1In August, 1997, Mindong Overseas Chinese Economic Development Zone (referred to as Dongqiao Economic Development Zone) was established on the basis of Donghutang Overseas Chinese Farm. /kloc-0 started its substantive operation in June, 1998, and/kloc-0 became a provincial economic development zone with the approval of the provincial people's government in May, 1999. The master plan of the Development Zone was approved by the People's Government of  Province in 1999 and 10, with a planned total area of 16.7 square kilometers. In February, 2000, Fujian 16 made it clear that the management committee of Dongqiao Development Zone was an agency of Ningde District Administrative Office (which was not established at that time), and its specifications were at the official level, enjoying the county-level economic and administrative authority. DocumentNo. Ning Di Fa [2000] No.8 stipulates that the Party Working Committee and Management Committee of Dongqiao Development Zone, as dispatched agencies, are entrusted by the prefectural party committee and administrative office to implement unified leadership, unified planning and unified management on behalf of the prefectural party committee and administrative office. In March 2006, the provincial government approved the integration of Mindong Overseas Chinese Economic Development Zone and Mindong Industrial Park, and renamed it Fujian Dongqiao Economic Development Zone. On April 17, the National Development and Reform Commission issued an official announcement.

The establishment of Dongqiao Development Zone is a favorable opportunity for Ningde prefectural party committee and administrative office to give full play to the advantages of overseas Chinese farm location and land resources, promote a new round of entrepreneurship in eastern Fujian, cultivate new economic growth points and accelerate the pace of urbanization. Its establishment is of great significance to realize the strategic goal of cross-century development in eastern Fujian, to build an ocean in eastern Fujian, to develop a central city, and to bridge the economic fault zone along the southeast coast. The development zone has completed the overall planning and zoning planning of 16.7 square kilometers, the north-south regulatory detailed planning of 14 square kilometers of industrial road, and the conceptual planning and design of the 5.4 square kilometers of East Lake and its surrounding "waterfront cultural and leisure industrial zone", and basically completed three major groups, namely Jiaocheng, Jinta and Donglan, as well as several major groups, such as business circulation, administration, culture and education, tourism and leisure, noble residence and industrial park.

Dongqiao Development Zone has the geographical advantages of relying on the city, facing the sea and being in the middle, with complete water supply, power supply, power transformation and telecommunication networks. The Development Zone is 98km away from Fuzhou, the provincial capital, 0/00km away from Fuzhou Changle International Airport and 80km away from Mindong Airport under construction. It is adjacent to zhang wan Container Terminal with 5,000-ton berth and Gao Chen 10,000-ton wharf, and 104 National Road, Tongshan expressway and Wenfu Railway under construction pass through the area. Land and water transportation is very convenient. Dongqiao Development Zone is the connection point of mountain-sea cooperation in Fujian Province. It is an important intermediary and channel for the whole province to implement the strategy of mountain-sea linkage development, promote Fujian's economy to radiate to neighboring provinces and even participate in national economic cooperation. It is the core area for Ningde to build a port center city with a growth pole in the northeast wing of the economic zone on the west side of the Taiwan Strait.

Since the establishment of Dongqiao Development Zone, especially in the past two years, under the correct leadership of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, the Party Working Committee and the Management Committee have taken the initiative to move forward, actively responded to the overall situation of becoming a bigger and stronger central city, overcome the difficulties of small population, wide scope and complicated situation, and strengthened the work concept of being efficient and capable. Through the unremitting efforts of all Dongqiao people, urban construction has been rapidly promoted, infrastructure has been improved day by day, investment environment has been effectively improved, economic and social undertakings have developed rapidly, and comprehensive strength has been continuously enhanced. In 2008, the regional GDP was 2.075 billion yuan, and the fixed assets investment of the whole society was 654.38+373 million yuan. The total industrial output value is 265.438+0.94 billion yuan, of which the industrial output value above designated size is 65.438+0.99 billion yuan; The total fiscal revenue is 228.66 million yuan, of which the local fiscal revenue is 1.6445438+0 billion yuan. By the end of 2008, the investment in fixed assets of the whole society was 6.43 billion yuan, about 60 kilometers of standard municipal roads were under construction, and 27 residential areas were built, forming a construction area of 2 1.5 million square kilometers, an additional area of 7 square kilometers and a population of about 50,000, initially forming the core area of a central city.