When Chenghai is mentioned, people will naturally think of the "red-headed boat" of that year. In the middle of Qing Dynasty, before Shantou opened its port, it was known as the "throat of Chaojun County" and was the "transoceanic confluence" of foreign trade in eastern Guangdong. Zhanglin Port in Chenghai, where foreign trade red-headed ships gather, has been flourishing for more than a century. Chenghai is the birthplace of red-headed ships. For Chenghai people and overseas Chinese, the "red-headed boat" is both a bitter aftertaste and a beautiful yearning. It is not only a bridge for thousands of children in Qian Qian to struggle and forge ahead, but also a bond for the hipsters at home and abroad to unite. The era connotation of "unity, struggle, expansion and innovation" displayed by "Red-headed Boat" is the driving force for our progress and the spirit that inspires people to forge ahead!
Chenghai is located at the mouth of the lower reaches of the Han River in eastern Guangdong, adjacent to the South China Sea, Hong Kong and Macao, with a total coastline of 66.9 kilometers. The whole region is divided into 1 1 town (street), with a total area of 345.23 square kilometers and a population of 7 10000. It is one of the counties with the highest population density in Guangdong Province and even the whole country. There are 680,000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, and it is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in Guangdong Province. Overseas Chinese in Chenghai have traveled to 30 countries and regions on five continents. Among them, patriotic overseas Chinese ants are more prominent, as well as Chen Cifu, an overseas Chinese who rose and survived for more than a hundred years in the middle of19th century, and Xie Yichu, an overseas Chinese who is famous in Southeast Asia and founded a diversified multinational group enterprise. Over the years, they have not traveled far to Wan Li to start a business, which has contributed to the prosperity and development of their residence. They love their ancestral homeland, make selfless contributions to their hometown's economic construction and social undertakings, devote their full ambition to serving the country and homesickness to the great cause of supporting their hometown construction, and make indelible contributions to the prosperity of their motherland and hometown.
Chenghai has outstanding people, beautiful mountains and rivers, outstanding people and talented people. Known as "Zou Lu by the Sea" and "Hometown of Culture". It was named as "culturally advanced county (city) in Guangdong Province" and "culturally advanced city in China" by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Culture. In Chenghai, there are famous scholars Huang, Wu Guanyin, Du, and Wang, as well as famous writer Qin Mu, famous art educator Wang, sculptor Tang Daxi printmaker Xu, famous dramatist, modern writer Lin Shan, Chaozhou Opera performance artist Hong Miaohe and so on. Chenghai has a profound cultural background, a large number of social talents and a high level of knowledge among citizens. In addition, the superior natural environment, rich labor resources, product resources and tourism resources, as well as many overseas Chinese, and so on. These are all favorable conditions for revitalizing Chenghai's economy.
The hardworking and brave Chenghai people, relying on the policy of enriching the people formulated by the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, seized the opportunity of reform and opening up, and Qi Xin made concerted efforts to carry forward the spirit of "red-headed boat" handed down from generation to generation and strive for progress. They described the grand blueprint of reality, emancipated their minds, renewed their ideas, deepened reform, expanded opening up, promoted the process of industrialization and urbanization, and made great achievements in modernization. At the turn of the century, a new generation of "red-headed boat" hometown people, under the leadership of the district party Committee and the district government, loudly put forward the strategic goal of basically realizing socialist modernization and strived to build Chenghai into a civilized and prosperous modern coastal city. One day, I will ride the long wind, break through the huge waves, raise the muddy sails and build a bridge on the deep sea. After entering the new century, Chenghai people will give full play to their unique advantages in location, hometown of overseas Chinese and humanities, and set off a new upsurge of modernization. Qin Xiang will sing a touching song! While speeding up economic development, Chenghai District has made great efforts to build spiritual civilization and actively carried out activities to create a civilized city and a sanitary city, and is moving towards the goal of building a civilized and prosperous coastal new city. The theme activity of "carrying forward new civilization and building a modern Chenghai" has risen widely in cities. Competition activities such as "Safe and Civilized Community", "Five Good Management Zones", "Civilized Window", "Civilized Family" and "Beautiful Farmhouse" are vigorously carried out; Activities such as "helping hundreds of villages, uniting thousands, pairing thousands", "visiting the poor and asking about send warm" and "offering love to the old liberated areas" are unprecedented. Early childhood education, basic education, vocational education, adult education and other educational undertakings have developed in an all-round way; Sports activities and fitness activities; Cultural and artistic groups such as printmaking, lantern riddles, tide music, guzheng, literature, calligraphy and animal dance are beautiful; Radio, television, newspapers and other news undertakings are vivid and colorful, and the publicity effect is constantly enhanced. Chenghai District has been successively rated as "National Advanced Sports City", "National Advanced Culture City" and "National Advanced Radio and Television City".
