Zhuanghe, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Dalian, is located on the north bank of the Yellow Sea. It is a key node city in the Yellow Sea wing of Liaoning Coastal Economic Belt, integrating nine major elements: mountains, forests, rivers, lakes and seas, and islands and ports. The land area is 4113.6 square kilometers, accounting for about 1/3 of Dalian; The sea area is 2,933 square kilometers, accounting for about 1/10 of Dalian; The natural coastline is 285 kilometers long, accounting for about 1/8 of Dalian. It has jurisdiction over 26 townships (streets) with a resident population of 742,000. The urban built-up area is 42.8 square kilometers. In 2021, the regional GDP was 57.45 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.5%; The general public budget revenue was 4.91 billion yuan, an increase of 7% year-on-year according to comparable caliber; The investment in fixed assets was 12.28 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 39.1%; The growth rate of industrial added value is 10.5%; The total retail sales of social consumer goods totaled 13.18 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.5%; The per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents increased by 6.9% and 10.9% respectively.

Zhuanghe is a hub city

Zhuanghe city has a complete transportation system. Zhuanghe Port is a national first-class open port, with four 10,000-ton productive berths, one 5,000-ton productive berth, one 20,000-ton international passenger rolling berth and one 1,000-ton passenger rolling berth, with an annual capacity of 6 million tons. Danda Expressway, Zhuanggai Expressway, Danda Express Railway and Haizhuang Railway are interconnected with Northeast Transportation Network. With a mileage of 3,582 kilometers, rural roads are a national demonstration county of "Four Good Rural Roads".

Zhuanghe is an ecological city

Zhuanghe is a national sponge city construction pilot city and a national health city. The excellent air rate has remained at about 90% for many years. The red line of ecological protection covers an area of 790 square kilometers. The forest land area is 2.51 million mu, accounting for 33% of Dalian's forest land area, and the forest coverage rate reaches 45%. There are 365 large and small rivers and 38 reservoirs, which are important water source protection areas in Dalian. The water quality compliance rate of water sources has maintained 100% for many years.

Zhuanghe is a modern agriculture city

The cultivated land area is 2.07 million mu, accounting for 33% of Dalian; The tidal flat culture area is 120,000 mu, and the shallow seabed sowing culture area is 840,000 mu. It is the "shellfish industry capital of China" and the first county (city) in China to establish a national marine economic demonstration zone. It has initially formed a characteristic agricultural pattern focusing on five major industries: fruits, vegetables, edible fungi, animal husbandry and aquatic products. There are 5 national leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, and 36 agricultural products with "two products and one standard". In 2019, it was awarded the title of "National Agricultural Products Quality and Safety County" by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

Zhuanghe is a potential city

Zhuanghe is one of the top 100 cities in county economy in China. For three consecutive years, it has been shortlisted as "Top 100 County Economies in China" published by CCID Think Tank under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, ranking 84th among the top 100 counties with investment competitiveness in China. Dalian North Yellow Sea Economic Development Zone is a provincial-level economic development zone, a "National High-tech New Materials Industry Base", a "National Housing Industrialization Base", a Sino-Japanese (Dalian) Local Development Cooperation Demonstration Zone Huayuankou Area, a Sino-British (Dalian) Advanced Manufacturing Industry Demonstration Park and other opening platforms, which are making Zhuanghe the forefront of the development and opening up of the North Yellow Sea.

Zhuanghe is an industry city

It has three traditional pillar industries: machining and equipment manufacturing, furniture manufacturing and food processing. Relying on resource endowments, efforts will be made to cultivate and expand the development of three new industrial sectors: clean energy, education, science and technology, and cultural tourism and health care.

In terms of the development of traditional industries, there are 44 industrial enterprises above designated size in machining and equipment manufacturing, including 10 national high-tech enterprises, with a planned industrial output value of 6.04 billion yuan in 2021. There are 52 enterprises above designated size in food processing, and the planned industrial output value will be 7.36 billion yuan in 2021. Among them, there are 61 imported cold chain aquatic products processing industries, accounting for 70% of Dalian, 50% of the whole province and 20% of the whole country. There are 3 enterprises above designated size in furniture manufacturing industry, with an output value of 147 million yuan in 2021.

In the development of emerging industries, Zhuanghe is a national smart energy city pilot, The industrial pattern of "five in one" green energy system of wind, light, water, nuclear and hydrogen (storage) has been initially established, and the layout of clean energy production base of 10 million kilowatts has been formed. The planned total installed capacity exceeds 15 million kilowatts, and the estimated total investment exceeds 200 billion. After the project is completed and put into operation, the annual power generation is 61.9 billion kWh, the annual output value is 26.542 billion yuan, and the annual tax revenue will exceed 2.5 billion yuan. By the end of 2021, 1050 MW of offshore wind power, 100 MW of reservoir centralized photovoltaic power station and 1178 MW of clean energy installed capacity have been completed and put into operation, accounting for 49.54% of the total installed capacity of the city. Zhuanghe is the largest offshore wind power project base in northern China. We are accelerating the construction and preliminary work of pumped storage power station, offshore wind power phase II, nuclear power, photovoltaic and other projects in the whole county, and strive to build a green hydrogen production base for clean power electrolysis and clean energy equipment manufacturing base. Zhuanghe is one of the few county-level cities in China and the only one with a university town in the province. Zhuanghe University Town has two campuses, covering an area of more than 2,700 mu, with a total investment of 3.5 billion yuan. Dalian Polytechnic University Institute of Arts and Information Engineering and Haihua College of Liaoning Normal University have settled in, offering 47 undergraduate majors with 18,000 students. There will be 30,000 teachers and students studying, working and living here in the university town in the future. Zhuanghe, with profound cultural heritage, is the hometown of folk culture and art in Liaoning Province, an excellent tourist city in China, a national demonstration county for leisure agriculture and rural tourism, a provincial-level global tourism demonstration area, and a national-level global tourism demonstration area and a national civilized city are being established. It has formed a "one core", "four districts" and "whole area" industrial distribution pattern with Zhuanghe City as the core, northern ecological health tourism area, central agricultural tourism complex health tourism area, southern coastal city health leisure area and island ecological health leisure area. There are 3 national AAAA scenic spots and 5 AAA scenic spots.