I . Survey

(i) Geographical Position
The location of Fujian is between the east longitude 115 °50’ to 120 °44’,north latitude 23 °31’ to 28 °19’. It lies i n the southeast coast of China, and it is the north eastern neighbor of the Zhejiang Province. It also connects in the northwest to the Jiangxi Province and the southwest
connects to the Guangdong Province. The East China Sea lies in the east, and Taiwan Straits connects it with Taiwan Province.
The land area is 121,400 square kilometers, most of it made of mountains connected to each other. The sea area, according to
international water lines, is 136,000 square kilometers. The continental coastline is over 3,000 kilometers, the second largest in China. The coastal land twists like silk floss　with numerous harbors and islands.
(ii)Climate Characteristics
The majority of the Fujian Province is located in the middle of a subtropical zone. The southeast of Fujian is in the
southern subtropical zone and belongs to the maritime monsoon climate. The climate is temperate in the whole province, the rainfall is plentiful, the average temperature of the whole year is 15.3 ℃ to 21.9℃ , the annual precipitation is 1,351 to 2,645 millimeters. The yearly average sunshine is 1,400 to　2,000 hours, and 240 to 330 days of frost free periods.
(iii)Population and Nationalities
The total population in Fujian is 35,350,000, of which 16,720,000 live in urban areas. The rural population is　18,630,000. Fujian has a mix of nationalities: besides the Han majority, there are the She, the Hui, the Man, and the Gaoshan　and 31 ethnic minorities with population of 583,800, which accounts for 1.71% of the total in Fujian province.. Fujian has　the largest population of the She and the second largest Gao shan nationalities in China.
(iv)Communications and Infrastructure
Aviation
Fujian has two international airports, i.e Fuzhou airport and Xiamen airport. In 2005, their transportation ability reached to 3,391,800 and 6,285,700 people respectively. There are four branch airports in Wuyi Mountain, Jinjiang, Liancheng and Shanming. Fujian has already opened more than 200 domestic and international routes. Over 300 aircrafts operate on these routes. The airport in Xiamen became the fifth city in China to open air routes to America, following Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
Harbors
Over 160 commercial shipping linesoperate from the Fujian province. Fujian has the most advantageous conditions in China
to construct deep water harbors. Over 47 kilometers of the coastline is favorable to the installation of large deep sea ports, with 80 berths for ships of up to 200,000 tons. The largest deep water ports are in Xiamen, Fuzhou, Meizhou Bay and Sanduao, among which the Xiamen Harbor is one of the ten largest harbors in China. Furthermore,54 other ports can accommodate ships of 10,000 tons or more and they provide easy commercial shipping to all the domestic ports. Fuzhou and Xiamen offer direct sailing services to Taiwan and Gaoxiong. The coastal areas have regular daily ferry services to Jinmen and Mazu islands. Taking advantage of those features, the throughput reached 196 million tons with over 4.9248 million standard containers in 2005.
Road Transport Up to the end of 2005, the road network totaled 58,286 kilometers. Most counties and urban areas are connected to
a major highway within one hour drive. Nine prefecture-level cities in Fujian are all within four hours drive to the capital city. Fujian benefits from 1,210 kilometers of divided highways: the Fujian part of the Tong-San highway (i.e.Tongjiang,Heilongjiang Province to Sanya, Hainan Province) to Guangzhou, the Fujian section of the Fujian – Beijing expressway, and the Tianjing-Fujian, Fuzhou-Xiamen-Zhangzhou-Zhao’an and Xiamen-Kunming expressways.

Railways

Fujian has 7 national railway linesl inkedtonat ional railway network , totaled 1,630 kilometers, including the Ying-Xia, Heng-Nan, Mei-Kan and Gan-Long provincial railways. The volume of passenger traffic is 14.86 million people, and the freight amount is 36.01 million tones. There are five 5 provincial railways serving within the province. In addition to those, two high-speed lines, the Fu-Xia (Fuzhou to Xiamen) has been started and the Long-Xia (Long yan to Xia men) railway will be started as well.
Finance and Insurance
At the end of 2005, there were over 5,673 banking financial institutions and agencies in Fujian, employing 80,100 people. The total assets had reached over RMB 1.0376 trillion, with RMB 765.4 billion in deposits and a loan balance of RMB 541.3 billion.
The insurance industry is healthy and developing well. There are 20 insurance companies in the Fujian market. Among
them, 10 are property insurance and 9 are life insurance companies. There are 52 insurance professional intermediaries and 317 branch organizations.

Main Financial Institutions


Electricity
Fujian is rich in natural resources to generate electricity power, and thus has abundant electricity supply. The Fujian
electricity network connects with the East national network. The supply of electric power is abundant. In 2005 the installed
capacity was 17,580,000 kilowatts. Plentiful electricity power resources make Fujian an exporter of electricity to other provinces.

