Brief Introduction to Shangrao

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Shangrao is called the”East Gate”of Jiangxi Province, with ten counties, one district and one city under its jurisdiction, total population of 6.6 million, and area about twenty-two thousand square kilometers.

Shangrao has a long cultural history. The Immortal Cave and Diaotonghuan relics are the earliest birthplaces of rice in the world. Shangrao is the homeland of painter Yan Liben in the Tang Dynasty, militarist Tao Kan in the Jin Dynasty, Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi in the Southern Song Dynasty, the writer of Informal Essay on Rong Study Hong Mai, the dramatist Jiang Shiquan in the Qing Dynasty. It is also the favorite living place of Lu Yu —”Tea Sage”of the Tang Dynasty, also the author of the first study on Tea Study, and the patriotic poet Xin Qiji in the Southern Song Dynasty, and also the homeland of the modern times”Railway Father”Zhan Tianyou, the revolutionist Fang Zhimin, modern medical scientist Huang Jiasi, and the birthplace of great writer Zhang Henshui. People of Shangrao have a general mood of seeking knowledge and meticulous scholarship. Yushan County is praised as “Doctor County”. More than two hundred people have got Doctor’s Degrees.

Shangrao occupies a dominant regional position. It is located in the “juncture” of Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi Provinces, and its transportations extend in all directions. It has Zhejiang-Jiangxi, Anhui-Jiangxi and Hengfeng-Nanping Railways,320 and 206 StateRoad, Jiujiang-Jingdezhen and Shanghai-Ruili Highways, among which Shanghai-Ruili Highway comes through the seven vivid counties and the district, and Jingdezhen-Wuyuan-Changshan, Jingdezhen-Wuyuan-Huangshan Highways are already under urgent construction. Around the city, there are three airports-Quzhou, Wuyishan and Jingdezhen, providing the convenience of being open to the outside world.

Shangrao has rich natural resources. It contains more than seventy kinds of mineral resources, and the reserve amount of forty-three kinds have been discovered, among which copper, gold, silver, lead, zinc with large reserves are the most worthy of exploiting.Dexing Copper Mine is the biggest Mine in Asia.With the development of ecological economy，Shangrao can provide a series of organic agricultural products and green products.Wuyuan organic tea occupies eighty percent shares in the European markets，also with the highest degree organic products like AA tea and AA rice.Ecological environment is the typical superiority of the city.The water resource is also very abundant because of the existence of many rivers and lakes.The rate of forest coverage of the city amounts to 55.4%，which is higher with 83%in Wuyuan.

The urban area is one of the 13 cities with best quality of air and water in China.

Shangrao has lofty mountains and pretty rivers.The views of mountains and rivers are magnificent and charming；scenic spots and historic sites have their own features，and cultural tourism is unique.The main scenic spots are summarized “one，two，four，four”，one state-level ecological and cultured tourist county一Wuyuan，two state-level scenic spots-Mount Sanqing and Guifeng Peak，four state-level forest parks-Lingyan Cave，Guifeng Peak，Goose Lake Mount，Mount Tongbo，four special scenic spots-Groups of Ancient Buildings built during the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Wuyuan County，the Natural Preservation Zone of Migratory Birds of Poyang Lake，Mount Gexian Religious and Tourist Holy Land，Relics of Shangrao Concentration Camp.Every scenic spot has its own feature and presents a flourishing vision.The natural scenery is miraculous；the cultural heritage is long-aged and imposing；the ecological tour is refreshing；the red tour is thought-provoking.

There are endless business opportunities in Shangrao.The prices of manpower and raw materials are cheap；the fee of our infrastructures are low，and preferential polices of investment have their hopeful”gold content”and high profit margin.

Especially，with the accomplishment of favorable condition and environment，large number of merchants come to invest and pioneer cause in Shangrao，and the industrial parks of the city and counties have been the“paradises”of the merchants’ investments.