Zhangshu is located in the middle part of Jiangxi Province , the plain south edge of Poyang Lake . It also bestraddles the middle reaches of a river the state of being middling ‘s two banks of Kan , Its old name is Qingjiang County . On the October of 1988 , it set up the city instead of county . The citywide area is 1291 sq.km. which city area is 32 sq.km. The built area 18 sq.km. . The total population is 537,000. The cantonal resident population is 192,000. Now it dominates 10 towns , 4 villages and 5 street offices .
Zhangshu’s region economy characteristic is very obvious. Medicine, drink, salt become supporting Zhangshu regional economy’s three backbone industries .
Medicine Industry : Zhangshu’s Medicine Industry is of long standing. It began from Han and Jin dynasty and formed in Tang and Song dynasty and bloomed in Ming and Qing dynasty. It Pass through 1800 years unfading. It possess a good honour of “ The medicine is not complete if you don’t go to Zhangshu. The medicine is not efficacious if it don’t pass Zhangshu” . It is recognized as “ The capital of Medicine “ by both the Chinese and foreign people in medicine field .
Wine Industry : Zhangshu brewaged wine from Shang and Zhou dynasty. In Qing dynasty， The Lou Yuanlong rummery brewaged very good wine and marked as four “special” . It sold to adjoining provinces . So it named “ SiTe Wine “ .In 1958 , prime minister Zhou praised “SiTe Wine “ as “ mellow aftertaste without end “. In 1972 , Mr Deng XiaoPing said that the “SiTe Wine “ was masterwork in all drink , taste is special “ after his degustation. In 1988 , “SiTe Wine “ won silver diploma Of China , which is one of the first 36 name brand products in Jiangxi Province . In 2001, after Jiang Zemin tasted the “SiTe Wine “ , praised satisfactorily it was “ the deserve the reputations one enjoys’ good wine “ . In 2004, “SiTe Wine “ was appraised as China resound brand , It filled up Zhangshu city and Yichun City’s blank . The main economy target of Shi Te Limited Company has been the front in the distilled spirit calling of China .
Salt Industry : The rock salt resource of Zhangshu is the first place of Jiangxi provinice and it is the fourth place of whole Country . The proved up all wool and a yard wide rock salt reserves is 10.37 billion tons . Now there are Jiangxi Salt mine and FuDa salt mine two salt enterprises . The output of Jiangxi salt mine is 800 thousand tons every year .
Insurance equipment machine manufacturing: Insurance equipment and crane equipment compose the main body of Zhangshu machine manufacturing. It is the fourth economy backbone after medicine, drink , salt in Zhangshu city . Insurance equipment ‘s manufacture began from 1973 . At present, there are 13 scaled Insurance equipment manufacture limited company in whole city . It is distributed in 7 villages and towns, street offices . The total practitioners are 3600 which the sales are 2200 .
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