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Blog / 11/13/2024

Shangqiu, the source of three merchants and the capital of Chinese businessmen

Hometown of Shangzu: a famous historical and cultural city, an excellent tourist city, a national garden city, a financial and ecological city in China, and the best investment city in the central part of China, a famous commercial city.

The long history and culture have nurtured the hardworking, kind, honest and trustworthy people of Shangqiu, and created the traditional virtues of respecting, being pro-business, loving and wealthy businessmen.

Introduction to Shangqiu

Shangqiu is located in the east of Henan Province, in the hinterland of Huanghuai Plain, and is the east gate of Henan Province, with a total area of 10,704 square kilometers (urban area of 91.9 square kilometers) and a population of 8,323,900. Shangqiu has jurisdiction over 2 municipal districts, 1 provincial development zone, 6 counties and 1 county-level city.

Shangqiu is one of the six central cities of the China section of the Eurasian Continental Bridge, the core city of the "half-hour dense layer" in the Central Plains Economic Zone, the frontier city of opening to the outside world, and the regional central city of the junction of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui, and it is an urbanized area of national key development.

"Geographical Location" Shangqiu —— Six Resource Advantages

Location: the "bridgehead" of introducing east and west.

Shangqiu is located in the transitional zone between the developed eastern region and the developing central and western regions. Shangqiu is the bridgehead of China, which leads from the east to the west and reaches the north and south. It is an important material distribution center and business center, and has been identified as a regional logistics center city by the Henan provincial government.

Shangqiu is the closest provincial city in Henan Province to the sea, 300 kilometers away from Lianyungang Port, 500 kilometers away from Qingdao Port and 700 kilometers away from Shanghai Port. It is one of the four intersection cities of "two horizontal and two vertical" economic belts (Yangtze River, Longhai, Beijing-Guangzhou and Beijing-Kowloon) in the State Council's Plan for Promoting the Rise of Central China, and it is the most convenient to undertake industrial transfer in the Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta and Bohai Bay.

Transportation: a cross-shaped transportation hub.

Shangqiu enjoys convenient transportation in all directions, and is a transportation hub city determined by the Ministry of Communications. Beijing-Kowloon Railway and Longhai Railway, National Highway 310 and National Highway 105, and Lianhuo and Jiguang Expressway meet here. Lianhuo, Shangzhou, Shanghe and Shangbo Expressway form a "meter" shape here. Together with the completion of the county-county expressway and village-to-village oil road project, it forms an integrated transportation network connecting the east with the west, connecting the south with the north, and connecting the inside and outside.

The intersection of three "ten" characters formed by railways, expressways and national highways makes Shangqiu a golden transportation hub in the border areas of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui. Shangqiu Civil-Military Airport and Tuo Hui River Shipping to East China will soon be built, which will become a comprehensive three-dimensional transportation hub city integrating railway, highway, civil aviation and inland river shipping.

Resources: abundant coal and electricity+granary in eastern Henan.

Shangqiu is rich in coal and electricity resources and has sufficient supply. Yongxia coalfield is one of the six largest anthracite bases in China, with a reserve of 10 billion tons, all of which are high-quality anthracite for industrial use, with an annual mining capacity of 20 million tons. There are five coal-fired power plants in the city, with a total installed capacity of 2.47 million kilowatts, which will reach 5.8 million kilowatts in the next two years, and there is one 550 kV transmission and transformation station; 6 220kV transmission and transformation stations and 4 under construction; There are 24 110 kV transmission and transformation stations and 3 under construction. The power supply capacity and reliability of Shangqiu Power Grid can meet the power demand of Shangqiu Development Zone.

Shangqiu is a granary in eastern Henan. Shangqiu has a grain output of over 10 billion Jin, accounting for 1/9 of the total grain output in Henan Province. It is a national commodity grain base, a high-quality cotton base and a high-quality seed base. Yongcheng, Xiayi, zhecheng county, Ningling and Minquan were awarded "China Flour City", "China Mushroom Town", "China Three Cherry Peppers Town", "China Crispy Pear Town" and "China Crab Town" respectively.