Chenghai District attaches great importance to social and political stability. In order to ensure that the people live and work in peace and contentment and create a good investment environment, the whole region has established a mechanism of prevention and treatment by groups, and the police insist on all-weather patrols, casting police souls and showing police power. District Public Security Bureau has been rated as "National Excellent Public Security Bureau" for five consecutive years.
Chenghai, the birthplace of the "red-headed boat", is carrying forward the spirit of the "red-headed boat" with a brand-new image and forging ahead with one heart and one mind. The smart, brave and pioneering Chenghai people will surely create new achievements worthy of their predecessors in the construction of material civilization and spiritual civilization, and write a more brilliant new chapter in history! Chenghaisu is famous for its high yield of rice and "farming like embroidery". In the process of industrialization, Chenghai's agriculture has not stopped or shrunk, but sesame blossoms are increasing. The two-tier management system based on household contract management and combining unification and separation in the whole region is improving day by day, and land resources are well protected; Great progress has been made in poverty alleviation; Farmland water conservancy basically forms a network of "drainage, irrigation and drainage"; The construction of river and sea dikes has been continuously strengthened. 1989, Chenghai District was awarded the title of "Tonggu County" with the annual output of double-cropping rice exceeding 1000 Jin, and then it remained the title of "Tonggu County" for 12 years. The whole region has vigorously developed high-quality, high-yield and efficient agriculture, promoted the continuous scale of agricultural production, and achieved good economic and social benefits. In 2000, the total income of the "four bases" of vegetables, livestock, aquatic products and fruits in the whole region was 3 billion yuan, 2.7 times that of 1995. A number of "one village, one product" production bases have emerged, such as Zhang Lin Ling Lin, Dongkeng strawberry, Chai Jing leek and fragrant out-of-season vegetables. Xinxi Pearl Farm in Xinxi Town is the first freshwater nucleated pearl breeding base in the world.
Rural society is stable, people live and work in peace and contentment, and farmers' lives are thriving, showing a vibrant new atmosphere everywhere. The construction of supporting infrastructure such as transportation, energy, communication and water supply in the whole region has developed rapidly, and the investment environment has been more optimized and improved. National Highway 324 runs through the whole territory, cement pavements are laid in towns and villages, and national highways, provincial highways, municipal roads and village roads are interwoven into a network. The highway density reaches 9 1.3/ 100 square kilometers, ranking the advanced level in the province. Shantou Airport, located in Shantou city, has opened 36 international and domestic routes, and the adjacent Guangzhou-Meishan Railway and Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Shantou Expressway have been opened to traffic one after another, making you feel "and heaven remains our neighbourhood". Laiwu Wharf has opened cargo flights from Hong Kong, Macao and domestic coastal port cities. Urban and rural hydropower supply is sufficient. It has 1 220kV power transmission and transformation, 51/0kV power transmission and transformation and Changhai Thermal Power Plant, with an installed capacity of 75,000kW and an annual total power supply capacity of 850 million kWh. The daily supply of tap water is 240,000 tons, which ensures the demand for industrial and agricultural water and drinking water for residents. The installed capacity of program-controlled telephones is 2 1 10,000, the number of mobile telephones is1.1.80,000, and every 100 people have telephones 1.97. Waisha Customs and its supporting commodity inspection, health quarantine, animal and plant quarantine, border inspection and Hong Kong and Macao freight vehicle inspection yards provide quality services for the import and export of goods. 1998 Chenghai investment environment has become one of the top 100 counties (cities) in China.