Yangjiang is one of the four traditional handicraft bases in Guangdong Province, with a developed individual and private economy. "Three treasures of Yangjiang"-knives, lacquerware and fermented beans are famous at home and abroad. In order to speed up the development of private economy, the municipal party committee and the municipal government have implemented a series of preferential support policies, which have created a good environment for the development of private enterprises and promoted the great development and improvement of private economy. By the end of 2003, there were 38,000 private enterprises in the city, including 8,268 private industrial enterprises. Since 1999, the private economy has grown at an average annual rate of more than 20%, and its contribution rate to national economic growth has increased from 53.6% in 1998 to 69.3% last year. In 2003, the output value of private industry accounted for 77.9% of the city's total industrial output value, and a number of provincial-level famous brand products and "pool" trademarks such as Xizhilang jelly, Meijing brand cooling tower, deep groove ball bearing, biscuits, 18 kitchen knives, silver eagle scissors and Yong Guang scissors were cultivated. China Chopper Center, China Scissors Center and China Cutter Center have successively settled in Yangjiang. In 200 1 year, Yangjiang was awarded the title of "Knife and Scissors Capital of China". Yangjiang knife and scissors products account for 60% of the country's output and 80% of the country's exports. Industry has formed ten pillar industries such as hardware, rare earth, electromechanical, building materials, metallurgy, sugar, food, textile, clothing and forest industry.
The coastline of Yangjianghai (island) is 476 kilometers long, accounting for110 of the whole province. The sea area is 34,000 square kilometers, and the area of tidal flat and shallow sea within 20m is 1.638 square kilometers. Marine fishery resources are very rich, with a long history of marine fishing and mariculture, rich in squid, shark's fin, prawn, crab, mackerel, oyster and so on. The city has seven national and provincial fishing ports. Based on the abundant marine fishery resources, the municipal party committee and the municipal government have laid a good "marine card" to promote the steady development of marine fishery. It has built the largest hanging pile oyster and granola breeding base in China, an important shrimp production base and processing and export base in Guangdong Province. Hold the South China Sea (Yangjiang) Fishing Festival to build a brand of marine fishery. Since 1999, the total amount and per capita possession of aquatic products in the city have been ranked first in the province for 10 years. In 2003, the total amount of aquatic products in the city was 864,000 tons, an increase of 18.9% compared with 198, with an average annual increase of 3. 1%. The total fishery output value was 4.24 billion yuan, up 37. 1% compared with 1998, with an average annual growth rate of 6.5%, of which the total export value was120 billion US dollars, up 9 times compared with 1998, with an average annual growth rate of 58.8%.
Yangjiang is surrounded by mountains and seas and is rich in tourism resources. Mountains, seas, springs, lakes, forests and caves are all over the city, and the natural tourism resources are complete in variety, high in grade and good in spatial combination, ranking second to none in Guangdong Province. In recent years, Yangjiang has held a tourism and culture festival every year, which integrates tourism, culture, sports, exhibitions and commerce to enhance the popularity and influence of Yangjiang tourism. In 200 1 year, Yangjiang City was rated as "China Excellent Tourist City", and Dajiaowan Scenic Area of Hailing Island was awarded the titles of national AAAA coastal tourist scenic spot, provincial science and technology tourism demonstration zone and provincial civilized scenic spot. In 2003, Yangchun Lingxiaoyan was named as a national geological park. In 2003, the city received 2.349 million overnight visitors, achieving a total tourism income of 654.38 billion yuan and 350 million yuan, up 565.438 billion yuan and 765.438 billion yuan respectively over 2003, with an average annual increase of 8.7% and 65.438 billion yuan.
Earnestly implement the "export-driven" strategy, further optimize the investment environment, reduce business costs, enhance the attractiveness to foreign businessmen, seize the new opportunity of China's accession to the WTO, optimize the export commodity structure, support private production enterprises to import and export themselves, support small and medium-sized enterprises to explore the international market, and promote the sustainable development of foreign trade. In the whole year, the total import and export volume of the city was 865.438 billion US dollars, up by 28.8% over the previous year, of which the total export volume was 690 million US dollars, up by 38.5% over the previous year.
Driven by the largest nuclear power projects in China-Yangjiang Nuclear Power Plant, Yangxi Thermal Power Plant, China Resources Yangxi Wind Farm, Yangxi Nuclear Power Plant (under preparation), Yangchun Pumped Storage Power Station, Hailing Island Wind Farm, China Maritime Silk Road Museum and other major projects with investment exceeding 100 billion yuan, Yangjiang's economic development has ushered in new development opportunities. The construction of large-scale projects will definitely affect the all-round development of Yangjiang.
In 2009, the city's GDP was 6.410.80 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of10.5%; The per capita GDP is about 26,500 yuan, an increase of11.7%; The general budget revenue of local finance was 2.6 billion yuan, an increase of18%; The fixed assets investment of the whole society was 185 billion yuan, an increase of 26.8%. The balance of RMB deposits and loans of financial institutions in the city was 42.8 billion yuan and 654.38+0.584 billion yuan, increasing by 24.2% and 6543.8+06.8% respectively compared with the beginning of the year. Energy consumption per unit GDP and industrial added value decreased by 3.5% and 12.6% respectively. New achievements have been made in land conservation.
Yangjiang is a well-deserved "fast horse" in western Guangdong. In 2009 18, Yangjiang ranked first in western Guangdong with 1 1.
Yangjiang is the "fast horse" of the first group army in the province's economic growth rate. In 2009, the growth rates of seven major economic indicators in Yangjiang, such as GDP, added value of industrial enterprises above designated size, investment in fixed assets, general budget revenue of local finance, total value of foreign trade exports, actual utilization of foreign capital and contractual utilization of foreign capital, ranked seventh, fifth, third, sixth, fourth, first and first respectively in the province.
In 2009, the total output of aquatic products in the city exceeded one million tons, reaching 100 16000 tons, and the total fishery economic output value exceeded 1000 billion yuan for the first time, reaching 1 000 billion yuan, and the per capita net income of fishermen exceeded110,000 yuan for the first time.