Focus on Hunan
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Transportation, post and telecommunications
Hunan transportation industry develops rapidly. In 2008, the freight turnover volume increased by 4.9%; the passenger turnover volume grew by 8.6%.
Road: At the end of 2008, Hunan had 182,005 kilometers road include village roads and among that, 2,001 kilometers are highway which ranked among the top 10 in China. The provincial capital city Changsha has been connected with 13 cities and counties in Hunan province through highway and all ferries on the Provincial roads in Dongting Lake district have been altered into bridges. These highways and roads radiate from Changsha, Yueyang, Changde, Xiangtan and Hengyang, forming a road network and covering 99% of Hunan territory.
Railway Hunan has a developed railway system. Six main railway lines including Jiangguang, Xiangqian, Zhegan, Xianggui, Shichang and Zhiliu pass through the entire Hunan province. The Hunan sects of Luoshen and Yuhuai lines have also been open to traffic.
Hunan section of Wuhan to Guangzhou High-speed passenger rail routes is being constructed now and 6 new railway projects have been newly opened such as Hunan to Guizhou Complex line etc. Railway transportation in Hunan will be more smoothly at that time.
Port Hunan’s water resource is abundant, having a inland river system of 11,968 kilometers, which is approximately one tenth of the total length of the inland river navigation in China. Hunan has altogether 63 whose handling capacities surpass 10,000 tons, in which Yueyang, Changsha, Xiangtan, Zhuzhou, Hengyang, Changde and Yiyang could handle over one million tons annually.
Aviation At present, Hunan has two international airports in Changsha and Zhangjiajie, and 3 domestic airports in Changde, Vinhchau and Zhijiang. As a main gateway to foreign countries and important hinge in domestic civil aviation, the Changsha Huanghua International Airport already launched 80 airlines and four chartered flight airlines going to 56 major or medium domestic cities including Taiwan and Hongkong and to overseas countries such as Japan, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam. Last year, passengers from Changsha Huanghua International Airport exceed 8.46 million and the increase ranked the first in China. It means more and more people come to Hunan for investing and traveling.
Post and communications Post and communications grew fast in 2008. The total output volume in 2008 reached RMB 75.214 billion Yuan, a 21.4% year-on-year increase; the number of telephone subscribers rose up to 22.6064 million, increasing 3.69 million than last year; the number of broadband Internet user increased to 2.223 million, 420,000 more than last year.
Social Progress
"Everyone in Hunan is good at study", says a much-told story coming down from ancient times. Hunan is a province attaching great importance to education. At present a modern education system suitable for its social and economic development with considerable scale, reasonable structure and complete categories has been established for the citizens in Hunan. Free compulsory education has covered the rural and the urban areas and social security level of rural educational expenditure has been further increased.
More than 30,000 various colleges, middle schools and elementary schools are scattered all over the cities and countryside, and people at different ages could all basically access good education.
The overall level of technology in Hunan is in the front row in six central China provinces. Last year, Hunan obtained 990 technical achievements, including 19 items with national award. The patent applications and approved applications were 14,016 and 6,133 respectively, topping in the first Central China. Hunan has some world class scientists, such as Yuan Longping, "father of the hybrid rice” geneticist Lu GuangXiu who tests the first tube baby in China, Huang Boyun, "the new material expert" and so on. Meanwhile, there are over one million researchers including 45 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering or the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In recent years, Hunan publication enterprise has always come out top among the top fifty cultural industries in China. As the popular saying goes "Hunan ESE can eat hot pepper and publish book," Hunan versions of books are adored deeply by domestic and foreign readers because of their high taste and excellent quality. In 2008, the revenue of Hunan press and publication industry reached a record high of RMB 16.8 billion Yuan with profit of RMB 1.7 billion Yuan. Hunan versions of publication are also favored on the overseas market. Sports Weekly continues to keep its dominant position in the same trade throughout China, its circulation and advertising volume accounted for over 60% of that of the same kind newspapers in China. The rating of Hunan Satellite TV continues to steadily rank No.1 among the satellite TV stations at province level. Hunan has produced a group of excellent TV series such as When We Were Young Students, which have become smash hits nationwide.
Hunan's mass media enterprise has considerable influence in China. Hunan television program is favored by audience from all over the country. A batch of self made excellent TV series and programs enjoy great popularity in the whole country. Rednet, the important news website in Hunan and Hunan On-Line are already among the top major local news websites in China and plan to get listed in 2009.
At the end of 2008, broadcast coverage rate in Hunan was 91.1%; TV coverage rate was 95.7%; there were 5.43 million cable TV household users, basically forming the mass media coverage network with coexisting modes of satellite, wireless and wired transmission.
In literature creation domain, "Hunan writer group" has been growing vigorously over a long period of time in Chinese literature. Many well-known writers such as Shen Congwen, Ding Ling, ZhouLibo, GuHua, MoYingfeng, TanTan, TangHaoming and so on, indicate the prominent status of "Hunan writers in literature" in Chinese literature history.
Hunan has 19 existing dramas and nearly 100 artistic performance troops, among which the most influential is the Hunan Huagu. In addition, arts like music, dance, fine arts, calligraphy and photography have also obtained plentiful and substantial achievements, emerging a lot of famous singers including HeJiguang, LiGuyi, SongZuying, ZhangYe and soon.
The cultural industry gets exceptionally breakthrough, featuring optimized structure, stable operation, bright prospect and healthy development. Hunan cultural brand has a great influence nationwide. The proportion of the added output value produced by the cultural industry in the GDP has ranked first for three consecutive years in central China. In 2008, Hunan’s cartoon animation industry produced 26,500 minutes of original animation programs, the topping first in China. Changsha has become the national capital of animation. Changsha's singing hall culture also suits both refined and popular tastes, being unique in China.
The steady development of the public health enterprise helps to gradually and problems of ‘seeing doctors with difficulty’ are being effectively solved. By the end of 2008, there were 4,325 medical and health organizations at all levels with 210,790 health technical personnel. The cooperative health and medical treatment system pilot program in the countryside gets new progress with 409 counties involved and 45.01 million residents in rural area participating in the rural cooperative medical service.
Hunan strengthens the construction of stadiums, pushing forward the mass sport events. At the end of 2008, there were more than 21,302 sports grounds and 26.80 million people frequently participated in various kinds of sports. Hunan's competitive sports have gradually found a success road with Hunan characteristic. In 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, 7 athletes from Hunan won seven gold medals, which ranked first among all the provinces, autonomous regions and cities directly under the central government. In 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, famous gymnast, Li Xiaopeng, won two gold medals for the second time and young weightlifter, Long Qingquan became the youngest weightlifting Olympic Champion.
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