Longyou County has a long history and splendid culture. In Shang and Zhou Dynasties, an ancient country was established, and Taimu County was established in Qin Dynasty. In the eighth year of Tang Zhenguan, it was changed to Longqiu, and in the fifth and sixth dynasties, it was changed to Longyou, and the county was established in 2224.
Longyou has beautiful mountains and rivers, rich humanities, mountains and hills, plains and rivers. Peaks, rocks, caves, lakes and ponds are integrated with the human landscape, each with its own characteristics and many places of interest. Up to now, there are more than 100 national, provincial and municipal cultural relics protection units in China. Longyou Grottoes excavated in recent years are located at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain, three kilometers north of Longyou County. It is a magnificent ancient underground building complex, known as "the ninth wonder of the world". The discovery of grottoes has attracted more and more attention and favor from archaeologists, mysterious hunters and tourists at home and abroad, and has become an important tourist highlight in East China. At present, it is actively applying for world cultural heritage. Other scenic spots, such as Jiming Mountain, Ming and Qing residential gardens, Longnan Bamboo Sea Forest, Baifoyan Waterfall, Sandie Rock and Zhaoqing Temple, an ancient temple in the Tang Dynasty, are all loved by Chinese and foreign tourists.
Longyou County enjoys a unique geographical position, with "two mountains, two rivers and two beaches". Jiming Mountain and Fenghuang Mountain occupy the north and south of the county, Qujiang and Lingshan pass through the city, and Qujiang Shipyard sandbars and Grottoes sandbars are located on the east and west sides of the county. Superior natural conditions provide a good foundation for creating an "eco-cultural tourism city" and building a "scenic spot without walls".
The restructuring of Longyou enterprises has been basically completed, and the vitality of industrial and commercial enterprises, mainly private enterprises, has doubled and entered the channel of accelerating development. Paper-making, electronics, teaching instruments, bamboo and bamboo processing, cement building materials, clothing knitting, machinery, chemical industry and other industries have become increasingly prominent, forming a "two districts and many parks" industrial pattern with a total area of 20 square meters. At present, all parks are speeding up the construction of supporting infrastructure to build a good platform for foreign investment.
Longyou is a traditional agricultural county with rich products, including pigs, laying ducks, pearls, rex rabbits, rice, bamboo shoots, tea, citrus, lotus seeds, flower seedlings and Chinese herbal medicines. It is "the hometown of bamboo shoots in China" and "the hometown of Huang Huali in China", with warm and humid climate and abundant land resources, which is an ideal area for developing modern agriculture.
Longyou is simple in folk customs, hardworking and hospitable, and has a superior social and cultural environment. It is a treasure-house for foreign investors to invest and start businesses. We sincerely welcome people of insight to invest, do business, visit relatives and friends, and go sightseeing.
In recent years, Longyou County has comprehensively promoted urban construction and management under the guidance of the concept of managing cities. The urban built-up area has expanded from 2.6 square kilometers in 1983 to 8.3 square kilometers at present, and the population has increased from 1.8 million to 80,000. The main framework of urban roads with six vertical lines and five horizontal lines was initially formed, with a total length of 70 kilometers; Two large city squares were built, with a total area of 83,000 square meters. Among them, Rongchang Plaza, which covers an area of 50,000 square meters and was completed and opened at the end of last year, has won unanimous praise from tourists inside and outside the province for its unique planning and design style and high-grade architecture. The lighting and beautification project focusing on Taiping Road was implemented, which highlighted the prosperous scenery of the commercial street. Large-scale implementation of the demolition of fences to penetrate the green, demolition of walls to build green projects, the construction of more than 10 small urban green gardens, the urban ecological environment has been significantly improved.
Longyou county aims to build an "eco-cultural tourism city" and takes "managing the city" as a means to devote itself to the regulation of urban planning, speed up the pace of urban construction and promote industrial and population agglomeration. At present, the fourth round of the overall urban planning of Longyou County has been completed, and the Urban Planning and Design Institute of Tongji University in Shanghai has been entrusted to carry out the overall urban design, outline the urban characteristics according to the "people-oriented" and "ecological concept", and strive to build Longyou City into a "scenic spot without walls".
According to the requirements of urbanization development and the revision of urban master plan, Longyou County has comprehensively adjusted the layout of urban industrial structure, and determined the industrial layout of "two districts and many parks" in the county with Chengnan Industrial Development Zone and Beilong Economic Development Zone as the main body; Plan the layout of the eastern education park, start the eastern development, and strive to merge the township high school into the county seat and the rural junior high school into the central town within three to five years; Strengthen the rationality of spatial layout of urban medical institutions through hospital relocation; Strengthen the construction of various professional markets, and initially form the largest building materials decoration market in western Zhejiang.
At the same time, deepen the construction of the "Longyou Grottoes" scenic spot, speed up the development of scenic spots such as the Great Zhuhai scenic spot in western Zhejiang, Sanmenyuan Ming and Qing dwellings, Baifoyan Waterfall and volcanic neck, and form a two-day tour pattern of Longyou. Combined with the development of tourism, based on the completion of the construction of the urban center with Rongchang Square as the main body, the old town of Xiaodongmen will be demolished and rebuilt this year, and the Lingshan River landscape project showing the historical and cultural context of Longyou will be started to enhance the tourism function of the urban area.