Manpower: the labor cost is low.

Shangqiu is a big agricultural city in the hinterland of Huanghuai Plain, with dense population and abundant labor resources, with 2.6 million surplus laborers and 2.22 million migrant workers all the year round. Shangqiu has low labor price, low production cost and huge labor transfer space.

In recent years, Shangqiu City has attached great importance to the improvement of labor quality and skills, vigorously developed education, and continuously improved the scale and level of vocational education. By the end of 2009, there were 72 colleges and universities in the city, including 6 higher education institutions: 2 undergraduate institutions with 31,200 students; There are 4 general colleges with 44,000 students.

Environment: First-class soft and hard environment.

Shangqiu is a national excellent tourist city and garden city. It has been selected as one of the "Top 200 Charismatic Cities in China" for three consecutive years, the top 10 of the 30 best investment cities in six central provinces, and won the title of "China's Financial Eco-city", which has unique advantages in eastern location and western cost.

In terms of soft environment construction, we will implement such administrative efficiency mechanisms as "first inquiry responsibility system", "one-stop office, one-stop service", "joint examination and approval system for large projects" and "time-limited completion system" to facilitate foreign investment, and strive to create an investment environment with the most favorable policies, the most relaxed environment, the most efficient work, the best service, the safest investment and the lowest cost.

Humanism: the birthplace of commercial civilization

Shangqiu has a history of 5,000 years of civilization. It is the birthplace of commerce, commodities, merchants and fire culture, and is known as the "source of three merchants". "Merchants" and "commerce" originated from Shangqiu. Shangqiu is also the ancestral home of Confucius, the hometown of Zhuangzi and Mulan, and it is a national historical and cultural city.

The ancient city of Guide is one of the four well-preserved ancient cities in China. The golden jade clothes unearthed in the historical and cultural scenic spot of Mangdang Mountain in Yongcheng have been rated as one of the top ten new archaeological discoveries in China by experts, and the murals of Han tombs are known as "Dunhuang before Dunhuang". Shang culture, fire culture, Mulan culture, Zhuangzi culture and Han Liang culture are famous at home and abroad.

"Business-oriented" Shangqiu-Preferential Investment Promotion Policy

Shangqiu is the birthplace of Chinese commercial civilization, the "source of three businesses" and the "capital of Chinese businessmen", and has always had a tradition of attaching importance to and worshiping business. In recent years, in order to speed up economic development and further open to the outside world, Shangqiu City has formulated a series of preferential policies for attracting investment in accordance with national laws, regulations and relevant policies, and combined with the actual situation of this city, encouraging businessmen from all over the world to come to Shangqiu to invest and start a business. The following excerpt is "Preferential Measures for Encouraging Foreign Investment in Shangqiu City" (part):

Service and rights protection

Article 19 Enterprises are encouraged to settle in standardized workshops in economic development zones and industrial clusters in counties (cities), and the development zones and industrial clusters will provide supporting infrastructure services.

Article 20 Investment projects shall be provided with "agency" service and "one-stop" service through the administrative service halls at the city and county levels. Projects entering the development zones or industrial clusters shall be handled by the development zones or industrial clusters on their behalf and completed within a limited time; If it needs the approval of the higher authorities, the relevant departments will report it to the coordination and approval as soon as possible, and the investment promotion departments at the city and county levels will assist in the whole process.

Article 22 The "Four Disruptions" behavior is strictly prohibited, so as to effectively reduce the burden on enterprises. Without the approval of legal procedures or the government, it is strictly forbidden for any department to enter the enterprise for inspection, charging and punishment. Once the "Four Disruptions" behavior is investigated, it will be dealt with severely, and the responsibility of the person directly responsible, the deputy in charge and the main person in charge of the department will be investigated.

