Yao Yingjie, secretary of the Party Committee of Chaoyang City, Guangdong Province, announced to the visiting Thai villagers on the evening of the 3rd that the people of Chaoyang City have entered a well-off life. Last year, the city's gross domestic product reached more than 16 billion yuan, the infrastructure was improving day by day, and the urban and rural landscape had undergone tremendous changes.
Chaoyang was originally a poor and backward ancient city in eastern Guangdong. Since the reform and opening up, the city has given full play to its three advantages: people's strength, hometown of overseas Chinese and coastal areas. It is based on industry, driven by the outside world, and prospered by science and education, and all walks of life have made rapid progress.
Chaoyang is the most populous county-level city in China and the largest hometown of overseas Chinese in China. The population of the city is more than 5.45 million, and there are more than 2 million overseas Chinese and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan folks, more than half of whom live in Thailand.
Yao Yingjie said that the achievements of Chaoyang's modernization have benefited from the support of folks at home and abroad. Since the reform and opening-up, overseas Chinese and Hong Kong and Macao folks have donated more than/kloc-0.2 billion yuan to Chaoyang to set up public welfare undertakings, exceeding/kloc-0.0 billion yuan last year alone.
The friendly delegation of Taihua Newspaper Public Welfare Foundation, which visited on the 3rd, started its trip to eastern Guangdong on the 6th of this month.
Dr. Chen, honorary consultant of the delegation, said at the welcome banquet held in Chaoyang City that overseas Chinese of Chaoyang nationality have always cared about the construction of their hometown, hoped that their hometown would progress, spared no effort to invest in their hometown undertakings and fund public welfare undertakings, all because of their kinship and patriotism. When we visited our hometown again this time, we were all sincerely happy to see the prosperity of the market and various industries, and applauded the progress of Chaoyang.
Population aging: Rugao City, Jiangsu Province and county-level cities with the largest number of centenarians in China.
China Population Network 2004-10-2601:00: 23
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10 June 19, Zhang, an old man from Chengdong Village, Rucheng Town, Rugao City, Jiangsu Province, celebrated his centenary birthday, thus becoming the second10 centenarian in Rugao. Zhang lost his wife 46 years ago. He led a hard life in order to raise his children. Today, he is the parent of a big family of "five generations living under one roof" and enjoys his old age under the care of his children. Rugao is located on the plain on the north bank of the Yangtze River estuary. This county-level city with a total population of 6.5438+0.45 million and 265.438+00 centenarians is the county-level city with the largest number of centenarians in China. The proportion of centenarians in the total population is 1.44/ 10,000, which is nearly 1 times higher than the standard of 0.75/ 10,000 set by the United Nations.
At present, the total number of centenarians in China is about 17800. Rugao, as a famous longevity town in China, has over 1% centenarians, accounting for one thousandth of the total population in China. In Rugao, there are more than 4,000 elderly people over 90 years old, more than 40,000 elderly people over 80 years old, and more than 500 families with "five generations under one roof".
Different from other longevity towns in the world, Rugao is not in cold areas or remote mountainous areas, but in the economically developed Yangtze River Delta plain. This unique phenomenon has attracted extensive attention of experts on aging at home and abroad. They believe that it is more universal to study the reasons for Rugao people's longevity. Some experts believe that Rugao people's longevity is not only related to genes, soil and water conditions, but also related to the local diet and human environment. The long local fine tradition of respecting and loving the elderly, healthy and peaceful mentality, beautiful and pleasant living environment, profound humanistic accumulation and rich food culture are all reasons for longevity. The famous "four treasures of local products", namely radish, ginkgo, yellow wine and dry tea, are traditional health foods of Rugao people; The "four treasures of famous products", namely silk carpets, sculptures, kites and bonsai, are the nourishment of local life; There are also longevity cultural sites such as Centennial Lane, Wanshoutang and Shuihuiyuan, as well as folk customs related to longevity and health preservation such as Centennial Bowl and Kilometers. (End)
Tengzhou city
Area 1485 km2.
Population: 65,438+570,000 (2004)
County-level cities with administrative levels
Postal code 277500
Telephone area code 0632
Tengzhou City, located in the south of Shandong Province, China, is the most populous county-level administrative region in Shandong Province and China. It is a municipality directly under the central government and managed by Zaozhuang, a prefecture-level city. Its humanistic history is long, and it is the hometown of Mohist founder Mozi and craftsman grandfather Luban.