City Introduction

Host city-Xi'an, the capital and vice-provincial city of Shaanxi Province:

As the provincial capital of Shaanxi, Xi'an is the starting point of the ancient Silk Road in history. It is now the core area of the "One Belt One Road", an important central city in western China, and a national central city under construction and an international comprehensive transportation hub. City, an international metropolis with historical and cultural characteristics. The geographical location and importance of Xi'an are self-evident.

In order to implement the instructions of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government on the construction of healthy Shaanxi, the Xi’an Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government have also actively implemented the "Healthy Xi’an 2030" Action Plan and solidly completed the demonstration construction of healthy families in Xi’an to promote the construction and civilization of healthy Xi’an. Create jobs in cities and healthy families. Therefore, the site of this Expo is selected as the host city in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.

In order to implement the instructions of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government for Healthy Shanxi Construction, the Xi’an Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government also actively implemented the “Health Xi’an 2030” Action Plan and solidly carried out the demonstration construction of healthy families in Xi’an City to promote healthy Xi’an construction and civilization Create jobs in cities and healthy families. Therefore, the site of the current Expo will be the host city in Xi'an, Shanxi Province.

History

Xi'an is the first batch of national historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council. More than a dozen dynasties have built their capitals here in history. It is one of the four ancient capitals in the world. It is the largest, longest and most influential dynasty in Chinese history. One of the capitals.

Economic review

According to preliminary calculations, in 2019, Xi'an achieved a gross domestic product (GDP) of 9.32119 billion yuan, which is a 7.0% year-on-year increase at comparable prices. In terms of industries, the added value of the first industry was 27.913 billion yuan, an increase of 4.3%; the added value of the second industry was 316.744 billion yuan, an increase of 7.6%; the added value of the tertiary industry was 587.462 billion yuan, an increase of 6.8%.

Traffic

Xi'an is located at the junction of China's land layout center and the two major economic regions of central and western China. It is the only road from northwest to cities in Central Plains, North China, and East China. In terms of the regional economic layout of the country, Xi'an is the largest western central city in the economic zone along the Longhai-Lanxin Railway along the Chinese section of the New Eurasian Continental Bridge. It is the bridgehead for the country to implement the strategy of western development. The important strategic position of the North and South is one of the largest node cities in the national trunk road network.

Research

Xi’an’s national defense science and technology resources rank second in the country. Xi'an has gathered more than 1/3 of domestic aerospace, more than 1/3 of weapons, nearly 1/4 of aviation, scientific research units, professionals and production forces. The country's scientific and technological human resources are third. Xi'an's scientific and technological talents, scientific and technological strength, and research and development rank third in cities in mainland China. There are more than 60 academicians in Xi'an Academy of Sciences. In 2016, Xi'an implemented 116 municipal science and technology plan projects. The number of high-tech enterprises was 1,506, and 29 high-tech enterprises were mainly supported. The annual transaction volume in the technology market was 71.177 billion yuan. 46103 patent applications and 38279 patent authorizations. In 2017, 81110 patent applications were filed, of which 40439 were invention patent applications; 25042 patents were granted, including 7902 invention patents. There are 422 public creative spaces in the city, with a total area of 13.895 million square meters.

Tourist attraction

Xi'an is one of the first batch of excellent tourist cities in China. The cultural heritage has the characteristics of high resource density, good preservation and high level. Among the 155 basic types of China's tourism resource census, Xi'an tourism resources occupy 89. There are 72 tombs of emperors around Xi'an, including the tombs of the first emperor Qin Shihuang, the ruins of the four capital cities of Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang, the tombs of the 11 emperors of the Western Han Dynasty and the 18 tombs of the emperors of the Tang Dynasty, the large and small goose pagoda, the bell and drum tower, the ancient There are more than 700 ancient buildings such as city walls.

As of 2016, there are two six heritages in Xi'an that have been included in the "World Heritage List", namely: Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Small Wild Goose Pagoda, Daming Palace Ruins in Chang'an City in Tang Dynasty, Weiyang Palace Ruins in Chang'an City in Han Dynasty, Xing Temple tower.

City Honor

Starting point of the Silk Road, China's four ancient capitals, national historical and cultural cities, national pioneering and advanced cities, China's outstanding tourist cities, Asian knowledge and technology innovation centers, national regional central cities, national health cities, national garden cities, and China's best international image cities , The top ten most caring people's livelihood cities in China, the top ten most soft cities in China, the construction of advanced cities in civilized cities in the country, the construction of the top ten innovative cities in the country, the top ten innovative cities in the country in 2011, China's service outsourcing demonstration cities, the national society Excellent public security comprehensive management city, national demonstration city for water-saving society construction, China's top ten green cities, national dual-support model city, national forest city, world historical city alliance director, national food safety demonstration city, top ten cities with the highest residents' savings , Top 200 Charm Cities with World Characteristics, Outstanding City Award for Toilet Revolution, Charm Cities with Chinese Characteristics, Cities with the Most Investment Potential in China, 9th in the "National Center City Index", Potential National Important Centers, 13th in China's Comprehensive Strength Ranking , Ranked 20th in the Urban Industry Competitiveness Index, ranked 41th in China's prefecture-level comprehensive well-off index, ranked 10th in China's Urban Science and Technology Innovation Development Index, ranked 10th in the National Youth Campus Football Reform Pilot Zone, ranked 10th in China's Best Commercial City, and China Innovation One of the 30 most powerful cities, ranked 8th in China's urban innovation competitiveness, ranked 10th in China's comprehensive urban business environment, ranked 14th in China's best tourist destination city, and ranked 14th in "China's Top 100 Foreign Trade City" 3. Ranked 4th in China's Happiest Cities, Ranked 9th in China's Urban Science and Technology Innovation Development Index, and Ranked 145th in the 2019 Global Top 500 City List.