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Climate
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Wenzhou derives
its present name from its mild climate. It has a humid subtropical maritime-monsoon
climate, featuring noticeable alternating monsoon conditions in winter and summer,
distinct seasons and abundant rainfall without intense heat in summer or bitter
cold in winter. It has an average ann-
ual temperature ranging from 16.1 to 18.2℃...
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Geography
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Located on the
southeast coast of China, Wenzhou is the center of economy, culture and transpor-
tation in south Zhejiang Province. It has jurisdiction over three districts (Lucheng,
Longwan and Ou-
hai), two county-level cities (Rui’an and Yueqing) and six counties (Yongjia, Pingyang,
Cangnan, Do-
ngtou, Wencheng and Taishun) with a total population of 7.3912 million...
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History
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Wenzhou was once
a famous town of the Eastern Ou (the eastern part of the Oujiang River Valley) and
thus has a brilliant cultural history. In 192 BC it was the capital of the Kingdom
of the Eastern Ou and in AD 323 it became Yongjia Prefecture. It was also called
the City of White Deer, for, as legend has it, a white deer passed around it holding...
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Culture
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The people of
Wenzhou are equipped with business sense and a commercial culture more dominant
than anywhere else in China. Wenzhou has two economic characteristics: it was the
first to launch a market economy, and it has the most active and developed private
economy in China. In the process of developing its economy, its people have survived
economic adversity...
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Economy
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Wenzhou exports
food, tea, wine, jute, timber, paper, Alunite (a non-metallic mineral used to make
alum and fertilizer). Alunite is quite abundant here and sometimes Wenzhou claims
to be the "Alunite Capital of the World". Its 10 main industries each exceeding
1.5 billion dollars are electrical machinery, leather products, general equipment,
power supply, plastic manufacturing...
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Transport
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The Wenzhou Yongqiang
Airport serves the Wenzhou area, with scheduled flights to major cities in mainland
China as well as Hongkong. The Airport is situated on the southeast of Wenzhou city
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per, 20 kilometers away from the city center. It has been graded as nation’s Category
B civil airport, serving a population of 20 million spanning areas...
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Communications
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By the end of
2006, Wenzhou’s fixed-line phone exchange capacity had expanded to 4.7982 million
lines with users up to 3.7396 million and mobile phone users numbered 6.8163 million.
At the end of 2006, the users of Wenzhou Branch of China Mobile Phone Corporation
topped 5 million with mobile phones reached 306.1 sets / hundred households. Meanwhile...
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Resources
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Blessed with mountains
and sea, Wenzhou boasts abundant natural resources. Besides cultivated la-
nd, land resources are mainly composed of sea shoal, silted beaches along the Oujiang,
Feiyun and Aojiang rivers and a mountain terrain of over 200,000 hectares. Total
water resources amount to 14,113 billion cubic meters...
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