Brief Introduction of Xiantao, Hubei
Comprehensive Strength:
Since the reform and opening to the outside world. Xiantao's economy and society has developed greatly. It was listed to China's Top Hundred Counties (Cities) and also it is the first of the top ten counties in Hubei Province for consequent ten years. Xiantao has successively been awarded the titles of National advanced education city, National high quality city, National advanced environmental comprehensive administering city, and National advanced plain greening city.As a city with goals of constructing of national civilized city and national garden city, Xiantao strongly push on city construction and civilized creation.Xiantao has totally invested more than three billion RMB recently to quicken the five kinds of project construction, which are transportation, water conservancy. Energy resources, information and environmental protection, with city function more and more perfect. A sequence of highlights such as the Municipal Square, the Xianxia River and Pedestrian Shopping Street and so on are radiant and the city level improves continuously. Creating green Xiantao and building a graceful region of rivers and lakes forms park- like ecological scenery with special charm. Xiantao is chosen as National Civilized city. National sanitation city. National Advanced Quality city. National Advanced Environmental comprehensive city. National Advanced Audio-visual Educational city. National Advanced physical educational City and National Advanced Afforesting city one after another with a group of units and towns being "National Advanced Construction Unit of Spiritual Civilization", " National Advanced Unit for Creating Civilized Trade" and "National Civilized Town" Open, civilized and ecological Xiantao constructs affined habitual environment and attractive pioneering environment.
Transportation:
Xiantao is northward to Han River and southward to the Yangtze River, westward to JingZhou and Yichang Cities, and eastward to the center of Wuhan city, Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, Wuchang Railway Station, Wuhan Passenger Transport Harbor within about one hour's ride through expressway. The National Way 318 and Yi-Huang Expressway lie across it; Beijing - Zhuhai and Shanghai - Chengdu expressways will intersect nearby Xiaotao. The constructing Shuizhou - Yueyang expressway will also intersect within the boundaries. It is only within a radius of 1000km from Xiantao to Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, thus Xiantao city has the location advantage of linking south and north, east and west.
Traffic:
In Xiantao, the rivers and creeks are interlinked and the road extends in all directions. It is only one-hour drive from Xiantao to Wuhan Tianhe International airport, to Hankou railway station and to Yangtze River Wuhan port. Beijing-Zhuhai highway, which runs through from south to north of China and Shanghai-Chengdu highway, which runs through from east to west of China, joins up around Xiantao.
Industrial Development:
Xiantao orientates city in accordance with light structure, Xiantao grasps the top, builds the big base, creates the grand brand and makes the five fields, which are textile, clothing, non-woven cloth and medical hygienic materials, medical chemical industry and food processing large and strong. Textile industry upgrades and has newly one million advanced textile Spindle, establishing a coordinated process of production system including spinning, weaving, dying, rectifying and clothing, making a historical change from crude textile to fine textile. It has reached the scale of 5million m2 a year. Non-woven Export delivery value is RBM 15million, which is 40% of national non-woven fabric export. Xiantao becomes the important production base of high- grade surface cloth and the largest base of processing and exporting non-woven fabric. Xiantao brand worsted and Slek brand shampoo both has been awarded the title of Chinese famous brand production. Total Output, export and tax of light textile industry is 80% of total industry. The characteristic of light and export- oriented industry has formed basically. A modern light textile city is emerging quickly on the horizon.