Sister Province or City with the Fujian Province

Telecom
The telecom services in Fujian occupy a national leading position. In 2005, Fujian had 13,990,000 line phone subscribers in all urban and rural areas which could dial direct calls to more than 180 regions and countries. The mobile phone network covers the whole province. The number of mobile phone users
reached 13,020,000. The market penetration for users of line phones and mobile phones was 39.85 percent and 37.08 percent respectively.
Internet
The whole Fujian province has built 34 optical cable lines and 20 digital microwave lines are already. The total length of optical cable is 10,000 kilometers which connect all counties and cities. Fujian has over 3,190,000 Internet users.
(v)Foreign Contacts
Friendship Provinces or Cities with the Fujian Province
By the end of 2005, Fujian province and its 9 prefecture - l evelcities had separately become sister-cites of 44 states and provinces, counties or cities in 17 countries.




Trade and Investment Fairs and Exhibition
The Fujian Province regularly holds many large-scale investment and trade fairs every year. The most important are the China International Fair for Investment & Trade, the Fuzhou Cross strait Conference on Economy and Trade and the China
(Fujian) Technology & Projects Fair.
The China International Fair for Investment & Trade (CIFIT for short), sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce of People’s Republic of China, is held in Xiamen, China from Sep.8 to Sep. 11 every year. The Fair highlighted“ Attracting Foreign Investment” and“ China Enterprises Going Global”. It
is so far the only fair aimed at promoting bilateral investment
in China. The CIFIT is also the largest and the only one
fair of investment which is approved by the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI).
In addition, many areas in Fujian hold various economic
activities such as“ The Promotion of Trade and Investments Month”etc.
(vi)Higher Education and Scientific Research
Fujian has 66 state universities and colleges. It has 29 first class discipline centres and 252 second class discipline
centres for PhD education, and 500 Master Degree education centres in its universities. They cover 10 main disciplines. Among those, centres of studies in chemistry, oceans, environment and resources sciences have established their own institutions in their respective specialties, making Fujian
a centre of excellence in those disciplines. Fujian has renowned national universities such as Xiamen University, Fuzhou University, Fujian Normal University.
Fujian is at the third position in China for the number of academicians in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Fujian has now 15 scholars working at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and at the Chinese Academy of Engineering (in all 119 scientists from Fujian have worked there in these two organizations history). Fujian has 5,200 types of research institutions and 1.43 million professional and technical people. Currently, Fujian has established 35 state level and provincial-level key laboratories,21 engineering (technical) research centres,
13 industrial technological development bases and test bases. There are 121 local government departments’ independent
research institutions, 100 provincial-level enterprise technical centres.
(vii)Tourism
Tourism
Fujian has beautiful natural sceneries and abundant cultural heritages. There are 13 national scenic spots and historical sites, 10 national nature reserves, 4 national
historical cities, 19 national forest parks, 5 national geological parks, 2 national tourist resorts. Wuyi Mountain is classified as a world natural and cultural heritage site by
UNESCO. Gold Lake World Geological Park, Quanzhou Maritime Silk Road, Gulang Island of Xiamen and Mazu island in Meizhou,
Fujian Earthen Towers Cultural heritage have become well-known both at home and abroad. There are 19 provincial scenic spots and 167 offices of provincial Cultural Relic Unit under state protection. There are 14 temples of National Buddhism in Fujian, which give Fujian its first position in China.
Wuyi Mountain is located in Chongan, a town northwest of Fujian Province. It covers a area of 99,975 hectares, and is
famous for its typical Danxia landscape. The scenic Mount Wuyi is one of the world natural and cultural heritage. It has the most outstanding, intact and largest subtropical forests as compared to those around same longitude. There are numerous archaeology sites and historical relics scatter in Mount Wuyi, including the ruins of Han city built 1st century B.C., a number of temples and study centres associated with the birth of Neo-
Confucianism in the 11th century AD.
Taimu Mountain is situated within Fuding county, Northeast Fujian Province. The total area is about 300 square kilometers,
100 of which is for tourism. Taimu Mountain is famous for its precipitous mountains, odd rocks, bizzare caves, beautiful mist and rapid waterfalls. The ancient Chinese call Taimu
Mountain a“ Grand Sight of Mountains and Sea”. Taimu Mountain was approved to be a famous national scenic site in 1988 by the
state council.

Hakka earthen Buildings are oriental style village folk dwells. This kind of historical buildings have its name in the
world folk dwell list for its unique style, large scale and complex constructions. The Hakka earthen buildings, almost square or round shaped, mainly scatter in Yongding county, Fujian. There are 360 round-shaped buildings and more than 4,000 square-shaped buildings in the whole county. The building, especially those round- shaped ones, are most heart touching.
Specialty
Fujian has an abundant production of beautifully intricate and well-known handicrafts. Fujian is the homeland of the Wulong tea. Wuyi has rock tea such as the“ black tea” called Dahongpao,Anxi has“ Tie Guanyin”, which is an outstanding dark tea and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. Min cuisine,represented by Fuzhou dishes, is among eight most famous ones in China. The dishes named“ Fotiaoqiang” (fish dish),“Jitanghaibang” (sea food) are classified as state banquet delicacies.Fujian is the main producing region for workmanship with unique folk custom styles and strong local specialties. It has become a very important component of magnifi cent national culture and arts. For example, the reputed Fuzhou lacquers are classifieds in China among“ Three Best” along with the　JingTaiLan lacquers from Beijing and the Jing De-zhen porcelains from the Jiangxi Province. Fujian has also the Shoushan stone carvings from local limestone and intricate　cork sculptures.