安吉英文简介

Anji lies in the northwestern Hangzhou-Jiaxing-Huzhou Plain, neighboring with Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Suzhou. It is a growing up Open County in the Changjiang River Delta Economic Area. The county has an area of 1,886 square kilometers and a population of 450 thousand, which administers 19 towns. Anji was built in the 2nd year of Emperor Hanlin in Eastern Han Dynasty (185 A.D.) and has a long history of over 1,800 years, when the emperor named it "Anji " with the meaning of "peace and luck". Anji has convenient traffic, 64 kilometers away from Huzhou, 220 kilometers away from Shanghai and 73 kilometers away from Hangzhou. A 52-km water transport course is in it and ships can leave there for Huzhou, Shanghai and Suzhou etc.

In the recent years, Anji has made fast progress in economic and social aspects. In 1999 its GDP reached RMB 5.331 billion, revenue RMB 172 million, per capita disposable income of urban residents RMB 7,528 and per capita income of peasants RMB 3,557. It has been listed among the "Well-to-do Counties" of Zhejiang province and the 100 national counties of good forestation. It has also been assessed as a national advanced unit of forestation, national advanced unit of science and technology, national advanced county of scientific and technological development, national advanced group of water and soil conservation, national demonstration county for developing economy through science and technology, national advanced elementary-electrification group of rural hydropower, national advanced unit of small hydropower, national experimental county for the development in the ecological demonstration area, and national demonstration county of ecological agriculture.

Anji is richly endowed by nature and has long been known as "birthplace of bamboo". It is awarded by the state as "birthplace of bamboo of China". The area of bamboo forest is 65,000 hectares, of which mao bamboo forest is 51,000 hectares and small bamboo forest 14,000 hectares. It has 135 million mao bamboos and ranks first among the ten largest birthplaces of bamboo in china. In the recent years, with the strategy for the improvement in trade, agriculture, industry and external-oriented economy, Anji has focused much on utilizing bamboo resources, and made a long step in developing bamboo economy. Bamboo-made products including Summer sleeping met, slab rubber, dalle, handicraft, health food, stationery and sports product and bamboo midbody have formed seven series and over 700 types of products, which are sold to more than 20 countries and regions such as southeast Asia, Europe and America etc. By the end of 1999 the county had already had more than 1,200 enterprises of bamboo products, of which there were 30 foreign, private, and joint ventures. The output value of bamboo products had surmounted RMB 1.7 billion and taken the lead in the country.

Anji possesses lots of local specialties, with "three old treasures" such as