Shiyan was built by cars and prospered by cars. It is not only the hometown of "Dongfeng Motor", but also the automobile city known as "Detroit in the East". It is also a beautiful mountain city, tourist city and ecological garden city.
Shiyan has a long history and splendid culture. This is an important birthplace of the Chinese nation. 199 1 year, archaeologists excavated two complete skull fossils of Australopithecus australis at Quyuan River in Yunxian County, and named them "Yunxian people". Anthropologists believe that this discovery filled a gap in the "chain" of human development in Asia and was listed as the first of the "Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in the World" that year. Today's urban area was named Shiyan in the Qing Dynasty, because people built dams on the Baier River and irrigated 10 rivers. This is the birthplace of Taoism and "wudang boxing". Wudang Taoism has a history of thousands of years, and the ancient buildings of Wudang Mountain have been listed in the World Cultural Heritage List by the United Nations.
Shiyan is a big city with beautiful mountains and rivers and rich resources. The land area accounts for one-eighth of the province, and it is known as "eight mountains, one water and one field", which is rich in landscape resources. There are abundant mineral resources. There are more than 50 kinds of proven mineral resources such as turquoise, gold, silver, stone coal, rare earth, iron, tin, vanadium and marble, with a potential value of more than 400 billion yuan. Rich in hydraulic resources, the average annual runoff is 65.438+0 billion cubic meters, the transit passenger flow is 28 billion cubic meters, and the theoretical reserve of hydraulic resources is 5 million kilowatts, including 340 kilowatts; Available for development and utilization. Lint is rich in resources, rich in high-quality tea and edible fungi, and Fangxian is known as the "hometown of Yan 'er" in China. There are many kinds of medicinal materials, and * * * produces more than 2,700 kinds of medicinal materials. Among the 363 key varieties identified by the state, our city accounts for about 235 species, accounting for 65% of the total, and is known as the "natural drug storehouse".
Shiyan is a famous automobile city in China. Shiyan is one of the largest automobile industrial bases in China, and has the reputation of "Detroit in the East". Shiyan is the cradle of Dongfeng Motor and the birthplace of Dongfeng Motor Company. It has many powerful large-scale auto parts enterprises, the most powerful automotive technology research institute in China and the largest auto parts trading market in China. There are more than 200 automobile and parts enterprises in the city, and the assets of the automobile industry are more than 45 billion yuan, with nearly 200,000 employees, and the annual production capacity of various automobiles reaches 300,000. In 2003, the strategic cooperation between Dongfeng Company and Nissan Company, the largest joint venture project in China's automobile industry, was launched in an all-round way. Shiyan, as a major commercial vehicle production base, will invest more than 5 billion yuan in the next five years and become a world-class truck manufacturing center.
Shiyan is a tourist attraction. It is a bright pearl on the golden tourist line of "Three Gorges of the Yangtze River-Shennongjia-Gulongzhong-Wudang Mountain-Danjiangkou Reservoir-Xi 'an Ancient City". Wudang Mountain, a Taoist shrine listed in the World Cultural Heritage List and awarded the title of 4A-level tourist area, Danjiangkou Reservoir, the largest artificial lake in Asia, the site of Yunxian ape-man which has caused a sensation at home and abroad, and the rare dinosaur egg and dinosaur bones in the world. There are hot springs, waterfalls, Tianchi, canyons, caves, virgin forests and modern automobile cities. Shiyan, a place with no severe cold in winter, no intense heat in summer, no strong winds in four seasons, beautiful mountains and rivers and pleasant scenery, is a fascinating land of geomantic omen. Shiyan is the source of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project. Danjiangkou reservoir is located in Shiyan, which is the water source and intake of the middle route project of South-to-North Water Transfer Project. The Middle Route Project of South-to-North Water Transfer directly supplies water to Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and Henan provinces, with an annual water transfer of 654.38+0.3 billion cubic meters. The construction of the Middle Route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project will make Shiyan become "the world's water capital and the Tianchi Lake in Asia" and bring new development opportunities for Shiyan.
Shiyan is an ecological barrier. Because the Qinling Mountains and Bashan Mountains meet at Shiyan, it constitutes the geographical dividing line between the north and south climate in China. It can resist the sandstorm in the north moving southward and eastward, and prevent the acid rain in the south from moving northward and westward. Therefore, Shiyan is an ecological regulator and the ecological heart of China.