Xiangshan County, the superstar on the gold coastal line in east China, located at south Ningbo City, consists of the Xiangshan Peninsula and coastal 608 islands, with a land area of 1,175 k ㎡ , a sea area of 5,350 k ㎡ and a population of 530,000. Dominated by a subtropical monsoon climate, the four distinct seasons and mild climate, Xiangshan owns an excellent air quality, which perennially hits the national first class.
The county has witnessed the fast growth of its export-oriented economy with the main industries including knitting and textile, food processing, distribution transformer, car, automobile spares, electronics & machinery etc. Xiangshan County ranked No. 68 in the New Round Competition of the National Top One-Hundred Strongest Economic Counties, while it ranked No. 93 in 1995.
By the end of 2006, there had been 480 foreign invested enterprises, with a total actual used foreign capital of USD 53.64 million. In 2006, it realized a self-support exporting volume of USD 820 million. Therefore, Xiangshan County has formed an economic layout, consisting of food processing machinery and distribution transformer electricity in Dancheng, aquatic food and machinery in Shipu, Knitting garment in Juexi and automobile spares and modules in Xizhou.
Being rich in resources, the county is the leading area for producing aquatic food, fruits and livestock. Its specialties, such as Xiangshan seafood, superior oranges and special wild boars, enjoy high reputations both inside and outside the country. As the Hometown of Fishery, the county annually produces aquatic food of 565,000 tons. As the Hometown of Construction, the county owns 53 construction enterprises, among which1natioanl special-class construction enterprise and 6 enterprises hit the national first class, frequently winning the national Luban Prize and Shanghai Baiyulan Prize. Its knitting industry develops rapidly, and the county was named the China Famous City for Knitting Garment in 2003.
With ideal location, Shipu Port, the famous natural anti-wind port, listed the National Second-Class Opening Port in 1993, is one of the national six central fishing ports with convenient sea traffic. The completion of the Coastal Southern Line and the Coastal Express highly improves the optimization of the traffic conditions in the county. Meanwhile, three sea bridges like the Sea Bridge across the Hangzhou Bay, the Xiangshan Port Bridge and the Sanmen Bridge, together with the Tongzhou-Sanya Line of the National Coastal Express will be successively finished in the near future, so the county must thoroughly change its status as the traffic bottom. By then it will only take half an hour from Xiangshan to Ningbo, three hours from Xiangshan to Shanghai. Besides, bridge economy and port economy have apparently showed their superiorities, strongly promoting the intergration of industries, talents and urban scale in the Xiangshan Industrial Zone on the Ningbo Hangzhou Bay Circle Industrial Belt.
With unique geographical location, the county has formed its special tourism characters centralized on hills and sea resources, owning not only the Songlanshan Seashore Resort, which is the national four-A class resort, but also some natural interest places as the Songhuangchen Beach, the Hua'ao Stone Forest, the Red Rocks Scenic Spot, etc. Meanwhile, the China Fishing Village, the biggest domestic general sea culture tourism project, with a total investment of 500 million RMB, has been received tourists in 2004 May; The Movie City Besides, there are other attractive activities, such as the Shipu Fishing Needfire, Sea Island Hunting, Sunrise on the Mengdingshan, the Flying Waterfall in Lingyanshan, etc. absorbing more and more tourists.