"Characteristic" Shangqiu —— Liangyuan Industrial Cluster

Shangqiu Liangyuan Industrial Cluster is located in the northwest of liangyuan district, Shangqiu City, with a total planned area of 35.1 square kilometers. It is one of the 180 provincial-level industrial clusters approved by the Henan Provincial Government, and it is a new multi-functional production-city integration zone planned and constructed by liangyuan district, Shangqiu City to speed up the landing of industrial projects, improve industrial grades and accelerate the pace of regional central city construction.

Industrial orientation

The cluster area is planned to be two leading industries, aluminum product processing and agricultural and sideline products processing, and the spatial layout is six functional divisions, namely aluminum industrial park, agricultural and sideline products processing park, hospital industrial park, small and medium-sized enterprise pioneer park, logistics business district and comprehensive service area. The development orientation is based on aluminum processing and agricultural and sideline products processing industries, supported by high-tech industries, supplemented by medical machinery, logistics and warehousing, and automobile trade industries. It is an advanced industrial concentration area, a modern urban functional area and an important economic growth pole that integrates Industry-University-Research, is livable and suitable for industry, and has diversified functions.

development situation

In recent years, Liangyuan Industrial Cluster has developed rapidly and healthily by adhering to high starting point planning and high standard construction. Up to now, the built-up area of the agglomeration area has reached 7 square kilometers; The infrastructure in the area has basically achieved "seven connections and one leveling", "seven verticals and seven horizontals" and the ring road has been completed and opened to traffic; There are more than 120 industrial and commercial and urban construction projects, including 93 industrial projects, 19 projects with a capital of over 100 million yuan and 58 enterprises associated with leading industries. Three industrial clusters of agricultural and sideline products deep processing, medicine and aluminum processing and five industrial chains of grain, meat, wood, medicine and aluminum deep processing have been initially formed, with 29,000 employees.

Honor won

With the continuous improvement of infrastructure and the development of project construction, the comprehensive function of Liangyuan Industrial Cluster is becoming more and more perfect, and the industrial agglomeration effect is initially apparent. It has been identified as the key undertaking place for the gradient transfer of processing trade industry in Henan Province and the first batch of key industrial clusters for opening up to the outside world in Henan Province. In 2010, it was selected by Sina. com as "the industrial cluster with the most investment value in the Central Plains" and was selected by People's Network as "China Scale Industrial Park Demonstration Zone".

"Humanity" Shangqiu —— Five Thousand Years of Cultural Accumulation

Memorial the Return of Confucius Temple

The ancestors of Confucius were Song people in the Spring and Autumn Period (their ancestral home is Wanggonglou Village, six kilometers north of Xiayi County, Shangqiu City, and Confucius' ancestral grave is still here). In 680 BC, there was civil strife in the Song Dynasty, and Confucius' great-grandfather Confucius prevented his uncle from going to Lu to avoid the chaos. When Confucius became an adult, he knew that Wanggonglou Village in Xiayi was his ancestral home, and he often went back to his ancestral home to pay homage to his ancestors. Later, in order to commemorate Confucius' return home, Confucius' Return Home Temple was built in Wanggonglou Village.

The Confucius Temple of Returning Home was built in the early Tang Dynasty. Its shape is like a Confucian temple, facing south, with a wall, an altar, two halls, four doors and a forest of steles. In Song Zhenzong, Kong Liangfu and Kong Yanfu, the forty-five generations of Confucius' grandchildren, settled here from Qufu, and restored and expanded the Confucius Home Returning Temple. In the Jin Dynasty, an apricot altar was erected in front of Dacheng Hall. In the first year of Daoguang reign, a shrine was built. In ancient times, every time there was an imperial examination, there were always many earnest students who came to worship in order to pray for Wen Qu's blessing.

