Xian Overview

Xi'an is the city under the jurisdiction of the provincial government of Shanxi, provincial capital of province of Shanxi. Lie at the northern foot of Qinling Mountains in the middle part of the basin of area; extend across north two sides of WeiHe River. It is 900 kilometers from the Northeast to Capital Beijing. Lie between north latitude 33 42 ' and 34°44', during the 107 40 ' and 109 point 49 degrees ' east longitude. The south and southeast regard main spine of mountain range of Qinling Mountains as circle, with Hanzhong city, Shangluo district adjoint; The west is boarded by Baoji with Taibai mountain that the west of Heihe and melting in the platform bluely and greenly as the circle; Make Wei river as the boundry in the Northwest, face each other with the salty open city through the river; The Northeast as the boundry of Jingshan Mountain yellow land platform, adjoin with Weinan and Xianyang city; Regard a river and Ba source mountain region as the circle in the east , is connected to Wei south city. North and south most heavy and vertical from about 100 kilometers, east and west the most distance is about 204 kilometers, 9983 of the whole area, the area of urban area is 1066 sq. km. among them, the area of Jiancheng areas is 178 sq. km.. Have jurisdiction over the new urban area now, tablet forest zone, Lianhu district, Baqiao district, Weiyang district, Yanta district, Yanliang district, Lintong district, Changan county, blue field county, Zhouzhi county, Hu county,Gaolin county and so 8 districts and 5 counties. Total population is 6,548,700, 3,033,000 of urban population among them. The Han nationality accounts for 98.82% of the residents, the main ethnic minority has Hui, Man, Mongolia, etc... The terrain is high in the south and low in the north, it is difference greatly. Mountain region and Weihe River and plain of Qinling Mountains are the subject of the ground form of Xi'an. Qinling Mountains is for the broken mountain ranges of fold, things extension, lie across in the south of Xi'an, about 200 -km-long in the area under one's jurisdiction, the north and south is about 10- 4 kilometers wide, generally have an elevation of 1500- 200 meters, Zhouzhi county, Hu county, Changan county area, have an elevation of 2000- 240 meters, blue field first area have an elevation of 1800- 200 meters. High is slowly lower in the form of wave from the west to the east. Rise in Qinling Mountains River of mountain area, from south to north, cut the mountain region of Qinling Mountains, form a lot of deep gorges, become plain of Guanzhong come in and go out in the passway of Qinling Mountains. Guanzhong plain that make up of Weihe River and tributary alluviation and diluvian fan group in front of the mountains, generally have an elevation of 400- 60 meters. Weihe river flow out Qinling Mountains cut diluvian fan and Hongtu platform plain, form large river valleys of river that from the mouth of mountain through to Weihe River. Xi'an area under the jurisdiction of the municipal government plain mountain the boundary of a piece of land line clearly demarcated, Qinling Mountains mountain lie precipitous in North Slope, the slope is lowered greatly, fault development. The fault plane is connected to smooth unfolded Weihe plain, form strong ground form contrast. It is the half temperate and moist monsoon climate of temperate zone. The changes in temperature is done wetly and clearly demarcated in four seasons, spring intensify rapidly, it is dry and windy; The high temperature that it is hot in summer, the sunshine is strong; It is nice and cool and moist, overcast and rainy occasionally in autumn; It is cold and dry in winter, there is partial and little sleet. Annual 226 days of frost-free period. The temperature on average is 0.4 degrees in January, the temperature on average is 26.6 degrees in July, the average temperature of the whole year 13.3 degrees. Annual average precipitation is 613.7 millimetres, 69.6% of annual average humidity.

