BEIJING, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- An interview
event was held in Lianyungang City of east China's Jiangsu Province from
April 26 to 30 to learn about the
city's huge development over the past 40 years benefiting from
China's reform and opening up.
Since becoming one of the first coastal cities that advances
opening up in 1984, Lianyungang has made giant leaps forward from a
traditional agricultural city to a coastal industrial city, a
national comprehensive transportation hub, and a beautiful and
civilized city.
Over the last 40 years, Lianyungang's regional GDP has grown
from 2.36 billion yuan in 1984 to
436.36 billion yuan at present, an
increase of 185 times.
During the same period, the income of urban and rural residents
in the city has risen from 604 yuan
and 462 yuan to 43,769 yuan and 24,411
yuan respectively. In 2023, the per capita disposable income
of all residents in Lianyungang reached 35,983 yuan.
The city has improved and upgraded the industrial structure,
marking the transition from traditional agriculture to port
industry and high-tech industries.
For the past four decades, cargo throughput at Lianyungang has
increased from 9 million tonnes to 320 million tonnes. The
China-Europe and China-Central Asia freight trains
departed from the city have made 16,000 trips, ranking the first in
the province.
The free trade zones and comprehensive bonded zones in the city
have developed rapidly, with the average annual growth rate of
import and export of comprehensive bonded zones exceeding 40
percent. The city has become one of the most convenient portals for
the Central Asian countries and the central and western parts of
China, handling more than 80
percent of Kazakhstan's transit
cargo to China.
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