唐山英文简介关于唐山的英文介绍,包括地震和震后重建,还有现在的比较有名的旅游景点.还有天气,人文什么的.不用太复杂,简单

唐山英文简介
关于唐山的英文介绍,包括地震和震后重建,还有现在的比较有名的旅游景点.还有天气,人文什么的.不用太复杂,简单点就好,但希望能全一点.

Brief Introduction to Tangshan
Tangshan,an important coastal city along the Bohai Bay and neighboring Beijing and Tianjin,has been continuously revealing its unique charm in terms of speeding up economic and social overall development and carrying out cooperation and exchanges with overseas countries and regions in broader scope,deeper level and wider fields.
Tangshan enjoys a favorable geographic location with brilliant geo-economic prospects.It is located in the central section of Bohai Bay region,with Bohai Sea to the South,Yanshan Mountain to the north,Qinghuangdao City to the east,Beijing and Tianjin to the west and facing D.P.R.Korea and South Korea over Bohai Sea,and thus it has long been known as the treasured land east of Beijing.Tangshan is a coastal heavy industrial city with a history of a century and is also an important part of Northeast Asian economy.Tangshan,situated with "Great Beijing" economic circle,has become a dazzling pearl among the cities around the capital.Beijing 2008 Olympic Games benefit Tangshan in terms of developing economy by serving the great event.Tangshan has jurisdiction over two county-level cities,six counties,six administrative districts and five provincial level development zones.As one of the larger cities in China,it covers an area of 13472 square kilometers including an urban area of 3874 square kilometers and has a population of 7.03 million including an urban population of 2.93 million.
Tangshan boasts abundant natural resources and unique advantages in development.The low mountainous area in the north is rich in fresh and dry fruits,such as chestnuts,walnuts,apples,hawthorns,pears,peaches,grapes,etc.Jingdong Chestnuts are well known at home and abroad.The central plain area is abundant with agricultural and sideline products,such as maize,wheat,rice,cotton,peanuts,vegetable,etc.It has long been known as East Hebei Granary.The coastal area in the south is an important fishing ground in Bohai Bay and also a key production base of Change Salt.Tangshan boasts rich mineral resources.Up to now,47 kinds of mineral deposits have been discovered and verified.It has workable reserves of 6.25 billion tons of coal and 5.75 billion tons of iron ore,which makes Tangshan the main production base of coking coal and one of the top 3 producers of iron ore in China.Moreover,Tangshan also enjoys rich reserves of limestone,petroleum,natural gas,gold and so on.
Tangshan has unique tourist landscapes for it is based on the mountain at the back and overlooking the sea,with mountain,forest,beach,sea and island as its main features.The East Mausoleum of Qing Dynasty is the existing largest one in China with the most complete architectural system and it has been listed in the world cultural beritage directory by the UN.Mount Jingzhong,Panlong Lake,the Great Wall in the water,Puti island,Jinyintan Beach and Li Dazhao Memorial Hall are also famous tourist attractions.
Tangshan has a solid economic foundation and strong capability of development.In 2003,its GDP hit 129.5 billion Yuan with finacial revenue of 13 billion yuan.It ranks among the top 25 powerful cities in China.Tangshanese overall living standard has reached fairly well-off level.The urban resident's per capita income and rural farmer's per capita income in 2003 reached 8060 yuan and 3785 yuan respectively.The agricultural economy has been developing in an all-round way.The six key farm economies are developing continuously,such as fruits and vegetables,diary industry,lean-meat pigs,aquatic products,peanuts and chestnuts.Industrial economy is undergoing sustained and rapid development with a feature of fairly perfect and advantage of scale in terms of sectors and division of labour.Tangshan is known as the cradle of Chinese modern industry,for China's first mechanicsed coal mine,first standard gauged railway,first steam locomotive,first pack of cement and first piece of sanitary ceramic were all made or built in Tangshan.Now,the city has 113 industrial categories and more than 1340 kinds of industrial products,with coal,metallurgy,power,building materials,ceramics,machinery,chemical industry and food stuff etc.as its key industries.A lot of large-sized and medium-sized enterprises hold important positions among the same trades in China,such as Kailuan Coal Mine Group,Tangshan Iron & Steel Group,Tangshan General Power Plant,Jidong Cement Group,Nanpu Salt works,Sanyou Group,Tangshan Rolling Stock Plant and so on.More and more enterprises have established modern company system in accordance with WTO rules.Private economy has become an important force to support the economic development of Tangshan.In addition,Tangshan鈥檚 modern logistics develops rapidly.Specialized logistics markets targeting Beijing,Tianjin and other neighboring districts have come into shape.Modern circulating modes such as e-business,logistics,chain store,etc.have been flourishing.Tangshan Department Store,Hualian commercial Tower,Tangshan Conference & Exhibition Center,Pacific Mall,Xiaoshan Wholesale Market,Tangshan Guest House and Jinbin Hotel display different features.
Tangshan is speeding up its pace of international cooperation and has strong potential of attracting foreign investment.The city has been opened to the world in the first,second and tertiary industries.So far,about one thousand foreign-funded enterprises have been set up by investors from 36 countries and regions,with US$2.6 billion of foreign funds being utilized.A number of well-known and influential companies in the world are among the investors,such as Sithe Energies Group and Peak Pacific Investment Inc.from USA; Danone and Tang Freres S.A from France; Siemens from Germany; NGK,Panasonic,Itochu,Toyota,Asin,Mitsui from Japan; Cheung Kong China infrastructure limited and Hong Kong China Travel Service from Hong Kong; Eylein International Fitting Co.Ltd from Taiwan and so on.Tangshan has more than 600 enterprises with export business.These enterprises include state-own ones,joint venture ones,private ones and scientific research institutes.2003 witnessed a value of import & export US$1.03 billion,involving products of 16 categories and more than 300 kinds,which were exported to over 150 countries and regions in the world.Tangshan has established sister city relationship with Malmo City in Sweden,Sakata City in Japan,Linoln city in England and Cedar Rapids in U.S.A.
Tangshan Focuses on improving investment environment and enjoys distinct comparative advantages in investment costs.With more than 20 years of construction and development since the catastrophic earthquake in 1976,great changes have taken place in Tangshan in terms of infrastructure construction and urban environment.The urban area has increased to 3874 square kilometers,and such coverage rates as tap water supply,central heating supply and gas supply stand at the forefront among the large and medium-sized cities in China.In 1990,Tangshan was awarded by the United Nations for its remarkable achievement in improving the living condition of the residents.Tangshan boasts advanced and convenient transport facilities,for there three main railways running through from west to east and five feeder railways crossing from north to south,and a highway network has formed with three State highways No.102,112,205 as its arterial,and four expressways of Beijing-Shenyang,Tangshan-Tianjin,Tangshan-Jingtang Port and West-ring connect and overpass within Tangshan.Thus,a modern land transportation system has come into being.As for sea-route transport,three ports are within its easy reach,with Qinhuangdao Port to the east,Tianjin Xingang Port to the west and Jingtang Port in the middle and Caofeidian 200,000 tonage iron ore port is under construction.Tangshan is about 180 kilometers from Beijing Capital Airport,and has reserved in advance a space for civil airport construction in the future.The post and telecommunication system of Tangshan offers excellent services,which makes it possible to dial directly to everywhere in China and 182 countries and regions in the world.
Tangshan has established and been implementing scientific development concept; pushing forward legal government,service government and limited government construction,implementing such for four strategies as opening up oriented,developing through science and technology,urbanization and sustainable growth,so as to take the lead to realize industrialization and modernization and lift its level of international city.