Ledong

Located in the southwest of Hainan province, Li autonomous county of Ledong nears to the hills and besides the sea, it is one of the few tropical regions in China with the unique climate conditions, well-known as the "natural greenhouse", "hot treasure land" and "green treasure house" and other good names, it is the most desirable treasured place to develop characteristically tropical high-efficiency agriculture.

Favorable natural conditions make Ledong become the most suitable county for the development of the banana-producing in the world. After the efforts for many years, Ledong banana industry has been rapidly growing. Of good quality, ledong’s banana has the high marketing value and fame. In recent years, the total banana-growing area of the county has been keeping at about 12 million mu, the total production has reached 30million ton, and the output value of banana has reached to 700 million Yuan, accounting for 25.4% of the total agricultural output.

Because of Concentrated flavor, good taste, excellent quality, high nutritional value, Ledong banana has a high reputation at home and abroad. Banana products not only have been sold in Beijing, Shanghai, Harbin and other national large and medium cities and Hong Kong and Macao, but exported to Japan, the United States, Russia and other countries and regions.

The banana industry is one of the important pillars in Ledong. Ledong has been awarded the "Hometown of Chinese banana", "top ten counties of the National Banana Industry", "the model banana-producing countries of agricultural standardization zone," "Chinese banana county of pollution-free technological specification " and other national-level honor.

Dongfang

located in the southwest of Hainan province, city of Dong Fang has an area of 2,266.62 square kilometers. The terrain ascends from plain in the west to mountain area in the east. The climate in the city of Dong Fang is tropical monsoon oceanic type and frost-free with average annual temperature 24℃—25℃, enough sunshine and rainfall of 1000-1900 millimeters. The west-line expressway and the Hainan-Guang dong railway in Hainan which streches through Dong Fang, is more than 200 kilometers from Meilan international airport of Haikou in the north and 100 kilometers form Phonix International airport of Sanya in the south. There is the Da Guang Ba hydraulic plant which is the largest hydraulic plat in Hainan, Ba Suo port-the largest natural port and the largest plain- Gan’en. Dong Fang is blessed with notable notable advantages in rich oil and gas in the nearby sea, geographical location, transportation and other resources.

Dongfang has a long history. Two thousand years ago, it called Jiu Long County, which was transformed in to the administrative level of city. It has a population of 420,000 with Han, Li, Miao, Hui and other ethnics living in harmony. Of the ethnics, Li and Miao amount to 80,000. Its jurisdiction covers 10 towns, 182 village committees, 11 resident committees, 3 state-owned farms and one overseaChinese-owned farm with Ba Suo Town as the office site of municipal government.

The sea under the governance of Dongfang City is rich in oil and gas, with the "Orient 1-1" and other oil and gas fields, a coastline of 84.4 kilometers, eight ports and seven bays and an area of 16,880 mu of beach. Hung Hing Hot Springs, Daejeon Eld's deer areas, leisure areas Daguangba have conferred Dong Fang with unique and rich tourism resources.

BaSuo port is an import trade port and natural deep harbour that has a record of earliest opening. This port has a annual capacity of handling 7.2million tons of goods with 6 birch of anchoring ten thousands tons of vessel and 2 birches of anchoring thousands tons of vessel.

City of Dong Fang has firmly grasped and fully utilized its advantages in location, transportation and resources, and make an insightful plan on the perspective of whole province by implementing the strategies of new industrialization, agriculture industrialization and urban mordenization. It will focus on creating along-port economy brand , brand of the border trade toward Vietnam , aquatic production and processing brand, fruit, vegetable and flowers brands. It will try its best to fostering the growth of new services including modern logistics, real estate, business travel, and information and communication. It will pay more efforts to establish the South China Sea oil and gas industry development supply base platform and the west of Hainan logistics platform, coordinate the development of various social undertakings, comprehensively build a new socialist countryside, and realize the "development strategy to build Hainan to a modern coastal industrial city in the west of Hainan.，

With the CNOOC's increasing investment in Dong Fang ,the construction of Dong Fang industry Park has entered a new period of development. The fertilizers, methanol project have been put into operation one after another. The renovation of the oil and gas chemical wharf and berths in Ba Suo have been completed, Huaneng Western Electric Plant construction progress smoothly, and four more, high-emission, a sense of the city wind power generation project has been officially approved, the starting border trade in Vietnam, etc. for the East lead the development of major ports in big industry, big industry to encourage the big logistics, port and laid a solid economic base; Daguangba two projects to start the construction in more than 70 million mu of land will bring vitality, Dongfang City, with excellent geographical location and rich natural resources, high-efficiency tropical agriculture, development and construction will usher in a new round of development . Four more, high-Pai, a sense of the city wind power generation projects have been initiated, laying a solid foundation for promoting large industry through large ports which in turn gives a boost to the along-port economy armed with large logistics. The launch of the second phase of Da Guang Ba project will bring about new development opportunities to more than 700,000 mu of land. Relying on the favorable geographical location and rich resources, city of Dong Fang will embrace new round of development in the tropical high-efficiency agriculture.

City of Dongfang has accelerated pace of integrating chemical industry with urban infrastructure construction. Recent years has witnessed the reconstruction or construction of the downtown Avenue, Binhai Avenue, Renmin Road, Dongfeng Road and freight Avenue; Taping water supply project in Ba Suo with daily water supply 100,000 tons will be put in to operation; Sewage treatment plant is now under construction and the facilities covering urban water supply , electricity, gas, communications, drainage and waste treatment have succeeded in matching. The city now is experiencing sustainable healthy and rapid economic and social development. In recent years, Dong Fang has been awarded the national Women's system Federation top-ranking community, the province's community-building model city, the province's double-support model city, provincial outstanding units on implementing the responsibility system for clean administration, and the provincial top-ranking units on contributing to scientific and technological progress.

During the period when the eleventh Five-year plan was implemented, City of Dongfang has witnessed the sustained and rapid development. It is expected that by the end of the year 2010, a group of key projects will be put into operation and economic output will be two times that of 2005 and the city's GDP will reach 8.868 billion yuan. By then, ratio among the agriculture, industry and tertiary industries will approximate 17:55:28 and per capita GDP will reach 21,000 yuan; The total volume of social retail sales of consumption goods will amount to 450 million yuan. The general budget fiscal revenue will surge to 450 million yuan; The coastal port city will take shape by and large.