Sanxiang Town lies in the south of Zhongshan City, and is adjacent to Zhuhai Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Covering an area of 96 square kilometers, it administers 12 village committees and 2 neighborhood committee. Sanxiang has a resident population of 36,000 and a floating population exceeding 140,000. Besides, it has over 60,000 countrymen residing abroad.
Sanxiang is the town. Up till now, the figure of Foreign-Funded Enterprises tops 621, and 534 Self –Employers. The famous enterprises, such as Pouyuan Shoes Enterprise, Wei Li Cap Manufacture,C & C manufactory Co. Ltd., the Mentholutum Co., Agile Garden, Zhongshan Hot-springs Hotel, Quanlin Tourist Manor and Ancient Furniture Market, are settled here too. Since the introduction of reform and opening-up, the whole town’s foreign investment in actual use is USD 1689 million, the Tertiary Industry of which reaches USD 512 million. Sanxiang rands first in zhongshan in succession in terms of foreign investment in actual use,export value and processing income. According to statistics, GDP of Sanxiang gets RMB 3700 million, industrial output is RMB 8400 million, tax reaches RMB 558 million, the sum of annual power supply is 816 million kwh, and peasant income average of RMB 75.05 thousand. In recent years, it has been granted a number of awards, namely, Excellent Town in Civil Administration, National Advanced Unit in Administration of Foreign Exchange-earning Enterprises, National Advanced Town in Body Building-up Campaign of Peasants, National Advanced Masses’ Sports Town, National Advanced Marriage and Family Planning Town, Civilization Organization of Guangdong, Civilization Town of Guangdong, and Sanitary Town of Guangdong, Advanced Keeping Order and Social Peace Town of Guangdong, Ecological Model Town of Guangdong. Other awards include Advanced Organization for Respecting Teachers & Advocating Education, Advanced Town in Laws Popularization of Guangdong, Advanced collectivity in practicality technology of country party member and grass roots cadre of Guangdogn and Advanced Party Committee of Zhongshan, advanced Zhongshan Outstanding Contributment for Attracting Foreign Capital & enlarging output. |
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