| Shunde district,
Foshan city locates in the middle of the
Pearl River Delta, is close to Guangzhou and
adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, and its
area is about 806 square kilometers. The
county was established here in the third
year of Jingtai, Ming Dynasty (1452). In
Mar. 1992, the history of the county
governing was ended up in Shunde and then
the city was established. In Jan. 2003,
according to the united arrangement of the
provincial Party Committee and provincial
government of Guangdong, the city was
cancelled and the district was set up.
Currently, the whole district has 10 towns
(street offices), 109 administrative
villages and 88 residential areas, and its
registered population sums up to 1,140,000,
with floating population of 860,000 as well
as more than 400,000 overseas Chinese and
the people residing in Hong Kong, Macao and
Taiwan. Since the implementation of reform and
opening, Shunde people have made full use of
their advantages on policy, geographic
position and humanity, and have created the
new era in economic and social development.
Shunde has been gradually developed from a
traditional agricultural county into a
rising industrial city. In Jul. 1999, Shunde
was appointed by the provincial Party
committee and provincial government of
Guangdong as the pilot city for taking the
lead to basically realize modernization in
2005. In 2004, the whole district has
achieved gross domestic product of 60.107
billion RMB (calculated on current price,
the same below), and total industrial and
agricultural production of 156.114 billion
RMB, including 150.727 billion RMB of gross
industrial output value, and total financial
income of 10.694 billion RMB, among which
local financial income accounts for 3.227
billion RMB.
Most of its area is the alluvial plain
formed by rivers and it possesses crossed
rivers, fertile soil, moderate climate, and
sufficient rain and its four seasons are
warm like springtime.
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