries and regions such as Sprockhovel,
Nortorf and Dresden in Germany, Mine in Japan, North-West Region
of New England in Australia. There are 15 liaison offices and
organizations overseas. In 2003, the contracted foreign capital
was US$153.15 million dollars, increased by 45.5% compared to
the year earlier, and the actual usage of foreign capital is US$
46.81 million dollars. It has attracted MNCs from over 40 countries
and regions such as Daewoo of ROK, Nissho Iwai Corp. of Japan,
Santoku America Inc. of the US and PT Surabaya Agung industrial
Pulp & Kertas of Indonesia invest in Zaozhuang. The export
and import value reached US$ 244.54 million, increased by 32.7%
over the last year. Export accounts for US$182.22 million, 29.6%
over the last year. Among them, the commodities for export cover
over 400 varieties of 20 categories, which have been sold to more
than 70 countries and regions. Zaozhuang has also made great achievement
in overseas contracted projects and overseas labor service cooperation.
VI. Living Information
1. Administration for Entry-Exit:
Administration for Entry-Exit Inspection of Zaozhuang Public Securities
Add: Mid Guangming Road Tel: 0632-334618
Foreign Affairs Section of Shizhong District, Zaozhuang Public
Securities
Add: Zhengli Road Tel: 0632-334759
2 . Accommodation Fee
The average price in Zaozhuang is about 1100yuan/ a square meter
3. Institute of Translation
The Foreign Service Center of Zaozhuang Foreign Affairs Agencies
Add: Jiefang Road Tel: 0632-3314026
4. Institute related to foreign affair
Zaozhuang Foreign Economic and Trade Relation Commission
Add: No.91 Zhenxing Zhong Road
Tel: 0632-3311103