Urban current situation

Xi'an is a commerce trading center of the Northwest of China and pivot of correspondence of the traffic, the national city of tourist hot spot, the important processing industrial base. Have already formed it with machinery, electron, textile, national defense industry are the main body, including the production systems of modern chemical industry of 175 classes such as light industry, chemical industry, food, metallurgy, building materials, electricity, medicine. There are 3738 industrial enterprises at township's level or above now, annual gross output value is about 547.400 millions Yuan. There are 1210 three kinds of foreign-invested enterprises, among them has already been built and put into production in 605 enterprises. Utilize the foreign capitals to sign 167 agreement projects, real foreign capital utilized is 205 million dollars. Xi'an Yang Sen drug maker, Datang Communication Company, Xi'an plane manufacturing company, Xi'an electric machinery manufacturing company, Xi'an car shop, and little electronics corporation of Lishan are of great impact in the whole country. The whole city is 316,000 hectares of plain, area of hills, the slope area of where it is are 141,000 hectares, 515,000 hectares of mountain regions. There is cultivated area of 323,500 hectares, 9000 hectares of paddy fields among them, 200,000 hectares of irrigated field; the per capita cultivated land is 0.08 hectares in the village. There is forestry's area of 348,000 hectares. The crops mainly have wheat, maize, cotton, vegetables and many kinds of local and special products, such as Lintong pomegranate, chestnut and grape in Chang An, Zhouzhi kiwi fruit, water-melon, hot pepper of Hu county, apple etc.. The output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery is 8,226 million Yuan; grain total output is 1,875,200 tons. In 1996, the whole city finished the total amount of 1,050 million Yuan of the postal and telecommunications service. There are 810,000 exchangers of local call now; the total amount of telephones is 586,000, Line 32,000 of total capacity of long-distance program-control exchanger, with more than 190 urban direct-dial telephones in the world, accessible by postal communication with more than 120 countries and regions. The whole city various commercial service site develop into 70,000 more than already, country fair total amount has up to 433, more than 2100 wholesale enterprises, more than 80 trade centers, among them have annual turnover of 10 markets that tops a hundred million Yuan. The total volume of retail sales of social consumer goods is 21,282 million Yuan in 1996. The total investment for construction of the travel facilities in the whole city is 262 million Yuan in 1996, with the Northwest 5 province, put out "Silk Road" and the "Yellow River" visit in two national-level travelling routes along the Yellow River 8 districts and cities cooperate, design the Yellow River drift about, three countries visit, offer a sacrifice to an ancestor travel stub of visiting etc.. Xi'an is the banking centre of the Northwest, there are all kinds of 1437 financial institutions now, among them 23 organization and financial institution of more than 100 countries and regions in the world have established the business relations, 14 securities trading organizations have launched the stock exchange business of strange land. The ancient city relying mainly on administration, commercial service of the urban pattern of Xi'an is roughly between two parties, city of the east is Hansenzhai mechanical industry city, Ba bridge textile industry city, city for institution of higher learning, scientific research institution, cultural city that theatre troupe assemble the south, southwest of the city, southeast is the high and new technology industrial development zone, the west of the city is the city of power industry. Used mainly for discharging the municipal sewage in the past in the north of the city, was building the economic and technological development zone now. The electricity is in liberal supply. The water resource is poor, carrying on the diversion works of Heihe in order to solve the water shortage. The natural gas in the north of Shanxi Province has already been delivered to Xi'an; conveyance system is still in construction. Xi'an is scientific research of the whole country and high educational base, the scale of higher education and scientific research integration capability occupy the forefront in the National City. There are 38 institutions of higher learning now in the whole city, the graduate student at school, 114,900 university students, among them the traffic universities of Northwest University, Xi'an polytechnical university, northwest electronic University and Science and northwest Technology University are the national key university, the fourth army medical university, highway communication university of Xi'an list in 211 projects and build focal point to. There are 4080 all kinds of scientific research and technological innovation organization, all kinds of 370,000 professional and technical personnels, have stronger scientific research, production capacity in Aero-Space, electric mechanical equipment, optical instrument and apparatus, electron, textile, traditional Chinese medicine field. The whole city made 2880 every scientific and technical results together in 1996, 185 items of national level among them, 1695 provincial level and ministerial level. The medium-sized school adds up to 640, students are 440,000, and full-time teacher is 29,100. There are 2362 primary schools in the whole city, students are 818,000, and full-time teacher is 30,200. Xi'an has all kinds of the theatrical performance and arts of film of the national characters that make a name home and abroad alone. There are more than 20 theatrical performance groups such as Shanxi opera, song and dance, modern drama, folk art forms, music, acrobatics now, many to perform group visit a lot of countries and regions. The film studio of Xi'an is influential; successively more than 20 films obtained 40 Grand Prix at home, winning international prize more than 20 items. With Chenzhongshi, Jiapingao are representative group of great impact in the whole country for Xi'an writer. The broadcast and television of Xi'an, news publish are fast growing. There are 7 broadcasting stations in Xi'an area at present, run 11 broadcast programs, Japan broadcasts for more than 85 hours. There are 10 wired broadcasting stations. Province and city TV station can broadcast 5 programs at the same time; cable TV station broadcast 3 programs at the same time. Xi'an have 17 of publishing house now, publish books nearly one thousand kinds several ten million volume every year, issue more than 60 kinds of newspapers. Peculiar Xi'an traditional Chinese Painting, Hu county peasant picture on a dark horse, local colour strong Xi'an music, etc. are enjoy great prestige in home and abroad extremely. There are 1441 medical health organs in all in the whole city, 216 hospitals among them, 10 sanatoria, 9 maternity and child care institutions, 31,800 sick beds of health organ, technical staff of professional hygiene is 39,400. The average every thousand people has 6.05 technical staff of hygiene. There are 476 social utilities, enterprise's unit now in the whole city, staff members are 12635, adopted 2530 of number of people in 1996.

Urban characteristic

Xi'an is one of six major ancient capitals of China, kept better of the ancient city wall in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, numerous in urban area and suburbs cultural relics and historic sites, classified as the national historical cultural city by the State Council in 1982. Since the 11th century B.C., successively have Western Zhou Dynasty, Qin, Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty offer emperor, new, the West Jin Dynasty (Min emperor ), before Zhao, before Qin, after Qin, the west Wei, Beizhou, Sui, Tang,etc are all set up here, it lasts more than 1100 years. Make a new start Chimei, Tang the end Huangchao, Li Zicheng at end of Ming Dynasty are found a capital herein too. Xi'an is ancient Silk Road Starting, Have very important function while associating in the culture of economy at home and abroad of ancient times, among them two generations are particularly outstanding in Han and Tang Dynasties. Xi'an is Qin's ground cultural center, there are glorious and magnificent the cultures of the Han Dynasty or Tang Dynasty, rich and colorful folk art. The economy of Xi'an takes processing industry, new high-tech industry and tourist industry of trade and business as the leading factor.