| In the 42 nd year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty, Chenghai was set up as a county, with the meaning of “sea clarifying”, being a bright pearl at the crossing of the land with sea of the tropic of cancer, and the mouth of the 3 branches of Hanjiang to the sea, with the unique advantages of the geographical place. The foreign trade there started in the Southern Song Dynasty. The immigration of it started from the Ming Dynasty, with the Chinese overseas people all over the world. The sea cultures of opening new fields and the compatriot cultures of home town affection is mixed closely, having formed the red bow ship spirit of opening development and continuous striving, which encourages the Chenghai generations to march forward.
| | With the efforts and pursuance of “farming as embroidery”, the Chenghai people work hard, practice sincerely, innovate actively, and develop the new field, with the stable development of the social undertaking, and the happy life and career of the people. The 3 industries have developed well altogether, with our achievements and unique industrial advantages of “China Toy and Gift City ”, and “ China Famous City of Handicrafts & Knitted Garments”, and creating the “regional international brand” as the continuous power to push the economic development. | | Develop together with all of the power is our aim, and high quality and efficient services is our responsibility. We create as usual the fair and just legal environment, and the developing atmosphere of sincerity, practice, stable business and friendly trade. We warmly welcome all of the domestic and overseas friends to invest and make business at Chenghai, cooperate jointly, and develop with full sail for the grand career. |
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| | | | Transform and upgrade traditional advantageous industries, develop actively the potential and newly developed ones, promote with full efforts the industrial economic development, create regional international brands, take the new industrialization way, push the industrial upgrading, open new sectors, develop services, develop beneficial farming, realize the transfer from the traditional one to the modern one, push the optimizing upgrading of the industrial structure, and fully increase general competitive capability.
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Shantou City Chenghai District(simplify Chenghai in the following) is located in Hanjiang Delta of South Guangdong, neighborhood to Shantou Special Economic Zone, facing South China Sea and with the proportion of 345.23 sq. km.. Because it is on the subtropical zone and belongs to subtropical monsoon climate, there are seldom very hot or frostbitten days during one year. Landform of Chenghai is basically plain which altitude is lower than 10 metre. This type of plain occupy 81.9% of the proportion, on the opposite massif and mesa which altitude is more than 10 metre only occupy 8.5% and water area 9.6%. Population of Chenghai is 710,000 persons. In Guangdong Province, it is not only a beautiful place with abundant river but also one of the famous hometown of overseas Chinese, which is the hometown for the Red-head Ship too. People here are honest, hardworking and sureness who are good at starting and developing industry business. Economic foundation: Chenghai has formed its initial industrial frame guided by the light-processing and developing mainstay industry such as toys and handicrafts manufacture, woolen habiliment industry, processed foods industry, hardware and machine manufacture, building material manufacture and packing material manufacture, etc. Toys and woolen habiliment industry chain have been shaped which bring the competitive advantage to these industries. Particularly it is the famed toys producing and exporting base in China which has been awarded the title ‘Chinese toys and gifts city’ by the China Light Industry League. There is good foundation for the agriculture in Chenghai which is the important producing area of fruitage, aquatic product, vegetable and poultry and famous in domestic and oversea market for Shaohe Pearl, Laiwu Laver, Chimera Goose, olive greens. Along with the development of the agriculture, Chenghai has enjoyed more and more benefits for its mass production. There are strong foundation of commerce industry in Chenghai which has 50 various dealing markets such as relative well-known Chenghai Town Plastic Market and Central Market and the other professional wholesale markets. There are so many individual factories and firms in Chenghai that they actually are the important portion of the Third Industry. |