Should be day college

Yingtian Academy, also known as Suiyang Academy and Nanjing Academy, is located in the south of Shangqiu County, and is known as the four major academies in the Northern Song Dynasty together with Songyang Academy, Yuelu Academy and Bailudong Academy. Yingtian Academy was founded by Yang Yun, a native of Shangqiu in the Five Dynasties after the Jin Dynasty. After the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty regime, it began to take scholars. Because there are so many talented people here, there are as many as 50 or 60 students in the imperial examination.

In 1009, the second year of Xiang Fu in the Song Dynasty, Emperor Zhenzong greatly sighed, and the official amount was "Yingtian Academy". Fan Zhongyan came to Yingtian Academy to study, married and had children, settled in Shangqiu, and served as the bishop of Yingtian Academy. In the first year of Song Renzong Jingyou (1034), Yingtian Academy was changed into a government school, and the government allocated ten hectares of land as school funds. In the third year of Qingli (1043), it was changed to imperial academy, Nanjing, which was the highest institution of learning at that time with Kaifeng in Tokyo and imperial academy in Luoyang in Xijing.

Huashang cultural square

Built in 2006, covering an area of more than 140 mu, it is located in the south of the fire culture scenic spot in Suiyang District, facing the fire culture square, forming a complete fire culture and business culture scenic spot together. The main landscape includes four parts:

The first is the door of three merchants. Three deformed characters of Oracle Bone Inscriptions "Shang" are used as the basic shape, and the top of the door is carved with a dark bird, which means "a dark bird gives birth to a business". The three doors in the shape of "Shang" are connected, which means the source of merchants, commodities and commerce, and the earliest capital of the Shang Dynasty. The second is Businessman Avenue. From the gate of the square through Wanshang Square to the statue of Wang Hai, it is composed of currency patterns of various historical periods, meaning rich Shangqiu and wealthy businessmen. The third is Wanshang Square. Located right in front of the statue of Wang Hai, it consists of 20,100 "Shang" patterns in various fonts, which means that all merchants originated in Shangqiu and gathered in Shangqiu. The fourth is the statue of Wang Hai. The statue is as high as 9.5 meters, which means the statue of the Ninth Five-Year Plan. The statue not only shows Wang Hai's kingliness and demeanor, but also shows the wisdom and shrewdness of businessmen. (Source/Shangqiu Municipal Bureau of Commerce)

Nanhu ancient city, no.1 and no.9 buses go directly!

Old course of the Yellow River, Forest Park

Take the city bus to the 310 roundabout, and then there is a through train to the old road of the Yellow River, which is with the forest park!

If you want to feel the ancient culture, you can focus on the tourist attractions centered on Shangqiu ancient city, such as Yingtian Academy, one of the four famous academies in the ancient city. There is the former residence of Hou Fangyu, a great talent and essayist in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, which contains relics such as Zhuang Regret Hall and Emerald Building. In the south of the city, there is the "Zhang Xun Temple" of General Zhang Xun, who is famous for fighting against the rebellion of An Shi Rebellion, and the "Baguan Pavilion", which displays the original works of the great calligrapher Yan Zhenqing. In the ancient Song township, not far from the county seat, there are the "Vulcan Terrace" and the "Suiren Mausoleum", which are two scenic spots related to the Chinese fire ancestor.

What young people like are city lakes.

Shangqiu Ancient City, Vulcan Terrace, Mulan Ancestral Hall in Yucheng, Confucius Home Returning Temple in Xiayi, Tianlong Lake, and Liang Xiaowang Tomb of Mangshan in Yongcheng (national AAA tourist attractions). .......

The area that most students like to visit is Baiyun Amusement Park, because there is everything there. Supermarket, KTV, lawn, hotel, bar, game hall and Internet cafe are close to the pedestrian street, and the traffic is convenient.

It's not far from Shangqiu to Shaolin Temple. It's recommended to take a long-distance bus. There are special coaches, but Shangqiu is far less fun than Shaolin Temple. It's recommended to focus on Shaolin Temple. Have a good time ~ ~!

Shangqiu tourism administration

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